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If you are tired or bored with routine — or simply want to relax after a busy work schedule, this audiobook will prove the best companion. In fact, thrillers have always fascinated the young and old alike. There is no clear-cut demarcation line between myth and history, or between appearance and reality.

Teenie-Detektive auf gefährlichen Spuren: Mit dem ungleichen Duo Basti und Sabse schickt Hörspiel- und Comicautorin Frauke Schmickl zwei übersinnlich begabte Kids auf geheime Missionen, um neben Schule, Fußball und Serienmarathon mal eben schnell die Welt zu retten. Besuch? Ist nicht immer willkommen. Vor allem, wenn er aus einem Paralleluniversum anklopft und gleich ganz Schafsbüttel übernehmen will. Wie gut, dass es "Weltenwächter" gibt, die unschöne Überraschungen abwehren – ohne, dass wir Normalos etwas davon mitbekommen.

Brought to you by Penguin. An explosive YA thriller from international bestselling author of One of Us is Lying. The Storys are the envy of their neighbours: owners of the largest property on their East Coast island, they are rich, beautiful, and close. Until it all falls apart. The four...

Brought to you by Penguin. Karen M. McManus, the internationally bestselling YA thriller author of One of Us Is Lying, is back with Nothing More to Tell - you won't be able to put it down! True crime can leave a false trail. Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking...

En el último año, Carmen se ha acostumbrado al silencio. Al silencio de sus padres, que la observan y callan; al de sus amigos, que parecen haberse rendido con ella. Y al silencio en su propia mente, que por fin ha dejado de gritar. Hasta que una noche se le aparece un fantasma que no soporta el silencio; que insiste, una y otra vez, en que Carmen lo mire. En que lo escuche. Carmen busca ayuda en su antigua pandilla: en Fito, el creyente; en Gabriel, el escéptico, y en Agatha, la médium.

Lia Setiawan has never really fit in. And when she wins a full ride to the prestigious Draycott Academy on a track scholarship, she's determined to make it work even though she's never felt more out of place. But on her first day there she witnesses a girl being forcefully carried away by campus security. Her new schoolmates and teachers seem unphased, but it leaves her unsure of what she's gotten herself into.

Six months ago, season four of the hugely popular reality TV show The Escape Game ended in horror when contestant Alicia Angelos was found murdered in the escape room on set. Now season five is underway, and new contestants are ready to put their skills to the test solving the show's trickiest escape rooms. There's Adi, the cryptographer; Carter, the math whiz influencer; Beck, the escape room enthusiast and wannabe game master, and... Sierra Angelos, the girl who got away with her sister's murder. Or so everyone believes. But Sierra's not just here to win. She's here for justice...

Dulce Castillo besucht eine Schule mit besonderem Schwerpunkt: An der J. Everett High werden die Schüler zu herausragenden Kriminologen ausgebildet. Jedes Jahr wird dort ein Wettbewerb veranstaltet: Anhand von vorbereiteten Autopsieberichten, Zeugenaussagen und Beweisen sollen die Schüler einen inszenierten Mord aufklären. Dulce ist fest entschlossen, den Preis dieses Jahr zu gewinnen - zusammen mit ihrer besten Freundin Emi und dem neuen Mitschüler Zane. Doch dann passiert das Unfassbare: Die Leiche ist echt - einer ihrer Mitschüler wurde vergiftet.

Fesselnd, witzig und voller unerwarteter Twists – das neue Buch der Autorin von This Book Kills! *** Drei eingeschneite Mädchen. Ein unheimliches Anwesen. Und ein Abendessen, das in einem Mord endet. *** Devi ist auf dem Weg zu ihrer Großmutter auf dem Land, als ihr Auto plötzlich den Geist...

A blackbird calls a warning. Anna, a slave girl running away from her Roman masters, pauses to listen as she lifts a totemic, druid carving she's found in the tunnel where she's hiding. The last thing she sees is a tangle of matted fur, a sheaf of claws, a flash of fangs, as she unleashes a hungry animal presence.

For fans of Pretty Little Liars, Little Monsters is a new psychological thriller, from the author of The Darkest Corners, about appearances versus reality and the power of manipulation amongst teenage girls. Kacey is the new girl in Broken Falls. When she moved in with her father, she stepped...

Det oldgamle, magiske montglane skakspil rummer en ufattelig magt. Når alle brikkerne bliver samlet og spillet sættes i gang, tager mystiske kræfter over, der kan true verdens fremtid. Albanien, 1822: Tredive år efter den franske revolution befinder Europa sig på randen af krig. Ali Pasha, den magtfulde hersker over det ottomanske imperium, bliver uventet angrebet af tyrkerne og sender sin datter, Haidée, på en farlig mission. Hun skal smugle en vigtig brik fra Montglane Skakspillet ud af Albanien.

Mullory Prudence ricorda perfettamente le ultime parole di sua madre: "Se la stranezza ti trova, tu scappa". Un giorno come gli altri, delle misteriose lettere indirizzate a lei cominciano a spuntare nei luoghi più impensati. Contiene un invito alla tenuta Stoutmire per partecipare al Mystery Royale, un gioco con in palio una ricca eredità.

Fighting to stop a war that could destroy everyone alive… Kira Walker nearly died searching for the RM cure, but the battle for survival is only just beginning. The genetically-engineered Partials are inextricably bound to a greater plan that could save both races and give Kira the answers she...

The Stranger Game is a dark, suspenseful, and twisty novel that is Gone Girl for teens. Perfect for fans of Lauren Oliver and E. Lockhart. When Nico Morris s older sister mysteriously disappears, her parents, family, and friends are devastated. But Nico can never admit what she herself feels...

Ryan Sharma is a CHERUB agent. Working undercover, he can slip under adult radar and get information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail. Now he's investigating a double kidnapping, working with mission controller James Adams. In the mission to end all missions, Ryan and James must...

In this propulsive new thriller, a dream summer in Italy turns into a harrowing ordeal for an American exchange student. Tess Alessandro is living a dream: she was selected for an incredible exchange program in Rome, where she's spending the summer taking in the beautiful sights and sounds and...

Filled with deadly secrets and the monsters you thought only existed in your mind ... You've heard of Frankenstein's monster, you've heard of Dracula, but have you heard of the Villa Diodati? Eve, Griffin, Hal and Ren embark on a summer they'll never forget at the birthplace of all things Gothic...

Grace can't remember how her sister Maddy disappeared, and even the police think she’s lying. But it’s hard to look innocent with a missing girl’s blood on your clothes…One week earlier, Maddy – rejected for the college scholarship of her dreams, abandoned by her only friend on her birthday – was tired of living in Grace’s shadow. She was ready to be someone new, which was exactly what was promised by an exclusive senior trip at their expensive private school. But eighteen years' worth of awkwardness didn't evaporate just because Maddy was holed up in a mountain lodge with thirty classmates.

NAACP Image Award nominee! Mean Girls meets Dear White People in this bighearted, sharp-witted UK boarding school story about family, friendship, and belonging—with a propulsive mystery at its heart. Within the walls of Wodebury Hall, an elite boarding school in the English countryside...