Showing results for "Robins" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Robin is pleased to hear from his old school friend Alan Adele, not least because Alan's father is Guy Gisborne's top henchman. Now that Gisborne is in the running to be elected Sheriff of Nottingham, he needs to keep his criminal activities under wraps. So when Alan tips off Robin and the rebels at Sherwood Castle that Gisborne's waste disposal business is costing its workers lives, the stakes become very high. Robin is soon literally digging the dirt on his arch enemy to finally bring him down in this latest high-octane adventure.

An die, die noch immer um jeden Preis Widerstand leisten (ich weiß, ein kleiner, verstreuter Haufen existiert noch), entweder weil ihr einen eisernen Willen habt oder einfach das Glück, so wie ich immun gegen diesen Wahnsinn zu sein: Ich rate euch dringend, das Land zu verlassen! Verschwindet von da. Ihr könnt nichts mehr ausrichten. Vor einigen Monaten tauchte ein merkwürdiges altes Buch in einer britischen Kleinstadt auf und zog all jene, die es lasen, in seinen Bann.

Einige Bücher sind schädlich, sogar gefährlich. Sie verdrehen einem den Kopf und geben den dunkelsten Seiten der menschlichen Seele Nahrung. Sie sollten verbannt oder vernichtet werden. Diese Geschichte handelt von solch einem Buch. Ich hoffe, es gibt noch genug von euch da draußen, die das hier lesen und mir glauben und sich zur Wehr setzen können - bevor es zu spät ist: Ein altertümlich wirkendes und zunächst harmlos erscheinendes Buch taucht in einer englischen Kleinstadt auf und ergreift Besitz von seinen Lesern.

Der sehnsüchtig erwartete Abschlussband der erfolgreichen "Dancing Jax"-Trilogie lässt keine Horror-Wünsche offen. Stephen-King-like kombiniert Robin Jarvis intelligente Schockelemente mit Fantasy und schafft so eine vor Spannung überbordende Trilogie. Die Saat des Bösen geht auf und es scheint kein Entrinnen für die gleichgeschaltete Menschheit zu geben... Es scheint hoffnungslos: Dancing Jax, das diabolische Buch, das aus seinen Leser willenlose Kreaturen macht, verleibt sich die Realität immer mehr ein. Der Ismus und sein Gefolge werden gefeiert und verehrt, wohin sie auch kommen.

Kassandra Black used to get away with things. She was her high school's anonymous vigilante, exposing bullies and predators. But when she's expelled for breaking into another student's car just weeks before graduation, her acceptance to Columbia is revoked. Now her future depends on behaving herself for the summer at Henley University under the watchful eye of her great-uncle Brian.

In this queer historical thriller from a New York Times bestselling author, society girls try to find a murderer in a city filled with secrets and stunted by shame. Perfect for fans of Last Night at the Telegraph Club. It’s 1927 and the strict laws of prohibition have done little to temper the...

È un pomeriggio come tanti alla scuola Deepdean, quando Hazel trova nella palestra il cadavere della signorina Bell, l'inflessibile insegnante di scienze. Ma poco dopo, quando lei e l'amica Daisy tornano sul luogo del delitto, il corpo della professoressa è scomparso. Per la Wells&Wong, neonata società investigativa fondata da Daisy e Hazel, non si tratta solo di scovare l'assassino, ma anche di dimostrare che un omicidio è avvenuto davvero... il tutto cercando di battere la polizia sul tempo!

A FINALIST FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD SIX STARRED REVIEWS A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi comes her groundbreaking contemporary fantasy debut—a novel in verse based on Caribbean folklore—about the power of...

Serena Stevens is already popular in her new school - so popular she has two guys interested in her. Self-assured Lance is a football star, and introverted Cam is an intellectual who gets nervous just working with her on their English project about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Between the two of them, Serena has the perfect boyfriend, if she can figure out how to keep them apart. Soon there's much more to worry about when two cheerleaders go missing. Serena starts to wonder: Could one of the guys be responsible?

A thrilling gothic horror novel about biracial twin sisters separated at birth, perfect for fans of Lovecraft Country and The Vanishing Half As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood were secretly separated after the brutal lynching of their parents, who died for loving...

Blue Riley has wrestled with her own demons ever since the loss of her mother to cancer. But when she encounters a beautiful devil at her town crossroads, it's her runaway sister's soul she fights to save. The devil steals Blue's voice - inherited from her musically gifted mother - in exchange for a single shot at finding Cass.

This is an adventure story about two children who are identical except in their ways. One is always in trouble and untidy, the other is smart and clean. The one thing they did have that they shared was they always protected each other.

Durch einen magischen Fehler wird Rita in eine alte Frau verwandelt. Die Meerjungfrauen suchen verzweifelt nach einer Methode, um Rita wieder in ihr altes Ich zurück zu verwandeln. Die Zeit drängt. Denn Rita hat am Nachmittag einen wichtigen Termin in der Schule, bei dem entschieden werden soll, ob sie Schulleiterin bleibt.