Teen Crime Fiction

Children of powerful and wealthy parents are vanishing. It's serial kidnapping on an international scale, and the kidnappers are calling all the shots. It started in the UK with the disappearances of PJ Scott, only son of the world's highest paid film star, and Hunter Driscoll, whose Irish father is a high tech billionaire. Then it spread to the US and Europe, with no end in sight. Having eliminated the possibility of terrorists, and with no real clues, Scotland Yard is rapidly running out of options, and the clock is ticking.

If it moves away from you, it's food; if it moves toward you, you're food. The 1957 murder of an undercover cop in a New York City housing project has unexpected ties to the unsolved disappearance of a young father walking home in those same projects with his son, Angelo, on Christmas Eve six years before. The only witness to the cop killing is Angelo, now 13, while on his way to seek his own revenge in the early morning hours. The killers know he saw them.

Aja Minor has led a life of misfortune. At birth, she was dropped and now sports a scar on her face from the resulting laceration. At the dawn of her adolescence, Aja discovers some unsettling effects she has on certain people. They get sick to their stomachs or recoil in pain in her presence. These episodes are accompanied by overwhelming bouts of self-consciousness. To Aja, these powers are a curse.

Two sisters, bound by impossible choices, are determined to protect each other - no matter the cost. James's frozen face melts into a smile. "Do you want to know the trick to getting in trouble under the watchful eye of a psychic?" I think of the nailed-shut windows. I think of Clarice. I think of the two, the two, the two who are now zero. Tap tap. "Yes, I absolutely do." "Don't plan it. Don't even think about it. The second you get an inkling of what you could do, do it then. Never plan anything ahead of time. Always go on pure instinct." I smile. "I think I can do that."

Only three students had access to a teacher’s racy photos before they went viral. There’s Mouse, a brainy overachiever so desperate to escape his father and go to MIT that he would do almost anything, legal or not. Then there’s Drew, the star athlete who can get any girl’s number - and private photos - with his charm but has a history of passing those photos around. And finally, there’s Jenna, a good-girl-turned-rebel after her own shocking photos made the rounds at school last year, who is still waiting for justice.

Grant Leitch is in denial about handing over the reins of the paper to an unworthy underclassman. In denial that Rose suddenly quit the paper and now won’t talk to him. But mostly he’s in denial that she is at prom with another guy, and it’s his fault. Grant’s only hope of luring Rose back to him (and the paper) is a juicy story she won’t be able to resist. In the end it takes a toga-wearing prom crasher, an emergency lockdown, a secret stalker, and a wild after-party to bring Grant and Rose together for one last story...and one final chance to admit that they’re made for each other.

After witnessing an act of domestic terrorism while training on his bike, Jake is found near death, with a serious head injury and an inability to remember the plane crash or the aftermath that landed him in the hospital. A terrorist leader’s teenage daughter, Betsy, is sent to kill Jake and eliminate him as a possible witness. When Jake’s mother blames his head injury for his tales of attempted murder, he has to rely on his girlfriend, Laurissa, to help him escape the killers and the law enforcement agents convinced Jake himself had a role in the crash.

A high-stakes story of star-crossed lovers from Simone Elkeles, the New York Times best-selling author of the Perfect Chemistry series. To escape his abusive stepdad, bad boy Ryan Hess runs from his tiny Texas border town to Mexico. But his plans to keep his head down and stay out of trouble are shattered the minute he meets the beautiful and totally out of his league Dalila Sandoval. Dalila Sandoval shouldn’t even know someone like Ryan Hess. The daughter of one of the wealthiest lawyers in Mexico, Dalila is focused on studying and planning for her bright future.

November is usually quiet in Holcomb, Kansas, but in 1959, the town is shattered by the quadruple murder of the Clutter family. Suspicion falls on Nancy Clutter's boyfriend, Bobby Rupp, the last one to see them alive. New Yorker Carly Fleming, new to the small Midwestern town, is an outsider. She tutored Nancy, and (in private, at least) they were close. Carly and Bobby were the only ones who saw that Nancy was always performing, and that she was cracking under the pressure of being Holcomb's golden girl.

The Walls Around Us introduces Violet, a dancer on the cusp of stardom, and Amber, who's been jailed in a juvenile detention home for years. Tying them together is the home's long-dead Orianna, who holds the key to dark mysteries.

Wally was adopted from a Russian orphanage as a child and grew up in a wealthy New York City family. At 15, her obsessive need to rebel led her to life on the streets. Now the 16-year-old is beautiful and hardened, and she's just stumbled across the possibility of discovering who she really is. She'll stop at nothing to find her birth mother before Klesko - her dark-eyed father - finds her. Because Klesko will stop at nothing to reclaim the fortune Wally's mother stole from him long ago.

Award-winning author Paul Griffin is renowned for his spot-on dialogue and affecting characterization. Stay With Me features the unlikely romance between 15-year-olds CeCe, a sensitive "A" student, and Mack, a high school dropout. With every moment that passes, CeCe and Mack grow closer as they bond over a rescued dog and share their most intimate secrets. But when Mack makes a terrible mistake, their shared vision of the future begins to crumble.

Excitement builds when a reality-TV crew arrive at Katie’s boarding school. This could be her big chance to star on TV! But the show’s producer is her arch-enemy, Danielle’s, older brother, and as usual Danielle is doing everything in her power to make sure there’s only one star – her.If Katie and her friends can win the talent contest, then they’re guaranteed a shot at fame.

Seventeen-year-old Yvette doesn't know what's worse: being locked up on a high-security psych ward for a crime she's not sure she committed or having to see the vacant eyes of her fellow patients. All she wants is her sister back, her parents to get a clue, her brother to quit dealing drugs, the murder trial to be over, and, most of all, to be reunited with the pretty little pills that change the gory red on her hands to a much more pleasant hazy blue. Well that and serious, hard-core, merciless revenge.

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.

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.

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?

Kate is in trouble. Unable to move on from the abduction of her best friend, Kate is determined to prove that Chelsea wasn't just another teen runaway. Unfortunately, her investigations go too far, and she lands herself behind bars. So when the Dean of a last-chance school for juvenile offenders offers Kate an alternative to juvie, she jumps at the chance. Little does she know the challenges she'll face in a school for delinquents where each student is as corrupt as the next.

Kim, Feline, Abby und Pippa - gemeinsam wollen die vier Freundinnen Urlaub in einem einsam gelegenen Ferienhaus machen. Doch dann hört es nicht mehr auf zu schneien und die vier sitzen fest. Auf engstem Raum werden die Spannungen zwischen den Mädchen immer deutlicher, denn jede von ihnen hat etwas zu verbergen. Als sie Spuren im Schnee entdecken, fühlen sie sich beobachtet und bekommen es mit der Angst zu tun. Aus der Angst wird Gewissheit, als sie Geräusche im Haus hören. Und dann verschwindet Kim.

Tiffany Templeton is tough. She dresses exclusively in black, buys leather jackets that are several sizes too big, and never backs down from a fight. She’s known in her tiny Montana town as Tough Tiff, and after her shoplifting arrest and a stint in a reform school, the nickname is here to stay. But when she comes back home, Tiffany may not be the same old Tough Tiff that everybody remembers. Her life is different now: Her mother keeps her on an even shorter leash than before, she meets with a probation officer once a month, and she’s still grieving her father’s recent death.