Teen Crime Fiction

Marnie Wells knows that she creeps people out. It's not really her fault; her brother is always in trouble, and her grandmother, who's been their guardian since Mom took off, is...eccentric. So no one even bats an eye when Marnie finds an old tea-leaf-reading book and starts telling fortunes. The ceremony and symbols are weirdly soothing, but she knows - and hopes everyone else does, too - that none of it's real. Then basketball star Matt Cotrell asks for a reading.

Kit takes her role as London’s notorious “Perfect Killer” seriously. The letters and cash that come to her via a secret mailbox are not a game; choosing who to kill is not an impulse decision. Every letter she receives begins with “Dear Killer” and every time Kit murders, she leaves a letter with the dead body. Her moral nihilism and thus her murders are a way of life - the only way of life she has ever known. Dear Killer is a sinister psychological thriller that explores the thin line between good and evil.

Bex has always been her daddy's little girl. After her mother left, it was just the two of them. Sure, he spoiled her with clothes and jewelry, but what father doesn't dote on his daughter? Except Bex's dad is alleged to be a notorious serial killer. Dubbed the Wife Collector by the press, her father disappeared before he could stand trial, and Bex was left to deal with the taunts and rumors. Foster care is her one chance at starting over, starting fresh. But Bex's old life isn't ready to let her go.

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.

Inspector Victoria Rhodes works long hours as one of the last clean cops on San Francisco's crumbling police force. When a double murder claims the life of a city prosecutor in the exclusive covenant community of Atlantis, Rhodes is assigned as liaison between the SFPD investigation and the investigation run by the private security force known as the ASM.

I volunteered to be a spy, not an assassin. I know this is war...but I just want to do what's right. If you ask me, none of us should be here - but no one gave me a choice. And I won't blindly follow orders. I am essential to the plan. And I will be a hero for my country. If I were normal, I wouldn't be old enough to join the army. But I'm not normal. I'm a weapon.

Thirteen-year-old Boli and his friends are deep in the middle of a game of marbles. An older boy named Mosca has won the prized Devil's Fire marble. His pals are jealous and want to win it away from him. This is Izayoc, the place of tears, a small pueblo in a tiny valley west of Mexico City where nothing much happens. It's a typical hot Sunday morning except that on the way to church, someone discovers the severed head of Enrique Quintanilla propped on the ledge of one of the cement planters in the plaza, and everything changes.

Evelyn Peters is desperate. Desperate for a way out of McNair Falls, the dying Southern town that's held her captive since the day she was born. Desperate to protect her little sister from her mother's terrifying and abusive boyfriend. And desperate to connect with anyone, even fallen golden boy Ashton Harper, longtime boyfriend of the girl Evelyn can never stop thinking about - beautiful, volatile, tragically dead Reid Brewer. Until a single night sends Evelyn and Ashton on a collision course that starts something neither of them can stop.

Dues històries, la mateixa nit i una fosca sospita. Dues vides que es creuen de matinada a través de les xarxes. Dos joves que es lliuren a un joc misteriós: compartir somnis, il·lusions i pors, però no la seva identitat. Aviat donaran el pas següent: una cita a cegues. No obstant, trobar-se amb un desconegut sempre comporta riscos. Perquè tothom amaga secrets...

Si bé la trama s’inicia a Bolívia, amb la fugida de Doña Flor Huanaco a Espanya, el pla de venjança d’un poderós narcotraficant es traslladarà als carrers i barris de Madrid. Darrere els seus passos arriben un implacable assassí a sou conegut com a senyor Luna, amb l’encàrrec de matar-la, i el fill del narcotraficant, desitjós d’heretar el seu imperi i, per tant, més perillós fins i tot que el pare.

