Mystery Survival Fiction

Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, has joined forces with the editors of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern to create a collection of action-packed short stories by some of today's most talented names in literature.

Twenty-four-year-old Charlotte Stahl would do anything for her older brother, Ian. After all, he'd done everything for her growing up. He played Burken with her - a hide-and-seek game they made up as kids. He comforted her when their mom deserted them. He raised her when their dad went to prison for murder. Ian is the only reason she's still alive. So when Ian asks her to play Burken in the isolated woods of Cadillac, Michigan, she feels she could use the nostalgia and agrees. Burken - it's the one thing that never changes...until Ian threatens to kill her in the middle of the game.

Beegie is riding the bus when the quake hits. The teenager was heading back to her unhappy foster home, but then she’s thrown into a broken world. Roads crumble, storefronts shatter and people run wild. Dessa, a single mom, is enjoying a rare night out when it strikes. Cell towers are down, so without even knowing if her three-year-old daughter is dead or alive, she races to get back across town.

A teenage boy becomes stranded in the remote woodlands of Northern Canada after his bush plane crashes and he is left as the sole survivor. With next to nothing, except the clothes on his back and a few items found from the crash site, he struggles to survive. He faces many dangers, but the biggest danger, one far greater than starvation, hypothermia or the threat of predators, is the danger he never sees coming until it’s almost too late.

Maxwell Smart tenía solo once años cuando toda su familia fue asesinada. Pudo haber muerto también, pero su madre le ordenó salvarse. Huyó al bosque, cavó un hoyo para refugiarse y buscó comida en las granjas cercanas. Con la ropa hecha harapos y al borde de la inanición, escapó repetidamente de la muerte a manos de los nazis. Después de meses en soledad, Maxwell se encontró con otro niño que deambulaba por el bosque en busca de comida. Janek, al igual que Maxwell, era huérfano y los dos se hicieron amigos.

Five siblings live a happy life out of an abandoned camper in a national forest - cooking by the fire, foraging their own food, washing their own clothes, tending their own camp - the only problem is, they aren't sure where their parents are, and they've caught a mysterious shadow watching them from the edge of the woods. They've gotten on this far by staying together, cooperating, and making it work - but as the problems pile on, will this family of children, with the eldest member no older a middle grader, make it out together?

All Zara wanted to do was pass her Spanish final and graduate high school, but suddenly she’s waking up in an unknown hospital. The east coast is destroyed and she’s one of the few survivors. The government has assigned her to Outpost Eight, an abandoned Catskills resort converted into a fortress. Not only does Zara have to come to terms with the loss of everything she’s ever known, but the leader of Outpost Eight marries her to his son.

Der erste Thriller des Bestsellerduos Volker Klüpfel und Michael Kobr - gelesen von Dietmar Wunder Ein Leben draußen im Wald, kein Zuhause, immer auf der Flucht: Das ist alles, was Cayenne und ihr Bruder Joshua kennen. Nur ihr Anführer Stephan weiß, warum sie hier sind und welche Gefahr ihnen droht. Er lebt mit ihnen außerhalb der Gesellschaft, drillt sie mit aller Härte und duldet keinen Kontakt zu anderen.

Marissa wants to put this all behind her. Her best friend, Olivia, has been killed in a car accident...When Olivia's younger sister mentions a lost object that could bring some closure, Marissa reluctantly agrees to help search for it, not sure that she wants the answers she might find...she sets out to seek the truth, only to find herself trapped in the dark, making all the wrong moves. In order to reclaim her freedom, she must find a way out of the darkness. Something she’s not sure she can do.

People disappear in the bayou. And that's exactly what fourteen-year-old Robin Sherwood needs to do - before her Uncle Conrad snips her toes off with his rusty garden nippers. When her parents' private plane disappears in the Voodoo Swamp, Robin's uncle moves into the multi-million dollar Sherwood Estate as her guardian. It doesn't take Robin long to figure out there's something not quite right about Uncle Conrad - besides having a metal claw where his left hand used to be.

After a sudden mysterious disease is unleashed on the country, claiming millions of lives, including that of his family, Mark is left alone. The cities are in chaos with survivors killing for food and water. Knowing as supplies dwindle the insanity will spread to his neighborhood, he creates a fortress in the basement of his suburban home, stock piles food, water, weapons, and medical supplies, and stays out of sight during the day.

As the EMP bomb detonates, frying the entire electrical grid and plunging the nation into chaos, a small family takes refuge in their remote cabin. But as they huddle in the darkness, they soon realize that they are not alone. With the threat of unknown dangers lurking outside, they must use all their wits and resourcefulness to survive in this new and treacherous world. Every decision could mean the difference between life and death as they struggle to outsmart the enemies closing in on them.

After an EMP disrupts the nation’s power grid, putting millions at risk, Charlie Owens flees Seattle with his family to his cabin on the remote Beckett Island. But it doesn’t take long for the dangers of this post-apocalyptic world to threaten his family’s survival.

Barney wasn't happy when his parents moved him from the swamps of Louisiana to the mountains of Tennessee, but that was before he met Silas and Billie. Now it's nothing but fun, sun, and mountain air, until a large boot print is found near the creek behind the barn.

What happens when an EMP sends California back into the stone age? When an EMP bomb knocks out the power in LA and the rest of the United States, Ailani Ho's main goal is to survive the end of the world. Then she discovers her sister was on a plane when the bomb exploded, and she can't rest until she knows if her sister is alive or dead.

Far from home without a gun to defend himself with, Bob must find a way to get food and protect his possessions from would-be thieves in this post-apocalyptic world. Luckily, he has his fishing gear with him along with an inflatable kayak he brought on the airplane with him for recreation. Now his luggage has become his bug-out gear. Others want what he has, and he tries to flee the area to avoid them. Youth gangs take over the area where he resides.

The post-apocalyptic survival adventure begins anew as Hobe sails for Florida in search of new opportunities after leaving the Trade Rendezvous. He has a plan that has not been revealed to his sailboats crew yet to hopefully put them into some new profitable adventures. Everything seems to be going well despite the hurricane that blew them off course and sent them towards an oyster fishing village in a far bay until pirates were spotted on the horizon. Follow our stalwart heroes as they brave the high seas five years after a Solar Storm has taken the electrical grid and economy down.

Stranded on a desert island, friendship is the first thing to go. But can Dee Sanders survive without it? He just wanted a nice vacation, but the cruise he and his friends took turns into a disaster. Now, after a rogue wave and a harrowing night, they’re on a beach with few options. Will a power struggle threaten their chance for rescue? The island isn’t just sunshine, coconuts, and palm trees. It holds secrets and dangers, but the biggest peril may come from within their group. Can they stick together? Will Dee be a loner or a leader? How will they get off the island?

In every city, girls are trafficked in brothels where the red haze of the neon lights never shut off. Red in the morning. Red at night. Red for the sailor's delight. But the red haze isn't just a district where girls are purchased by immoral men. Like the red of murderous bloodshed or the scales of demons, the red haze is a symbol of something more sinister. Enter Sam Eden and her boyfriend, Mike Carpenter, naive 20-year-olds who have traveled to the volatile country of Burma for a backpacking adventure but find themselves completely ill-prepared for the world they've entered.

Jake Shepherd is piloting a flight to Seattle when out of the blue, his aircraft falls from the sky. The power-grid across the United States crashes, leaving all computerized machines crippled, sending the country into a disastrous tailspin. Alice Shepherd is working the emergency room when hundreds of injured people pour in needing help. With no electricity, resources are limited - once the back up generators fail, all hell will break loose.