New Releases by Ridley Pearson

New York Times bestselling author of the Kingdom Keepers series is back with an all-new Disney-inspired chapter book adventure! Welcome foolish mortals to the Haunted Mansion… Ever since they moved to Orlando, Gemma and Torin have experienced Disney magic like no other. They have a hand-drawn map of Walt Disney World that can magically transport them onto any ride! Gemma and Torin find out there are no longer 999 happy haunts staying at the Haunted Mansion. Two animatronics have gone missing! Are they thrilled to use the map to chase Pickwick, the chandelier ghost, and Constance, the ax-wielding Bride? Not really. But their Mom needs their help, so that means braving the creepy creeps with eerie eyes and the grim grinning ghosts. Will Gemma and Torin find the spooks from beyond the grave? Or are they doomed to extend their stay at the Haunted Mansion?

New York Times bestselling author of the Kingdom Keepers series is back with a Disney-inspired chapter book adventure! Gemma and her brother, Torin, have a big secret. They found a hand-drawn map of Walt Disney World that can magically transport them onto any ride! After their mother takes a job in Orlando at the parks, strange things keep happening to the attractions’ animatronics. When the animals on the Jungle Cruise ride keep being pushed over in the middle of the night, it’s up to the siblings to use their magical map and figure out the real reason why the ride keeps closing down for “repairs.” But using the map means they will need to face real live spiders, snakes, and countless other jungle animals, not to mention the pesky cameras set up by their mom’s team. Will Gemma and Torin figure out a way to save the ride, or will they fall prey to the dangers that lurk in the jungle?

The second book in this all new KINGDOM KEEPERS INHERITANCE trilogy follows our young heroes to parks around the world as they work to stop the most villainous villain of all--Ursula--from taking over for good! In this latest book in the series that has sold over a million copies worldwide, Ridley Pearson expands the Kingdom Keepers world in ways no reader--or Disney Parks fan--could have imagined. Home from their adventures abroad in book one, Eli and his friends are safe and sound at Epcot with their families--or are they? When Eli learns that the CEO of the Walt Disney Company has mysteriously done a 180 and ordered Villains Realms to be built in every park across the globe, he and his friends know something is amiss. It turns out that Ursula, the baddest of the big bads, has recruited an evil chemist to recreate Walt''s magical ink, which would allow the Villains to travel between parks and end Disney magic as we know it. With the help of Cinderella''s very own Fairy Godmother--the notorious FGM as she''s known in this world--they set out to stop Ursula--jumping from Epcot to Disneyland to Disneyland Paris, where the ultimate battle between good and evil plays out. Will Eli and his friends prevail, or will the Villains finally have their way?

In near-future Epcot, sixty thousand people live in a CommuniTree surrounding the forward-looking Walt Disney World theme park - including parents who were once Kingdom Keepers, identities carefully-guarded. With the arrival of a communication from Villains Park in Hong Kong, a few ''ordinary'' kids are thrust into a battle to save Epcot and find their friend who has mysteriously disappeared. The Kingdom Kids discover they are in possession of unusual powers as they forge a bond to rescue their friend and uncover the truth about how real magic has entered their lives.

The Kingdom Keepers are all grown up--and their kids are unwittingly following in their footsteps.

Something sinister is at play behind the scenes in the 4th Kingdom Keepers instalment.

DAS ABSCHLIESSENDE ABENTEUER DER SÖHNE VON SUPERMAN UND BATMAN! Jon Kent und Damian Wayne versuchen in ihrem dritten Abenteuer während der Abwesenheit ihrer Väter erneut die Welt zu retten. Nach wie vor bedrohen die "Vier Finger" die Menschheit und wollen einen gefährlichen Virus freisetzen. Um dies zu verhindern, müssen sich Batkid und Superboy auf die Reise nach Landis begeben, ein für sie unbekanntes Land voller Gefahren. Zudem benötigen sie eine Probe dieses Virus, um Jons bereits erkrankte Mutter Lois Lane zu heilen. Zum Glück steht ihnen die junge Computer-Spezialistin Tilly zur Seite und in Landis treffen sie auch ihre Freundin Candace wieder, die angeblich die rechtmäßige Herrscherin des Landes ist. Mit vereinten Kräften versuchen sie die finsteren Pläne der "Vier Finger" zu durchkreuzen, bevor es zu spät ist. Der actiongeladene Abschlussband der Super-Sons-Trilogie von New-York-Times-Bestsellerautor Ridley Pearson und Comic-Künstlerin Ile Gonzalez zeigt, dass man mit der Hilfe von Freunden und einer gehörigen Portion Selbstvertrauen Berge versetzen kann.

