Dead Scared

Author: Sharon Bolton
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 146680260X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
When a rash of suicides tears through Cambridge University, DI Mark Joesbury recruits DC Lacey Flint to go undercover as a student to investigate. Although each student's death appears to be a suicide, the psychological histories, social networks, and online activities of the students involved share remarkable similarities, and the London police are not convinced that the victims acted alone. They believe that someone might be preying on lonely and insecure students and either encouraging them to take their own lives or actually luring them to their deaths. As long as Lacey can play the role of a vulnerable young woman, she may be able to stop these deaths, but is it just a role for her? With her fragile past, is she drawing out the killers, or is she herself being drawn into a deadly game where she's a perfect victim? Dark and compelling, S. J. Bolton's latest thriller—a follow-up to the acclaimed Now You See Me—is another work of brilliant psychological suspense that plumbs the most sinister depths.

Haunt: Dead Scared

Author: Curtis Jobling
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147111578X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
When Will finds himself in hospital, but unable to make anyone see or hear him, he realises that he never made it home from his first date with the school hottie. Knocked off his bike in a road traffic accident, Will is now officially dead - and a ghost. But somehow his best mate, Dougie, can still see him, and, once they've exhausted all the comic possibilities of being invisible, they decide to delve into the truth behind a school rumour - whether there really is an unhappy spirit haunting the ruins in the school grounds, and if so, why? What they discover is a long-buried mystery, which stretches its fingers right into the present…

Dead Scared

Author: Tommy Donbavand
Publisher: Badger Publishing
ISBN: 1788371100
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
When Toby's mum died of cancer, he knew his life would never be the same again, but even he couldn't guess just how much his world was about to change. When a stranger offers to bring his mum back from the dead, he jumps at the chance. All he has to do is nominate someone to take her place in the coffin. What could possibly go wrong? Our range of Teen Reads has an established reputation with both teachers and students in secondary schools. Teen Reads are visually appealing and age-appropriate for struggling teenage readers, helping to develop confidence and foster an interest in reading, whilst bridging the gap between more specialised books and full-length novels.The complete collection of 46 books has characters diverse in gender, sexuality, ethnicity and background to ensure they are relatable to a wide range of readers. Themes vary from horror and the supernatural to sci-fi, crime, adventure, family breakdown, relationships and moral conflicts.Accessible and appealing in equal measure, and with content to suit many different tastes, Teen Reads are an asset to any school library.

Dead Scared

Author: Ivan Blake
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
ISBN: 1645407896
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
Winner of Eric Hoffer and Readers' Favorite Awards Who knew the dead have more to fear from the living than the living have to fear from the dead? Certainly not seventeen-year-old Chris Chandler, not before his family moved to Bemishstock, Maine in the autumn of 1985. His father’s job is to close plants for Allied Paper Products of Wisconsin. Bemishstock is his fourth crumbling town in six years, and each one has resented and harassed the Chandlers more hatefully than the previous. Even Chris will admit that his family’s odyssey across America has turned him into a lonely, brooding nutcase, and he has only survived the soul-sucking experience by remaining virtually invisible. Then suddenly one day, after a couple of totally stupid mistakes, Chris finds himself trapped between two nightmarish forces—a defrocked chiropractor turned grave robber, and the cruelest and most beautiful girl in his class. Like the cemetery guardians of old, he must defeat both or end up a corpse himself and cursed for all eternity. Praise for Ivan Blake Winner of Eric Hoffer and Readers’ Favorite Awards Dead Scared “In this gloriously macabre novel—the first installment of a series—Blake channels Stephen King and 1980s cult films like Re-Animator…Fans should claw at Blake’s windows for more graveyard tales after this delightful series opener.” —Kirkus Reviews “An intense and brooding tale that delivers…plot had me instantly hooked…writing is often lyrically lovely, but this never gets in the way of the action and horror that this book is steeped in…eagerly anticipating the next book in Blake’s The Mortsafeman Trilogy…” —Readers’ Favorite

Scared to Death

Author: Rachel Amphlett
Publisher: Saxon Publishing
ISBN: 0994433751
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description

Dead Scared

Author: Katie Gray
Publisher: The Endless Bookcase Ltd
ISBN: 1912243571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description
Pippsy and Jack fall into a convoluted crime once again. A seemingly straightforward case soon becomes anything but. A wife who claims her husband has been kidnapped – or has he? And is she as naive as she appears? Why is the husband making threatening noises at the pair? Who are the couple who claim to be investigators, if in fact they are? Pippsy and Jack have to team up with an acquaintance from a previous case. As usual, they need to use their wits more than once to keep ahead of the persons wishing them ill. This is the fifth book in Katie Gray’s ‘Dead Series’.

Like This, for Ever

Author: Sharon Bolton
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0552166375
Category : Crime thrillers
Languages : en
Pages : 516

Book Description
De vondst van enkele leeggebloede maar verder ongeschonden lijkjes van kinderen in Londen doet een geheimzinnige seriemoordenaar vermoeden.

Nothing to be Frightened Of

Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307368440
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
"I don’t believe in God, but I miss him." So begins Julian Barnes’s brilliant new book that is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God and a homage to the writer Jules Renard. Barnes also draws poignant portraits of the last days of his parents, recalled with great detail, affection and exasperation. Other examples he takes up include writers, "most of them dead and quite a few of them French," as well as some composers, for good measure. The grace with which Barnes weaves together all of these threads makes the experience of reading the book nothing less than exhilarating. Although he cautions us that "this is not my autobiography," the book nonetheless reveals much about Barnes the man and the novelist: how he thinks and how he writes and how he lives. At once deadly serious and dazzlingly playful, Nothing to Be Frightened Of is a wise, funny and constantly surprising tour of the human condition.

Dead Lifeguard

Author: R L Stine
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471109763
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Are you afraid to walk down Fear Street? maybe you should be. They say that weird things always happen on that dark and twisting road. They say it's a place to be frightened of--that those who go there never return the same. And some never return at all...

Born Scared

Author: Kevin Brooks
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 153620403X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
Elliot has lived his first thirteen years confined to his home, incapacitated by fear. Now he’s out of pills, snow is falling, and his only safe person is missing. A terrifying thriller from Carnegie Medalist Kevin Brooks. From the moment of his birth, Elliot’s life has been governed by fear of almost everything, even of his own fear — a beast that holds him prisoner in his room. The beast is kept at bay, though not eliminated, with a daily regimen of pills. But on Christmas Eve, a mix-up at the pharmacy threatens to unleash the beast full force, and his mother must venture out in a raging snowstorm to a store that should be only minutes away. Hours later, when she still hasn’t returned, Elliot sees no choice but to push through his terror, leave the house, and hunt for her. What happens if the last of his medication wears off and the beast starts scratching at the doors of his mind? Everyone has a breaking point — will Elliot come to his? With plot twists and turns that keep readers on the edge of their seats, multi-award-winning author Kevin Brooks offers a high-suspense exploration of fear and what it means to truly be afraid.