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Icy Thrills: Mysteries, Suspense, and Survival Stories

Read on the edge of your seat with these spine-chilling mysteries, thrillers, and survival tales with ice-cold vibes.

Canton Public Library

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  • Set against the unforgiving backdrop of one of the world's most inhospitable locations, this is the true story of Lady Jane Franklin's tireless attempts to find her husband's lost arctic expedition. A tale of bravery, intrigue,…
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, 2021 — FICTION MACALLISTER
  • Exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska’s Arctic Frontier, U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn, after an American F-22 collides with a Russian interloper, is ordered to find a missing stealth bomber before the enemy…
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — FICTION BROWN
  • Battle of Ink and Ice

    a Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media

    Hartman, Darrell,
    A saga of frostbite and fake news that follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to reach the North Pole, and the newspapers which stopped at nothing to get and sell the story.
    Book[New York, New York] : Viking, [2023] — 998 HAR
  • Carrying her own secrets and a fierce need to protect her young son, Liv must navigate a new world where extreme weather, starvation, and grizzlies are not the only threats she faces. With winter closing in, she knows she must reckon with…
    BookNew York : Berkley, [2023] — FICTION TOWNSEND
  • A mysterious force captures Earth and gives humanity thirty days to move to Antarctica, where they will be allowed to exist and survive in the planet's most extreme environment.
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2023 — FICTION SMITH
  • The Cold Vanish

    Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands

    Billman, Jon,
    Through Jacob Gray's disappearance in Olympic National Park, and his father Randy Gray who left his life to search for him, we learn about what happens when someone goes missing.
    BookNew York : Grand Central Publishing, 2020 — 363.348 BIL
  • Snow is a rarity in Maura Donovan's small village in County Cork, Ireland, so she wasn't sure what to expect when a major snowstorm rolled in around Sullivan's pub. But now she's stranded in a bar full of patrons-and a suspected killer in…
    BookNew York : Crooked Lane, 2017 — MYSTERY FICTION CONNOLLY
  • From bestselling author Darcy Coates comes Dead of Winter, a remote cabin in the snowy wilderness thriller that will teach you to trust no one. There are eight strangers. One killer. Nowhere left to run.
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press, [2023] — FICTION COATES
  • A harrowing new thriller featuring a linguist. Broken-hearted after the apparent suicide of her glaciologist brother, she ventures hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle to try to communicate with a young girl who has thawed from the…
    BookNew York : Scout Press, 2022 — FICTION FERENCIK
  • I Had to Survive

    How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives

    Canessa, Roberto, 1953-
    A gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of the world's leading pediatric cardiologists. This uplifting tale of hope and determination,…
    BookNew York : Atria Books, 2016 — 363.124 CAN
  • Teen members of a group of archaic humans, Lynx and Quiller, flee the increasing coldness and monstrous predators for a new land, where they meet a strange old man who tells them how to save the world.
    BookNew York, NY : DAW Books, Inc., [2021] — SCIENCE FICTION GEAR
  • After his wife's death, a man brings his young daughter to live in a cave he has found in the Cascade mountains. Once there, his daughter begins to sense the presence of other people in the cave, a mother and son who retreated there during…
    BookChapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021 — FICTION EVISON
  • No Such Thing as Failure

    My Life in Adventure, Exploration, and Survival

    Hempleman-Adams, David, 1956-
    Having reaching the summit of Everest on the more difficult north side and flown across the Atlantic in a an open wicker basket hot-air balloon, Hempleman-Adams is without question of the hardest, toughest, most fearless men to push the…
    BookNew York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, 2015 — 796.522 HEM
  • After five years in hiding from their murderous father, the day Kristen and Ryan McIntyre have been dreading has arrived: Boyd McIntyre, head of a Los Angeles crime family, has at last tracked his kids to a small Montana town and is…
    BookNew York : Minotaur Books, 2023 — FICTION BRENNAN
  • Vying for a somewhat sleazy bachelor’s heart, the final four women on a reality TV show arrive on a mysterious island where they instead find themselves competing for their lives. Coming face-to-face with a lesbian bigfoot, the contestants…
    BookNew York : Zando, 2022 — FICTION ALLEN
  • The Polar Bear Expedition

    the Heroes of America's Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919

    Nelson, James Carl,
    The extraordinary true story of America's forgotten invasion of Russia: one-thousand miles north of Moscow, five-thousand brave U.S. troops from Michigan fought the Red Army during the winter of 1918-1919 in brutal arctic conditions.
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperColiinsPublishers, [2019] — 947.084 NEL
  • A snowmelt has sent floodwaters down to the fields of the Red River Valley, dragging the body of an unidentified Native woman into the town of Ada. The only evidence the medical examiner recovers is a torn piece of paper inside her bra: a…
    BookNew York, NY : Soho Crime, [2022] — MYSTERY FICTION RENDON
  • They were born in The Trench, and they'll die there, just like all their people do. The two young girls are a part of the Trenchfolk, a sprawling settlement of people living inside the massive ice walls of a vast, seemingly endless frozen…
    Graphic NovelMilwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Books, 2022 — GRAPHIC NOVEL LEMIRE
  • A haunting thriller about a mother and daughter who need to draw strength from each other when they find themselves trapped in a cabin with a man who wants to either control them or kill them.
    BookNew York : Dutton, [2020] — FICTION WAITE
  • Beth Rivers is on the run. She's doing the only thing she could think of to keep herself safe. Known to the world as thriller author Elizabeth Fairchild, she had become the subject of a fanatic's obsession. After being held in a van for…
    BookNew York : Minotaur Books, 2019 — MYSTERY FICTION SHELTON