DAS ABENTEUER GEHT WEITER - DIE FORTSETZUNG ZU SUPER SONS: PROJEKT POLARSCHILD! Währenddessen folgt Candace Hinweisen die der Schlüssel zu ihrem Schicksal sein könnten. Sie entdeckt mächtige Fähigkeiten von denen sie selbst bisher nichts wusste. Die drei drohen an ihren Aufgaben zu zerbrechen doch als Team könnten sie erfolgreich sein ...

Three heart-pounding novels by the New York Times–bestselling author: "The best thriller writer on the planet" ( Booklist). This volume include three novels filled with twists and turns from the author of such acclaimed suspense novels as White Bone and The Red Room: Probable Cause: Carmel, California is a peaceful tourist haven where James Dewitt is the police force''s only detective. His usual caseload is stolen bicycles and the occasional burglary—but things are about to change with frightening speed. "A natural storyteller . . .He keeps the thread going, twisting the details . . .dancing the forensic shuffle without missing a step." — Richmond Times-Dispatch Blood of the Albatross: An innocent Seattle sailor is pulled into a dangerous web of espionage in this "enthralling" novel ( The San Diego Union-Tribune). "Pearson skillfully spins this thriller with sense-of-place, breakneck pace, and economically drawn, believable characters." — Library Journal Never Look Back: A Soviet agent has entered the United States—carrying a terrifying weapon—in this "breakneck-action" Cold War adventure ( Kirkus Reviews).

La rentrée de James Moriarty à l''internat de Baskerville tourne rapidement au cauchemar : il se retrouve dans la même chambre que Sherlock Holmes... L''aversion est immédiate et réciproque. Dommage pour Moria, la soeur de James, qui tombe sous le charme du jeune Anglais... Mais à peine l''année commence-t-elle qu''une bible d''une immense valeur disparaît : les Moriarty sont les premiers suspectés. Voilà James et Sherlock obligés de collaborer pour résoudre ce mystère, et ils ne sont pas au bout de leurs surprises !

Disneyland, Opening Day, 1955. When five present-day teenagers known as the Kingdom Keepers find themselves thrown into a past that would make anyone envious, things don''t exactly work out the way they''d hoped. Finn, Charlene, Maybeck, Willa, and Philby open a door into a place and a time when the legend of the Disney parks is just starting. They are there, in 1955, to retrieve Walt Disney''s infamous pen that once saved the parks as we know them. But like all things Disney, nothing is as it seems. The early days of the Tower of Terror, the origin of the Overtakers (Disney villains), and the real power of magic unfold in an unexpected series of events that propel both the Keepers and Disney itself into a darkness no one saw coming. Along the way, the Keepers visit Walt Disney''s hilltop home, Disneyland''s opening day and reception, and find themselves separated from friends sixty years away. The three Fairlies, young women in Disney''s School of Imagineering, girls with astonishing powers of their own, have unmasked a long-buried secret that threatens the lives of their friends as well as everything Walt Disney worked for.

When partner Grace Chu''s cover is blown while on a dangerous assignment, ex-military contractor John Knox races to assist while struggling to convince her handlers of the threat, trace the theft of a high-value AIDS vaccine, and elude violent ivory poachers.

Before James grew up to be a ruthless, remorseless villain, he was a curious boy from Boston, with a penchant for trouble and an acid tongue. Thrown into a boarding school against his wishes, James winds up rooming with a most unlikely companion: a lanky British know-it-all named Sherlock Holmes ("Lock" to his friends). An heirloom Bible, donated by the Moriarty family more than a hundred years ago, has gone missing, and it doesn''t take long for the two to find themselves embroiled in the school-wide scandal. The school is on lockdown until it''s found, strange clues keep finding their way to James, and a secret society lurks behind it all

An Idaho sleuth hunts a missing woman after a series of bizarre accidents, in this mystery from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author. After a small plane plummets into a gas station in rural Idaho, ex-musician and sometimes-sleuth Chris Klick knows that his dream of a quieter, simpler life far from Los Angeles may not be as easy to achieve as he hoped . . . Now he must team up with his buddy Lyel to track down a missing county courthouse employee connected to the plane crash and other freak accidents. Was she kidnapped? Is she on the run from her creditors? Searching for answers and finding only trouble, Klick''s questions pile up as the stakes climb ever higher. Originally published under the name Wendell McCall, this is the follow-up to Dead Aim, a mystery which "balances all the best P.I. elements with a lyrical sense of the country . . . Sardonic, wry, and remarkable in both plotting and pacing" ( Kirkus Reviews).

With the defeat of the Overtakers behind them, the five teenagers known as the Kingdom Keepers should be celebrating. By all accounts they saved Disneyland from certain destruction. Why then did their mentor leave one last puzzle for them to decipher? The Keepers must solve a puzzle of the past, or be crushed under an evil that makes the Overtakers seem like gentle souls.

