Children’s / Teenage fiction: Thrillers / suspense
Square Fish The Raft
Book SynopsisThe Raft is a thrilling novel of survival from award-winning author S.A. Bodeen.Robie is an experienced traveler. She''s taken the flight from Honolulu to the Midway Atoll, a group of Pacific islands where her parents live, many times. When she has to get to Midway in a hurry after a visit with her aunt in Hawaii, she gets on the next cargo flight at the last minute. She knows the pilot, but on this flight, there''s a new co-pilot named Max. All systems are go until a storm hits during the flight. The only passenger, Robie doesn''t panic until the engine suddenly cuts out and Max shouts at her to put on a life jacket. They are over miles of Pacific Ocean. She sees Max struggle with a raft. And then . . . she''s in the water. Fighting for her life. Max pulls her onto the raft, and that''s when the real terror begins. They have no water. Their only food is a bag of Skittles. There are sharks. There is an island. But there''s no sign of help on the way.
£10.44
St Martin's Press The Project
Book SynopsisThe Project is a pulls-no-punches story from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award winning author Courtney Summers, about an aspiring young journalist determined to save her sister no matter the cost.The #1 Indie Next Pick and winner of the International Thriller Writers Award. BELIEVE HIM, BETRAY HER1998: Six-year-old Bea doesn't want a sister but everything changes when Lo is born early. Small and frail, Lo needs someone to look out for her. Having a sister is a promise, Mom saysone Bea's determined not to break.2011: A car wreck, their parents dead. Lo would've died too if not for Lev Warren, the charismatic leader of The Unity Project. He's going to change the world and after he saves Lo's life, Bea wants to commit to his extraordinary calling. Lev promises a place for the girls in the project, where no harm will ever come to them again . . . if Bea proves herself to him first.
£16.14
Flatiron Books 13 Minutes
Book SynopsisFrom the author of Behind Her Eyes, now a Netflix Original Series hitMean Girls for the Instagram age. The Times (London) They say you should keep your friends close and your enemies closer, but when you''re a teenage girl, it''s hard to tell them apart.Natasha doesn''t remember how she ended up in the icy water that night, but she does know thisit wasn''t an accident, and she wasn''t suicidal. Her two closest friends are acting strangely, and Natasha turns to Becca, the best friend she dumped years before when she got popular, to help her figure out what happened.Natasha''s sure that her friends love her. But does that mean they didn''t try to kill her?Sarah Pinborough, the New York Times bestselling author known for her thrilling twists, is back.
£14.58
St Martin's Press Count All Her Bones
Book SynopsisGriffin, the teen who helped Cheyenne escape in Girl, Stolen, goes missing right before he's set to testify at his father's trial. Cheyenne sets out to save Griffin in this much-anticipated sequel.
£11.85
Henry Holt & Company Lord of the Fly Fest
Book SynopsisInfluencers trapped on a deserted island with a murder suspect in their midstwhat could possibly go wrong? Fans of White Lotus will love Lord of the Fly Fest, a hilarious and gripping take on Lord of the Flies from New York Times bestselling author Goldy Moldavsky. Rafi Francisco needs a splashy case to put her true-crime podcast on the map. Her plan? A murder investigation, of course. She's heading to Fly Fest, an exclusive music festival on a Caribbean island, to interview River Stone, the pop star who rocketed to fame after his girlfriend's mysterious disappearance. And her interview is going to expose him as the killer she's sure he is.But when Rafiand hordes of influencersarrive at Fly Fest, the dreamy Caribbean getaway they were promised turns out to be a nightmare. Soon, Rafi is fighting for her life against power-hungry beauty gurus and spotty WiFi. And as the festival from hell continues with no end in sight, and Ra
£16.14
Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) The One That Got Away with Murder
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£16.99
Wednesday Books The Last Secret Youll Ever Keep A Novel
Book SynopsisBestselling author Laurie Faria Stolarz returns with a thrilling novel where an eighteen-year-old girl's search for answers lands her in one of the most terrifying situations imaginable.
