Strange Piece of Paradise
By Terri Jentz, read by Margaret Colin
(Audio Renaissance)
Summer is the time to unleash your wild side. Some are satisfied doing so at family barbecues; others, well, they turn to extreme vacations. Back in spring 1977, two Yale University students decided to bike cross-country from Oregon. While camping out a week into the trip, in the dead of night a man drove over their tent in his pickup truck, then slashed them with an ax. Years later, Terri Jentz returned to investigate the unsolved crime, only to uncover some unsettling evidence. Once your goose bumps recede, tune in these other audiobooks that will get your heart pumping:
The Last Dive: The Harrowing Account of a Father-Son Dive Team and Their Fatal Descent
By Bernie Chowdhury, read by Kevin Conway
(HarperAudio)
Kevin Conway’s spooky reading will scare off anyone considering exploring shipwrecks this summer.
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
By Jon Krakauer, read by the author
(Random House Audio)
The ultimate story of peril on a really large, really cold mountain.
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage
By Alfred Lansing, read by Tim Pigott-Smith
(Audio Partners)
Ernest Shackleton and his men survived on ice floes for five months after their ship was wrecked on the way to the South Pole in 1914.
Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
By Nando Parrado, with Vince Rause; read by Josh Davis, with Nando Parrado
(Random House Audio)
In 1972, a plane filled with rugby players crashed in the Andes, and the survivors lived for two months by consuming the dead.
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Kristin Kloberdanz is a Chicago writer.
