Fiction - Psychological

Contrary to common misconceptions, anyone can learn to read Tarot without requiring innate psychic abilities. Whether you're seeking guidance in love, career, finance, or spirituality, "The Ultimate Guide to Tarot for Beginners: Unlocking the Secrets of the Symbols" provides a straightforward path to mastering...

Published in 1900, eleven years prior to her masterpiece Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton's novella The Touchstone explores the emotional complexities of love and betrayal. Penniless and unable to marry the woman he loves, the financially struggling lawyer Stephen Glennard discovers a way out of...

After a harrowing experience in Bosnia, war photographer Mitch Coltrane makes a vow. From now on, he will only take those pictures that celebrate life; that document hope instead of despair. Still, wartorn images continue to haunt him. He learns to shield himself by...

"Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up another person. Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up not a person at all." From the "master of literary horror" (GQ) comes a collection of new stories tracing the limits and consequences of artificial intelligence and "post-human" relationships. Populated...

Loving father. Loyal husband. Liar?In our large family home on a peaceful, tree-lined street, I clear away the breakfast things whilst my husband ignores me, his eyes on his phone. Leo comes home from conferences with flowers for me and hugs for our twin...

Prisoners of the Mind focuses on two veterans of World War II and takes place in the late 1950s, some twenty years after both suffered wartime trauma in separate incidences.Medical scans now tell us that such experiences change the brain, leaving such vets trapped...

GIRL IN THE ASHES takes the reader deeper into the morally gray area of doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. Caught in the now dark City of Lights, with survival a daily challenge. GIRL IN THE ASHES is a Trojan horse into...

River steamboat captain Charles Marlow has set forth on the Congo in Africa to find the enigmatic European trader Mr. Kurtz. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god among the natives in "one...

A perfectly wicked debut thriller about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mother, wants to leave her dark past behind and marry the heir to one of the country's wealthiest families. Like any enterprising woman, Bea knows what she's...

An innovative work of fiction, Jeff Alessandrelli's And Yet interrogates contemporary shyness, selfhood and sexual mores, drawing out the particulars of each through historical references, cultural commentary, and the author's own restless imagination. And Yet builds off the work of authors as disparate as...

Professor St. Peter is not truly old, but he is starting to feel old. He and his wife have moved into an elegant new house, and he struggles to leave his previous study-the spartan attic room where he wrote his eight-volume life's work, a...

Engines of Cunning Men portrays the current day risks from the current trajectory in uncontrolled technology, especially in the hands of those with evil agendas. Will Leitner is a relatively new writer who arrives on the island of Terceira in the Azores to begin...

Suppose you are a modern person in the contemporary world and find yourself possessed of a power that obeys no logic and resists scientific examination. You can't provide proof of your ability, and the timing of the fulfillment is uncertain, but what you foresee...

Reina and Constancia Ag ero are Cuban sisters who have been estranged for thirty years. Reina--tall, darkly beautiful, and magnetically sexual--still lives in her homeland. Once a devoted daughter of la revoluci n, she now basks in the glow of her many admiring suitors,...

Adult Dark Psychological Thriller. Book 3 in The Pain Series, needs reading as a series. Bratva involved, for 18+. Suitable for Female and Male.Growing up, the eldest of six girls in a run-down tiny house in an old unused mining town in Russia, Svetlana...

Kentucky Clay is a memorial to Uncle Ray and all the soldiers that gave their lives to make ours better. His image is a trademark to give a face to all the faceless names on the Vietnam Memorial Wall that honor them and their...

"Blauner never shies away from the grotesque, or the beautiful. . . . Courageous and innovative and mesmerizing, Frankenstein for a new age." --Helen Phillips, The Beautiful Bureaucrat"A statement about the nature of evil and its inevitability, even necessity, that reveals the tragic essence...

Ever hear of Maxus R. Crowther? Well, very few have! Matthew M. Bartlett, the Prince of Nightmares, explores one of America's unheralded cult fiction writers, Maxus R. Crowther, a man torn between the real world and the fantasy narratives of his creation. Bartlett's precise...

Gladiator, first published in 1930, tells the story of Hugo Danner, who is given superhuman speed, endurance, strength, and intelligence by his father as an experiment in creating a better human. We follow Hugo throughout his life viewed from his perspective, from childhood, when...

A radio DJ is tormented by a twisted killer, who has a gruesome request.I was nineteen when I discovered my boyfriend's father was a serial killer.I stumbled upon his latest victim tied up in the basement of the house he was renovating, and it...

A wicked stepmother finds her ideal prey in Carlone Blackwood's "quite brilliant" (The Times) debut. A lavish Upper West Side apartment is the site of a familial cold war about to enter a phase of dangerous escalation. J is a lonely woman without even...

Suddenly-widowed Maisie sets out to clear her late husband's collection; wonky furniture and balding rugs, bolts of material for upholstery projects he never got round to, other people's trash brought home from car boot sales and rescued from the tip. The hoard is endless,...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Sexy, sinister and utterly compelling.' Bestselling author M.J. Arlidge ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Fascinating... a gripping story.' Harriet Tyce, bestelling author of Blood Orange ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'One of my top reads this year. You know when you finish a great read and feel it was more than...

A psychological suspense with international travel adventureAfter her stalker takes his life and she's jilted by a holiday lover, Sandrine comes home from her round-the-world backpacking trip perturbed, penniless and pregnant. She meets handsome Scott, who offers her love, security and all she and...

