Young Adult Crime & Thriller

A Nightmare Come True As a member of the most powerful family history has ever known, thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill has been shot at, kidnapped, and even thrown into a pit...

The Cahill family has a secret. For five hundred years, they have guarded the 39 Clues thirty-nine ingredients in a serum that transforms whomever takes it into the most powerful...

A STOLEN MASTERPIECEFor the past 500 years the Cahills have been the world's most powerful family. For 500 years they've guarded their secrets with their very lives. Until now.The Cahills...

Surfing the net during a lightning storm has amazing consequences for a group of teenage friends. Superhero powers are theirs at the click of a mouse! Trouble is, they don't...

What's up with the weird gang at school? One student's about to find out ... A supernatural thriller, edited to a reading age of 6.5. Sam's always been a little...

From the bestselling author of This Book Kills comes a deadly new YA thriller of murder, mystery and mind-blowing twists. Perfect for fans of Holly Jackson and Karen M. McManus."Clever,...

Kate O'Brien has always been known as the scholarship kid, running away from a terrible past and overcoming obstacles, some more sinister than others. She's determined to make a better...

A French village, new friends, fabulous food, a local mystery to be solved and . . . a ghost. She snaps the locket shut. Just as quickly as he appeared,...

A twenty-year-old crime, an accelerated death penalty, and an elitist family cover-up: Nyla races against the death row clock to save a woman the world is rooting for . ....

A sexy thriller-with a shocking twist-by the author of Everything We Never Said. A sexy thriller-with a shocking twist-by the author of Everything We Never Said. River Santos is stuck-in...

A dark, intoxicating and unputdownable thriller, simmering with atmosphere 'One of the best debuts I've ever read' Laura Steven 'A thoroughly insidious thriller' Bea Fitzgerald 'Sprinkled with the glamorous, the...

THE STUNNING NO.1 BESTSELLING YA THRILLER FROM HOLLY JACKSON, AUTHOR OF NETFLIX'S A GOOD GIRLS GUIDE TO MURDER 'The queen of YA crime Holly Jackson returns with a blisteringly good...

Say goodbye to Ruby Redfort: every smart kid's smart kid. The mind-blowing conclusion to the thrilling series by award-winning author Lauren Child. Ruby Redfort: undercover agent, code-cracker and thirteen-year-old genius...

When The Broken Sun, an ancient artefact said to lead to the lost city of Atlantis, is stolen from the British Museum, Jack, Scarlet and Mr Doyle embark on a...

'Mr Doyle,' Scarlet said. 'You have not explained what we are doing.' 'I thought you'd never ask. We are travelling to Colchester Prison.' 'Colchester Prison?' Jack caught Scarlet's eye. The...

What do you do when you're a billionaire, you're thirteen and you've just discovered your family tree goes back a thousand years to a pact made by three brothers to...

Step inside. Don't look back. Forward is the only way. His Dark Materials meets Mad Max in this unforgettable blockbuster adventure series about the world between the worlds, and one...

Bee is in her element working in the taxidermy department at the Museum of Natural History, but her summer job turns out to be full of surprises: A dead body...

Yellowjackets meets One of Us Is Lying in this masterful survival thriller from New York Times bestselling author Sarah Beth Durst. "Formidably scary, Durst's survival/horror story is the stuff of...

The start to an exciting new middle grade mystery series from Youtube sensation Hayley LeBlanc! When Hayley is cast as the lead in a Nancy Drew like kids TV show,...

Pattern is only thirteen, but is already rising through the ranks at Mrs Minchin's Academy of Domestic Servitude and seems destined for a life below stairs. But fate intervenes when...

'ADVERSITY MCALLISTER IS THEATRICAL, KIND, SMART AS A WHIP AND OH SO BRAVE. I WANT HER TO BE MY BEST FRIEND' -- Katrina Nannestad, author of Olive of Groves and...

On the glittering streets of New York is the city's worst kept secret: the mob. And Natasha Nicastro is at the centre of it all . . . Seventeen-year-old Tasha...

