Fiction - Psychological

Someone took your daughter. And nobody believes you... Then: Three-year-old Ally was found alone in a parking lot. She was barefoot and dressed only in a yellow sundress. In the middle of winter. What kind of person would abandon their daughter? Now: Fifteen years...

Donovan lives an uneventful life in his bedroom in an uneventful town. Masturbation and watching porn are daily highlights in his sad life. He hates his boring life. He's depressed but in denial. Donovan decides to go outside one summer day after suffering a...

Pathos and Catharsis is a contemporary examination of the current state of the collective psyche of a post 9/11world. The play takes place in the Lake Zurich summer home of the Swiss psychoanalyst, C. G. JUNG where his three ghostly manifestations encounter a tourist,...

Happy Birthday Jes s is an insightful and spell-binding novel of and about our times, when the relationship between race and violence dominates the news and threatens not only our personal security but our confidence in our social processes. This novel recreates the making...

A teenage boy, Charlie, moves away from home to become a writer but soon finds himself tortured with conflict over whether to return to a "normal" life with his friends or continue all alone. As the tear between emotional and intellectual fulfillment intertwines with...

Author: Michael McGrathISBN-10: 059520600XISBN-13: 9780595206001Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2001Pages: 268Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.12h x 5.94w x 0.69d

"Extremely intense and powerfully intriguing."--Waterstone's" Ashworth] Evokes a damaged mind with the empathy and confidence of Ruth Rendell."--The Times (London)Cold Light by Jenn Ashworth is a hauntingly beautiful and shocking psychological thriller in the vein of the bestselling novels of Tana French--a darkly compelling...

A New York Times Notable Book from the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune) By turns compassionate, gently humorous, and haunting, this collection--sixteen classics with seven new stories--proves William Maxwell's...

Michael "Curly" Sanford is a young man caught in a web of drugs and alcohol. A simple, happy life of adolescent leisure and adventure quickly deteriorates into an uncontrolled morass of incomprehensible demoralization after he leaves home and moves aimlessly from one city to...

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The...

Your fiancé calls. 'A little girl needs help.' Then they both disappear...Melody gazes across the rippling lake to the trees on the shore, waiting for her fiancé Evan to arrive so their family holiday can begin. Here in this cabin in a small Canadian...

In the stirring narrative of Nighttime Kingdom, artist William J. O'Brien's first fiction novel, readers are transported into the heart of small-town America, where the ghosts of the past collide with the complexities of the present. Ted Krieger, haunted by the events of the...

"What did you just say? The senior officer (Special Agent Thompson) of the two men from Homeland Security, that both Nancy and Kim knew prior, repeated, 'Rob and Liza Caldwell were taken out as a hit' in Boston last night and we think their...

In the stirring narrative of Nighttime Kingdom, artist William J. O'Brien's first fiction novel, readers are transported into the heart of small-town America, where the ghosts of the past collide with the complexities of the present. Ted Krieger, haunted by the events of the...

A crushingly funny and poignant debut, perfect for fans of Sorrow and Bliss, Fleaba, Girl, Interrupted and The Bell Jar. 'Gone to Pieces deserves to become a modern classic' My Weekly To Do: Learn to drive on motorways. Use above skill to run away...

Entanglement of a Soul is the story of a soul that goes through five incarnations which are nonlinear in time and overlap. The characters are all connected around one pivotal moment but also interact in several different settings. The novel attempts to illustrate how...

Entanglement of a Soul is the story of a soul that goes through five incarnations which are nonlinear in time and overlap. The characters are all connected around one pivotal moment but also interact in several different settings. The novel attempts to illustrate how...

A grieving family. A sister's promise. A secret that will tear them apart... My husband Olly and I share a perfect life, our evenings spent curled in our candlelit flat talking about all the places we'll travel. But my world is shattered with the...

A family desperate for a fresh start finds themselves tangled up in a strange connection to a mysterious old house.After experiencing marriage troubles and dark pasts, Ian and Lyana Keane are ready to leave Boston behind and move with their two kids--Ariel (15) and...

For the first time since discovering the hidden society of the Velieri, Remy is free from her pursuers. But her new-found freedom is cut short when Prophet Jenner reports that Ephemes from all over the world have gone missing. Before Remy and Arek can...

The Hermit explores the world of high-stakes investment banking with a sharp eye for the existential ramifications of this calling. The plot follows the daily routine of Andy Sylvain, a 50-year-old Manhattan bond trader who grows disenchanted with his daily hustle and starts to...

Nick Moran is an English literature PhD who cannot find a job. Even when he does, years later and after a second career as a hack Hollywood screenwriter falls apart, the department at a university in Auckland, New Zealand, turns out to be a...

"Instantly immersive, beautifully imagined, this is an unflinching but inspiring story about some things we're going to lose, and other things we must never lose." --Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series Roz Dineen's Briefly Very Beautiful is a spellbinding dystopian novel about...

At thirteen, Anita Naidu was the sole witness to London's notorious cave murders of 1986, which left three children dead.Told seven years later to the police psychologist who interviewed her at the time of the killings, Anita's story exposes the savagery of the schoolyard...

Armand invites us into a funhouse of many hands. Jorge Amado kaleidoscopes with Manuel Puig & Cabrera Infante in this intramural reductio ad absurdum of bowdlerised caesars & rat-arsed revolutionaries & all the evolved flotsam of that ancient quarrel between poetry & the purgatorial...

In the vein of The Bad Seed comes a twisty, atmospheric psychological suspense about a meddlesome elderly guest at a decadent luxury hotel who believes she has left her problematic past behind, until she decides to interfere in the lives of a young mother...

