Dystopian Mystery

As Antonia Conti continues to make waves in London’s criminal underworld with her fearless investigative work, Rick Grainger, a star reporter for a rival newspaper, brings her a lead nobody else will touch—for good reason. The story reveals corruption at the highest level of government, and she quickly discovers that the people involved will do anything to bury it. And just when Antonia thinks she’s won her battle, Grainger disappears. Can she and her old friend DI Russell Chapman uncover the connection with her investigation and bring Grainger’s abductors to justice?

When an EMP decimates the world’s power grid, the Arizona desert is plunged back into the lawless era of the Old West. This disaster ushers in the return of outlaws, shootouts, and settling differences the old-fashioned way. For Vin, a former Special Ops soldier turned bounty hunter, the change is a welcomed one. But when his wife and son are caught in the middle of an all-out war between a massive outlaw gang and the remnant of the US government, he’s going to have to jump headfirst into the darkness to pull them back out.

After The Taxi Driver kills himself, Nico Tucker, The Cleaner, Lachlan, and Cale find themselves caught in a web of intrigue featuring allies and a mysterious crime organization known as The Dragonheads. Will Ellen and Johnny Sue make it back to Headmays? Who is trustworthy, and who isn't? Will Nemo and Co. be finally defeated by triggering "The Kill Switch"? Or will Stella live to fight another day? The suspense continues.

When an EMP decimates the United States, Lori, a former Marine Raider, must embark on a treacherous journey with her daughter across the former United States from Pennsylvania to a rumored sanctuary in Washington State. Can what has been lost be rebuilt? Lori, and her daughter Avah, fight to answer that question as they trek across what remains of the United States after a devastating EMP attack. Together with her new family, Lori must contend with armed bandits and roaming gangs who challenge her at every turn.

Was wenn unsere letzte Hoffnung ausstirbt? Ein packender, dystopischer Politthriller mit Spannung bis zur letzten Seite. Das Klima wird extremer, Bienen und andere Insekten sind in der freien Wildbahn naehezu ausgestorben. Lebensmittel sind knapp und die Menschen des Planeten leiden unter immer schlimmer werdenden Hungersnöten. Die Zukunft sieht düster aus, das Leben auf der Erde ist vielerorts unmöglich. Doch endlich kommt Hoffnung auf: die Molekularbiologin Sophie Bergmann hat nach Jahren der Forschung ein Bienenvolk entwickelt, das gegenüber allen Umwelteinflüssen resistent ist.

Eddie’s world is in ruins, and she must decide whether to follow the rules or stand up against a ruthless regime. With her best friend Angel by her side, Eddie discovers hidden truths about her family's past and the resistance. Will she rise against oppression or succumb to fear?

Wenn die Fische verschwinden und Meere zu Wüsten werden: Öko-SciFi trifft Klima-Thriller. Die Ozeane sterben. Die Fischbestände schwinden, und Wissenschaftler auf der ganzen Welt versuchen in beispiellosen Projekten, die drohende Katastrophe abzuwenden. Ein solches Projekt ist die Tiefseestation Bathos IV, deren Besatzung ― die philippinische Geologin Mayari, die norwegische Biologin Svea und der amerikanische Ingenieur Mat ― mehr über das Meeressterben herausfinden wollen. Beim Sichten der Drohnenaufnahmen stoßen sie auf eine ungewöhnliche Ansammlung von Quallen, deren pulsierendes Leuchten tausende Fische wie magisch anzieht.

Bei einer Jahrhundertflut an der Nordsee brechen die Deiche der Elbmarschen nordwestlich von Hamburg. Die meisten Einwohner verlieren alles, zurück bleibt nur Verwüstung. Die Räumung des Gebiets wird staatlich angeordnet, doch eine Gruppe um den Deichhauptmann Thies Cordes will bleiben und ruft einen eigenen Staat aus: »Koogland«. Cordes allein entscheidet, wen er aufnimmt. Die Krankenschwester Lara darf bleiben, denn medizinisches Personal wird dringend benötigt. Was Cordes nicht weiß: Lara will herausfinden, was mit ihrer Schwester Alina geschah, die vor Kurzem in Koogland spurlos verschwand.

Math genius Boogie Wu struggles to redeem her slandered reputation by pushing the boundaries of her mind in a Zen monastery until she unlocks the secret of an ancient mathematical conjecture. Little does she know that her groundbreaking solution becomes the key to her former employer Magenta Corporation's most disruptive technology: a job-taking AI service in the cloud that thinks by simulating connections of the human brain. When Boogie discovers whose brain Magenta is simulating, she must confront the ethical and spiritual consequences of a technology that doesn’t just think, but feels.