Beklemmende, superspannende thriller van "Boy 7"-auteur Mirjam Mous. In een rustig natuurgebied wordt een man dood in de rivier aangetroffen. Het is Herman van Romondt, een journalist van Dagblad Zuid. De politie is er al snel van overtuigd dat het een ongeluk was en doet de zaak daarmee af. Maar Mink, die dezelfde dag nog stage bij Herman liep, denkt dat er meer achter zit. Want wat deed de journalist bij de Blauwe Bosjes, terwijl hij helemaal niet van de natuur hield? En dan had hij het ook nog over een belangrijk artikel, dat zou inslaan als een bom.

Aphra Behn Connolly's family's resort allows few opportunities for her to make friends - much less to meet cute boys. So when a smoldering Seth Mulo arrives with his parents, she's immediately drawn to him. Sure, he's a little bit guarded, and sure, his parents are rather cold, and okay, he won't say a word about his past, but their chemistry is undeniable. Then, a famous rock star's girlfriend turns up dead on the beach - strangled by her own bikini top - and alarm bells sound. Is it too great a coincidence that Seth's family turned up just one day before a murder?

Cameryn's ex-boyfriend is back....and ready to kill!Cameryn had thought she was in love with him. He was smart, strong, and would do anything for her - even kill. Kyle O'Neil disappeared after his first attempt on Cameryns life at the end of The Angel of Death. Now he is back for his second.

Billy Zeets has a story to tell. About being a vandal and petty thief. About missing boys and an elusive killer. And about what happens if a boy who breaks all the rules is the only person who can piece together the truth. Gripping and powerful, this masterful debut novel comes to vivid life through the unique voice of a hero as unlikely as he is unforgettable.

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.

Sing um dein Leben! Für Vicky scheint ein Traum wahr geworden zu sein: Sie hat es bei der neuen Castingshow in die letzte Runde auf einer abgelegenen Südsee-Insel geschafft und hat nun die Chance auf 1 Millionen Euro und einen Plattenvertrag. Aber der Wettbewerb ist nicht nur hart, sondern tödlich. Vickis Mitbewohnerin Carolin wird am Strand gefunden - erschlagen. Wer ist zu so einer Tat fähig? War es einer der Kandidaten, die Carolin in den Fights aus dem Wettbewerb gedrängt hat? Die Anspannung wird zu einem wahren Nervenkrieg, denn der Mörder muss noch auf der Insel sein.

Jacob Barnaby lives in a small town in the shadows of the Adirondack Mountains, where neighbors know each other and gossip spreads like dandelions. On the night of his birthday party, the 17-year-old son of a prominent attorney learns his father has a secret. To make matters worse, his father plans to represent the man Jacob and his friends think is responsible for putting the school bully in a wheelchair. Will his father’s actions ruin both Jacob’s family and his senior year? Can Jacob salvage his relationship with his girlfriend?

When her diplomat father is kidnapped and the US government refuses to help, 17-year-old Gwendolyn Bloom sets off across the criminal underbelly of Europe to rescue him. As she journeys from the slums of Paris to the nightclubs of Berlin to the violent heart of the most feared criminal family in Prague, Gwendolyn discovers that to survive in this new world she must become every bit as cruel as the men she's hunting.

It’s been four months since Janelle Tenner stopped the Earth’s destruction with the help of Ben, the boy who resurrected her after she died. Ben is gone now - disappeared through a portal to his home world. Even though Ben broke her heart, Janelle refuses to believe it when Interverse Agent Taylor Barclay tells her Ben is suspected of running a human-trafficking ring across several universes. She vows to uncover the true culprit and rescue the people who have been sold into slavery on alternate Earths - not to mention find Ben and prove his innocence.

Jack West und seine Freunde müssen, um den globalen Schutzmechanismus aktivieren zu können, das Rätsel um die fünf größten Krieger der Weltgeschichte lösen. Wer sind diese mysteriösen Kämpfer? Nur die Auserwählten dürfen sich der Macht des Schutzschirms bedienen – und ihn zur Rettung oder zum Schaden der Menschheit anwenden. Von Israel über Japan bis in die letzten unerforschten Winkel der Mongolei reisen Jack und sein Team, um die Welt vor dem Untergang zu bewahren.