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Rock Paper Killers: The Perfect Page-turning, Chilling Thriller As Seen On Tiktok!
Par Alexia Mason. 2022
The brand-new addictive thriller that fans of Karen M. McManus and Holly Jackson will be DYING to read. The ROCK…
she fell from . . . The PAPER she clutched . . .The KILLERS she thought were friends . . . When five Dublin teenagers arrive at a rural coastal college to cram for their final exams, their most pressing concern is the prospect of a month with no partying. Little do they know that one of them will never make it back home . . . A page-turning and gripping thriller with a shocking twist, Rock Paper Killers is perfect for fans of Riverdale, One of Us is Lying and We Were Liars.See what readers are saying about Rock Paper Killers:&‘I read it all in one sitting because I was so addicted&’ – NetGalley – Lily and Lucie, Reviewers&‘Can&’t wait to see what else this author has to offer&’ – NetGalley – Natalie, Reviewer&‘Rock Paper Killers is a tricksy book that keeps you second guessing everyone, even yourself&’ – NetGalley – Emily, Reviewer&‘It was so addicting to read and the chapters flew by. I found myself tearing through it and near finishing it in a day. I was left reeling at the end&’ – NetGalley – Nicola, ReviewerFalse Moves (Nancy Drew Files #9)
Par Carolyn Keene. 1987
Game Changer
Par Margaret Peterson Haddix. 2012
What if school was sports, and sports were school? A talented teen athlete questions reality—and the role she plays in…
it—when a mysterious injury upends her world.Athletics are everything for eighth-grader KT Sutton. She’s a softball star, and she’s on track to get a college scholarship and achieve international fame. Then one day during a championship game—in the middle of an important play—she suddenly blacks out.When she wakes up, she’s in a different world. One where school is class after class of athletic drills, and after-school sports are replaced by popular academic competitions. One where KT is despised for her talent, and where her parents are fixated on her brother’s future mathletics career rather than KT’s softball hopes.KT is desperate to get back to reality as she knew it, but bits and pieces of disturbing memories and dreams make her wonder if something truly awful happened there. What if she’s lost something a lot more important than a softball game?From New York Times bestselling author of Sent and Sabotaged, an engaging and highly relevant exploration of society’s debate of smarts versus sports.This Side of Evil (Nancy Drew Files #14)
Par Carolyn Keene. 1987
Nancy travels to Canada to stop a blackmailer. All sorts of successful people are being blackmailed from the same social…
circles. As Nancy gets deeper in to the case she senses a master criminal—someone as smart as she is—but on the wrong side of the law.Do Not Pass Go: A Novel
Par Kirkpatrick Hill. 2007
Deet's world turns upside down when his father is arrested for drug use. It doesn't seem possible that kind, caring…
Dad could be a criminal! After all, he only took the pills to stay awake so he could work two jobs. Now what will happen? How will Deet be able to face his classmates? Where will they get money? And most importantly, will Dad be okay in prison? Hurt, angry, and ashamed, Deet doesn't want to visit his father in jail. But when Mom goes back to work, Deet starts visiting Dad after school. It's frightening at first, but as he adjusts to the routine, Deet begins to see the prisoners as people with stories of their own, just like his dad. Deet soon realizes that prison isn't the terrifying place of movies and nightmares. In fact, Dad's imprisonment leads Deet to make a few surprising discoveries -- about his father, his friends, and himself. With moving realism, Kirkpatrick Hill brings to light the tumultuous experience of having a parent in jail in this honest and stirring story of a young man forced to grow up quickly.Stage Fright (Nancy Drew Files #90)
Par Carolyn Keene. 2012
The producers of a huge new Broadway musical are worried about their star, who has been receiving death threats. When…
she gets sick right before opening night, her understudy has to go on for her—and nearly dies in an “accident” on stage. So the producers call in the Hardy Boys to get to the source of the trouble.Baffled by all the backstage backstabbing, the Hardys call in Nancy Drew for help. When she arrives, they realize that Nancy is a dead ringer for the lead actress, so they arrange for her to replace the injured understudy.Can the three supersleuths put an end to the accidents plaguing the show? Or is the curtain about to come down once and for all?Boot Camp
Par Todd Strasser. 2007