£14.24
Square Fish BLOOD MOONLIGHT02 SILENCE SHADOW
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£11.52
Palgrave USA The Friend Scheme
Book SynopsisPart thriller, part romance, this is another twisty #ownvoices YA novel from the author of The Love Interest.
£11.99
St Martin's Press The Lies We Conjure
£12.59
St Martin's Press Garden of the Cursed
Book SynopsisIn this enemies-to-lovers romantasy mystery, cursebreaker Marlow Briggs reluctantly pretends to be in love with a powerful noble to gain entry into an illustriousand deadlysociety that holds clues to her mother''s disappearance. Nothing short of genius. Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Inheritance Games seriesSince fleeing the gilded halls of Evergarden for the muck-filled canals of the Marshes, Marlow Briggs has made a name for herself as the best cursebreaker in Caraza City. But no matter how many cases she solves, she is still haunted by the mystery of her mother's disappearance.When Adrius Falcrest, Marlow''s old friend and scion of one of Caraza''s most affluent spell-making families, asks her to help break a life-threatening curse, Marlow wants nothing to do with the boy who spurned her a year ago. But a new lead in her mother's case makes Marlow realize that the only way to get the answers she despe
£16.14
Roaring Brook Press Icon and Inferno
Book SynopsisPerfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Ally Carter, the dazzling sequel to #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu''s Stars and Smoke, is a brilliant, breathtaking ride - Tahereh Mafi, #1 internationally bestselling author.New sparks. Old flames. And a mission that''s playing with fire. A year has passed since superstar Winter Young last saw secret agent Sydney Cossette. After barely surviving their first assignment together in London -- and their intense chemistry the two haven't spoken at all. Though they're never far from the other's thoughts, or fantasies. So when Syndey shows up at Winter's studio one day with a new mission from Panacea, he has no choice but to accept. With the clock ticking, the duo prepares to head to Singapore to rescue an operative in danger -- only to learn he's none other than Sydney''s ex, a rogue agent known as the Arsonist. Of course, nothing is ever simple when it comes to Winter and Syd
£17.84
St Martin's Press A Guide to the Dark
Book SynopsisYou can check out of Room 9, but you can never leave.The Haunting of Hill House meets Nina LaCour in this paranormal mystery YA about the ghosts we carry with us.Something is building, simmering just out of reach.The room is watching. But Mira and Layla don''t know this yet. When the two best friends are stranded on their spring break college tour road trip, they find themselves at the Wildwood Motel, located in the middle of nowhere, Indiana. Mira can''t shake the feeling that there is something wrong and rotten about their room. Inside, she''s haunted by nightmares of her dead brother. When she wakes up, he''s still there.Layla doesn''t see him. Or notice anything suspicious about Room 9. The place may be a little run down, but it has a certain charm she can't wait to capture on camera. If Layla is being honest, she's too preoccupied with confusing feelings for Mira to see much else. But when they learn eight people died in that
£14.39
St Martin's Press Gorgeous Gruesome Faces
Book SynopsisA cutthroat K-pop competition leads to a dark obsession in this twisty sapphic horror-romance. Perfect for fans of She Is a Haunting and Yellowjackets.A perfect blend of folk horror and dazzling showbiz that will grip you from page one. ?Trang Thanh Tran, New York Times-bestselling author of She is a HauntingThe sweetest spot between horror and romance. ?Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of These Violent DelightsYou'll love them to death . . .Two years have passed since Sunny Lee lost her best friend Mina in a mysterious death. With their other BFF, Candie, the trio had been the hottest up-and-coming teen pop group, until it all suddenly ended. And Sunny can''t help but wonder if Candie had something to do with it.Now, Sunny is still seeking answers. When she discovers that Candie is attending a new K-pop workshop, Sunny follows, hoping to uncover the reason why Mina died..