When 11-year-old April joins a group of kids living at Winterborne Home she doesn't expect to be there for very long. But she soon learns that this home isn't like...

10 year old Jada Sly is an artist and a spy-in-training. When she isn't studying art from her idols like Jackie Ormes, the first known African-American cartoonist, she's chronicling her...

What if you could write your dreams into reality with the stroke of a pen? Sixth grade is off to a difficult start for Josephine Rose Silver. Her best friend,...

The bone-shaking new trilogy continues - the latest adventure in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series Vengeance is a killer. A killer is stalking and murdering sorcerers, and Valkyrie Cain is...

A chilling new novel about a girl who must delve into her past if she wants to live long enough to have a future, when a series of murders that...

The stage is set for a thrilling mystery! Gracie Fairshaw is delighted to get a sneak preview of the Children's Ballet's Christmas spectacular. But when the curtain rises, things go...

When teen social media influencer Anton Frazer stages a live-streamed, citywide game of Tag where the prize is to become one of his live-in personal assistants, his fans go wild....

From the bestselling author of The Miniaturist . Jessie Burton's Hidden Treasure is the phenomenal page-turning story of two children whose lives collide when they find an ancient treasure with...

'ADVENTUROUS AND OUTLANDISH, WHIMSY AND WOE WILL HOOK KIDS IN FROM THE FIRST PAGE.' -- Books+Publishing , four stars After being abandoned by their thespian parents, Whimsy and Woe Mordaunt...

In the depths of a reservoir lives a monstrous creature. Its existence is unknown to anyone except the teenage boy who feeds it. Six years ago it was a vicious...

An exciting, middle-grade adventure from debut talent, Penny Boxall; perfect for fans of Netflix's plucky ENOLA HOLMES, the voice of Hana Tooke's THE UNADOPTABLES, and the caper of Katherine Rundell's...

The eighth and final novel in the extraordinary Artemis Fowl series, now with a brand-new cover look! *Soon to be a major film!* IS THIS THE END FOR ARTEMIS FOWL?...

The seventh novel in the extraordinary Artemis Fowl series, now with a brand-new cover look!. *Soon to be a major film!* SOMETHING IS SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH ARTEMIS FOWL When he...

Some authors just write about it. Chris Ryan has been there, done it and lived to tell the tale. This is the third Agent 21 story, featuring teen agent Zak...

Well before Precious Ramotswe founded her Number One Ladies' Detective Agency, as an eight-year-old girl she was already solving mysteries. Here in this delightful, new, enchanting tale for children, we...

Discover that skunks don't always stink, with Roald-Dahl Funny Prize-winning Peter Bently! Nobody wants to be friends with a smelly skunk, but Sally is desperate to show the townspeople that...

Debuting on the New York stage, Zara is unprepared - for Eli, the girl who makes the world glow; for Leopold, the director who wants perfection; or for death in...

The eagerly anticipated, deadly prequel to the number one bestselling Alex Rider series. In the prequel to the number one bestselling Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, contract killer Yassen...

It's Christmas and the Diamond Brothers - the world's most defective detectives - are back with a new case to solve in this hilarious spoof detective tale. Tim Diamond and...

Mystery and danger lurk . . . Two of the top-selling books in The Cooper Kids Adventure Series are now in onevolume. Children will love embarking on these thrilling adventures:...

Meet Eva, Simone and Ash: best friends, budding journalists, and the stars of this delightful new series about family, friends, and DOGS, from the author of the much-loved MARSHMALLOW PIE...

From Edgar Award-nominated author Martha Freeman comes a "delightful" ( Kirkus Reviews ) middle grade mystery following a young boy working at his family's secondhand store that is a steal-your-heart...

Perfect for fans of Ace of Spades and The Taking of Jake Livingston , this young adult horror debut follows a group of teens as they visit an abandoned reform...

A moonlit forest. A sinister castle. A vengeful vampire. When Viviana is invited to become the aid of a rich countess, she is overjoyed. Working in the castle means a...

Demons from the Dark Dimension pour through a portal in the wall of Pittingham Manor, the mid-point for an attack on high. They're planning an assault. Into this chaos stumbles...