Children's / Teenage fiction: Thrillers

  • The grandest game

    £14.99

    Seven tickets. An island of dreams. The chance of a lifetime. Welcome to the Grandest Game, an annual competition run by billionaire Avery Grambs and the four infamous Hawthorne brothers, whose family fortune she inherited. Designed to give anyone a shot at fame and fortune, this year’s game requires one of seven golden tickets to enter. With millions on the line, those seven players will do whatever it takes to win.Some of the players are in it for the money. Some for power. Some for reasons all their own. Every single one of them has secrets. Amidst it all is Grayson Hawthorne, tasked with a vital role in this year’s game. But as tensions rise and the mind-bending challenges push the players to their limits – physically, mentally, and emotionally – it soon becomes clear that not everyone is playing by the rules.

  • Such charming liars

    £14.99

    When mother-daughter grifters set out on their final heist, the job gets dangerously personal – and deadly. For all of Kat’s life, it’s just been her and her mother, Jamie – except for forty-eight hours twelve years ago when Jamie was married and Kat had a stepbrother, Liam. That all ended in a swift divorce, and Kat and Liam haven’t spoken since.Now Jamie is a jewel thief trying to go straight, but she has one last job – at billionaire Ross Sutherland’s 80th birthday party. Kat has figured out a way to tag along to the dazzling Sutherland compound, but neither she nor her mother know about the other surprise guests that weekend: Liam and his father, a serial scammer who has his own sights set on Ross Sutherland’s youngest daughter. Kat and Liam are on a collision course to disaster, and when a Sutherland dies, they realize they might be in the killer’s crosshairs themselves.

  • Girls who burn

    £8.99

    When eighteen-year-old Addie’s sister is found dead at the bottom of a ravine it’s officially ruled an accident, but Addie doesn’t buy it. The problem is, Addie has no evidence because when her sister died, she was a little distracted with Seth Montgomery, the boy next door Addie’s always loved to hate. She believes the murderer is Thatcher Montgomery, Seth’s cousin. He always had a thing for her sister, and Addie caught them arguing shortly before her death. But, one year later, Thatcher is found dead at the bottom of the same ravine and Addie is forced to admit she was wrong. Dodging corrupt police and the even more corrupt wealthy Montgomery family, Addie needs help to avenge her sister’s death and she turns to the only person she hasn’t managed to push away: Seth. But Seth is a Montgomery too and may be hiding secrets of his own.

  • Robodog

    £7.99

    Enter a world of superheroes and villains in this action-packed comic caper from No.1 bestselling author David Walliams – and meet Robodog: the future of crime fighting!

  • Armageddon outta here

    £8.99

    The ULTIMATE story collection for Skulduggery Pleasant fans, now updated to include Apocalypse Kings AND six more new stories for this edition – 22 stories in all!

  • Everything we never said

    £8.99

    It’s been months since Ella’s best-friend, Hayley, died and everywhere she looks she sees reminders of her – including Sawyer, Hayley’s boyfriend. Soon, the two grow closer, finding comfort in each other.Racked with guilt, Ella turns to Hayley’s journal, but what she finds leaves her terrified. The Sawyer in these pages is nothing like the kind and thoughtful boy she knows. Torn, Ella finds herself having to make a choice. Yet making the wrong one could have fatal consequences.

  • The brothers Hawthorne

    £8.99

    Drawn into twisted games on opposite sides of the globe, Grayson and Jameson – with the help of their brothers and the girl who inherited their grandfather’s fortune and stole their hearts – must dig deep to decide who they want to be and what each of them will sacrifice to win.

  • Caught dead

    £7.99

    In the dead of night, the Immortal rises . . . welcome to the Town of the Turned.Â