Stone Cold

By Robert Swindells

A serial killer targets the homeless. Can a young duo outsmart the predator?

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132 pages· 25,964 words· Est. 3 hour read

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Link, a wary 17-year-old living on the streets, teams up with Deb, another homeless teen. Unbeknownst to him, Deb is a journalist using herself as bait to catch a serial killer preying on the vulnerable. As danger closes in, trust becomes their only hope. Will they uncover the truth before it's too late?

From the publisher

Stone Cold is an exciting and disturbing thriller by Robert Swindells A tense, exciting thriller combined with a perceptive and harrowing portrait of life on the streets as a serial killer preys on the young and vulnerable homeless. 17-year-old Link is distrustful of people until he pairs up with Deb, homeless like him. But what Deb doesn’t tell him is that she’s an ambitious young journalist on a self-imposed assignment to track down the killer and that she’s prepared to use herself as bait … Winner of the Carnegie Medal Robert Swindells lives on the Yorkshire moors and is a full-time writer. He has won the Children’s Book Award twice, for BROTHER IN THE LAND and for ROOM 13. In 1994, he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD, and also the Sheffield Book Award. Also by Robert Swindells: Brother in the Land; Room 13; Stone Cold; Nightmare Stairs; Unbeliever; Blitzed; Ruby Tanya; The Thousand Eyes of Night; The Tunnel; The Shade of Hettie Daynes; Burnout; In the Nick of Time; Daz 4 Zoe; Snakebite; Snapshot; Branded; Roger’s War; No Angels; Wrecked; Jacqueline Hyde; Stayling Up; A Serpent’s Tooth; Follow a Shadow; Timesnatch; Unbeliever; The Last Bus