Kids Thriller

They're surrounded by everything money can buy. They've grown up with the heady scent of fame and success all around them. They're the Hollywood Kids, the adult children of Hollywood royalty, who always get what they want: until a serial killer walks among them and starts hunting them down.

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.

Brother and sister Diego and Corin Townsend are on the trip of a lifetime: two weeks in Rome with their new best friend, Desmond, and his treasure hunter parents to open their new exhibition. All expenses paid. Insider access to all the museums and monuments the kids have long dreamed of exploring. But their plan to dig into history’s mysteries in one of the world’s great ancient cities quickly turns dangerous when the kids discover a hidden treasure map dating back to the time of Julius Caesar. But is the map real? Does it point to actual buried treasure? Well, some wicked, greedy men ...

Helen Mudgett, 63, widowed, jobless, and bankrupt, is forced to move to Cooper's Paradise Hotel, a dilapidated pile of wood catering to indigent senior citizens who thought they could live their lives on the two hundred year plan. Within hours of her arrival she is set upon by Ethel Mae Tibbets, a beer swilling, handicapped resident, and her ward, Sarah Brewster, a ten year old refugee from a broken home. They want Helen to help Sarah search for a 1936 Packard Limousine that went missing twenty years ago, along with its owner, Sonny Zervas. Helen tells them that looking for the car is an ...

An intricate twisted plot with moral ambiguity. Considered one of his best stories.

Seventeen-year-old Hope Long's life revolves around her brother Jeremy. So when Jeremy is accused of killing the town's beloved baseball coach, Hope's world begins to unravel. Everyone is convinced Jeremy did it, and since he hasn't spoken a word in 9 years, he's unable to defend himself. Their lawyer instructs Hope to convince the jury that Jeremy is insane, but all her life Hope has known that Jeremy's just different than other people - better, even.

Although his work is technically illegal, Hubie Schuze has no qualms with digging up ancient Native American artifacts. The government calls him a thief, but Hubie thinks of himself as a treasure hunter - and his latest quest could be his last. After lowering himself into a cave in search of Anasazi pottery, Hubie uncovers a long-dead corpse, buried where the Anasazi would never have left a body. As he puzzles over this discovery, he hears a chilling sound: his truck, left behind on the cliff face, being driven away.

Donner Lake is famous for its dazzling waters, dramatic mountains, and the travelers trapped there long ago who did unspeakable things to survive. But for lonely Nora Sharpe, Donner was where a girl named Grace glided into her life one night and exploded her world.

Nothing ever seems out of place in the safe, suburban town of Cowslip Grove. Lawns are neatly mowed, sidewalks are tidy, and the sounds of ice cream trucks fill the air. But now...kids have been going missing - except no one even realizes it, because no one remembers them. Not their friends. Not their teachers. Not even their families.

Meet Adam and Summer, two teenagers who are about to discover the world is far stranger than they could ever imagine... After a series of unfortunate choices, the two find themselves living on the fringe of society. Not a bad place to be for two lost souls choosing to live anonymously in the shadows. Sadly, twisted characters tend to live in the shadows, too. Some even creep into their aimless lives, while others ignore them. Until one day something occurs to them... Only certain people can see them. Convinced they’re going insane, Adam and Summer fight to survive even while questioning ...

One Cube. Three vials. Three vials that contain the blood of the Dark Trinity. The Dark Trinity has the power to plunge the world into darkness and despair. How could one girl ever stop them? One Girl. Many Friends. Mitzi Clark and Team Whale are on another race against time, to find the stolen Covenant Cube before someone, or something, releases the power of the Dark Trinity. They will navigate through new and even more challenging clues as they encounter Vampires, Werewolves and other menacing creatures lurking in the dark. Can they Stop the darkness from coming? Maybe. Can they save the ...

In this audio collection of the complete Rayne Tour series, YA listeners and lovers of seatbelt suspense will enjoy the mysteries, secrets, and hazardous experiences of Shaley, the daughter of a rock star who finds herself in the midst of danger after a tour gone wrong. The Rayne Tour Audio Collection includes: Always Watching, Last Breath, and Final Touch.

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After being run out of Arizona on a trumped-up murder charge, the Rio Kid spent three years in Mexico, learning how to shoot quicker than any man on the range. Now he's headed home to clear his name. But before he reaches Arizona, the Kid will have to pass through the deadliest border region in the West. Nestled snugly in a bend of the Rio Grande, Hell's Half Acre is a lawless outpost claimed by both Mexico and the United States, and belonging to neither. There, justice comes from the barrel of a six-gun, and the only sentence is death.

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.

*Updated, if you downloaded months back you may have to manually process to receive the latest version.* A Murder Mystery that keeps you guessing to the very end! Investigator Buck Arnold isn't expecting to work another murder case after he's forced to retire from the police department. When Artie, a prominent attorney in a small upscale Georgia town with a reputation as a "Fixer" is killed, his fiancée Michelle hires him to solve the murder. Buck has worked for Artie's law firm Adcock and Adcock over the years, so he's someone she can fully trust. There are many suspects for him to dig ...

Taylor Watson’s life is like most teenagers in their senior year of high school. Studying for tests, going to band practice, hanging out with friends, and dealing with an overbearing mom, are just a few of the things on her to-do list. And now with the softball coach pressuring her to join the team, how is she supposed to find enough time in the day for everything? When Taylor finds a lost book of spells on the school bus one afternoon, she discovers a spell for more time and figures what’s the worst that can happen. Taylor soon wishes she had left the book where she found it, because ...

The unofficial diary of one Nathan Wilden Welden Strathmore, the reluctant leader of the MuckFoke movement, a freshman at Ventura College pursuing his transformative learning experience to achieve his personal, academic, and career goals in a liberating, inclusive, equitable, and diverse environment where he shoots the active shooter bastard Max dead in the hallway.

“They took a clean-cut kid and they made a killer out of him, that’s what they did” – Bob Dylan From Innocence to Assassin Logan Connor was the perfect all-American boy—adopted into a loving family, living a quiet life in a small town. But that idyllic image shatters when a buried secret about his past is uncovered, throwing Logan into a brutal world he never knew existed. Enter Titus Crow, a master manipulator and government operative who sees raw potential in Logan. Crow recruits him into a shadowy network of covert operations, where lies, murder, and betrayal are just another ...

On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues. But that's just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still.