£16.99
Palgrave USA The Silent Unseen
Book SynopsisA mesmerising historical novel of suspense and intrigue about a teenage girl who risks everything to save her missing brother - for fans of Elizabeth Wein and Ruta Sepetys.
£9.99
Square Fish CHANGING MAN
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£11.32
Feiwel & Friends We Are Hunted
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£13.78
St Martin's Press Ill Tell You No Lies
Book SynopsisFrom Amanda McCrina, the acclaimed author of Traitor and The Silent Unseen, I''ll Tell You No Lies is a riveting YA novel of the Cold War era about a girl in post-World War II America who becomes entangled with an escaped Soviet pilot and must learn to decipher truth from lies.New York, 1955. Eighteen-year-old Shelby Blaine and her father, an Air Force intelligence officer, have just been wrenched away from their old life in West Germany to New York's Griffiss Air Force Base, where he has been summoned to lead the interrogation of an escaped Soviet pilot. Still in shock from the car accident that killed her mother barely a month earlier, Shelby struggles with her grief, an emotionally distant father, and having to start over in a new home.Then a chance meeting with Maksym, the would-be defector, spirals into a deadly entanglement, as the pilot's cover story is picked apart and he attempts to escape his military and intelligence handlerswit
£10.44
St. Martin's Publishing Group The Debutantes
Book SynopsisJessica Goodman meets The Agathas in this taut, twisty YA thriller set in the glittering world of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, where secrets--and bodies--never stay buried.For the New Orleans elite, the Les Masques Ball is sure to be the social event of the seasonif they can avoid another dead Queen. When debutante Margot Landry was found dead the morning after her reign at last year's ball, it was a tragedy, but not a shocking one. Margot was a wild child with a self-destructive streak, nothing like this year's Queen, Lily LeBlanc. With a perfectly poised debutante on the throne, everything is going according to planuntil the ball is hijacked by a mysterious figure in a Jester costume. That night, Lily sends a text to three of the Maids on her royal courther best friend, Vivian; her boyfriend''s sister, Piper; and April, her former frenemyasking them all to meet the next morning. But Lily never shows up.On the surface, these three debutantes don't have a
£14.11
Square Fish The Headmasters List
Book SynopsisOne of Us Is Lying meets Gossip Girl in The Headmaster''s List, an edge-of-your-seat YA thriller about a fatal car crash and the dangerous lengths one teen will go to uncover the truth about what really happened.*This paperback edition includes exclusive bonus material!*Friday night. The party of the summer. Four teens ride home together. Only one never makes it. When high school sophomore Chris Moore is tragically killed in a car crash, Armstrong Prep is full of questions. Who was at the wheel? And more importantly, who was at fault?Eighteen-year-old Spencer Sandoval wishes she knew. As rumors swirl that her ex, Ethan, was the reckless driver, she can't bring herself to defend him. And their messy breakup has nothing to do with it she can't remember anything from that night, not even what put her in that car with Ethan, Chris, and Tabby Hill, the new loner in school.The hunt for answers inten
£10.44
Clarion Books One Lie Too Many
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£9.49
Disney Book Publishing Inc. Disney Cautionary Tales
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£17.99
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Elizabeth Webster and the Portal of Doom
Book SynopsisIn this spine-tingling sequel to Elizabeth Webster and the Court of Uncommon Pleas, young Elizabeth has a client and case of her very own, but things quickly become bloodstains-on-the-courtroom-floor messy. After her grand success in the courtroom against the demon Redwing, Elizabeth thought life would get much easier. But balancing homework with defending the undead is tricky. And lately, it''s been tough convincing her father that she''s ready to do more than sweep the floors of the family firm. When a wailing banshee mother begs for her help in saving her son, Elizabeth jumps at the case. Free the boy named Keir McGoogan, then reunite him with his mother at the Portal of Doom -- piece of cake. But there''s a catch. While Keir waits for his trial, Elizabeth must shepherd him through the horrifying halls of middle school! And soon she realizes that Keir''s fate is tied to a terrifying pact