Her body was found close to the university. She was on her way home after a night out. Just like in the story I wrote...Every Monday, I meet my writing group in a warm, lively bar to drink a glass of wine or two....

Secret Keepers is a novel of domestic suspense. Tessa Donovan Carmichael is determined to find out why her husband Jackson and friends, Mindy and Kelly are keeping a secret about the fire that destroyed part of her summer home, Storybook Cottage and changed their...

"Menacing demons, wondrous miracles, sinister magic, and vivid characters make Thief a compulsive, lightning-paced tales that almost begs to be read aloud."--Miami HeraldOne of horror master and international bestselling author Clive Barker's classic early novels--the tale of a haunted house with many a dark...

Perfect for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Kelly LinkStories I Told My Dead Lover Eight searing tales of psychological horror that probe the darkest and most deeply buried parts of the human psyche ...A child is forced to grow up too soon.A woman...

The next in the bestselling series of psychological thrillers featuring Carson Ryder, the detective with a unique perspective on serial killers Soon after witnessing the escape of violent psychopath Bobby Crayline from prison, Alabaman detective Carson Ryder takes a rare break in the mountains....

William Forbes is desperate. The former solicitor to Jack Reid, he believes that the soul of the notorious Victorian serial killer, Jack the Ripper is haunting him. Seeking help, William contacts criminal psychologist David Hemswell who invites William to his remote Scottish island home,...

Revenge and horror has a name, Lucinda Annette McKay, a woman driven to the depths of insanity and ravages a Southern Louisiana town targeting its most vulnerable population and adapting twisted fairy tales as her MO to exact her revenge. Can Lucinda McKay be...

Programmer Martin Cardwell tends to float along, letting chance or others make his big decisions. So when the dot-com crash of the early 2000s leaves him jobless and disoriented, he looks to his charismatic childhood friend Swanson Geach, the only person around who's got...

Oscar Boatwright, a disenchanted philosophy professor, receives terrible news. His mother, on her way home from Hawaii with Oscar's father, has died midflight, her body cooling for hours until the plane can land. Deeply grieving, Oscar feels his life slipping out of his control....

Pedophile Catholic priests have been luring and raping young victims with impunity for two thousand years. How and why? What punishment should a pedophile Catholic priest receive if caught raping your child? The novel Creed of Vengeance answers these questions and many more as...

Trainspotting meets Friday Night Lights meets Cormac McCarthy--in a swimming pool.Author: Benedek TotthISBN-10: 1771963018ISBN-13: 9781771963015Publisher: BiblioasisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/19/2019Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2019

Grady Pearson has always been different. He's an outsider, not really belonging anywhere. With an English father and American mother, he feels in-between, not sure of his place around other children. In their new home, Grady does eventually make friends, but things go terribly...

When rising young artist Clive Hexley, R.A., vanishes, his friends suspect foul play. Chief-Inspector Calthorp of Scotland Yard is called upon to look into the disappearance, and his investigations lead him to question Hexley's ex-fianc馥, Elsa Farraday. Farraday writes horror-tinged mysteries under a pseudonym,...

Author: Jon FlanaganISBN-10: 1410710823ISBN-13: 9781410710826Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/14/2003Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 8.08h x 5.30w x 0.35d

Maggie and Jones live with their teenage son, Rick, in The Hollows, a small town outside of New York City. The cozy intimacy of the town is broken when Rick's girlfriend, Charlene, mysteriously disappears. The investigation has Jones, the lead detective on the case,...

In the tranquil wilderness of Northern Michigan, school custodian Buddy Robertson finds all that he needs: the rhythms of nature, the unpretentious companionship of Mags and their seven cats, solitude from others - and a safe escape from the loss and abuse of his...

How can you escape the Past when it holds the steering wheel? Izzy is born into extreme privilege but she's not the expected beautiful child. She's a mess. A mishmash. More like a collage than a normal human. Different kinds of hair, skin tones,...

What Lies Buried...doesn't stay buried.Scarred by a lifetime of emotional abuse and traumatic violence, Gavin battles the triggers of Complex PTSD. His wife Katie is determined to support him despite the strain of his unpredictable reactions on their marriage.But returning to Boston to settle...

"Miracle Man" by Dr. Dave Ferruolo presents an enthralling tale of resilience and spiritual rebirth. At the heart of this narrative is Aaron Robert Gossy, a former Navy SEAL whose life is overshadowed by the lasting effects of PTSD and addiction. His existence, precariously...

He had killed dozens. Then NASA hired him.Faced with the threat of solar flares, the government assembles a team to terraform Mars and hire Dean Turner, a leading construction worker from Texas, as the mission's fourth member.And he is about to leave behind the...

The second installment in the Ghosts Never Die series takes place ten years before the journey the Wanderer embarked upon in the pages of 29 Palms: An American Odyssey for True Love. In The Bridge Between Two Rivers, you will sink into the long...

From award-winning Hollywood writer and director M. M. Dewil, The Helper is a bare and addictive psychological thriller perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Push.Mary Williams--faced with unexpectedly losing her job and the possibility of losing custody of her daughter as well--answers...

Author: Mary Higgins ClarkISBN-10: 1668060191ISBN-13: 9781668060193Publisher: Simon & SchusterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/07/2024Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.80dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 4.9Point Value: 11Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 8575 / Loves Music, Loves to Dance

The vice and narcotics cops in the town of North Hayward are having a good time busting drug dealers and prostitutes when three dead bodies are discovered within a few days. As the investigation into the three deaths continues, the undercover officers and their...