Kids Crime

Temple of Doom: And Other Stories of Kids and Crime, by the award-winning journalist Mike Sager, is a pocket collection of five true stories—first published in Rolling Stone, GQ, and Esquire—that illuminate the tragic intersection between underage kids and adult crimes and punishments. In the title story, police are baffled when eight Thai Buddhist monks and one nun are killed execution-style in a temple outside Phoenix—the worst mass murder in Arizona history. Nobody wants to believe the crime has been committed by a pair of gung-ho ROTC students from the local high school. In “The...

Officiellement mort, le Bourbon Kid pourrait en profiter pour couler des jours heureux en compagnie de Beth, son amour de jeunesse enfin retrouvé. Encore faudrait-il que sa nouvelle identité reste secrète, sans quoi ses nombreuses victimes et ses ennemis, plus nombreux encore, finiraient bien par s'unir pour se venger. Mais quand Beth est kidnappée, et qu'il s'avère aussi être le seul à pouvoir sauver Santa Mondega d'un terrible bain de sang, le Bourbon Kid n'a plus qu'une solution : revenir d'entre les morts. Plus sauvage et plus impitoyable que jamais. Un quatrième épisode des aventures du Bourbon Kid, encore plus déjanté et jubilatoire que les trois premiers.

D'un côté, le "Bourbon Kid", tenant du titre de tueur en série le plus impitoyable et le plus mystérieux que la terre ait jamais porté. De l'autre, avec plus d'une centaine de victimes à son actif, l'Iroquois, blouson de cuir rouge, masque d'Halloween surmonté d'une crête, challenger et sérieux prétendant au titre. Le combat s'annonce terrible. Dans les coulisses : une organisation gouvernementale américaine spécialisée dans les opérations fantômes, une nonne, un sosie d'Elvis, quelques Hells Angels et une cible de choix pour nos psychopathes frénétiques : le pape, en voyage secret aux États-Unis.

Vous n'avez pas lu "Le Livre sans nom" ? Vous êtes donc encore de ce monde, et c'est tant mieux. Parce que vous allez pouvoir assister à un spectacle sans précédent, mettant en scène Judy Garland, James Brown, les Blues Brothers, Kurt Cobain, Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin, Freddie Mercury, Michael Jackson... et le Bourbon Kid. Les héros du "Livre sans nom" se retrouvent en effet dans un hôtel perdu au milieu du désert pour assister à un concours de chant au nom prometteur : "Back From The Dead". Imaginez un Dix petits nègres rock revu et corrigé par Quentin Tarantino... Vous y êtes ?

Nellie's happiness was cruelly taken from her. Her con man son Jack decides to take revenge on her behalf. But nothing is as simple as it seems. This con man genesis story delves into Ireland's dark history.

Nine-year-old Florence Williams’ parents are sitting behind bars for a crime they do not remember committing. When they are sentenced to prison, she is left with nowhere to belong. For four years after their arrest, Florence moves from house to house, getting shelter but missing a loving home. Her grandparents don’t want her. She even runs away to find her aunt, but she is found and returned to the Children’s Protective system. Finally, her Aunt Audrey is old enough to take her in and Florence, now thirteen, joins a special group of kids who call themselves The Wesley Club; full of ...

Billy the Kid - born Henry McCarty in 1859, and also known as William H. Bonney - emerges from this audio in all his complexity, at once a gentleman and gregarious companion and a thief and violent murderer. Tapping new depths of research, Etulain traces Billy’s short life from his mysterious origins in the East through his wanderings in New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas.

Humans, beware! A new player has come to town and made New Lisbon its puppet show. When the waters of Lake Grassum mysteriously turn fresh and flood overnight, Constable Joey's life is turned upside down. Joey's investigation into the bizarre flood uncovers more questions than answers. What seems like a natural anomaly quickly reveals more profound, unsettling changes in the town’s underworld—and its people. His childhood friend, Geoffrey, begins to exhibit an alarming ambition, and an inexplicable greed grips the town's citizens. What drives this wave of madness? Can Joey uncover the ...

When Brian Bradford's teenage daughter starts undergoing a strange transformation, it begins a journey for the both of them as Brian not only meets God and the devil, but also learns who he is and why his daughter is changing. What happens will change their lives forever. He also realizes that if you truly love someone, maybe the best thing that you can do is to let them go.

What do you get when you mix a chef, a rival café, and a murder? A mystery with a delicious twist! The death of James Templeton Brockley the third is bad news – and not just for Brockley! Mugsy’s Café is struggling. A new place in town has been gobbling up customers faster than you can say "cappuccino." But is it the new café, or are Porkington’s tired old recipes the problem? Porkington’s timely invitation to cook for Mr. Brockley and “The Guild” might just keep Mugsy’s afloat. And maybe the famous Chef Lorenzo will help him fine-tune his recipes. Or maybe not! When ...

