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Dark Places (Dark Places Of The Earth Book 1) by Jon Evans

An acclaimed, award-winning thriller, published and translated around the world.

Paul Wood is a modern vagabond, a man who chooses to leave the comforts of San Francisco to spend months backpacking through some of the world’s most challenging terrain. While hiking in the Himalayas, Paul gets more of a rush than he bargained for when he finds the body of a murdered hiker – mutilated in a way he has witnessed once before, in Africa, years ago and thousands of miles away.

The police in Nepal, anxious to quell a scandal, close the case and declare the victim a suicide. Only Paul is left to search for answers. He reaches out to his farflung tribe of fellow backpackers for help, and his discoveries lead him to a terrible conclusion: a killer is stalking the international backpacker trail, preying on victims in wild places far beyond the reach of any authorities. A killer whom Paul may already know.

Finding the murderer becomes an obsession that leads Paul from Himalayan peaks, through the jungles of Indonesia, across the bleak Sahara desert — and into some of the darkest places imaginable…

Dark Places won the 2005 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.

Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession by Julie Powell

Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she’d ever do — until she embarked on the voyage recounted in her memoir, Cleaving.

Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery. She finds her way to Fleischer’s, a butcher shop where she buries herself in the details of food. She learns how to break down a side of beef and French a rack of ribs — tough physical work that only sometimes distracts her from thoughts of afternoon trysts.

The camaraderie at Fleischer’s leads Julie to search out fellow butchers around the world — from South America to Europe to Africa. At the end of her odyssey, she has learned a new art and perhaps even mastered her unruly heart.

On Thin Ice by Susan Andersen

Blood

At first, the victims seem random, casualties of bad luck or bad judgment. But the body count keeps growing, until there’s no denying the trail of death that makes its way from city to city. And always, it leads right to Sasha Miller’s door.

Runs

Sasha’s ice-skating career was almost destroyed when her partner was jailed on drug charges. Through sheer determination she rebuilt her life, yet lately, she can’t shake the feeling she’s being watched. Undercover DEA agent Mick Vinicor was convinced Sasha had something to hide. Now he’s realizing how much she has to fear. . .

Cold

The nightmare has begun again. But this time, the stakes are much higher. Someone has been waiting to make Sasha pay–someone who’ll show her that vengeance is twisted, merciless, and colder than the grave. . .

"Riveting and absorbing. . .sensual and emotional. . .dynamic suspense." –Romantic Times