Títulos en Policíaca, negra y suspense

Devil’s Backbone dirt road weaves through tall East Texas trees. The eerie Claymore mansion sits silently along the path. Thirteen-year-old Kevin Bishop and friends plan to spend their summer swimming, playing baseball, and erecting a massive fort in the nearby woods. Their daily journey requires a bike ride down that road and by that mansion—the site of a gruesome unsolved murder near the turn-of-the-century. They stumble upon evidence to solve the mystery as unforeseen adversaries make this a summer they’ll never forget.

Bayla, Heaven's Soul Collector, has been given two tasks; make sure the earthquake happens according to plan, and also make certain Gray Ellison, a teenaged human, survives. Bayla has a perfect record for completing missions; so, when another angel is added into the mix, she begins to question the Head Council's faith in her. Just as she is getting used to working with Hadraniel, her unasked for back-up, she has to face another hurdle. When Declan shows up with the mission to make sure Gray doesn't survive the earthquake, he starts to challenge all of Bayla's beliefs and plans.

In the cold, echoing corridors of the starship The Origin, 14-year-old Jax Hutson clings to the only family he has left: the ghosts of his parents, lost to the monstrous banshees that ravaged Earth. As a subject in the mysterious Phoenix Experiments, Jax is supposed to find closure by connecting with the dead—but his secret, forbidden dreams hint at a deeper, more dangerous truth.

Lucy McBride's life was simple: school, living with her mom, her mom's boyfriend--Chuck, and her job at the grocery store owned by Chuck and his father, Raymond. But one morning, the store, Smiles and its aisle three becomes a crime scene. Lucy's world inevitably becomes turned upside down.

Marissa has always been reckless, wild, and drawn to trouble. Phillip has always been steady, loyal, and willing to chase after her no matter where she leads. But when Marissa finds herself entangled with the dangerous and mysterious Jerome Bonovich, the world she thought she knew unravels.

Lara acaba de llegar a un planeta totalmente nuevo, se ha enterado de que forma parte de la familia más importante de la historia, que su amigo de la infancia la traicionó robándole la llave hexagonal que tanto les ha costado conseguir y que su padre, con quien por fin se iba a reencontrar, se suicidó dos semanas antes de que aterrizase en Teseo. ¿Crees que va a ser suficiente para detenerla? Está claro que no. No parará hasta descubrir qué ha ocurrido en realidad con su padre.

When she discovers her father's plane crash wasn't an accident, sixteen-year-old Emma wants to punish those responsible. Even if it means becoming a spy for a mysterious organization known as The Authority. They want Emma to join the Gems...four teenage girls with unique skills who know how to handle dangerous spy missions around the world. The Authority thinks Emma is the missing link to make this team work. Emma thinks The Authority is her only chance for revenge.

Holden en zijn zus Prissy leven in de nabije toekomst. De wereldproblemen zijn opgelost, maar er gelden strenge regels om ervoor te zorgen dat dat ook zo blijft. Wie ze overtreedt, wordt naar het Cliffton Instituut gestuurd - zoals ook met Holden is gebeurd. Hier ontdekt hij afschuwelijke dingen: de mensen in Paradise blijken niet alleen langdurig maar ook acuut gevaar te lopen.

Mussoorie, 1909. The ghastly murder of Margaret Maynard Liddell in a hotel room locked from the inside shocks the public. Its ripples reach Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling, who can only guess the identity of the killer but never prove it. Around sixty years later, a wealthy heiress is found similarly murdered in the queen of the hills. The needle of suspicion points to an old housekeeper, an estranged brother, an aloof husband and a fraud godman and his acolyte, for each of them has a motive to kill her.

في اليوم الذي مات فيه فنسنت بليك -في اليوم الذي وجدته فيه إيف ميتًا بنوبة قلبية ثانية بعد أقل من خمسة أشهر من النوبة الأولى- اتصلت بالطوارئ. وتعاملت مع السلطات ومع الجثة، وبعد ذلك، في تلك الليلة، خبأت نفسها في أعماق قصر بليك وفتحت التلفزيون. في خدر. لقد كان عائلتي، وقد مات. لقد رحل. وأنا وحدي. وعلى شاشة التلفزيون، لم تكن إيفري وحدها. بل كانت تجري مقابلة ليراها العالم كله. "أنا هنا اليوم مع إيفري جرامبس. الوريثة. فاعلة الخير. التي غيرت العالم؛ وهي في التاسعة عشرة من عمرها وحسب. إيفري، أخبرينا، ما شعورك وأنت تتولين مثل هذا المنصب في هذه السن الصغيرة؟".

