Kid Mystery Thrillers

In 1983, Angie, Jenny, and David are watching MTV, riding bikes, and looking forward to their summer vacation before they start junior high school. Lincoln, Nebraska, is a pretty quiet place to grow up, and when the kids take off at 5:00 a.m. to deliver newspapers on Jenny’s route, they aren’t expecting trouble. So when a creature straight out of a horror movie appears, the kids are forced to draw on their wits, their strengths, and most of all their friendship to survive.

Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth by a writer who brings us back to our familiar legends with a renewed sense of wonder.

Eine Frau nachts allein in einem großen Haus - plötzlich erweist sich ihre Angst vor Einbrechern als begründet. Kann sie den ungebetenen Besucher davon überzeugen, dass sie nicht die wohlhabende Bewohnerin, sondern nur der Homesitter ist? Eine ebenso spannende wie groteske Situation entwickelt sich und offenbart allmählich ihren Hintersinn. Diese und eine weitere Geschichte finden sich auf diesem Krimi-Hörbuch.

Der Klassiker des Großmeisters Stephen King erstmals als deutsches Hörbuch. Auf einer Insel vor der Küste des US-Bundesstaates Maine wird eine männliche Leiche gefunden, die nicht identifiziert werden kann. Ein paar hartnäckige Lokaljournalisten recherchieren den Fall, aber je mehr Spuren sie verfolgen, desto geheimnisvoller wird das Ganze. Handelt es sich um ein schier unmögliches Verbrechen? Oder sogar um etwas noch Befremdlicheres...?

When a tween boy (Codename: Furious Popcorn) picks up what he thinks is a cookbook and finds a diabolical parenting manual, his world turns upside down. The Ultimate Guide to Hacking Your Kids was written by an organization called F.A.R.T. (Families Against Rotten Teens), a secret society of grizzled parents whose origins date back to antiquity.

A group of four teenagers get together every week to watch movies. They love nothing more than a good movie or a good adventure. Being able to combine the two, now that's something they get excited about. Listen to how the gang get into scrapes and adventures, turning detective to uncover all manor of mysteries, legends, and myths, not to say mysteries within their own imaginations. This short story takes you into their world as their adventures begin.

When Sam and Monica arrive at Aunt Rhonda's house, she tells them, "Enjoy exploring my old house. But whatever you do, don't go into Dougie's room!" Why not? The girls wonder. Can they resist opening that mysterious door?

They give you just enough to keep you comfortable and quiet...if you're willing to put up all the burdensome regulations and intrusions into your private. And most people do. But is it worth it? At long last, William Oudeis didn't think so. But then it cost him everything. "SlumberJoy, a global matress-manufacturing company, had its largest US plant in Doulosville, Oklahoma, where William Oudeis lived. And William worked there, had for the past 30 years. He was a forklift operator. Out of a hopeless sense of irony, his co-workers called him 'Billy the Kid.'"

You are a huge fan of author Lawrence Block and you would do anything to meet him and get his autograph. Would you die for it? That's probably carrying things a bit too far, but hey, this is fiction. Let's see what happens at one of Lawrence Block's book signings...