£15.29
Oxford University Press, USA Mickey and the Missing Spy
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£9.09
Oxford University Press, USA Dark Peak
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£9.25
Youth Large Print The Bletchley Riddle
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£25.50
Thorndike Press, a Cengage Group We Fell Apart
£28.26
National Geographic Kids Explorer Academy The Falcons Feather Book 2
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£25.55
National Geographic Kids Explorer Academy The Double Helix Book 3
Book SynopsisThe mystery deepens and the action intensifies for 12-year-old Cruz Coronado and friends in the exciting third book in the Explorer Academy series.The adventure continues for Cruz, Emmett, Sailor, and Bryndis as they continue their studies at sea and travel to exotic locations around the world. A mysterious person alerts Cruz to impending danger while he and a few trusted pals explore ancient ruins in Petra, Jordan, and search for another piece of the puzzle his mother left behind. Worst of all, now his father has gone missing, which prompts Aunt Marisol, his number one protector, to leave the ship in search of him. Who is the new professor who takes her place? How does the new technology he introduces help or hurt Cruz's quest? Why is Nebula determined to stop Cruz before he turns 13? The clock is ticking as his first teen birthday draws near ... a milestone that will change his life forever, one way or another.
£25.55
National Geographic Kids Explorer Academy The Star Dunes Book 4
Book SynopsisCruz, Sailor, Emmett, and the gang are on their way to Africa when Nebula misses their intended target and someone close to Cruz ends up on the brink of death. Secrets creep out from the shadows and leave Cruz with more questions than answers in this fourth title in the hit series.A major discovery forces the Explorer Academy into the limelight in The Star Dunes, but Cruz has much more on his mind than 15 minutes of fame. A new face on board the ship brings Cruz's worlds colliding, just as a major close call tears them apart. En route to Africa, Team Cousteau is now down a major player, and Cruz can't help but be preoccupied by the hole in his life. The discovery of his mom's next clue leads him to the most exotic location yet--a vast desert--with no other information to lead the way, while an unlikely ally helps Cruz pursue another piece of the puzzle. Just as things seem like they might turn out alright, Dr. Fanchon Quills has a technological breakthrough which
£25.55
National Geographic Kids Explorer Academy The Tigers Nest Book 5
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£25.55
Thorndike Striving Reader One of Us Is Lying
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£33.10
Youth Large Print Daughter of the Deep
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£24.99
Orca Book Publishers Trance
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£11.78
Orca Book Publishers Ghost Queen
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£10.40
Sourcebooks Secrets of the Blue Hand Girls
£13.68
Sourcebooks Fire Tastes Like Candy
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£13.53
Sourcebooks, Inc The Escape
Book SynopsisFletcher and Adam venture into the woods for an afternoon hike, but when day turns into night and neither boy returns, their town is thrown into turmoil. Avery, the detective's daughter, is the one to find Fletcher-dishelved, disoriented, and covered in blood.Trade Review"This well-paced thriller's contemporary setting and quirky characters make for a quick and entertaining read. The author's knowledge concerning traumatic memory loss and schizophrenia helps create an authentic and compelling story...Students who enjoyed R. L. Stine's scary stories in elementary school and are fans of Caroline B. Cooney's thrillers should find this book appealing." - VOYA Magazine"This mystery is marked by gripping psychological suspense and the plot builds to a dramatic conclusion." - Booklist"Avery is part of search and rescue team, and she is the one that finds Fletcher. He is beaten, bloody, and nearly unconscious. Adam is nowhere to be seen. After Fletcher is somewhat recovered, he is questioned by the police about the whereabouts of Adam. But Fletcher has no memory of the incident. All he knows is that someone killed Adam and tried to kill him-but failed. The plot of this book was fantastic. The book had so many twists and cliffhangers it was hard to put it down. Nothing in this book was disappointing" - SLJ Teen Newsletter"The author did a fantastic