Young Adult Crime

Every woman’s secret weapon is her little black dress, but for fashion model-turned covert agent, Evan Tyler, her weaponized wardrobe makes her absolutely deadly. Infiltrating the Paris couture scene, Tyler and her team level their sights on Anton Hrevic, a rising star designer who, along with his muse-models, seems intent on espionage and world manipulation.

The adventure of Brian Parker's dreams has just become a nightmare. While on a school trip to Europe, Brian hopes for just a taste of the glamour and excitement from his favorite spy novels. Yet he gets way more than he bargained for when he stumbles across a wounded spy in a Lucerne alley.

Campi di papaveri a perdita d'occhio sui crinali delle colline, e schiere di uomini in uniforme a raccoglierne il prezioso nettare. È questo l'impero di El Patrón, potente signore della droga a capo di Opium, una striscia di terra che si estende tra gli Stati Uniti e le regioni che un tempo venivano chiamate Messico. Sono gli eejit a lavorare nei campi, uomini nel cui cervello sono stati installati dei chip che li costringono a una passiva docilità.

The X-Men meets Ocean's Eleven in this edge-of-your-seat sci-fi adventure about a band of "super" criminals. When the deadly MK virus swept across the planet, a vaccine was created to stop the epidemic, but it came with some unexpected side effects. A small percentage of the population developed superhero-like powers, and Americans suffering from these so-called adverse effects were given an ultimatum: Serve the country or be declared a traitor. Some people chose a third option: Live a life of crime.

Rain Wilson thought she knew where she came from. A small farming town, forgotten and missed by everyone. After learning that her estranged mother is missing, she realizes there is a lot she doesn't know about the man who has raised her. She's waited for her mother for 10 years. Now 18 and full of curiosity, she embarks on a harrowing journey to find her mother. She uncovers a trail of lies, deceit and quite possibly a plot too scary to fight against. How far will she really go to save her mother?

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.

Jazzy, Max and Maddy are three friends at an amusement park where they discover tunnels and witness a shocking murder. When they return, they are denied legitimacy. Maddy goes home and nothing changes. Jazzy comes home to a chaotic family of siblings, but Max comes home to discover his whole world is flipped upside down. Embark on this journey with Jazzy, Max and Maddy to enjoy a stellar ride.

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."

Annie and Fia are ready to fight back. The sisters have been manipulated and controlled by the Keane Foundation for years, trapped in a never-ending battle for survival. Now they have found allies who can help them truly escape. After faking her own death, Annie has joined a group that is plotting to destroy the Foundation. And Fia is working with James Keane to bring his father down from the inside. But Annie’s visions of the future can’t show her who to trust in the present. And though James is Fia’s first love, Fia knows he’s hiding something.

Still recovering from her troubled past, Farris is no stranger to change. But when the military transfers her father across the country to an experimental aircraft squadron, settling in to a new life is the least of her problems. As a series of apparent computer glitches threaten the security of the fleet and the blame falls on her father, she decides to put her computer skills to use, digging up the truth. Soon she's drawn into the perilous world of a hacker who is determined to ground the fleet - at any cost.

Der zweite Teil der beliebten "Dark Village"-Reihe geht ebenso spannend weiter wie der erste: Binnen kurzer Zeit erschüttern zwei Morde den kleinen norwegischen Ort Dybdal, in dem die vier jungen Mädchen aufwachsen. Der Täter ist noch nicht gefasst, und keiner weiß, ob es sich um einen oder vielleicht sogar zwei Mörder handelt. Die Polizei muss sich beeilen, um möglicherweise noch Schlimmeres zu verhindern.

Ein trauriger Fund steht im Zentrum des dritten Bandes der beliebten "Dark Village"-Reihe. Der kleine norwegische Ort Dybdal ist erschüttert von dem schrecklichen Mord, und die drei übriggebliebenen Freundinnen versuchen jede auf ihre Art, mit dem Schock und der Trauer fertigzuwerden. Dann wird ein Verdächtiger verhaftet, der sogar ein Geständnis ablegt, doch schon bald wird klar, dass er nicht der Täter war. Der eigentliche Mörder ist noch auf freiem Fuß und plant den nächsten Mord.

Ten years ago Jess lost her mother to the Magpie Man, an infamous serial killer who is still at large and planning to kill again. She's going to use her new platform as the star of a YouTube reality series to catch him. That is, if he doesn't catch her first. Jess' online show means that everyone is talking about her mother's murder case. But fame comes with its downsides. The whole world is watching her every move. And it's hard to know whom she can trust.

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.

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.

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.

People in Merit, Wisconsin, always said Jimmy was...you know. But people said all sorts of stupid stuff. Nobody really knew anything. Nobody really knew Jimmy. I guess you could say I knew Jimmy as well as anyone (which was not very well). I knew what scared him. And I knew he had dreams even if I didn't understand them. Even if he nearly ruined my life to pursue them. Jimmy's dead now, and I definitely know that better than anyone. I know about blood and bone and how bodies decompose. I know about shadows and stones and hatchets. I know what a last cry for help sounds like.

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.