Teen Crime

Three harrowing tales of three teenage girls who left behind a trail of murder and mayhem.

It’s 19 September, 2010, and 21-year-old Rachel Lee has emerged from Los Angeles Superior Court, having just been sentenced to four years behind bars. A few months earlier, she had been running the Bling Ring: a gang of rich, beautiful, wild-living Valley teens who idolised celebrity, designer labels, and luxury brands, who, in 2009, became the most audacious thieves in recent Hollywood history.

Als Diebin hat Lila Merriweather eine Begabung für drei Dinge: Erstens, sich in den Schatten zu verbergen. Zweitens, überall unbemerkt einzubrechen. Und drittens, Geheimnisse zu lüften. Diese Talente kommen ihr auch bei ihrer Arbeit als Bodyguard der Sinclair-Familie zugute - immerhin eine der mächtigsten magischen Mafiafamilien in Cloudburst Falls. Jeder weiß, dass Victor Draconi sie und die anderen Familien einkassieren will - und vorhat, jeden einzelnen Sinclair umzubringen.

The third novel in Elizabeth George's young-adult series. This genre-bending work combines Elizabeth's flair for crime and suspense novels with the paranormal. Late summer on Whidbey Island after nine weeks of no rain and fire season has arrived...along with a fire starter who soon begins tormenting the residents of this peaceful Pacific Northwest idyll with fires that escalate in intensity. Becca King and her friends, Jenn and Derric, are at the county fair when the third fire starts in a shed housing animals.

The story of two American teens recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and their pursuit by a Mexican-American detective who realises the War on Drugs is unwinnable. What's it like to be an employee of a global drug-trafficking organisation? And how does a 15 year old American boy go from star quarterback to trained assassin, surging up the cartel corporate ladder?

Dues històries, la mateixa nit i una fosca sospita. Dues vides que es creuen de matinada a través de les xarxes. Dos joves que es lliuren a un joc misteriós: compartir somnis, il·lusions i pors, però no la seva identitat. Aviat donaran el pas següent: una cita a cegues. No obstant, trobar-se amb un desconegut sempre comporta riscos. Perquè tothom amaga secrets...

Si bé la trama s’inicia a Bolívia, amb la fugida de Doña Flor Huanaco a Espanya, el pla de venjança d’un poderós narcotraficant es traslladarà als carrers i barris de Madrid. Darrere els seus passos arriben un implacable assassí a sou conegut com a senyor Luna, amb l’encàrrec de matar-la, i el fill del narcotraficant, desitjós d’heretar el seu imperi i, per tant, més perillós fins i tot que el pare.

Miles Derkach is in trouble. Along with two friends, he stole a car and went joyriding. When the dust clears, he is all alone and his friends have left, leaving him to take the blame—and the punishment—while maintaining his silence. Placed on probation and sentenced to community service, Miles begins working for a man who, after suffering a stroke and not being able to drive, has kept his beloved hot rod under wraps in the garage. Seeing a chance to learn more about cars and pursue his dream of becoming a mechanic, Miles helps to restore the car.

The Urban Promise Prep School vows to turn boys into men. As students, J.B., Ramón, and Trey are forced to follow the prestigious "program's" strict rules. Extreme discipline, they’ve been told, is what it takes to be college bound, to avoid the fates of many men in their neighborhoods. This, the Principal Moore Method, supposedly saves lives. But when Moore ends up murdered and the cops come sniffing around, the trio emerges as the case's prime suspects. With all three maintaining their innocence, they must band together to track down the real killer before they are arrested.

One year ago, Jade died at a music festival. Her body was found floating in a lake but everyone wrote it off as a tragic accident—with no evidence of murder. Ever since, her best friend Lexi has been trying to piece her life back together, but she just can't get over that weekend. She's certain that somebody purposefully hurt Jade, she just has to work out who it was. Maybe it was one of the friends they made at the tent pitched next to theirs.

It is hoped that this little book will contribute to young people thinking further, researching, and reflecting on what is needed to protect the organisation of society in a way that guarantees civil rights and freedoms - giving citizens a proportionate say in how their society is organised.

When her grandmother and cousin are 'accidentally' killed in a drone strike in Yemen, Samiya wants answers. She writes emails, pesters her MP, starts a petition...but no one will help. Disillusioned, she vents her anger in chatrooms, where she makes online allies who willingly loan her their skills.

It was hard to remember when the genuine hacking started.... By the time Dan is contacted online by Angel, he is eager for the challenge laid before him: creating tricky bits of code. But Dan begins to suspect that something more nefarious may be planned for his code. He will have to decide what truly matters more: protecting his anonymity or preventing a deadly terror attack....

Alex Sawyer and his mates should have known there was no way out of Furnace Penitentiary. Their escape attempt only lands them deeper in the guts of this prison for young offenders, and then into solitary confinement. And that’s where a whole new struggle begins – a struggle not to let the hellish conditions overwhelm them. Because before another escape attempt is even possible, they must first survive the nightmare that now haunts their endless nights.

Beklemmende, superspannende thriller van "Boy 7"-auteur Mirjam Mous. In een rustig natuurgebied wordt een man dood in de rivier aangetroffen. Het is Herman van Romondt, een journalist van Dagblad Zuid. De politie is er al snel van overtuigd dat het een ongeluk was en doet de zaak daarmee af. Maar Mink, die dezelfde dag nog stage bij Herman liep, denkt dat er meer achter zit. Want wat deed de journalist bij de Blauwe Bosjes, terwijl hij helemaal niet van de natuur hield? En dan had hij het ook nog over een belangrijk artikel, dat zou inslaan als een bom.

Da 15-årige Frederik skal hjem fra en lidt våd fest, tager han imod et tilbud om et lift med en fremmed mand. Turen får uhyggelige konsekvenser. Ikke langt derfra i en forstad til Stockholm går livet tilsyneladende sin vante gang: Markus er forelsket i Nina, som er forelsket i Jajje; Teo blæser på skolen, og Lenita skal de alle sammen vogte sig for... Men hvad er det, der sker under overfladen? Hvor tæt på er morderen? Kåret til årets bedste svenske ungdomskrimi i 2003.

Kidnapped, taken away, and held for ransom, a young boy from San Diego, CA has finally been released from a prison just across the border. Finding himself now set free from his troubled past with the Mexican cartel, but always looking over his shoulder just in case, Joseph Jimenez seeks refuge in a nearby church.

Louis på 15 har sat sig nogle klare mål for sommerferien inden hun skal starte i 1.g: Hun vil vaere sammen med en aeldre fyr, hun vil vaere skaev hver dag, hun vil finde en ny kaereste, og så skal hun se at få slået op med Frederik, for hun glemmer ham hele tiden. På hjemmefronten kaemper hun voldsomme kampe med sin dominerende og kontrollerende far og ønsker sig braendende at flytte hjemmefra.

On Whidbey Island, secrets never stay buried. A mysterious girl who won't speak; a coal-black seal named Nera that returns to the same place every year; a bitter feud of unknown origin - strange things are happening on Whidbey Island and Becca King is drawn into the maelstrom of events. But Becca, first met in The Edge of Nowhere, has her own secrets to hide. Still on the run from her criminal stepfather, Becca is living in a secret location.

A look back at a trio of teenage girls who belied their innocent looks to become serial killers. Sisters Regina and Margaret DeFrancisco were two teenage girls who made national headlines for murdering Oscar Velazquez, a suitor of Regina. Marlene Olive was the teenage girl who became notorious for the "BBQ murders" in which she murdered her adopted parents and tried to dispose of their bodies in a barbecue pit. Marlene was 16 at the time, and would go on to serve only four years for the crime.