Eight top thrillers with beach and jungle settings

Jo Morey is a graduate of the Faber Academy and the Curtis Brown Mentoring Scheme. The manuscript for Lime Juice Money was awarded the 2023 Claire Mannion Literary Endeavour Prize, came runner-up in the Cheshire Novel Prize, and was shortlisted for the Primadonna Prize, the Plaza First Pages Award and Killer Nashville's Claymore Award in the literary category. Morey lives in West Sussex, England at the foot of the South Downs with her husband, two boys, and two Portuguese Water Dogs.

Lime Juice Money is her first novel.

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At CrimeReads Morey tagged eight favorite thrillers with beach and jungle settings, including:

Erica Ferencik, Into the Jungle

Erica Ferencik’s Into The Jungle is a feverish dream of a literary thriller. It charts one woman’s journey of survival in the Bolivian jungle. During her adventure she meets poachers, shamans, missionaries, and a whole host of wildlife dead set on killing her.

Heart-pounding, and vibrant with life (and danger), this slow-burn novel is one of the best trips into the jungle I’ve ever taken.

Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue