Nicole Brooks has a bachelor of environmental science and a lifelong love of reading, which has enabled her to blend two of her passions - nature and writing - into stories that put people into the thick of environmental disasters. She lives just outside Calgary with her husband and two daughters and can be found curled up with a book during long, cold Canadian winters, searching the skies for bald eagles, or hurting herself while playing pickleball.
No Higher Ground is her thriller debut.
At CrimeReads Brooks tagged "favorite books which tell deeply human stories in a world where Mother Nature is more than a supporting character." One title on the list:
Jane Harper, The DryRead about the other titles on the list at CrimeReads.
Aaron Faulk escaped his small town roots and became a successful police investigator in the city, returns for the funerals of his old friend and the family he apparently murdered.
This tried-and-true plot line gets elevated by the thoroughly intoxicating atmosphere of this small town in the grip of a drought. Aaron gets pulled into the investigation and his own past gets brought up in the burning heat and the suffocating lack of moisture. This is truly a story that is elevated by Mother Nature. Gripping and twisty, Harper had me racing through the pages, desperate for the conclusion. And a glass of water.
The Dry is among Elizabeth Arnott's six atmospheric thrillers set during heatwaves, Peter Nichols's six novels whose crimes and mysteries grow out of place & manners, Kate Alice Marshall's five mysteries and thrillers about returning to your hometown, Olivia Kiernan's seven modern classics of small town mystery, Sarah J. Harris's top eight mysteries with images that might stay with you forever and Fiona Barton's eight favorite cold-case mysteries.
--Marshal Zeringue
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