Vous avez aimé "Le Livre sans nom" ? Vous allez adorer "L'Œil de la lune" ! Personne n'a oublié le Bourbon Kid, mystérieux tueur en série aux innombrables victimes. Ni les lecteurs du "Livre sans nom", ni les habitants de Santa Mondega, l'étrange cité d'Amérique du Sud, où sommeillent toujours de terribles secrets. Alors que la ville s'apprête à fêter Halloween, le Bourbon Kid célèbre, lui, le dix-huitième anniversaire de son premier homicide. Il est alors loin de se douter qu'il est devenu la proie d'une agence très spéciale.

The Last Kid Left begins when a car smashes into a sculpture of a giant cowgirl. The police find two bodies in the trunk. Nineteen-year-old Nick Toussaint Jr. is arrested for murder, and after details of the crime rip across the Internet, his 16-year-old girlfriend, Emily Portis - a sheltered teen who's been off the grid until now, her first romance coinciding with her first cell phone - is nearly consumed by a public hungry for every lurid detail, accurate or not.

When we forget things, we don’t even know whether we are speaking the red truth or the white lie. Every word we mutter happens to be the thread of becoming the suspect. Robin, a man who was much addicted to reading crime thriller novels, was suffering from amnesia. He would usually forget events even after a few minutes. Last night, after doing passionate romance, when he woke early morning, he found his wife’s bloodied index finger on the floor. Mr. John & his assistant take the thread to solve the clueless case. There was no suspect except her husband Robin, who was the only person ...

What would you do if you needed to take something from a classmate's bag in the middle of class without anyone noticing? How would you do it? Could you do it? This is the test that Aidan Fox finds himself facing one day after receiving a mysterious text message. But at Ridge Hill Junior High, nothing is as it seems, and this simple challenge leads Aiden into a world he could never have dreamed of.

Les Dead Hunters ont une morale très personnelle. C'est la moindre des choses pour une confrérie de tueurs sanguinaires. Ils ont aussi quelques menus défauts, se croire invincibles, par exemple. Un démon va néanmoins vite les détromper. Malin, fort et intelligent comme seuls les démons savent parfois l'être, il va tranquillement les décimer les uns après les autres. À une exception près. Un des membres des Hunters reste en effet introuvable, et non des moindres : le "Bourbon Kid".

From Sandy Hook, Connecticut, to Aurora, Colorado, to Tucson, Arizona, this nation has been racked from coast to coast with mass shootings perpetrated by criminals with sick minds. Authors Dr. Liebert and Dr. Birnes believe the increase in violence is an epidemic and dig deep into the causes of mental illness to determine what exactly is going on with these individuals and society as a whole, and what action can be taken to slow this frightening trend toward mass violence.

Framed for murder! Have you ever been betrayed? Has a former friend ever taken what's yours and stabbed you in the back? 15-year-old Jeffrey Jones is about to suffer the ultimate betrayal. All Jeffrey wanted to do was help a friend from school find her missing father. He had no way of knowing it would lead to his being arrested for the man's murder. Caught in an elaborate trap and framed for murder, he and his best friend Pablo stage a daring escape, triggering a massive city-wide manhunt. On the run, and with only their friends Marisol and Susie to help, they're in a race against time to ...

In the summer of 1983, a young teen named Danny Brent and his two best friends share good times and special moments while enjoying that unique magic of childhood, an all too brief time when anything seemed possible. They also share a chilling adventure that bonds them together well into adulthood. Now, for the first time in almost thirty years, Danny is sharing his secret about what really happened, the story about his brief encounter with the Goatman - a legendary creature that exists on the outskirts of town in a haunted area called Goatman's, how he saved his life, and what happens ...

On Friday, September 12, 2014, William Tyrrell—a playful three-year-old boy dressed in a fire-engine red Spider-Man suit—disappears from a quiet street in broad daylight. It's assumed he's lost in the nearby bushland, but despite an intensive search, he's not found, and police start to suspect he's been abducted. No trace of William—not a shoe, not a hair—has ever been found, but now is not the time to surrender. How can a little boy just vanish? We have to find him.

There's no place like home. Except when home really sucks - then there's just no place. There’s no place like home. Except when home really sucks – then there’s just no place. His mom’s boyfriends are never nice, but after the newest one explodes, abusing him, ten-year-old Neilson flees home. With nowhere else to go, he finds himself on the porch of an abandoned house. But the thing is, the house is no longer abandoned and the mysterious stranger staying there has a secret. Follow the memories back to 1978 in this short story of a boy struggling to find his place in the world. You ...