Places in the Dark
7 best books like Places in the Dark (Thomas H. Cook): Deliverance, The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity, A Death in the Family, When You Find My Body: The Disappearance of Geraldine Largay on the Appalachian Trail, Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life, Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios, Last Days
The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state's most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a...
The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity
| Author | Axton Betz-Hamilton |
| ISBN | 1538730286 |
In this powerful true crime memoir, an award-winning identity theft expert tells the shocking story of the duplicity and betrayal that inspired her career and nearly destroyed her family.
Axton Betz-Hamilton grew up in small-town Indiana in the early '90s. When she was 11 years old, her parents...
| Author | James Agee |
| ISBN | 0375701230 |
The classic American novel, re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birth
Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative...
When You Find My Body: The Disappearance of Geraldine Largay on the Appalachian Trail
| Author | D. Dauphinee |
| ISBN | 1608936902 |
When Geraldine "Gerry" Largay (AT trail name, Inchworm) first went missing on the Appalachian Trail in remote western Maine in 2013, the people of Maine were wrought with concern. When she was not found, the family, the wardens, and the Navy personnel who searched for her were devastated. The Maine...
Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life
| Author | Mallory Smith |
| ISBN | 1984855425 |
The diaries of a remarkable young woman who was determined to live a meaningful and happy life despite her struggle with cystic fibrosis and a rare superbug--from age fifteen to her death at the age of twenty-five.
Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at the age of three, Mallory Smith grew up to be...
Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios
| Author | Holly Conklin FitzGerald |
| ISBN | 0525432779 |
Holly FitzGerald and her husband, Fitz—married less than two years—set out on a yearlong honeymoon adventure of a lifetime, backpacking around the world. Five months into the trip, their plane crash-lands in Peru at a penal colony walled in by jungle, and their blissfully romantic journey turns...
| Author | Adam Nevill |
| ISBN | 1250018188 |
Last Days (winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel of the Year) by Adam Nevill is a Blair Witch style novel in which a documentary film-maker undertakes the investigation of a dangerous cult—with creepy consequences
When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is...
