Fiction - Psychological

Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure-a year living in Kenya. Margaret quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesn't know about the complex mores of her...

In this hypnotic novel of psychological suspense, a homeless man is found starved to death in the garage of a ritzy London home. The police chalk it up to an unfortunate accident, but a journalist, Michael Deacon, is intrigued. Amanda Powell, a socialite whose...

A National Bestseller A USA TODAY Bestseller A New York Times Editors' Choice A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, Electric Literature, Tor, and Literary Hub From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny...

Detective Eira Sjodin, introduced in the electrifying Swedish crime thriller We Know You Remember, races to solve a disappearance that hits chillingly close to home in the second book in the High Coast series, hailed by People as "Nordic noir at its best."In the...

Alyssa has begun a career as a counsellor at the upmarket Donald Clinic for mental health. To her dismay, this proves an increasingly treacherous environment and lives are in danger. Can she discover the truth about what is really going on before it is...

How far would you go to protect your child?I knew something was wrong. It's a mother's instinct.I could tell when my son started hiding things from me. He used to walk to school with a mischievous grin on his beautiful face. Now he avoids...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE Named a Best Book of 2023 by the New Yorker, Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews "You should be reading Sebastian Barry. [He] has a special understanding of the human heart." --The Atlantic "A prose stylist of near-miraculous skill....

Embark on an extraordinary journey of resilience and transformation in Esteban where seemingly insignificant moments lead to profound change. Born into a tumultuous family, Esteban yearns for his father's affection but faces countless obstacles. A fateful teenage date alters the course of his life,...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz delivers a gripping novel of a man accused of stealing not just someone's identity, but his entire life... A big house. A beautiful wife. Two happy and healthy children. It's a nice life that writer Martin...

The atomic incident of 2026 was the catalyst of a worldwide movement, historically called #MeNow. Over the intervening years, the #MeNow philosophy became more proactive and morphed into #WeNow then #FeNow then finally #WOW, an acronym for World Order by Women. This was the...

Lori is a highly acclaimed psychologist running an innovative anorexia clinic, with a devoted husband and two adorable children. But her fairy-tale existence comes to an abrupt end when a blow-up with a client and a mysterious upcoming event force her to face the...

IF YOU FIND ONE, HE'S ALREADY FOUND YOU The heart-pounding debut from the creator of the hit Scandinavian television show The Killing.A psychopath is terrorizing Copenhagen.His calling card is a "chestnut man"--a handmade doll made of matchsticks and two chestnuts--which he leaves at each...

Chronicling a journey of self discovery and direction. We follow the narrative of a midwest teenager. As he escapes to Denver. During the early stages of the 1980's. In hopes of explaining, with a poetic flair. This new world that he encounters with naive...

Whitney McBride is in big trouble. She doesn't know it yet, but she's fallen over an emotional edge and landed in the middle of a psychiatric hospital.Most people would say Whitney's done for, but she's got a searing sense of humor and she loves...

This book is truly vile and should be destroyed. It is a piece of dark conjectural reality fiction written from the darkest possible perspective with the worst of possible intentions. It is not for the weak-hearted or weak-minded or people that have problems distinguishing...

A collection of seven short psychological thriller stories. 1. 'Shadow of a Man'. A man celebrating his thirty-first birthday must come to terms with his own life-long inadequacies. 2. 'Whatever the Case May Be'. While driving on the open highways of Texas, a man...

As a boy, Horatio Higgins was ignored by the other children, but that didn't stop him having lots of friends...friends only he could see and whom he'd regale with tales of his fantastical exploits. Eventually, though, his parents became concerned at the inordinate amount...

At first I couldn't find the words to express my bitter disappointment in the latest happenings over in the United States of America. When I finally did have something to say, I realised I had a whole lot more than just an angry social...

The Kreutzer Sonata is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The book was published in 1889 and was promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description...

Resolutions are made Marriages are broken... A gripping domestic thriller set in The Cotswolds and perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty and Adele Parks! It started with the party... Frankie, Verity and Alice live in the idyllic Cotswolds community of White Fir Lake, but...

Here is where Janet prepares to deal with her problem. The story will tell it all. -- DianeAuthor: Diane Williams DoyleISBN-10: 822313974XISBN-13: 9798223139744Publisher: Diane Williams DoyleLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2023Pages: 358Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.74d

Now it's time to execute the plan and deal with the unexpected. -- DianeAuthor: Diane Williams DoyleISBN-10: 8223278146ISBN-13: 9798223278146Publisher: Diane Williams DoyleLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2023Pages: 338Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d

Oriana, while enjoying a vacation in Lisbon with her husband, stumbles upon a shocking revelation--a newspaper article featuring a childhood photo of herself at the age of five. The article states that she was a kidnapped child, taken from Lisbon twenty years ago.As Oriana...

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...

Surrender yourself to a chilling world of terror in this spine-tingling anthology of horror fiction. These are the stories that will haunt your dreams and send shivers down your spine. From supernatural terrors to psychological horrors, this short chapbook collection features four early works...

"My Mortal Enemy" is a novella written by American author Willa Cather, first published in 1926. It is a poignant and introspective work that explores themes of love, regret, and the passage of time. The story is narrated by Nellie, who reflects on the...

