Children’s / Teenage fiction: Thrillers / suspense

Longlisted for the Carnegie MedalNominated for the Kate Greenaway MedalBoy lives in a caravan on his own in the woods.

A New York Times bestseller Get Out meets Holly Jackson in this YA social thriller where survival is not guaranteed.

Bea has started to hear and see things that no one else can - creatures, voices, visions.

Shortlisted for CrimeFest Best Crime Novel for Young Adults 2019.

A beautifully written coming-of-age novel nominated for the 2017 CILIP Carnegie Prize from an acclaimed literary voice.

Every family has secrets - but not every family has a secret pact with a demon.

When Hector Coleman and his mates genetically mutate overnight, their lives change in impossible ways .

'Hard-hitting, heartbreaking and hopeful, We Are Young is a must read.

It is night.

The first book in the series, The Five Clues, is a real-time murder-mystery thriller and family drama, combining an exciting race against time with a heart-rending story about a teenager learning to live with the loss of a beloved parent.

'Haunting, unexpected, beautifully written.

Jack O'Hagan has never set eyes on his new home in Cornwall, yet he knows every twist of the stairs.

In a world far from our own, Lissa has exposed a dangerous secret.

For years, Elissa has suffered nightmarish visions and unexplained bruises.

Exhilarating action meets heart-pounding suspense in this sequel to 2015's popular Bulletcatcher as Troy's adventure as a super-gifted member of SPEAR continues.

Street kid Scott jumps at the chance to be a Virtual Kombat gamer.

Something has gone very wrong at Hoggle's Happy Toys.

Action-packed finale to the enthralling Defenders trilogy, a series of spine-tingling spooky adventures with a sporty twist.

Action-packed follow-up to Killing Ground in the Defenders series, this is an enthralling trilogy of spine-tingling spooky adventures with a sporty twist, from a master of footie fiction for kids.

A bleakly poetic tale of choice, redemption and courage from award-winning Anthony McGowan.

Yukio's two best friends are dead.

Real, compulsive and intense: Cat Clarke is the queen of emotional suspense.

A cataclysmic event.

Cold cases get hot in this unputdownable mystery from Jennifer Lynn Barnes, no.

Cold cases get hot in this unputdownable mystery from Jennifer Lynn Barnes, no.

Real, compulsive and intense: Cat Clarke is the queen of emotional suspense.

Real, compulsive and intense: Cat Clarke is the queen of emotional suspense.

';There were friends once, but they melted away.

Two teenagers witness a murder - and now they're the next targets.

Terrorism, heroism and everything in between.

A spine-chilling psychological thriller from stunning talent and author of The Dead House, Dawn Kurtagich.

Twenty-five years ago, Elmbridge High School burned down.

The thrilling conclusion to Ryan Graudin's Carnegie Medal 2017 nominated alternative history and fantasy epic, WOLF BY WOLF.

DIVERGENT meets MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA in this dark YA thriller set within the walls of a lawless slum city, where Jin Ling searches for her lost sister and Dai struggles to complete an impossible mission.

What would the world look like if the Nazis had won the war?

By the author of THE GIRLS I'VE BEEN, soon to be a Netflix film starring Millie Bobby Brown.

What happens in the woods, stays in the woods.

Madeline and her twin brother Roderick have the Usher name, the Usher house - and the Usher disease.

Neva keeps a list of The Missing - the people like her grandmother who were part of her life but who have now vanished.

The gun is the coward's fist.

A compelling psychological thriller with a dash of romance from award-winning writer Juno Dawson.

A captivating romantic thriller from the Carnegie nominated author of Skin Deep.

Jemma knows who did the murder.

A fast-paced historical mystery adventure for readers aged 9+ years, with gorgeous Edwardian period detail.

Gone Girl meets Seed - a heart-racing YA thriller set in a cult that makes you question everything you thought you knew .

A heartwarming canine adventure series for boys and girls aged 6+.

A heartwarming canine adventure series for boys and girls aged 6+.

Before he wrote 'A Series of Unfortunate Events', before the Baudelaires became orphans, even before the invention of Netflix, Lemony Snicket asked all the wrong questions.