10 Best Environmental Mystery Books for Saving the Earth: Eco-Mysteries!
Alright you bookworms and planet warriors, get ready to emerge from the pages of your books with not just newfound knowledge, but also a sturdy shield and an ignited passion to champion our planet! We present to you a handpicked list of the top 10 environmental mystery books – eco-mysteries that breathe an adventurous spirit into the urgent cause of Earth conservation.
These books masterfully craft atmospheric stories wrapped in environmental themes, shedding light on the impact of human activities on this beautiful planet that we call home. You'll explore forbidden woods, mysterious animal deaths, choppy waters hiding deep secrets and cities gasping for fresh air. You'll face destructive villains who wreak ecological havoc and encounter green-fingered heroes who sacrifice all to protect our environment.
Fun bit aside, these books carry a serious, compelling message about the world we live in. They are not just thrilling reads, they also inspire reflection and action towards the crucial cause of saving our Planet Earth. So, folks, it's time to buckle up and venture into the wild unknown of these eco-mysteries. And who knows? You might just come out the other side a changed person! Happy reading!
『State of Fear』
In Tokyo, in Los Angeles, in Antarctica, in the Solomon Islands . . . an intelligence agent races to put all the pieces together to prevent a global catastrophe.
Author | Michael Crichton |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Harper |
Release Date | Apr 28, 2009 |
Source | Google Books |
『Falling into Green』
"Falling Into Green is one of the freshest mysteries on the book scene." —Steven Felder, TV Producer, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation"Appealing…the aptly named Dr. Green and her friends are fresh enough to recycle." —Publishers Weekly"Fischer's debut mystery introduces a fascinating topic—ecopsychology…" —Library Journal"[Falling Into Green] is an eco-mystery set at a fast pace, punched through with staccato sentences, twisting plot, shifting landscape, and a mighty heroine for the 21st century." —Huffington Post Books Everything — in nature and in murder – is connected... As an ecopsychologist, Dr. Esmeralda Green is skilled at solving the mysteries of the mind, especially if they collide with the laws of nature. But when a body is found below the crumbling cliffs near her Los Angeles home, she is pulled back in time to a tragedy that defies all understanding. When a young girl is murdered at the same cliff that took the life of her best childhood friend, Ez suspects the two are connected — and, having always lived up to her ecological name, she has learned to trust her intuition and the cues that the natural world can offer. In fact, from her hybrid car to her organic diet, Ez is living a sustainable life in every way — except for the man she’s falling in love with, an attractive TV news reporter who drives, of all things, a Hummer. After Ez discovers a key piece of evidence, she is swept into a maze of corporate corruption and family secrets whose depths seem to have no bounds. As she finds herself venturing into ever more treacherous territory, her intuition and psychological skills can take her only so far. With the memory of her childhood friend haunting her at every turn, Ez finds herself falling further and further into danger… Both an eco-mystery and a love story, Cher Fischer's captivating debut novel offers an intimate look at the myriad ways in which nature defines us.
Author | Cher Fischer |
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Price | $9.99 |
Publisher | Ashland Creek Press |
Release Date | May 01, 2012 |
Source | Google Books |
『State of Wonder』
In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, scientific miracles, and spiritual transformations, State of Wonder presents a world of stunning surprise and danger, rich in emotional resonance and moral complexity. As Dr. Marina Singh embarks upon an uncertain odyssey into the insect-infested Amazon, she will be forced to surrender herself to the lush but forbidding world that awaits within the jungle. Charged with finding her former mentor Dr. Annick Swenson, a researcher who has disappeared while working on a valuable new drug, she will have to confront her own memories of tragedy and sacrifice as she journeys into the unforgiving heart of darkness. Stirring and luminous, State of Wonder is a world unto itself, where unlikely beauty stands beside unimaginable loss beneath the rain forest's jeweled canopy.