In the middle of the night Garrett is taken from his home to Harmony Lake, a boot camp for troubled…
teens. Maybe some kids deserve to be sent there, but Garrett knows he doesn't. Subjected to brutal physical and psychological abuse, he tries to fight back, but the battle is futile. He won't be allowed to leave until he's admitted his "mistakes" and conformed to Harmony Lake's standards of behavior. And there's no way to fake it. Beaten, humiliated, and stripped of his pride, Garrett's spirit is slowly ebbing away. Then he hears whispers of an escape plot. It's incredibly risky -- if he's caught, the consequences will be unthinkable -- but it may be his only way out. In this tense, riveting novel, award-winning YA author Todd Strasser reveals what really goes on in highly secretive -- and notoriously dangerous -- boot camps, a stealth prison system where any teenager under the age of eighteen can be imprisoned at his parents' whim.Diamond Deceit (Nancy Drew Files #83)
Par Carolyn Keene. 1993
An urgent message from Bess draws Nancy to beautiful Carmel, California. Fading movie star Joanna Burton has accused jeweler Marcia…
Cheung of replacing the diamonds in her necklace with fakes. But the case of the missing stones turns even more sinister when Joanna ends up on the rocks—at the bottom of a cliff! What led the actress to such a tragic final scene? Who pushed her over the edge? For Nancy, it’s a murder mystery with more twists and turns than the Pacific Coast Highway, and she knows she’s in a race against time. She must find the stolen diamonds before the killer strikes again!Greek Odyssey: Passport To Romance #3 (Nancy Drew Files #74)
Par Carolyn Keene. 1992
The final installment of the romantic trilogy that began with Swiss Secrets and continued with Rendezvous in Rome,Nancy and her…
friends find themselves in a sea of danger as they journey to the exotic Greek islands. Three passports, including Bess’s, have been stolen from their hotel, and Nancy suspects they have fallen into the hands of international fugitives.The Traitor's Blade (The Blackthorn Key #5)
Par Kevin Sands. 2021
Christopher&’s homecoming takes a sinister turn when a murderous conspiracy is uncovered in this fifth novel of the award-winning Blackthorn…
Key series.Christopher, Tom, and Sally are back in London at last. Everyone is relieved at their return—the plague has ended, and the king, pleased with their service, offers a surprising reward. But trouble has followed them home...First, an old friend is ambushed and left for dead. Then an anonymous letter arrives at Blackthorn—a mysterious warning hidden inside a riddle and secret code. As Christopher and his friends begin to investigate, they soon discover they&’ve stumbled upon a plot to kill the king...and anyone else who dares stand in the traitors&’ way.Trouble in Tahiti (Nancy Drew Files #31)
Par Carolyn Keene. 1989
Mixed Signals (Nancy Drew Files #63)
Par Carolyn Keene. 1991
Nancy has joined Ned on campus for Emerson College’s homecoming weekend, and that means pep rallies, parades, and, of course,…
the annual gridiron clash with archrival Russell University. But when danger takes the field, the cheers turn to tears—because winning is crucial when a player’s life is on the line.Rash
Par Pete Hautman. 2006
Consumption of alcohol: Illegal. Football and other "violent" sports: Illegal. Ownership of guns, chain saws, and/or large dogs: Illegal. Body…
piercings, tattoos: Illegal. It's late in the twenty-first century, and the United Safer States of America (USSA) has become a nation obsessed with safety. For Bo Marsten, a teenager who grew up in the USSA, it's all good. He knows the harsh laws were created to protect the people. But when Bo's temper flares out of control and he's sentenced to three years of manual labor, he's not so down with the law anymore. Bo's forced to live and work in a factory in the Canadian tundra. The warden running the place is totally out of his mind, and cares little for his inmates' safety. Bo will have to decide what's worse: a society that locks people up for road rage, or a prison where the wrong move could make you polar bear food.Running Scared (Nancy Drew Files #69)
Par Carolyn Keene. 1992
Nancy’s friend George is set to run in a Chicago marathon alongside some of the country’s best female athletes. But…
when a top runner receives a series of death threats, Nancy races to stop a would-be murderer from crossing the finish line first.Tempestuous (Twisted Lit)
Par Kim Askew, Amy Helmes. 2012
After a mistake with big financial consequences topples her throne, former "it girl" Miranda Prospero is bitter: she finds herself…
