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Skip O'Rourke is dragged into one last con . . . but he doesn't know the con's on him in this funny, page-turning debut YA for fans of Winger and Ocean’s Eleven, now nominated for the Edgar Award and the International Thriller Writers Award. Cameron Smith attends an elite boarding school and...

Louis på 15 har sat sig nogle klare mål for sommerferien inden hun skal starte i 1.g: Hun vil vaere sammen med en aeldre fyr, hun vil vaere skaev hver dag, hun vil finde en ny kaereste, og så skal hun se at få slået op med Frederik, for hun glemmer ham hele tiden. På hjemmefronten kaemper hun voldsomme kampe med sin dominerende og kontrollerende far og ønsker sig braendende at flytte hjemmefra.

When her grandmother and cousin are 'accidentally' killed in a drone strike in Yemen, Samiya wants answers. She writes emails, pesters her MP, starts a petition… but no one will help. Disillusioned, she vents her anger in chatrooms, where she makes online allies who willingly loan her their...

From the author of On the Edge and Snitch comes a dangerous, sexy novel perfect for fans of Simone Elkeles. When Gabby Perez is almost drugged at a nightclub, she decides to take action. Teaming up with a mysterious stranger known as X, the two go after a gang who is drugging and kidnapping...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets We Were Liars in this thought-provoking and brilliantly written debut that is part love story, part mystery, part high-stakes drama. What would you pay to cure your heartbreak? Banish your sadness? Transform your looks? The right spell can fix...

The heat of the summer sun bakes the streets of Prague, but Lumikki's heart is frozen solid. Looking to escape the notoriety caused by the part she played in taking down Polar Bear's crime ring, 17-year-old Lumikki Andersson escapes to Prague, where she hopes to find a few weeks of peace among the hordes of tourists. But not long after arriving, she's cornered by a skittish and strange young woman who claims to be her long-lost sister.

From Allison van Diepen, author of Light of Day, Snitch, and Street Pharm, comes a sexy, dangerous novel—perfect for fans of Simone Elkeles and Paul Griffin—about a teen who witnesses a murder and gets caught up in the seedy world of Miami's gangs. Maddie Diaz never should have taken that...

Catherine is dead. At least that's what the FBI claims. They say there's no point investigating the strange disappearance any further. Instead they want Gaia to stay in Quantico to carry on the search for the Lollipop Murderer.

An agent's work is never done. Hot-shot recruit Gaia Moore has just managed to close one case — and find her way back into the FBI's good graces — when the Lollipop Murderer strikes again. Every minute that passes with the killer on the loose puts more innocent women in danger.Gaia and Kim are closing in on the killer. But when all leads point to the same suspect, Gaia is thrown off balance — and into conflict with her partner. Because Kim's theories incriminate the one person she desperately wants to trust.

When high school senior Jonas moves to Seattle, he is glad to meet Levi, a nice, soft-spoken guy and fellow basketball player. Suspense builds like a slow drumbeat as listeners start to smell a rat in Ryan Hartwell, a charismatic basketball coach and sexual predator. When Levi reluctantly tells Jonas that Hartwell abused him, Jonas has to decide whether he should risk his future career to report the coach.

Sadie Windas has always been the responsible one - she’s the star player on her AAU basketball team, gets good grades, dates a cute soccer player, and helps out at home. Not like her older sister, Carla, who hangs out with druggies and leaves her three-year-old daughter, Lulu, with Aunt Sadie while she parties and gets high. But when Sadie and Carla are caught up in a drug deal - wrong place, wrong time - it falls to Sadie to clean up the mess, confessing to a crime she didn’t commit to keep Carla out of jail and Lulu out of foster care. She’s supposed to get off with a slap on the wrist. Instead, she’s sentenced to six months in juvie.

The new guy at Tracy's school is handsome, intense, and desperately needs her help - but there's something about him that isn't quite right.

High school junior Tracy Lloyd is unsure about the new guy in school. Brad Johnson is attractive, smart, and polite, but Tracy can't help but feel he watches her too closely. Then one day Brad confides in Tracy a horrible secret: His little sister Mindy has been kidnapped by his stepfather, and he needs Tracy's help to get her back. But even as Tracy commits to a plan to help her vulnerable new friend, details emerge that suggest nothing is what it seems.