"Bad Brains" is a psychological thriller about two local losers, Ashton and Julie, who wake up on a tropical island in a luxurious over-the-water bungalow with no memory of how they got there. The only catch: they've been separated, treated as the spouses of...

The book follows the life of Sandy. It is narrated by her conjoint twin Rose who was sacrificed at birth to save Sandy's life. This was a decision that her mother would never get over. Part of Rose's brain stayed tucked away in the...

No hope, no future, and apparently no life was what Gruff had going for him, according to his family. Gruff exists in a constant state of physical and emotional abuse, because of this, he sits utterly alone, seemingly abandoned by life; yet, through everything,...

After a life spent in a successful writing career that has left him bereft of creativity and worn in body and spirit, George Adamson goes to Greece on a journey of self-discovery and renewal.Author: William J. LedererISBN-10: 0393332810ISBN-13: 9780393332810Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage:...

A gripping novel about a man who is losing his past to Alzheimer's. Like Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, The Wilderness holds us in its grip from the first sentence to the last with the sheer beauty of its language and its ruminations on love and...

When Bobby is evacuated from London to a remote Devonshire village, a strange new chapter of his life begins. Empty of its menfolk, the village is given over to the "stay behinds" the women, the old and young, and five terrifying boys who accuse...

Author: Anton HurISBN-10: 0063344483ISBN-13: 9780063344488Publisher: HarperviaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2024Pages: 256Format: HardcoverReview Citation(s): Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2024 pg. 3

WINNER OF THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEShortlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeIncluded in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023 For readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, a haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young...

I've struggled to build a good life for me and my son. But one moment will destroy everything.I hear my son cry out. I rush, half-dressed, to the window and see two men marching up my driveway. They knock my son to the ground....

With a brief memory of your past, what meaning do your dreams hold? In the many questions that Kaeda asks herself, this is the overarching one in a life riddled with confusion and deep thought. An adopted San Francisco student in 2036, Kaeda is...

A gripping and touching psychological drama In her debut novel, Monika Killeen explores the mother-daughter relationship with clarity and honesty. Spanning four generations of daughters, their lives shaped by the turmoil of Eastern Europe in the twentieth century, An Inflammable Act of Kindness follows...

Dr. Paula Mitchell, a Seattle clinical psychologist, is in dire need of help to save her patient's life. Kae Carlson believes she will be killed on her twenty-sixth birthday, which is less than three weeks away. Through "Connie, Maxine, and Cathleen," Kae's other personalities,...

You stop him from jumping and he thinks you're his saviour.Then you become his obsession.While Alice Reed is on her morning jog in the peaceful Swiss Alps, she unexpectedly saves a stranger on a notorious suicide bridge. But could her Samaritan deed turn out...

A taut and suspenseful domestic drama that explodes the comforting and constricting confines of marriage and early parenthood. In a Florida almost claustrophobic with life, Georgie's marriage has stagnated. But there's no room to attend to it, as dangers small and large crowd in:...

How do you prove your innocence to save your son, when you've already been convicted of murdering his father?Art school dropout Lucie is on a backpacking trip across Europe when she arrives in the idyllic Swiss Alps. A holiday romance with ski instructor Mathieu...

Don't miss the new, totally addictive psychological thriller from Sarah Goodwin, with bombshell twists that will leave you stunned. Fans of The Sanatorium, The Paris Apartment and One of the Girls will be hooked from the very first page. You can't outrun the past......

A genius FBI code breaker unravels the mysteries of one of history's most monumental puzzles in a propulsive thriller by Jess Lourey, the Edgar Award-nominated author of Salem's Cipher.Working for the FBI, cryptanalyst and agoraphobe Salem Wiley vows never to return to the conspiratorial...

A young woman finds herself in the crosshairs of powerful and very dangerous enemies when she travels to Cairo to uncover the truth about her brother's mysterious death in this smart, atmospheric, and propulsive literary thriller from the acclaimed author of A Beautiful Crime...

Twenty-five years ago, Lauren Phelps and her sister Patty were kidnapped from their backyard on Long Island. Lauren escaped her captor, but Patty was killed.Ever since, Lauren has suffered from nightmares of the "Shadow Man." Trying to recall his face and avenge her sister's...

All I see is red.Blood.Pain.Rage.It consumes me.The moment he took her, wrath invaded my soul.I only have one purpose. End him and take back what's mine. Love isn't always clean, and wrath is the deadliest sin.Author: Gwyn McNameeISBN-10: 1073695808ISBN-13: 9781073695805Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/25/2019Pages:...

One of those drifting trees grounded on the shelving shore, just by the house, and Almayer, neglecting his dream, watched it with languid interest. The tree swung slowly round, amid the hiss and foam of the water, and soon getting free of the obstruction...

BLUE ORLEANS - LaStanza Novel #3 This is New Orleans - 1982 The case is not only a 'whodunit' but also a 'whoisit' - the case of a body dumped in a ditch along an isolated stretch of a deserted highway. The victim is...

Candace Bradford likes to describe herself as strong-willed and always in control. It is no secret that the Chicago-based life coach, radio personality, and author of a new hit book appears headed for international celebrity. Determined to master her life and control her destiny,...

"iSSUES...," is a gritty, IN YOUR FACE psychological thriller that engulfs the battle between the conscious and subconscious. The question is not who is pulling the strings or who is going to die next, but who is really in control, the conscience or subconscious?...