C.J. Skuse

Sweetpea

Darkly comic crime sequel to Sweetpea, following girl-next-door serial killer Rhiannon as she's now caught between the urge to kill and her unborn baby stopping her. If only they knew the real truth. It should be my face on those front pages. My headlines. I did those things, not him. I just want to stand on that doorstep and scream it: IT WAS ME. ME. ME. ME. ME! Rhiannon Lewis has successfully fooled the world and framed her cheating fianc� Craig for the depraved and bloody killing spree she committed. She should be ecstatic that she's free. Except for one small problem. She's pregnant with her ex lover's child. The ex-lover she only recently chopped up and buried in her in-laws garden. And as much as Rhiannon wants to continue making her way through her kill lists, a small voice inside is trying to make her stop. But can a killer's urges ever really be curbed?

In Bloom

‘Brilliantly-written characters, original and engaging. It’s so good!’ BA Paris JOANNE HAYNES HAS A SECRET. THAT IS NOT HER REAL NAME.

The Alibi Girl

Victim. Murderer. Serial Killer. What next? The third darkly comic thriller in the highly addictive Sweetpea series featuring serial killer Rhiannon Lewis.

Dead Head (Sweetpea Series, Book 3)

At sixteen Nash thought that the fight to become Head Girl of prestigious boarding school Bathory would be the biggest battle she'd face. Until her brother's disappearance leads to Nash being trapped at the school over Christmas with Bathory's assorted misfits. As a blizzard rages outside, strange things are afoot in the school's hallways, and legends of the mysterious Beast of Bathory - a big cat rumoured to room the moors outside the school - run wild. Yet when the girls' Matron goes missing it's clear that something altogether darker is to blame - and that they'll have to stick together if they hope to survive. Praise for C J Skuse 'CJ does it again, with a boarding school story packed with tension...Nobody captures the darkness of teenage nightmares quite like CJ Skuse.' - Sophia Bennett, author of The Look 'Fiendishly dark, with a sense of humour. CJ Skuse always inspires deep author envy' - Keren David, YA Book Prize Nominee on Monster 'It's so good, I'd recommend it to people I don't like' - Kevin Brooks on Pretty Bad Things 'A rip roaring story' - Julia Eccleshare, The Guardian on Rockoholic 'sharp, funny and knowing...' - The Telegraph on Rockoholic 'The tension and the comedy crack along with a heart-warming hilarity that is impossible to resist.' Amanda Craig, The Times on Dead Romantic 'It's an absolute page-turner! I gobbled it up in one sitting, and it kept me guessing right till the end. A deliciously creepy horror story, served up with CJ's trademark humour.' - Cat Clarke.

Monster

‘If you like your thrillers darkly comic and outrageous this ticks all the boxes’ The Sun The last person who called me ‘Sweetpea’ ended up dead...

Sweetpea: The most unique and gripping thriller of 2017

Camille wants to find the perfect boy, with an athlete's body and a poet's brain. But when she's mocked at a college party, she knows there isn't a boy alive who'll ever measure up. Enter Zoe, her brilliant but strange best friend, who takes biology homework to a whole new level. She can create Camille's dream boy, Frankenstein-style. But can she make him love her?

Dead Romantic

Sixteen-year-old Jody Flook is known for doing stupid things, but when she accidentally kidnaps her idol, rock star Jackson Gaitlin, at his only concert in the entire United Kingdom, and he does not want to leave her garage, she is in real trouble.

Rockoholic

Thorn In My Side

The Bad Seeds 

‘A tale of revenge, righteousness and recovery with a heart-stopping twist – The Guardian Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves

The Deviants

When they were six years old, twins Beau and Paisley were famous for surviving on their own after their mother died of a drug overdose, and now, at sixteen, they escape from their abusive grandmother to look for their father, who is out of prison and, unbeknownst to them, has been writing them letters since he was put away.

Pretty Bad Things

Quand Ella Newhall avait seize ans, elle appartenait à une bande qui s'était donné le nom des " Cinq sans peur ". Max, Corey, Fallon, Zane et elle passaient leurs vacances à faire du vélo, explorer l'île de la baie et frissonner en écoutant les histoires terrifiantes que leur racontait Jessica, la soeur aînée de Max. Ils ne le savaient pas, mais c'était la plus belle époque de leur vie. Et puis Jessica est morte, renversée par un bus qui roulait trop vite. Quatre ans plus tard, Max est devenu un fils à papa fainéant et camé. Corey déprime dans son coin, prisonnier de ses pensées morbides. Fallon est enceinte de huit mois, à la suite d'une aventure d'un soir. Et Zane est devenu le voyou du coin. Ella, à présent plus connue sous le surnom " le Volcan ", poursuit sous les encouragements de la presse locale le rêve d'une médaille olympique sur les pistes de course. Il est bien loin, le temps où ils étaient " sans peur ". La seule chose qu'ils partagent encore est une envie dévorante de revanche. Inspirée par les histoires d'horreur que leur racontait Jessica, la bande se reforme, et ses membres décident de se venger de tous ceux qu'ils estiment coupables d'avoir gâché leur adolescence. Ils vont découvrir que le vieux proverbe dit vrai : " Quand tu décides de te venger, creuse deux tombes, une pour ton ennemi et une pour toi. "

Nous, les déviants

She's got it bad, and he ain't good -- he's in her garage? Gonna have to face it: Jody's addicted to Jackson Gatlin, frontman of The Regulators, and after her best bud Mac scores tickets, she's front and center at his sold-out concert. But when she gets mashed in the moshpit, loses her precious moon rock, and bodysurfs backstage, she ends up with more than a mild concussion to deal with. By the next morning, the strung-out rock star is coming down in her garage. Jody -- oops -- kind of kidnapped him. By accident. And now he doesn't want to leave. It's a rock-star abduction worthy of an MTV reality series . . . but who got punk'd?!

Jody is gek op Jackson Gatlin. En dus staat zij vooraan bij zijn concert. Door al het gedrang belandt ze met een hersenschudding backstage. Na een groot misverstand, iets met een chocoladereep en een lichte overdosis, neemt Jody meer mee naar huis dan haar lief is. Maar wat als je grote idool in de garage zit en niet meer weg wil?

Qui est vraiment Joanne Haynes ? Aux yeux de sa coiffeuse, elle est une femme médecin, mère de cinq enfants. Pour le vendeur de beignets, elle est une romancière à succès. Et pour le caissier du supermarché, c'est une patiente atteinte d'un cancer qui subit une chimio. En réalité, toutes ces identités, Joanne les a inventées, ce ne sont que des alibis. La seule chose certaine, c'est que personne ne doit savoir qui elle est. Depuis des années, la jeune femme prend soin de se dissimuler sous de faux noms, de changer d'apparence. Alors quand une femme qui lui ressemble fortement est assassinée dans l'hôtel où elle travaille, Joanne sait que la menace est de retour et que son passé la rattrape. Quelqu'un a percé à jour ses secrets et il s'agit forcément d'un proche... Alors, à qui faire confiance lorsque votre vie n'est qu'un tissu de mensonges ?

Alibi

Free sample of Sweetpea by C.J. Skuse. When she was good, she was very, very good. When she was bad, she was deadly.

Sweetpea: Free sample

Every girl at Bathory School has heard stories about The Beast. No one believed they were true. Until Now. 'Grisly, nail-biting fun!' - Lovereading4kids.co.uk

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