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Wie ein Flüstern im Sturm. Der neue Jugendroman von THRILLER-STAR Elisabeth Herrmann Die 17-jährige Nicola erbt „Schattengrund“, ein einsames Haus in einem abgelegenen Dorf, in dem sie als Kind oft zu Gast war. Als die Eltern das Erbe stellvertretend für ihre Tochter ausschlagen, macht...

Die Mission des jugendlichen Agenten Ryan geht in die entscheidende Phase – und sie ist riskant wie nie: Er soll den größten Terroranschlag aller Zeiten verhindern und zugleich den kriminellen Aramov-Clan hochgehen lassen. Doch dann nimmt alles eine unvorhersehbare Wendung und die...

Der neue Grisham – spannender, gefährlicher und überraschender als je zuvor! Theo Boone ist auf Klassenfahrt in Washington D.C.! Dort entdeckt er in der U-Bahn den aus Strattenburg geflohenen Mordverdächtigen Pete Duffy. Es gelingt Theo, Duffy erneut vor Gericht zu bringen. Doch was, wenn...

Mitten in der Nacht werden die Boones von einem Anruf aus dem Schlaf gerissen: April Finnemore, Theos beste Freundin, ist spurlos verschwunden. Theo war der letzte, der mit ihr gesprochen hat. Noch in derselben Nacht wird er von der Polizei verhört. Obwohl sich Theo eigentlich nichts...

Der 13jährige Theo Boone führt als jüngster Anwalt ein Leben zwischen Gerichtssaal und Schule. Als plötzlich Diebesbeute in Theos Schulspind auftaucht, gerät er unter Verdacht. Seine Angst wird noch größer als jemand seine Fahrradreifen aufschlitzt und einen Stein in die Kanzlei wirft...

Zart wie die Liebe, bitter wie die Schuld Mia ist in dem kleinen Chocolaterie-Geschäft ihrer Eltern aufgewachsen – mit den wunderbaren Rezepten, aber auch mit dem Familienfoto, auf dem ihr Urgroßvater Jakob und sein Lehrherr zu sehen sind. Der Lehrherr ist weiß, Jakob schwarz. Mia weiß...

Samantha ist schön. Sie ist mit dem coolsten Jungen der ganzen Schule zusammen. Sie hat alles, wovon die anderen Mädchen träumen. Dann verschwindet sie für vier Tage. Als sie wieder auftaucht, ist nichts mehr, wie es einmal war: Sie hat ihr Gedächtnis verloren. Und ihre beste Freundin Cassie wird vermisst. Ist sie einem Verbrechen zum Opfer gefallen? Und trägt Samantha etwa die Schuld daran? Samantha bleibt nur wenig Zeit, ihre Erinnerungen zurückzugewinnen.

Das neue Dreamteam im Kampf um Gerechtigkeit Theo Boone, Anwaltssohn mit ausgeprägtem Sinn für Recht und Gerechtigkeit, löst die schwierigsten Fälle – und er ist erst dreizehn! Als in seinem Heimatstädtchen Strattenburg, Louisianna, ein Aufsehen erregendes Verbrechen geschieht, ist Theo...

On a storm-ravaged night, a nineteen-year-old girl is murdered. Three days later, her two younger brothers set out in search of her killer. Cole is a dark-eyed devil who doesn't care if he lives or dies, while Ruben is a strange child who sometimes, inexplicably, experiences sensations above and...

In this contemporary thriller, National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestselling author Paolo Bacigalupi explores the timely issue of how public information is distorted for monetary gain, and how those who exploit it must be stopped. Everything Alix knows about her life is a lie. At...

Denmark, Tennessee, stinks. Bad. The smell hits Horatio Wilkes the moment he pulls into town to visit his best friend, Hamilton Prince. And it’s not just the paper plant and the polluted Copenhagen River that’s stinking up Denmark: Hamilton’s father has been poisoned and the killer is...

Janie Johnson has been on an emotional roller-coaster ride ever since she saw her face on the side of a milk carton. At first she thought the people she called Mom and Dad had kidnapped her. Then she learned they were only trying to protect her. Finally, she had to get acquainted with another whole new family. Now Janie's two families have made peace. But just as her life returns to normal, her Connecticut father suffers a stroke. With her mother reeling from the tragedy, Janie steps in to help manage the family finances.

Thirteen-year-old Stacy is sunbathing in the backyard when she hears a strange noise from inside the house. Turning to look, she sees a man with a gun burst through the door; then everything goes black. She wakes up in a hospital bed to learn that she has spent the last four years in a catatonic state. Suddenly 17, she finds herself struggling to adjust and fighting to remember what happened to her. She is the only witness to the shooting that injured her and killed her mother. 

As the daughter of a Colorado County coroner, 17-year-old Cameryn Mahoney is no stranger to death. In fact, shes always been fascinated by the science of it. so shes thrilled to finally get some hands-on experience in forensics working as her fathers assistant. but Cammie is in for more than she bargained for when the second case that she attends turns out to be someone she knows the latest victim of a serial killer known as the Christopher Killer.

Beneath heaven is hell. Beneath hell is Furnace. Furnace Penitentiary. The world's most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth's surface. One way in, no way out. Once you're here, you're here until you die, and for most of the inmates that doesn't take long - not with the sadistic guards and the bloodthirsty gangs. Convicted of a murder he didn't commit, sentenced to life without parole, 'new fish' Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind bars.

Christina Lattimore’s family is wealthy and powerful. She attends the best private high school. Yet Christina feels trapped by her family’s expectations. Frustrated and angry at her situation, she pays little attention when a strange car follows her home one night. Its headlights are the last thing she remembers until she wakes up in captivity. Christina is terrified when she realizes kidnappers are holding her for ransom. But after her rescue, she faces an even greater shock. Her family thinks she was an accomplice in her own kidnapping! Can she convince them of her innocence?

When Janie first realized she was the missing child on the milk carton, her whole world fell apart. At first, she wondered if the parents she loved so much had actually kidnapped her, but it turns out that they were only trying to protect her. Now that the mystery of Janie's kidnapping has been unraveled, she is caught on the horns of a huge dilemma.

November is usually quiet in Holcomb, Kansas, but in 1959, the town is shattered by the quadruple murder of the Clutter family. Suspicion falls on Nancy Clutter's boyfriend, Bobby Rupp, the last one to see them alive. New Yorker Carly Fleming, new to the small Midwestern town, is an outsider. She tutored Nancy, and (in private, at least) they were close. Carly and Bobby were the only ones who saw that Nancy was always performing, and that she was cracking under the pressure of being Holcomb's golden girl.

Sixteen-year-old Day Connor views life through the lens of her camera, where perspective is everything. But photographs never tell the whole story. After Day crosses paths with Julian, the world she pictures and the truths she believes - neatly captured in black and white - begins to blur. Julian is not the "armed and dangerous" escapee the police are searching for, but his alibis don't quite add up, either. There is more to his story. This time, Day is determined to see the entire picture...whatever it reveals. Did he? Or didn't he?

'They think I hurt someone. But I didn't. You hear? Coz people are gonna be telling you all kinds of lies. I need you to know the truth.' Joe hasn't seen his brother for 10 years, and it's for the most brutal of reasons. Ed is on death row. But now Ed's execution date has been set, and Joe is determined to spend those last weeks with him, no matter what other people think....