Showing results for "The Detective" in Thrillers & Suspense

Remy is down to his last $100,000...he's in dire straits. While his rapidly dwindling checking account is a problem, Remy finds out the last company he owns is run by something that goes bump in the night. And she is willing to bump him off if he fails to live up to her expectations. Trying to get sober, Remy needs to work the day shift for Moonlight Detective Agency. Can he learn the ropes before the faeries, werewolves, or his supposed employee kill him off?

Lethal Lit follows Tig Torres, a Cuban American teen detective, in her hometown of Hollow Falls. In season one of the hit podcast, Tig used her smarts and fearlessness to track down the infamous “Lit Killer,” a serial killer who staged his murders after death scenes from famous books. But there’s no rest for courageous, mystery-solving teens in a place like Hollow Falls, and though the Lit Killer is now behind bars, his protégé, Tig’s classmate and crush Oly, has disappeared!

Like any other teenager, Jess Flynn is just trying to get through her junior year without drama...but drama seems to keep finding her. Between a new crush on her childhood best friend, overprotective parents cramping her social life, and her younger sister’s worsening health, the only constant is change - and her hometown of Swickley, which feels smaller by the day. Swickley is getting weirder by the day, too. Half the population has been struck down by a mysterious flu. Conversations end awkwardly when Jess enters the room.

THE THIRD AND FINAL THRILLING BOOK IN THE BESTSELLING AND AWARD-WINNING A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER TRILOGY. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is The New York Times No.1 bestselling YA crime thriller Pip Fitz-Amobi is haunted by the way her last investigation ended. Soon she’ll be leaving for...

From Natalie D. Richards, the New York Times bestselling author of teen suspense books, comes a pulse-pounding thriller about a group of teenagers being hunted through the woods, perfect for fans of Natasha Preston and Karen McManus. While on a mandatory hike in the woods, a flash flood cuts off...

A windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts. A hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow. A fiery, addicted heiress. An irresistible, unpredictable boy. A summer of unforgivable betrayal and terrible mistakes. Welcome back to the Sinclair family. They were always liars.

New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller! In New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson’s second novel in the Truly Devious series, there are more twists and turns than Stevie Bell can imagine. No answer is given freely, and someone will pay for the truth with their life. The...

Piper Sullivan was in a strange hiking accident last month and has been in a coma ever since. Her older sister, Savannah, can’t pretend to be optimistic about it; things look bad. Piper will likely never wake up, and Savannah will never get any answers about what exactly happened. But then Savannah finds a note in Piper’s locker, inviting Piper to a meeting of their school’s wilderness club—at the very place and on the very day that she fell. Which means there was a chance that Piper wasn’t alone.

Five women are dead. The killer leaves no fingerprints, no DNA. Police are utterly stumped. In a world where only women can use magic and the men who know about it seek to eradicate them, three lonely teenage girls—one cursed, one hunted, one out for revenge—will team up to track down and take out a brutal supernatural killer.

An incredible and unputdownable YA thriller, with incredible twists and turns that will have you guessing until the very last page, from the author of Silent Sister – perfect for fans of Holly Jackson and Karen McManus. “A masterclass in suspenseful storytelling” – Karen M. McManus...

The most exciting installment to the Edgar Award winning Samurai Mystery series. When a man with a tattoo covering his back is found floating in the water at a rice ceremony, Seikei and Judge Ooka know it's a bad omen. Soon there are seven of these men with partial tattoos on their backs. All different, all dead, all seemingly unrelated - except for the tattoos. It becomes apparent these men are not just carrying body art, but a treasure map…to what? And why is carrying this map so mortally dangerous? Seikei must find and assemble all seven tattoos to find the answer.

بيبا فيتز أموبي تلاحقها متاعب تحقيقها الأخير، ولكن سرعان ما تـأتيها قضية جديدة على طبق من ذهب، ولكن هذه المرة، بيبا هي مركز القضية. فهناك شخص يتربص بها، شخص يستمر في طرح السؤال نفسه عليها: "ولكن حين تختفين أنت، من سيبحث عنك؟". وسرعان ما تكتشف بيبا أن هناك صلة بين الشخص الذي يتربص بها وقاتل متسلسل يجوب بلدتها، ولكن الشرطة ترفض اتخاذ أي إجراء للتصدي لكليهما. وفيما تتصاعد الأحداث وتحتد، تدرك بيبا أنها إن لم تكشف لغز هذه القضية، فستكون في عداد الموتى

When Georgie Kendrick wakes up after a heart transplant she feels...different. The organ beating in her chest isn't in tune with the rest of her body. Like it still belongs to someone else. Someone with terrible memories...memories that are slowly replacing her own. Georgie discovers her heart belonged to a teenage girl who lived a rough life on the streets. Everyone thinks she committed suicide, but only Georgie knows the truth. And now Georgie has to catch a killer--before she loses herself completely.

Amanda Pruitt needs redemption. She is the one, after all, who turned her sister in for murder and anonymously broadcasted her trial to millions on TikTok. And she was wrong. Her sister is innocent, making Amanda the villain—not the hero—all along. So when her childhood best friend's mom is arrested for murdering an eccentric billionaire and refuses to give a statement, Amanda decides to help solve the crime. This could be her second chance. If she can use her TikTok to get the public on her friend's side, the police will have to reopen the investigation.

El 19 de abril de 2003 desapareció Fiona Clark, una joven de diecisiete años, en la localidad ibicenca de San Antonio. Su cadáver fue hallado dos semanas más tarde en un bosque cercano. Aunque la Guardia Civil siguió varias líneas de investigación, nunca se encontró al culpable y el caso fue archivado. Dieciséis años después, Paco Marín, escritor de novelas policiacas, con la ayuda del detective Álex Zarco, tratará de descubrir la verdad. Ambos iniciarán una investigación que los llevará a descubrir que nada es lo que parece… y que la víctima también tenía secretos.

When an heiress disappears from her superyacht and security footage shows her getting pushed, the main suspect has to prove her innocence in this thrilling mystery at sea told in reverse chronological order, perfect for fans of Karen McManus and Genuine Fraud. It was supposed to be the best-ever...

Ein fulminanter Thriller über eine Native American, die in einem Mordfall ermittelt. Die 18-jährige Daunis Fontaine hat nie wirklich dazugehört, weder in ihrer Heimatstadt noch im nahegelegenen Ojibwe Reservat. Denn sie ist halb weiß, halb Native American. Daunis träumt von einem Neustart am College, wo sie Medizin studieren möchte. Doch als sie sich plötzlich um ihre Mutter kümmern muss, beschließt Daunis, die eigenen Pläne vorerst auf Eis zu legen. Ihr einziger Lichtblick ist Jamie, der neue und sehr charmante Spieler im Eishockeyteam von Daunis’ Bruder Levi.

From the author of the Eve trilogy comes the breathless story of a girl racing to figure out who she is—and how to stay alive. When a nameless girl wakes up on the subway tracks, she knows only one thing for sure: people want her dead. Can she find them before they track her down? This...

In the dramatic conclusion to the bestselling Confessions series, Tandy Angel's next murder case could be her own! Tandy Angel is losing her mind – or so she thinks. Even as she's forced to fight for the family company, she's imagining new dangers in every shadow. And as her detective prowess...

On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, their daughter, Tandy, knows just three things: 1. She was one of the last people to see her parents alive. 2. She and her brothers are the only suspects. 3. She can’t trust anyone - maybe not even herself. Having grown up under their...