Items25The creator’s order
  1. 1The River (2019)The River (2019) 8.8/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2019Experienced canoeists Jack and Wynn can read a river, but a spreading wildfire changes what counts as a safe decision. Their attempt to help strangers adds a different uncertainty to the route. Heller lets quiet paddling and friendship establish what is at stake before the violence arrives. Start…0
  2. 2Force of nature (2018)Force of nature (2018) 7.3/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2018Five colleagues enter the Australian bush on a corporate team exercise; four come back. Aaron Falk’s investigation moves between the missing woman’s work and the group’s increasingly strained journey. The hikers are not outdoor experts, and their office relationships travel with them. Choose this…0i
  3. 3Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel (2026)Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel (2026)Published 1 Jan 2026Lucy Foley’s authorised Miss Marple continuation takes her and Dolly Bantry to a Swiss Alpine hotel in 1950. A death and a snowstorm turn a holiday into an enclosed investigation. The appeal is the way guests interpret one another while access to outside authority narrows. This is a period hotel…0i
  4. 4Dark Matter (2010)Dark Matter (2010) 8.2/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2010A wireless operator joins an Arctic expedition in 1937, when the retreat of daylight also means a shrinking margin for help. Paver gives ordinary routines and the surrounding silence enough space to become unsettling. This is openly a ghost story: practical preparation matters, but it cannot…0
  5. 5Thin Air (2016)Thin Air (2016)Published 1 Jan 2016An expedition approaches Kangchenjunga in 1935, carrying ambitions and rivalries as well as climbing equipment. Height, weather and the organisation of the climb make withdrawal a serious question before the haunting is considered. Another supernatural choice, it is especially good on the pressure…0
  6. 6The Terror (2007)The Terror (2007) 8.6/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2007The ships of the Franklin expedition are held in Arctic ice while food, fuel and health deteriorate. Simmons adds a predatory supernatural threat to that historical predicament, so read this as an expansive horror novel rather than an account of what actually happened. Its strongest fit here is…0
  7. 7Night Without End (1960)Night Without End (1960)Published 1 Jan 1960A plane crash leaves passengers dependent on a small scientific party on the Greenland ice cap. The immediate work of keeping people alive is complicated by suspicion within the group. MacLean makes exposure and limited supplies the framework for an old-fashioned adventure thriller. Its period…0
  8. 8Ice Station Zebra (1963)Ice Station Zebra (1963) 2.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1963A submarine must find a weather station damaged by fire somewhere among the Arctic ice. Reaching the survivors is a substantial operation in itself, and the mission carries uncertainties beyond the weather. Choose this for Cold War suspense built around specialist crews and a difficult rescue, with…0
  9. 9The mountain story (2015)The mountain story (2015) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2015Four people become stranded on a mountain above Palm Springs, with the city visible and assistance still out of reach. Their different abilities and reasons for being there complicate the effort to survive together. This leans towards a survival novel with substantial personal backstory rather than…0
  10. 10Descent (2015)Descent (2015) 9.3/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2015A teenager disappears during a mountain outing on a family holiday in Colorado. Johnston follows the people left searching as well as the danger beyond their view, so the story ranges outside the wilderness. The landscape matters because it frustrates certainty about where to look and what has…0