Paul is new to Gate, a school whose rich students make life miserable for anyone not like them. And Paul is definitely not like them. Then, one day something incredible happens. Charlie Good, a star student and athlete, invites Paul to join his elite inner circle. All Charlie wants is a few...

School is out in the summer of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. For Frances Robinson, a fifteen-year-old daydreamer with a crush on her teacher, John T. Scopes, summer vacation promises tennis, and Coca-Colas from her father's drug store. But when Frances's father, the school board chairman, has...

Makkerparret Päivi og Mads vender atter tilbage som verdens allerhemmeligste agenter. Denne gang står de overfor en hel række tyverier, men da Päivis veterancykel bliver hugget, bliver de to venner enige om at få sat en stopper for tyverierne én gang for alle. Heldigivis viser det sig, at Charlie og Hilda er i besiddelse af nøglen, der kan løse gåden om tyverierne - så Päivi forhåbentlig kan få sin cykel tilbage. Serie om vennerne Päivi og Mads, der beslutter sig for at stifte en hemmelig klub, hvor de sammen opklarer mystiske og livsfarlige opgaver. Hans-Eric Hellberg (f. 1927) er en sv

Da 15-årige Frederik skal hjem fra en lidt våd fest, tager han imod et tilbud om et lift med en fremmed mand. Turen får uhyggelige konsekvenser. Ikke langt derfra i en forstad til Stockholm går livet tilsyneladende sin vante gang: Markus er forelsket i Nina, som er forelsket i Jajje; Teo blæser på skolen, og Lenita skal de alle sammen vogte sig for... Men hvad er det, der sker under overfladen? Hvor tæt på er morderen? Kåret til årets bedste svenske ungdomskrimi i 2003.

Lost Souls Ltd. - So nennt sich die Untergrundorganisation um den jungen Fotografen Ayden, den kaputten Rockstar Nathan und den charmanten Verwandlungskünstler Raix. Sie alle haben als Opfer von schweren Verbrechen überlebt und dabei einen Teil ihrer Seele verloren. Nun verfolgen sie nur ein Ziel: Jugendliche in Gefahr aufspüren und versuchen, sie zu retten. Dabei kämpfen sie gegen Entführer, Mörder, das organisierte Verbrechen und gegen die Dämonen ihrer Vergangenheit.

Dunkel. Mystisch. Geheimnisvoll. Der neue große All Age-Roman von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Elisabeth Herrmann führt an den nördlichen Polarkreis. Vardø, eine kleine Stadt weit über dem Polarkreis. Der Mord am reichen norwegischen Waldbesitzer Olle Trygg verstört alle, auch Ravna Persen, gerade frisch als Praktikantin bei der örtlichen Polizeidienststelle gelandet. Keiner nimmt sie ernst, als sie am Tatort glaubt, Hinweise auf einen samischen Hintergrund der Tat zu finden - einen Strich in der Erde.

Wenn die Herkunft über Recht und Unrecht entscheidet, ist es gut, einen Freund wie Theo Boone zu haben. Woody, ein guter Freund von Theo, steckt in ernsthaften Schwierigkeiten: Gemeinsam mit seinem älteren Bruder und einem dritten Jungen wird er verhaftet. Die Anklage lautet: bewaffneter Raubüberfall! Dass es nur eine Wasserpistole war und Woody die ganze Zeit im Auto saß, interessiert niemanden. Woody und sein Bruder werden eingesperrt und bekommen es im Gefängnis plötzlich mit echten Verbrechern zu tun. Jetzt sind Theos ganzer Mut und Kampfgeist gefragt.

Nachdem Connor Reeves als Bodyguard bereits zahlreiche Leben retten konnte, gerät er im explosiven Finale der Bestseller-Serie von Chris Bradford selbst ins Visier gefährlicher Gegner. In seiner ungekürzten Lesung von Bodyguard - Die Entscheidung erzählt Hörbuch-Sprecher Philipp Oehme von Connors Überlebenskampf am anderen Ende der Welt. Über 10 Stunden adrenalingeladene Hörbuch-Spannung für Thriller-Fans ab 12 Jahren!