School Thrillers

When a long-serving Master at one of England's most prestigious public schools drowns in Bassenthwaite Lake, Detective Inspector Skelgill is summoned to investigate his apparent suicide. It soon becomes clear that senior members of staff are not all that they seem. As the school closes ranks, Skelgill realizes he is pitted against a sinister power struggle for control of its highly lucrative operation.

When a wealthy New York philanthropist pays top dollar for a private four-day ziti workshop, Nell Valenti wants everyone at the Villa Orlandini Cooking School focused on the task at hand. But complications abound when Nell’s boyfriend, Pete Orlandini, rushes to Rome for an unexpected business trip; Chef Orlandini is more preoccupied with a potential spot on an American cooking show than with preparing for the workshop; and an uninvited woman sneaks into the villa to inspect Pete’s olive grove.

Claudia Morgan is overwhelmed. She's a single parent trying the best that she can, but her four-year-old son, Henry, is a handful - for her and for his preschool. When Claudia hears about a school with an atypical teaching style near her Chicagoland home, she has to visit. The Hawthorne School is beautiful and has everything she dreams of for Henry: time to play outside, music, and art. But when Henry brings home stories of ceremonies in the woods and odd rules, Claudia's instincts tell her that something isn't quite right.

It’s the first week of senior year at Meadowbrook Academy. For Amy and her best friend Sarah, that means late-night parties at the boathouse, bike rides through their sleepy Connecticut town, and the crisp beginning of a New England fall. Then tragedy strikes: Sarah and her boyfriend are brutally murdered in their dorm room. Now the week Amy has been dreaming about for years has turned into a nightmare, especially when all eyes turn to her as the culprit.

The Florida State reform school, notorious for its abuses, is now in the headlines for more than just abusing its guests. Bodies are being discovered and the deaths are referred to as being the most brutal killings of the century. This is mainly because the boys were young and some innocent. Not everyone that stayed at the Dozier school was guilty of a crime but rather simply had nowhere else to go.

Isobel lives an isolated life in North London, where she works at a nearby library. She feels safe, so long as she keeps to her routines and doesn’t let her thoughts stray too far into the past. But a newspaper photograph of a missing local schoolgirl and a letter from her old teacher send her spiraling and bring back the trauma of what happened years ago, when she was a pupil at The Schoolhouse.

The sixth book in the Charles Bloom Murder Mystery series… In 1961, two Navajo boys must bet each other’s lives - and risk their most prized possessions - to escape the wrath of the sadistic headmaster of a Gallup Indian boarding school. The white devil and his spawn will stop at nothing - not even murder - to acquire the objects of their desire. Fifty years later, a brush with death draws Rachael Yellowhorse and Charles Bloom back to the Navajo reservation, where they unwittingly stumble on a decades-old secret of child abuse and stolen heirlooms.

This may be the scariest summer of their lives. Worse than going to summer school or working a job that doesn't pay. Even worse than attending their parents' old sleep away camp. The foursome must face their phobias as students at the exclusive and elusive School of Fear. Run by former beauty queen, Mrs. Wellington, the school is unusual, to say the least. But terrifying would be a more accurate description.

Auf Cimmeria herrscht der Ausnahmezustand! Hilflos müssen Allie und ihre Freunde mit ansehen, wie die Machtkämpfe die Internatsschüler zermürben und Nathaniels Einfluss immer stärker wird. Halt gibt Allie in dieser Zeit vor allem Sylvain, der seine Gefühle ihr gegenüber nicht länger verbergen kann. Nur was empfindet Allie wirklich?

When a school teacher from a small coastal town near La Rochelle asks Maigret to help prove he is innocent of murder, the Inspector returns with him to his insular community and finds the residents closing ranks to conceal the truth.

"ซิวจูเกิดอะไรขึ้นเหรอ ฉันกลัวเเล้วนะ" หย่าจือร้องขึ้นจนน้องสาวต้องฉวยมือมาจับเอาไว้ "ฉันไม่รู้ๆ ฉันเองก็กลัว" "ป้าๆๆๆ" เเต่เเล้วยังไม่ทันที่ซิวจูเเละหย่าจือจะวิ่งมาถึงร่าง ที่เป็นลมไปของป้าหวัง หย่าจือก็กรีดร้องขึ้นมาสุดเสียงอีกคนหนึ่ง "กรี๊ดดดดดด" เธอชี้มือไปยังบานประตูบ้าน ซิวจูมองตามมือที่ชี้นั่น สิ่งที่เห็นคือ ภาพของวิญญาณหลายดวงที่ล่องลอยเเละทำสีหน้าคุมเเค้น เบิ่งตาที่เเดงก่ำเหมือนจะเข้ามา กัดกินชีวิตของเธอ หย่าจือล้มฟุบลงไป ก่อนหน้าที่ซิวจูจะสิ้นสติไปอีกคนหนึ่งในเวลาไม่กี่นาทีต่อมา

Every year, the reputable Queensland institution of St. Ignatius, affectionately called Iggy, hosts a Gala Day. This battle of brains and brawn, where eleven-year-olds vie for a spot inside those hallowed ivory walls, directly affects admissions and determines the path of each and every candidate. But in the cutthroat environment of elite academia, three mothers will stop at nothing to see their boys succeed.

Die rebellische Allie wird von ihren Eltern ins Internat Cimmeria geschickt. Dort häufen sich schon bald eigenartige Vorfälle...

Endlich: Allie ist jetzt ein vollwertiges Mitglied der geheimnisvollen "Night School". Dort erhält sie nicht nur ein unglaublich hartes Training...

Ava’s family has just moved into an abandoned school. The empty hallways are as lonely as Ava feared. When she finds a raggedy stuffed rabbit, she feels like she’s finally made a friend. But there are others within the eerie classrooms. They also want to be Ava’s friends. They’ve been in this old school a long time, and they have their own wicked ideas for Ava and her family…

After Raine discovers that she has magic, she attends a school to help her develop it. But when evil forces threaten her, she must take on the danger to restore balance.

In the year 2036, the world's best boarding school is the Stansbury School. The students are screened at a young age and then given 12 years of the finest education and developmental drug regimen available. But when several alumni are murdered, school officials decide to keep the police in the dark. They discreetly ask the school's valedictorian to solve the mystery, but he discovers that the most obvious culprit, the school's chemically imbalanced delinquent and his own nemesis, is being framed.

Kidnapped by a cult of religious fanatics, an Austin school bus driver and 11 of his young charges have been held underground at the group's highly fortified compound for 46 days. While a team of federal negotiators begins to lose all hope of rescuing the hostages, crime reporter Molly Cates sets out to discover everything she can about the cult's iron-willed leader, Samuel Mordecai.

When Raine finds a hidden message in some old yearbooks that can't be ignored, she finds herself racing to solve a deadly puzzle before everyone at her school dies.

Located in bucolic Connecticut, the Crittenden School has long held a venerable reputation as one of New England's premier preparatory schools. However, times are changing, and that change is coming to Crittenden. In the midst of social upheaval, the headmaster's wife, Clarissa Spotswood, is thrust into faculty and student intrigues-a role for which she is woefully unprepared.