Wild Places · Wilderness thrillers
A long way from help
A real place where the road ends. A small circle of strangers. A situation a helicopter cannot fix today.
Every Wild Places book is a complete case, solved inside its own covers. Claire’s story runs in order.
They Go Up Alone
She reads strangers for a living. This time you’ll see it before she does.
Travel journalist Claire Oakes hikes into the Olympic rainforest to write about a 1931 ranger chalet the river is finally carrying off. Five strangers are already in that valley when she gets there. By the second morning one of them is dead on the bank with her hands folded too neatly, the crossings between there and the road are gone, and the helicopter cannot fly for three days.
Four left. One room. One of them did it.
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Twice a Day
The sea shuts the way out twice a day.
Claire Oakes went to the Lost Coast to write about the stretch of California the highway turned inland to avoid. Twenty five miles of it under a wall of cliff. No road, no phone signal, and three places where the beach only exists at low tide.
On the third morning a woman is lying at the tide line. Six people are left with her, and the way out runs at the speed of the water.
A complete case, start to finish. Free, and not sold anywhere.
Reading order
Wild Places
Start anywhere and the case still closes. Read them in order and you get the other story, the one about the editor who keeps sending her.
No. 1 · Olympic Peninsula, Washington
They Go Up Alone
Five strangers in a valley the river has cut off, and one of them dead on the bank.
No. 2 · Gaspésie, Québec
The Smaller Thing
The same guide. The same February week. The same mountain a woman did not come down from.
No. 3 · Wester Ross, Scotland
They All Say So
Sixty people in a glen, and fourteen of them tell her the same story in four days.
About
Sloane Kerrigan
Sloane Kerrigan writes wilderness thrillers about ordinary people who are a long way from help. She lives in Quebec City and travels as often as she can.