As I approach my first-year anniversary in Monstreuse, I'm wishing that my fellow students were the only danger...But when you're secretly the reason everyone in the monster reserve is no longer normal, and you can't help it, life is more complicated. I still don't know our admin's plans for me, and worse, the Society wants revenge on me. Rumblings from the normal world tell us we could all be in grave danger soon.

BFFs Tina, Eve, and Lacey come together for a Sweet 16 slumber party that goes sideways when they accidentally summon more than a good time. After Lacey becomes possessed and traps her friends in a fashion catalog, Tina and Eve must find their way out of a totally fabulous new world before the demon overtakes Lacey's body completely.

Danny, Kennedy, and Jason uncover the location of the fabled Gorman's House in their town, a traveling haunted attraction that's supposedly so scary no one has ever completed it to claim the prize money. Initially, the group has fun exploring, but something dark settles over them when they realize not only does someone appear to be following them, but the architecture of the attraction is off. Soon they find themselves facing real supernatural threats that are determined to keep them in Gorman's House forever.

In the sun-soaked deserts of 1990s Arizona, a mixed-race kid navigates the challenges of identity and belonging. Roadrunner is a powerful coming-of-age story that captures the essence of youth, resilience, and self-discovery. Through the vibrant culture of skateboarding and the rhythm of hip-hop, our protagonist learns to embrace his unique heritage. As he battles personal demons and societal expectations, he finds solace in friendship and creativity. But the journey takes a dark turn with the shocking murder of Scott Norberg in a county jail cell, challenging everything he believes.

In Chicago, a man whispers into a telephone: “The cat is ready.” With those four words, a chain of perilous events begins—pulling Rick Brant and his friend Don Scott into ten days of danger, intrigue, and suspense. Their official mission takes them to Egypt, where they join radio astronomers struggling to decipher strange, otherworldly signals. The anomalies defy explanation—neither terrestrial interference nor natural phenomena can account for them. The signals appear to come from light-years away, pulsing with a rhythm unlike any known star, and moving at an impossible speed.

Rick and Scotty fly off to the Philippines, along with Dr. Zircon, to search for missing Doctors Briotti and Shannon. It's a similar setting to the tenth book, The Golden Skull, but takes place mainly on Sulu Sea and the island of Shan. Some of the characters from The Golden Skull reappear in this one, as does the ever helpful and cunning Chahda.

No one is quite who they seem to be in the twisty, soapy, gasp-inducing world of the Debutantes by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #1 bestselling author of The Inheritance Games. Think of the White Gloves like the Junior League— by way of Skull and Bones. Reluctant debutante Sawyer Taft joined Southern...

Scandal, scheming, and secrets abound in #1 bestselling author Jennifer Lynn Barnes’s Little White Lies, packed with “page-turning tension, witty humor” (Jennifer L. Armentrout), and “characters as devious as they are southern-belle glamorous" (E. Lockhart). "I'm not saying this is...

Mary, Lillia e Kat avevano il piano perfetto: collaborare in segreto per vendicarsi di tutte le persone che avevano fatto loro del male. Per quanto la faccenda sia sfuggita di mano, Mary è convinta che Reeve si meriti tutto quello che gli sta succedendo, frattura alla gamba compresa. Lui che prima l'ha fatta innamorare e poi ha calpestato i suoi sentimenti. Così le tre amiche si ritrovano ad architettare una nuova vendetta: Lillia dovrà far innamorare di sé Reeve per poi spezzargli il cuore, proprio come lui ha fatto con quello di Mary.

All Eve Ellaway wants is to escape to college, start a life of her own, and finally sever the connection to her twin sister Gen who disappeared when they were babies. Because while the rest of the world moved on from the kidnapping, Gen’s still very much alive at home. Most families would grieve their missing child. Some families might create a shrine for their lost daughter. But the Ellaways are not most families.