Kids Thriller

Early retirees Maria and Richard Wilcox adore their new home out in the country. The past six months have been sheer bliss as they settled in and prepared for their golden years. Until the night they answer a knock on their door. The unexpected visitors are a pair of children. Richard tries to be cordial, but something about the kids is off. Something sinister, something menacing, something inhuman. And then the children demand to be let in. What do they want? Is this all a prank? Can Maria and Richard get them to go away, or will their dreams of a peaceful retirement together go up in flames?

A novella with the quirkiness of Japanese mysteries and lingering suspense that grows with every page. They barely know each other, but their lives are about to entangle in unexpected ways. Paul, Krishna, Gloria, and Varsha have nothing in common. Only that they have time on their hands to take Spanish language classes and are free for an hour after it to hang around in a café. Over the course of three months, the four grow close to each other, sharing the joys and tribulations of their lives. Paul is lonely after his wife’s death and wanders about the city, collecting plants. Krishna is...

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.

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.

I know my brother is dead. But sometimes Mama gets confused. There’s plenty about the grownup world that six-year-old Aoife doesn’t understand. Like what happened to her big brother Theo and why her mama is in the hospital instead of home where she belongs. Uncle Donny says she just needs to be patient, but Aoife’s sure her mama won’t be able to come home until Aoife learns what really happened to her brother. The trouble is no one wants to talk about Theo because he was murdered. But by whom?

*****People's Book Prize Finalist***** Spy School or Lie School? Ocean Daley just doesn't fit in –for one, he's called Ocean– but his enigmatic uncle sees huge promise in him and takes Ocean to a summer school for talented teens. Orca, the secretive organisation behind the school, needs fresh recruits…but for what? With classes in hacking, bike racing and defence, it could be Ocean's chance of a lifetime....or something far darker. Orca Rising is the explosive first book in the Orca series by Chris Hannon and finalist for The People's Book Prize, ideal for fans of Alex Rider, Cherub ...

What happens when three college freshmen accidentally wake a cursed vampire in a crypt? Veronica, Kyle, and Cy thought their Sunday archaeological excursion would be just another extra-credit adventure—until they accidentally crack open an ancient crypt and summon vampire Kane Spencer, setting him free. He’s tall, dark, and terrifying… but also cursed, hunted, and in desperate need of Veronica’s help. Giving him her blood was meant to save him, but now she’s tied to a world of danger she never imagined. Kane’s past is coming for him—deadly twisted vampires, cryptic prophecies,...

A family-friendly haunted house adventure, perfect for ghost hunters... And if you loved The Goonies movie, The Secret Astoria Scavenger Hunt is for you! The Goonies Anniversary Celebration brings Seattle tween Morgan to Astoria, Oregon, for a fun weekend in this historic riverfront town. Her cousins, Sean and Ronan, have just entered a spooky contest inspired by the movie. When the boys ask Morgan to help them win the grand prize, she’s determined to make their Anniversary Celebration weekend together the most memorable ever! But there’s something really peculiar about the old mansion ...

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.

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 Nightmare Begins… Book Information: Life for Kaitlyn O'Brien was always simple but excessively structured. She knew that there was more for her to discover, but the sudden change in her scholastic circumstances left her feeling trapped and hopeless. Transitioning to being homeschooled wasn’t as simple as she thought it would be, but she had no choice. Residing in a home where the love of her parents seemed to grow cold towards her every day didn’t make it any better, it just didn’t make any sense to her. Neither did the strict no-fraternizing policy that the gated community they...

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

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.

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.

Detective Miles Jensen is called to the lawless town of Santa Mondega to investigate a spate of murders. This would all be quite ordinary in those rough streets, except that Jensen is the Chief Detective of Supernatural Investigations. The breakneck plot centres around a mysterious blue stone, 'The Eye of the Moon', and the men (and women) who all want to get their hands on it: a mass murderer with a drink problem, a hit man who thinks he's Elvis and a pair of monks among them.

Thirteen-year-old Jack knows it’s his fault his baby sister almost died, and he also knows what saved her—Dr. Kingsbury’s “Miraculous Tonic.” Guaranteed to relieve maladies for man or beast, Dr. Kingsbury’s potion can cure everything from pimples to hearing loss to a broken heart, and Jack himself is a witness to the miraculous results and the doctor’s kindness.

Shania's dreams are put on hold when her teacher awakens an ancient evil. Does she have what it takes to break the Mummy's Curse? Peggy wished her dad dated an actual human woman and not one of the creepy sex dolls that are appearing all over town. But Peggy's domestic problems might be the least of her worries as the patented Real Companions begin to get a little too real. Judy longs to follow in her father's footsteps as a scientist, but she learns a hard lesson when she accidentally releases a horde of demon pigs upon the town.

The United States is unrecognizable. Most of the landscape remains frozen while the NepSat winds continue to rip apart the very fabric of life. After mercenaries destroy the only home Dakota has ever known, she and her father, Navy SEAL Commander Decker Storm, find an underground sanctuary called Juniper Caves. They move there to begin a new life and quickly find that their advanced technology may prove to be humanity’s last hope. Terrorist teams are sent to the United States to kidnap the president and assist in launching new biological weapons that would eradicate any remaining life. ...

Melding prose, poetry, imagined interviews and ephemeral photography, Ondaatje weaves together a lyrical reinterpretation of Billy’s short, infamous existence, forming a portrait of a young man, and a young country, borne out of violence, threaded through with disaster, yet rich in wonder.

“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 ...