Sie wollte das System revolutionieren, doch nun steht ihr Leben auf dem Spiel. Die erfolgreiche Anwältin Justine Callaghan hat einst als Anführerin der VITA-Bewegung die Todesstrafe revolutioniert. Ein einziges Mal hat sie das Urteil dennoch verhängt und damit ihr eigenes Leben verpfändet: Sollte sich herausstellen, dass der Verurteilte unschuldig war, muss Justine auf den elektrischen Stuhl. Als nun ein neuer Beweis auftaucht, sieht sich die alleinerziehende Mutter mit den tödlichen Konsequenzen ihrer einstigen Überzeugungen konfrontiert.

Lieutenant Dev Singh dutifully spends his days recording the memories of people who, struck with incurable depression, will soon have their minds erased in order to be more productive members of society. At night though, hidden in the dark, Dev remembers and writes in his secret journal the special moments shared with him—the small laugh of a toddler, the stillness of a late afternoon, the first flutter of love. But when the Bureau finds out that he has been recounting the memories—and that the depression is in him too—he is sent to a sanitarium to heal.

Hat man als Einzelner überhaupt eine Chance gegen das System? Eine junge Bibliothekarin aus Boston ist entschlossen, es zu versuchen – ihr bleibt keine Wahl. Und so greift sie zu, als sich die Einladung zu einem ungewöhnlichen Kräftemessen bietet: dem Betatest von FUSION, einem Projekt der US-Geheimdienste und des Social-Media-Moguls Cy Baxter. Wem es gelingt, 30 Tage unauffindbar zu bleiben, dem winken 3 Millionen Dollar. Doch Kaitlyn geht es um etwas anderes.

It's the year 2035 and fiction has been banned by the government for five years. Writing novels is a crime. Reading fairytales to children is punishable by law. Fern Dostoy is a criminal. Officially, she has retrained in a new job outside of the arts but she still scrawls in a secret notepad in an effort to capture what her life has become: her work on a banned phone line, reading bedtime stories to sleep-starved children; Hunter, the young boy who calls her and has captured her heart; and the dreaded visits from government officials.

A fascist administration rounds up undesirables. Terrorist groups strike governmental and religious targets. The constitution is under assault. Erec Stebbins’s China Girl is a controversial look at an America that is all too close to reality, radioactive in its timely examination of extremism in the nation.

Five years after working triage during America's terrible Day of Destruction, Dr. Ethan King wants nothing more than a normal life. But when he finds an abandoned "Inexorable" child freezing to death in the snow, he must make a choice that could cost him everything and unravel a thread of dark woven secrets. As he races to find a cure for whatever is creating a generation of doomed children, Ethan discovers that doing the right thing in an evil world is never as clear and easy as it seems.

After the Final World War, the Hawaiian Federation stands alone as the world's last sovereign nation. Surrounded by deadly waters, its continued existence relies heavily on the Indigo vaccine, an injection given to children at the age of 15 to stave off horrifying effects induced by poisonous nuclear fallout particles called carcinogens.

Zeit ist Geld – das gilt in Ocean City buchstäblich. Als Jackson und Crockie einen Weg finden, die Zeitkonten zu hacken, werden sie zu Gejagten des Geheimdiensts und geraten in ein perfides politisches Spiel. Eine packende Action-Trilogie von den renommierten Kinder- und Jugendbuchautoren Christian Tielmann und Frank Maria Reifenberg, die gemeinsam unter dem Pseudonym R. T. Acron schreiben.

In a scorched summer sky, silence becomes an earthquake. The clouds vanished. The rain forgot how to fall. The sun never left. And the world began to burn. Thirteen-year-old Lena sees what others can’t: swirling patterns, pulsing signals in the sky, and messages buried in light. Her spiral drawings—once dismissed as daydreams—now mirror the strange shimmer overtaking the atmosphere. She’s not alone. Other children are seeing it too.

New York in naher Zukunft - eine Stadt am Abgrund! Die Cops Liberty Capriso und Mike Quillan verrichten ihren Dienst in Manhattan, dem gefährlichsten Teil der Stadt. Schlimmer noch: Eine neue, brandgefährliche Droge verbreitet sich rasant. Die Polizei sucht fieberhaft nach den Hintermännern. Da wendet sich Bürgermeisterin Goldberg an die Ermittler: Sie konnte nur knapp einem Anschlag auf ihr Leben entgehen.

When a bomb goes off at InTech HQ, everything changes for Tanta's corporation. Order becomes disorder. Safety becomes danger. Calm becomes chaos. Tanta is tasked with getting to the bottom of the attack before violence and unrest overtake the city. But even though the evidence points towards rival corporation Thoughtfront, Tanta can't shake the feeling that she's missing something. There's a dark secret at the heart of the case, one that will reveal more about her own corporation than Tanta would like.