job of portraying a serious crime, while still making me feel sorry for the villain at the same time. I recommend this book to teenagers and adults because of the novel's intensity and violence. Hannah Jayne is a wonderful writer, and I will definitely be on the lookout for more from her! This is one book you simply cannot miss!" - Manhattan Book Review"This book definitely had me on the edge of my seat. It's a psychological thriller that I simply couldn't put down...Hannah Jayne is a wonderful writer, and I will definitely be on the lookout for more from her! This is one book you simply cannot miss!" - Manhattan Book Review"Well-written, conversational, and quick-moving, readers are given several points of view as the story develops. This is perfect for those readers in high school English classes who clamor for contemporary scary stories that are not vampires and werewolves" - School Library Connection
£10.52
Sourcebooks, Inc Even If We Break
Book SynopsisA shocking thriller about a group of friends who go to a cabin to play a murder mystery game...only to have the game turned against them, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends.FIVE friends go to a cabin.FOUR of them are hiding secrets.THREE years of history bind them.TWO are doomed from the start.ONE person wants to end this.NO ONE IS SAFE.Five friends take a trip to a cabin. It''s supposed to be one last getaway before going their separate ways-a chance to say goodbye to each other, and to the game they''ve been playing for the past three years. But they''re all dealing with their own demons, and they''re all hiding secrets.And as they start to play the murder mystery game that brought them together in the first place, the lines between the game and reality blend, with deadly consequences. Someone knows their secrets. Someone wants to make them pay. Soon, it''s a race against time befoTrade Review"Worthy of a horror movie... While the characters are distinct and unique, they are also fairly well-rounded and developed with their differences being only part of their characterization... A thriller with appeal for a variety of readers." - School Library Journal"An engaging read, providing readers with some solid suspense, and twists to sink their teeth into." - Booklist"The darkly twisted ode to self-discovery briskly whisks an intersectionally inclusive group through a reasonably stormy, emotionally charged scenario that considers the sometimes-steep price of growing up and growing apart." - Publishers Weekly"Immersive and captivating. From its well-drawn characters to their twisty game-turned-crime scene, Even If We Break is thrilling in every sense of the word." - Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author
£13.29
Sourcebooks, Inc The Lost
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£12.34
Sourcebooks A Danger to Herself and Others
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£16.19
Sourcebooks, Inc After the Fire
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£16.19
Sourcebooks, Inc The Girl Who Wasnt There
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£10.44
Tyndale House Publishers Secrets of the Highlands
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£13.29
Workman Publishing Clever Creatures of the Night
£10.95
Philomel Books Bodyguard: Target (Book 7)
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£8.54
Penguin Putnam Inc People Like Us
Book SynopsisMean Girls meets Donna Tartt's The Secret History with a little bit of Riverdale mixed in. So yeah, it's epic.--HelloGigglesIn People Like Us, Dana Mele delivers the Gossip Girl meets Pretty Little Liars young adult novel you've been waiting for.--BustleKay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet, but the past is past, and she's reinvented herself entirely. Now she's a star soccer player whose group of gorgeous friends run their private school with effortless popularity and acerbic wit. But when a girl's body is found in the lake, Kay's carefully constructed life begins to topple. The dead girl has left Kay a computer-coded scavenger hunt, which, as it unravels, begins to implicate suspect after suspect, until Kay herself is in the crosshairs of a murder investigation. But if Kay's finally backed into a corner, she'll do what it takes to survive. Because at Bates Academy, the truth is something you make...not something that happened.Debut author Dana Mele has written a taut, sophisticated suspense novel that will keep readers guessing until the very end.
£16.76
Candlewick Press,U.S. The Starlight Claim
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£16.19