Author | Ann Patchett |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Harper Perennial |
Release Date | May 08, 2012 |
Source | Google Books |
『Migrations』
* INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Amazon Editors' Pick for Best Book of the Year in Fiction "Visceral and haunting" (New York Times Book Review) · "Hopeful" (Washington Post) · "Powerful" (Los Angeles Times) · "Thrilling" (TIME) · "Tantalizingly beautiful" (Elle) · "Suspenseful, atmospheric" (Vogue) · "Aching and poignant" (Guardian) · "Gripping" (The Economist) Franny Stone has always been the kind of woman who is able to love but unable to stay. Leaving behind everything but her research gear, she arrives in Greenland with a singular purpose: to follow the last Arctic terns in the world on what might be their final migration to Antarctica. Franny talks her way onto a fishing boat, and she and the crew set sail, traveling ever further from shore and safety. But as Franny’s history begins to unspool—a passionate love affair, an absent family, a devastating crime—it becomes clear that she is chasing more than just the birds. When Franny's dark secrets catch up with her, how much is she willing to risk for one more chance at redemption? Epic and intimate, heartbreaking and galvanizing, Charlotte McConaghy's Migrations is an ode to a disappearing world and a breathtaking page-turner about the possibility of hope against all odds.
Author | Charlotte McConaghy |
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Price | $11.99 |
Publisher | Flatiron Books |
Release Date | Aug 04, 2020 |
Source | Google Books |
『Zodiac』
The second novel from the “hottest science fiction writer in America” and New York Times–bestselling author of Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon (Details). Meet Sangamon Taylor, a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and prefers Jolt from the can to Scotch on the rocks. He knows about chemical sludge the way he knows about evil—all too intimately. And the toxic trail he follows leads to some high and foul places. Before long Taylor’s house is bombed, his every move followed, he’s adopted by reservation Indians, moves onto the FBI’s most wanted list, makes up with his girlfriend, and plays a starring role in the near-assassination of a presidential candidate. Closing the case with the aid of his burnout roommate, his tofu-eating comrades, three major networks, and a range of unconventional weaponry, Sangamon Taylor pulls off the most startling caper in Boston Harbor since the Tea Party. “[Stephenson] captures the nuance and the rhythm of the new world so perfectly that one almost thinks that it is already here.” —The Washington Post
Author | Neal Stephenson |
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Price | $9.99 |
Publisher | Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Release Date | Dec 01, 2007 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Wildlands』
Named one of BuzzFeed's Best Fiction of 2018 "Geni's character–driven environmental thriller—think Silent Spring by way of Celeste Ng—centers on the survivors of a tornado that destroys an Oklahoma farm and kills the family's father." —O, The Oprah Magazine When a Category Five tornado ravaged Mercy, Oklahoma, no family in the small town lost more than the McClouds. Their home and farm were instantly demolished, and orphaned siblings Darlene, Jane, and Cora made media headlines. This relentless national attention in the tornado’s aftermath caused great tension with their brother, Tucker, who soon abandoned his sisters and disappeared. On the three–year anniversary of the tornado, a bomb explodes in a cosmetics factory outside of Mercy, and the lab animals trapped within are released. Tucker reappears, injured from the blast, and seeks the help of nine–year–old Cora. Caught up in the thrall of her charismatic brother, whom she has desperately missed, Cora agrees to accompany Tucker on a cross–country mission to make war on human civilization. Cora becomes her brother’s unwitting accomplice, taking on a new identity while engaging in acts of escalating violence. Darlene works with Mercy police to find her siblings, leading to an unexpected showdown at a zoo in Southern California. The Wildlands is another remarkable literary thriller from critically acclaimed writer Abby Geni, one that examines what happens when one family becomes trapped in the tenuous space between the human and animal worlds.