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible mini editions of short stories, novellas, and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithA Penguin Classics Hardcover A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first,...

It was meant to be the perfect getaway...As I board the plane, all I can feel is hope and excitement. One whole week away. Just me and the man I have promised to be with forever.Time to repair what has been broken. Maybe even...

They made a mistake. Some might call it an error in judgement, others call it murder. As adults, Andy, Gary, Hal, and Monty are defined by the events of a single day on the banks of the Arkansas River that followed their high school...

When Mr. Richard C Legend is approached by Olivia Winston with the idea of putting the First Black President in office, he asked himself one question - how are we going to keep him alive? Mr. Legend informs Olivia he is in, and he...

One ordinary day, in one ordinary summer, Matt disfigured a childhood playmate with a cinder block. Five years later, he is released from a psychiatric facility and his circle of friends overlap with those of Hannah, the girl he maimed. He finds himself drawn...

A medical journalist, renounced by her fianc , Olivia Moreno leaves the States to live in Paris with her sister, Connie. Considered reserved, on a whim, Olivia attends a masked charity ball in London. A masked Olivia escapes her comfort zone, partying and conversing...

In an edgy psychological thriller that is as mesmerizing as it is profound, Rupert Thomson fearlessly delves into the darkest realm of the human spirit to reveal the sinister connection between sexuality and power. Stepping out of his Amsterdam studio one April afternoon to...

From the acclaimed novelist of The Folded Clock and founding editor of The Believer magazine comes a "sharp-eyed, sardonic, hilarious" novel (The New York Times Book Review) about grief, female rivalry, and the furious power of a daughter's love. Julia Severn is a talented...

From the acclaimed author of The Evening Spider and The Broken Teaglass comes this psychological thriller about the murder of a psychologist in a quiet New England town and his former patient whose unreliable thread will keep readers guessing until the shocking end.I hear...

From the author of 'Twelve', the story of a tangled, obsessive friendship.Gifted, magnetic, a virtuoso with a short temper, Lee defies his background to win a scholarship to the prestigious Cabresi academy of music. James - richer, less gifted and less charismatic - leeches...

The Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club author of Sleep returns with her most gripping book yet.STRANGERS: A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER'Fast-paced and satisfying' DAILY MAIL'I was glued from start to finish!' SHARI LAPENAUrsula, Gareth and Alice have never met...

My sister died. Her friends lied. And now I'm going to learn the truth... A year ago, my twin sister Samantha left me a message: I need you.A day later, she was dead. I always knew it was suspicious, but no one would listen.But...

I emerge from the trees, drenched in sweat, my voice lost as I take in the scene in front of me. The blood. The body. Emma's eyes meet mine for a second. "It was an accident," she whispers. Emma and I were childhood best...

A perfect mother. A loving daughter. A secret that could destroy them both.New mother Eve is overwhelmed with love for her baby son, Kai. As she swaddles him in a fluffy white blanket, she shudders at a memory of her own childhood. She hasn't...

I peered over the ledge with my heart in my throat. A pop of color caught my eye - I would recognize that jacket anywhere. The body I knew so well lay still, torso twisted one way, head facing the other... I'd planned this...

The residents of the small town of Brownsville, Texas are about to wake up to a nightmare.As the undead roam the streets and feast upon the flesh of others, nobody understands what is going on, or what has caused this to happen to their...

The residents of the small town of Brownsville, Texas are about to wake up to a nightmare.As the undead roam the streets and feast upon the flesh of others, nobody understands what is going on, or what has caused this to happen to their...

When fading comedian Jim Wilson is found dead in his hotel bed at the end of a week-long engagement at a South Wales theatre, his wife Joanne refuses to believe he has taken his own life.Her private investigations involve interrogating the last three women...

It's an icy New Year's Eve. Snow blankets a windswept Irish island as the wild Atlantic Ocean rages. Six friends gather. It has been ten years since the tragedy that tore them apart. A lot can change in a decade... Childhood bonds are now...

When fading comedian Jim Wilson is found dead in his hotel bed at the end of a week-long engagement at a South Wales theatre, his wife Joanne refuses to believe he has taken his own life.Her private investigations involve interrogating the last three women...

The residents of the small town of Brownsville, Texas are about to wake up to a nightmare.As the undead roam the streets and feast upon the flesh of others, nobody understands what is going on, or what has caused this to happen to their...

THE Madam is reaching out to press the bell next to her bed.She doesn't know who will answer the bell, or if it will be answered at all. If the bell is answered she will know it is not a Thursday. If the bell...

Confucius once wrote that those who travel down the path of revenge should dig two graves; one for their enemy, and one for themselves. The characters in this book do not abide by that suggestion.Whether it's the result of greed, rage, or romance gone...

Like so many others, Laura and Jessica are hopeful, romantic, and looking for love. As luck would have it, both women find themselves swept away by the men of their dreams. But as their relationships evolve, patterns and behaviors emerge that reveal the cruelty...

Like so many others, Laura and Jessica are hopeful, romantic, and looking for love. As luck would have it, both women find themselves swept away by the men of their dreams. But as their relationships evolve, patterns and behaviors emerge that reveal the cruelty...

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer, and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true storyThere are two things that I simply cannot tolerate: feminists and margarine.Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in the Tokyo Detention...