In book one, five young teens tapped as models for theme park "guides" find themselves pitted against Disney villains and witches that threaten both the future of Walt Disney World and the stability of the world outside its walls. Using a cutting-edge technology called DHI--which stands for both Disney Host Interactive and Daylight Hologram Imaging--Finn Whitman, an Orlando teen, and four other kids are transformed into hologram projections that guide guests through the park. The new technology turns out, however, to have unexpected effects that are both thrilling and scary. Soon Finn finds himself transported in his DHI form into the Magic Kingdom at night. Is it real? Is he dreaming? In book two, the mystery deepens as Finn is contacted by Wayne, an old man he hasn''t heard from in months. Wayne tells Finn that there''s trouble at the Animal Kingdom: the evil Overtakers have gained control of one of the computer servers that will be used to operate Daylight Holographic Imaging there. That means that if any of the holographic hosts fall asleep, they will go into comas-permanently. Then in book three, Finn, Philby, Willa, Charlene, and Maybeck search to find Wayne, who has mysteriously gone missing. Concerned that Wayne has been abducted by the Overtakers, the five kids pick up a major clue from their close friend whose dreams (nightmares, really) often accurately predict the future. Clues from a dream lead the kids into Disney''s Hollywood Studios and Epcot. Each clue seems tied to the last, and with the stakes growing ever higher, what starts out as a puzzle ends up as a fight for survival.

A Soviet agent has entered the United States—carrying a terrifying weapon—in this Cold War thriller by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author . . . Agent Andy Clayton has been inactive for eighteen months, kept under tight surveillance at his home in Washington D.C. Now he is needed—Leonid Borikowski, code name Dragonfly, has been seen entering the United States, and Clayton is the only man who may be able to find and stop him. For Clayton, it''s more than a routine assignment. He knows Dragonfly, has faced him before, and he wants him. His interest is as personal as it is professional: He wants revenge on the foreign agent who killed his twin brother. But there is much that Clayton doesn''t know. He doesn''t know that Borikowski is carrying perhaps the most important, and dangerous, biological discovery the world has ever known. He doesn''t know that the microbe is in a suitcase armed with a device that will explode if Borikowski is harmed. And he doesn''t know about the Soviet intelligence project code-named Bookends—a project that will not be complete until Andy meets the same fate as his brother. The chase will take him across the United States and Canada, putting himself, the woman he loves, and thousands of innocent people in jeopardy...

The Kingdom Keepers'' senior year in high school is almost over. For more than three years, things have been quiet. Their battles are long behind them, they agree, the threat to the Disney realm silenced–albeit at great cost. But inside the catacombs of the Aztec temple where Finn Whitman faced down his nemesis, the monstrous Chernabog, a new threat brews. Deception and betrayal rock the Kingdom Keepers as the merciless group of Disney villains known as the Overtakers stage an unexpected comeback. But a discovery by the Keepers provides them with one hope of victory—a lost icon. It was believed to be gone forever. The Keepers have one last chance to preserve the heart of the Kingdom—Disneyland—from a terrifying destruction decades in the making.

The new Risk Agent novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Private security firm Rutherford Risk’s new client is a philanthropist with a headline-making cause: to locate and shut down an Amsterdam-based sweatshop that uses enslaved girls as forced labor. Enter import/export entrepreneur John Knox, with his former combat experience—and forensic accountant Grace Chu, who can trap and trace even the most sensitive financial information. Working through the picturesque streets and canals of Amsterdam, Knox and Grace face Middle Eastern mobsters, the owner of a local brothel and police officers they don’t trust. Pursuing one young girl who holds the key to their investigation, but is either too afraid or in too deep to help them, they encounter the dark side of a secret world where would-be allies are enemies, and the victims themselves don’t want to be saved.

The five Kingdom Keepers and their core friends have uncovered a startling truth: Disney villains Maleficent and the Overtakers are plotting a catastrophic event that could have repercussions far beyond the world of Disney. Aboard the Disney Cruise Line''s inaugural passage through the new Panama Canal, the Keepers and their holograms uncover a puzzle hidden within the pages of a stolen journal. The point of that puzzle will reveal itself in the caves of Aruba, the zip lines of Costa Rica, and the jungles of Mexico. A destructive force, dormant for decades, is about to be unleashed. The five Kingdom Keepers are to be its first victims!Includes a preview chapter from Kingdom Keepers VII - The Insider!

A Chinese National working for an American-owned construction company is grabbed off the streets of Shanghai in broad daylight. His one-man security detail goes missing as well in the start of a brilliant new series.