Author | Abby Geni |
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Price | $11.99 |
Publisher | Catapult |
Release Date | Sep 04, 2018 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Water Knife』
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A "fresh, genre-bending thriller” (Los Angeles Times) set in the near future when water is scarce and a spy, a hardened journalist and a young Texas migrant find themselves pawns in a corrupt game. "Think Chinatown meets Mad Max." NPR, All Things Considered In the near future, the Colorado River has dwindled to a trickle. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel Velasquez “cuts” water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, ensuring that its lush arcology developments can bloom in Las Vegas. When rumors of a game-changing water source surface in Phoenix, Angel is sent south, hunting for answers that seem to evaporate as the heat index soars and the landscape becomes more and more oppressive. There, he encounters Lucy Monroe, a hardened journalist with her own agenda, and Maria Villarosa, a young Texas migrant, who dreams of escaping north. As bodies begin to pile up, the three find themselves pawns in a game far bigger and more corrupt than they could have imagined, and when water is more valuable than gold, alliances shift like sand, and the only truth in the desert is that someone will have to bleed if anyone hopes to drink.
Author | Paolo Bacigalupi |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Vintage |
Release Date | Apr 05, 2016 |
Source | Google Books |
『Flight Behaviour』
On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. As the world around her is suddenly transformed by a seeming miracle, can the old certainties they have lived by for centuries remain unchallenged? "Flight Behaviour" is a captivating, topical and deeply human story touching on class, poverty and climate change. It is Barbara Kingsolver's most accessible novel yet, and explores the truths we live by, and the complexities that lie behind them.
Author | Barbara Kingsolver |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Faber & Faber Limited |
Release Date | Jan 01, 2013 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Windup Girl』
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, a new edition of the break-out science fiction debut featuring additional stories and a Q&A with the author. Anderson Lake is AgriGen’s Calorie Man, sent to work undercover as a factory manager in Thailand while combing Bangkok’s street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history’s lost calories. Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. Emiko is not human; she is an engineered being, grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in this chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe. What happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits and forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly-acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century. In this brand new edition celebrating the book’s reception into the canon of celebrated modern science fiction, accompanying the text are two novelettes exploring the dystopian world of The Windup Girl, the Theodore Sturgeon Award-winning “The Calorie Man” and “Yellow Card Man.” Also included are course-work questions for use in the classroom, and an exclusive Q&A with the author describing his writing process, the political climate into which his debut novel was published, and the future of science fiction.
Author | Paolo Bacigalupi |
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Price | $15.99 |
Publisher | Start Publishing LLC |
Release Date | May 05, 2015 |
Source | Google Books |
『Landscape』
Mark folded the tarp and carried it and the locked box into the potting shed. He laid the tarp on a shelf and sat on the overturned clay pot Fred had used as a stool. Rubbing his eyes he stared bleakly at the old metal file that held the seeds of something too awful to imagine. Nothing had prepared him for this. At the peak of a high-powered corporate career, Mark Grant enjoys position, prestige, and a loving family. His world is shaken when he abruptly loses the job that has been the focus of his life. He starts anew as the owner of a small but profitable landscape business and-just when he seems to have regained his balance-discovers that the company he owns is part of a vast network that threatens not only his livelihood, but the very lives of his family, friends, and countless other innocent victims. He begins to collect evidence of illegally dumped biohazardous waste to present to the Department of Environmental Health, but the risk of exposing the illicit activity intensifies when the criminals threaten his daughter's life. Will Mark be able to stop an environmental disaster and, at the same time, save his family and his business?
Author | Donna Cousins |
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Price | $6.99 |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Release Date | Jul 28, 2005 |
Source | Google Books |
From tales of deforestation to plots centred around climate change, the genre of environmental mysteries is vast, intriguing and alarmingly reflective of the realities swirling around us. Apart from providing thrilling narratives packed with plots of suspense, guys in the white and black hats, and unexpected twists and turns, these novels and comics also offer much-needed conversations around our environment's well-being. These carefully curated stories blend education with entertainment, prompting you to wake up to the need for better, greener practices and habits. They're more than just books—they're calls to action, imploring us to think critically about our impact on the planet. So, get ready to dive into this thought-provoking world. Hopefully, these books will not only fuel your love for mystery but will also sensationalize the importance of saving our precious Earth. If that's not a win-win, we don't know what is! Enjoy these eco-mysteries, folks, and remember: the game is afoot to save the planet! Let's enjoy our reading adventure and roll up our sleeves to make a difference.
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