stranded in a crazed new world, holding court among geeks and misfits at a mall Hot Dog Kabob stand. Then, she gets her chance for revenge. When the storm of the decade snows in the mall workers and last-minute shopaholics for a long winter's night, Miranda sets out to get back at the catty clique who was behind her exile. But there's a complication. She somehow gets handcuffed to sullen loner Caleb. With him (literally) bound to her side, Miranda learns more in one night about her own heart, and human nature, than she ever did as prep royalty. With this twisted take on Shakespeare's The Tempest, authors Kim Askew and Amy Helmes prove again that, from Juliet's grief to Cordelia's rage, no one knew about teen angst better than the Bard. His wisdom holds up nearly half a millennium later.Secrets So Deep
Par Ginny Myers Sain. 2022
For fans of We Were Liars and from the bestselling author of Dark and Shallow Lies comes a paranormal thriller…
about a seventeen-year-old girl returning to camp to uncover the truth of what really happened there twelve years ago, the night her mother drowned.Twelve years ago, Avril&’s mother drowned at Whisper Cove theater, just off the rocky Connecticut coastline. It was ruled an accident, but Avril&’s never been totally convinced. Local legend claims that the women in the waves—ghosts from old whaling stories—called her mother into the ocean with their whispering. Because, as they say at Whisper Cove, what the sea wants, the sea will have.While Avril doesn&’t believe in ghosts, she knows there are lots of different ways for places, and people, to be haunted. She&’s spent the past twelve years trying to make sense of the strange bits and pieces she does remember from the night she lost her mother. Stars falling into the sea. A blinding light. A tight grip on her wrist. The odd sensation of flying. Now, at seventeen, she&’s returning to Whisper Cove for the first time, and she might finally unravel the mystery of what really happened.As Avril becomes more involved with camp director Willa and her mysterious son Cole, Whisper Cove reveals itself to her. Distances seem to shift in the strange fog. Echoes of long-past moments bounce off the marsh. And Avril keeps meeting herself—and her dead mother—late at night, at the edge of the ocean.The truth Avril seeks is ready to be discovered. But it will come at a terrible cost.Sisters in Crime (Nancy Drew Files #19)
Par Carolyn Keene. 1988
Confessions: The Private School Murders (Confessions #2)
Par James Patterson, Maxine Paetro. 2013
In the sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller Confessions of a Murder Suspect, James Patterson keeps the confessions…
coming breathlessly as Tandy Angel delves deeper into her own dark history.Wealthy young women are being murdered on Manhattan's exclusive Upper West Side, and the police aren't looking for answers in the right places. Enter Tandy Angel. The first case she cracked was the mystery of her parents' deaths. Now, while she's working to exonerate her brother of his glamorous girlfriend's homicide, she's driven to get involved in the West Side murder spree. One of the recent victims was a student at Tandy's own elite school. She has a hunch it may be the work of a serial killer, but the NYPD isn't listening to her . . . and Tandy can't ignore the disturbing fact that she perfectly fits the profile of the killer's targets. Can she untangle the mysteries in time? Or will she be the next victim?A Date with Deception (Nancy Drew Files #48)
Par Carolyn Keene. 1990
Sabotage on the Solar Express: Adventures on Trains #5 (Adventures on Trains #5)
Par M. G. Leonard, Sam Sedgman. 2024
This fifth standalone book in the middle-grade Adventures on Trains series by M. G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman finds young…
sleuth Hal Beck hurtling across the Australian Outback while trying to figure out who sabotaged the maiden voyage of a new train before it explodes! When artist, train enthusiast, and sleuth, Hal Beck, and his travel journalist uncle, Nat, are invited to be on the first ever ride of the Solar Express train in Australia, he couldn’t be more excited! The new train is the result of a worldwide contest held by tech billionaire August Reza, whom they met on a trip in America. And it’s even more exciting to learn that the train’s engine was designed by fourteen-year-old prodigy Boaz Tudaweli.Once Hal and Uncle Nat connect with August and his daughter, Marianne, she confides in Hal her suspicions about a gift her father received. At first, it seems there’s nothing to it. But when things start to go wrong even before the Solar Express has left the station—and get much worse when the ride begins—Hal, Marianne, and Boaz must investigate. Can they figure out who’s behind everything before the Solar Express goes completely off track…and possibly explodes?