As the Disney Fantasy joins the cruise fleet, a special treat is in store for guests aboard its inaugural sail from Cape Canaveral to Los Angeles: the Disney Host Interactive teenage guides will be part of the Fantasy crew. Finn, Maybeck, Charlene, Willa, and Philby are to attend the cruise as celebrity guests, and to perform a ribbon cutting for the DHI server to go live. The Fantasy is now the most advanced cruise ship in the world. But all is not right belowdecks. Strange things are happening. Unexplained phenomena. Only the Kingdom Keepers know the truth behind their invitation: nearly every Disney villain is represented onboard the new ship: whether on its decks or in its theaters. It''s believed the Overtakers have infiltrated the cast and are "stowaways." Worse: it is believed they have stolen an important journal that once belonged to Walt Disney himself--Finn has been having dreams about this--and that some kind of mission is planned. The ship sets sail filled with enthusiastic guests and crew, and the battle is on in new and exotic arenas: the beaches of Castaway Cay, the caves of Aruba, the locks of the Panama Canal, Costa Rica''s rain forest zip line . . . But the end game is far more complicated and intense than anything the Kingdom Keepers had planned on. If the Overtakers get their way, a power will be unleashed that no one will have the ability to vanquish: Chernabog, dormant for years, is about to have his full powers restored. . . .

Can Detective Joe "Dart" Dartelli uncover the truth? Or, more importantly, does he dare? Detective Joe "Dart" Dartelli made one critical mistake in his police career: He chose to ignore a piece of evidence in a case labeled a suicide that might have been a murder. The dead man was himself a vicious woman-killer who more than deserved his fate, but that ignored evidence pointed to Dart''s former mentor, the brilliant forensic specialist Walter Zeller. Now another suicide victim turns up--the body of a wife-beater--and the evidence clearly shows that the death was self-inflicted . . . or does it? Zeller was the best at reading and understanding the forensics of a crime scene--could he have manipulated it? Worse, why has Zeller disappeared? It terrifies Dart to suspect that Zeller is in fact on some twisted vigilante crusade, but Dart also knows that if he''s right, only he can stop it. Chain of Evidence is the intense, heart-pounding story of student versus mentor in the playing field of forensic investigation. Ridley Pearson links computer technology, psychological intensity, and complex questions of police and human ethics to create this breathlessly paced, unputdownable thriller.

Seattle police sergeant Lou Boldt is stunned when the local fire investigator presents him with frightening evidence in a series of fires that have occurred in the Seattle area. These white-hot fires burn so cleanly that even the ash disintegrates--leaving not a trace of its victims or any evidence of criminal activity. Only when Boldt is taunted by someone sending him pieces of melted green plastic--houses from a Monopoly board--does he realize that an arsonist is involving him in a deadly game.

"This is a serial-killer novel that speaks to readers'' hearts even as it jangles their nerves—and it''s not to be missed." — Publishers Weekly Product tampering. Innocent lives. Nice suburban homes. A Seattle food company is victim to an ingenious extortion that has the FBI two steps behind. Seattle''s veteran homicide sergeant, Lou Boldt, and police psychologist Daphne Matthews approach the case from opposite ends: one unearthing micoscopic evidence, the other putting together a chilling psychological profile of a man willing to contaminate and kill if necessary. The cop Daphne Matthews secretly loves is being destroyed by the extortion. Boldt sees his department cracking. As the high-tech manhunt builds to a furious crescendo, Boldt and Matthews are jolted again: the madman they''re hunting may not be working alone . . .

When the Kingdom Keepers discover that the Disney villain group known as the Overtakers plan to rescue two of their leaders, they must find out if the Overtakers have found a way to recruit from outside of the Disney parks.

It''s supposed to be a happy day at the Magic Kingdom—the return of the teenaged holographic hosts. But things go very wrong when a sudden lightning storm disrupts the celebration, and Amanda''s mysterious sister, Jez, disappears. The only clue is the sighting of a wild monkey in the Magic Kingdom during the storm. The mystery deepens as Finn is contacted by Wayne, an old man he hasn''t heard from in months. Wayne tells Finn that there''s trouble at the Animal Kingdom: the evil Overtakers have gained control of one of the computer servers that will be used to operate Daylight Holographic Imaging there. That means that if any of the holographic hosts fall asleep, they will go into comas—permanently.Includes a preview chapter from Kingdom Keepers III - Disney in Shadow

Steven "Steel" Trapp has been placed in an East Coast boarding school for gifted kids by his FBI agent father. He soon discovers that there''s a clubby element of the faculty and upper classmen that is very secretive and protective. To his surprise, his friend Kaileigh arrives at the school, and it isn''t long before the two realize that this is not your normal boarding school. It seems a select few students are recruited, while still minors, to serve as special "translators" for the US Government.

In this riveting thriller, 14-year-old Steven "Steel" Trapp sets off with his mom and their dog, Cairo, on a 2-day Amtrak journey to compete in the National Science Competition in Washington, DC. Steel is both blessed and cursed with a remarkable photographic memory--just one look and whatever he sees is imprinted for keeps. Trying to be a good Samaritan on the train, he instead becomes embroiled in an ingenious, international plot of kidnapping and bribery that may have links to terrorists.