Thrillers (Fiction)

  • Truthers

    Creator

    Girard, Geoffrey

    Abstract

    Katie Wallace has never given much thought to 9/11. She was only a year old when terrorists struck American soil. But now her dad has landed in a mental institution after claiming to know what really happened. He insists the attacks were part of a government conspiracy. And he claims that Katie is living proof: the lone survivor of a massive cover-up. Hoping to free her dad, Katie sets out to investigate his bizarre claims. Soon she's drawn into the strange and secretive world of 9/11 conspiracy theorists known as the Truthers.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    [S.l.]

    Carolrhoda Lab &#x2122

    Non spécifié
  • Pointe, claw

    Creator

    Keyser, Amber J.

    Abstract

    Jessie Vale dances in an elite ballet program. She has to be perfect to land a spot with the professional company. When Jessie is cast in an animalistic avant-garde production, her careful composure cracks wide open. Nothing has felt more dangerous. Meanwhile, her friend Dawn McCormick's world is full of holes. She wakes in strange places, bruised, battered, and unable to speak. The doctors are out of ideas. These childhood friends are both running out of time. Jessie has one shot at her ballet dream. Dawn's blackouts are getting worse.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    Minneapolis

    Carolrhoda Lab

    Non spécifié
  • The first day

    Creator

    Harrison, Phil

    Abstract

    Set in Ireland and New York, a debut novel about an affair and its explosive consequences-the sins of the father visited on the son in unexpected and irreversible ways Outside an east Belfast mission hall, pastor and family man Samuel Orr meets Anna, a young Beckett scholar. They embark on an intense, passionate affair, their connection fueled by their respective love of Christ and Beckett. When Anna falls pregnant the affair is revealed.

    Publisher (Source)

    Boston, Mass

    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    Non spécifié
  • The book of lies

    Creator

    Terry, Teri

    Abstract

    In this suspenseful, gripping novel, teen twin girls raised separately meet for the first time at their mother's funeral. Quinn has been trained to never tell a lie. Piper is a practiced liar. Narrated in both voices, the story of their quest to learn truths that have been concealed from them is shadowed by a dark spell that beckons them to run at night with a pack of murdering ghost hounds. Suspense, menace, mystery, witchcraft, family secrets, mistaken identity, and romance are interwoven in a brilliantly written page-turner that will grab and thrill teen readers.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    Boston, Mass

    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    Non spécifié
  • The fourth monkey

    Creator

    Barker, J. D.

    Abstract

    Se7en meets The Silence of the Lambs in this dark and twisting novel from the author Jeffery Deaver called, "A talented writer with a delightfully devious mind." For over five years, the Four Monkey Killer has terrorized the residents of Chicago. When his body is found, the police quickly realize he was on his way to deliver one final message, one which proves he has taken another victim who may still be alive. As the lead investigator on the 4MK task force, Detective Sam Porter knows even in death, the killer is far from finished.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Boston, Mass

    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    Non spécifié
  • The special ones

    Creator

    Bailey, Em.

    Abstract

    Esther is one of the Special Ones: four young spiritual guides who live in a remote farmhouse under the protection of a mysterious cult leader. He watches them around the clock, ready to punish them if they forget who they are-and all the while, broadcasting their lives to eager followers on the outside. Esther knows that if she stops being Special, he will "renew" her. Nobody knows what happens to the Special Ones who are taken away from the farm for renewal, but Esther fears the worst.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    Boston, Mass

    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    Non spécifié
  • The sisters chase

    Creator

    Healy, Sarah

    Abstract

    A gripping novel about two sisters who are left homeless by their mother's death and the lengths the fierce older sister will go to protect her beloved young chargeThe hardscrabble Chase women'Mary, Hannah, and their mother Diane'have been eking out a living running a tiny seaside motel that has been in the family for generations, inviting trouble into their lives for just as long. Eighteen-year-old Mary Chase is a force of nature: passionate, beautiful, and free-spirited.

    Publisher (Source)

    Boston, Mass

    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    Non spécifié
  • Sympathy

    Creator

    Sudjic, Olivia

    Abstract

    One of Entertainment Weekly's "16 Debut Novels to Read in 2017" One of the Observer's "New Faces of Fiction for 2017" One of Elle UK's "Six Top Debut Authors of 2017"' One of i-D/Vice's "10 Brilliant Emerging Female Authors to Read in 2017" An electrifying debut novel of obsessive love, family secrets, and the dangers of living our lives online At twenty-three, Alice Hare leaves England for New York.

    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    Non spécifié
  • The dark net

    Creator

    Percy, Benjamin

    Abstract

    Hell on earth is only one click of a mouse away The Dark Net is real. An anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret far reaches of the Web, some use it to manage Bitcoins, pirate movies and music, or traffic in drugs and stolen goods. And now an ancient darkness is gathering there as well. This force is threatening to spread virally into the real world unless it can be stopped by members of a ragtag crew: Twelve-year-old Hannah'who has been fitted with the Mirage, a high-tech visual prosthetic to combat her blindness'wonders why she sees shadows surrounding some people.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Boston, Mass

    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    Non spécifié
  • Ragged lake

    Creator

    Corbett, Ron.

    Abstract

    Gruesome murders, a northern secret, and a buried past While working one afternoon on the Northern Divide, a young tree-marker makes a grisly discovery: in a squatter's cabin near an old mill town, a family has been murdered. An army vet coming off a successful turn leading a task force that took down infamous biker criminals, Detective Frank Yakabuski arrives in Ragged Lake, a nearly abandoned village, to solve the family's murder. But no one is willing to talk.

    Publisher (Source)

    Toronto, Ont.

    ECW Press

    Non spécifié