Fiction - Psychological

'Beautiful and brutal... a breathtaking debut' JOANNA CANNON'Dark, lyrical... impressive' DAILY MAIL'An atmospheric slow burn... with a sense of forboding that grows with each page' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'Atmospheric and compelling' KATE SAWYERA beautifully written atmospheric story of trauma, grief and redemption, Still Water is a...

Author: Chuck WillsISBN-10: 8842350788ISBN-13: 9798842350780Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/25/2022Pages: 94Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d

As 1912 draws to a close, Alexander Melling should be on top of the world. His wife is expecting their long-awaited child, and he is in sole possession of the Melling legacy. Unwilling to use his parents' tainted fortune, Alexander labors to make ends...

Can a haunted past make amends with the present? Lucy is her own worst enemy. She loves her husband, Frederick, and longs to be a good mother to their daughter, Phoebe, but her heart aches for her true love who died years before. In...

Four women from La Plata, Argentina, are forced to suffer through a series of ordeals thanks to their impoverished, dysfunctional family--in this darkly comic literary masterpiece from Aurora Venturini, never before translated into English At the age of eighty-five, Aurora Venturini stunned Argentine readers...

These stories explore themes of love, loss, joy, and connection. They are set in different locations around the world, with protagonists who display a certain vulnerability that invites deeper reflexion. This book asks readers to take a few minutes from their busy day...so they...

New York Times bestselling author Caroline Kepnes, whose acclaimed YOU series inspired the hit show on Netflix, follows "addictively charming antihero" (The Washington Post) Joe Goldberg to the hallowed halls of Harvard, where he leaves crimson in his wake. "Twisted . . . delightfully...

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by PopSugar, Ms. magazine, Medium, Book Riot, BookPage, CrimeReads, Tor Nightfire, Bookshop, Book Talk, BiblioLifestyle, and more! AN APRIL 2022 BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK "Morrow uses her heroine's warped perspective to examine painful truths about race and...

"We can finally read the work as Camus meant it to be read. Laura Marris's new translation of The Plague is, quite simply, the translation we need to have." --Los Angeles Review of Books The first new translation of The Plague to be published...

Keith, Milly, Daz and Jack are a very lucky group of young-at-heart working countrymen-and lady-in the late 1800s.Foul Lowers tells the adventure of their journey, from their days as happy-go-lucky field workers to their life of leisure and luxury, when they bring to the...

Shortlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein of The Prophets and Memorial, about a young author writing about the secret love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl--in which Mohammed's story collides...

A horrific beginning.Ends with the most unexpected twist... Marie was young, beautiful, and vibrant.Her life was cruelly taken from her.Her murderer still roams this world, potentially looking for a new prey.With Sam devoting himself to finally bringing an end to Marie's case, Emma dives...

Just before the turn of the 21st Century, unprecedented torrential rains fell over the "Cordillera de la Costa," North of Venezuela. The downpour not only lasted for weeks, but each day seemed to be worse than the other. The mountains that separate Caracas City...

One last clientA week at a beautiful chateau in the south of France--it should be a straightforward final job for Dora. She's a smart, stunning, and discreet escort, and Daniel has paid for her services before. This time, all she has to do is...

On a cold rainy day Jack Darring, a rookie beat cop finds his dad, Rick Darring a homicide detective dead in an alleyway, hacked up by an axe. Now it's up to him to find his father's killer with the aid of his supernatural...

A crime forged in grief. One child abducted to replace another. But does a parent ever stop missing, or searching for, their lost child? In time, the discovery of a decomposing body, surrounded by drug paraphernalia, yields clues that help unravel the mystery of...

Reminiscent of Kurasawa's film Ikiru, Enlightenment explores the interior mindscape of a Japanese-Peruvian man and his luminous unraveling Katzuo Nakamatsu is having a recurring dream. He's strolling down the glinting avenues of Lima, branches crowning overhead, when he hears someone snickering from the shadows....

Rachel sat at the kitchen table, trying to take everything in. She still couldn't believe what her father had done. Clutching a faded photograph and a necklace in her hands, all she knew was that in her mother's final days, she would do anything...

As I clutched baby Chloe's blanket, tears streamed down my face as I remembered what happened the night she disappeared. Looking up at the apartment block I once called home, my mind was crowded with memories. David's words echoed in my head, telling me...

Unsanctioned experiments. Innocent volunteers. Deadly consequences. Kay Osbourn had it all-a fascinating job, a devoted boyfriend in David Carter, and a bright future. Then David goes missing...and nothing will ever be the same again. It is 1958 and Kay is senior technician to Dr....

"All thriller; no filler--a white knuckled treat." --James Patterson"[A] nail-biter that never sacrifices character for plot." --Publishers WeeklySome people fight the devil inside them... others worship it.NYPD Detectives Phee Freeman and Quincy Cavanaugh are back and working to stop another serial killer. Freeman has...

"The surprises keep coming in La Salle's twisting debut thriller, in which good and evil aren't always black and white."--Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review30 years. 36 priests butchered. His bloodiest masterpiece is yet to come.Every ten years, for the past 30 years, a dozen clergymen...

Two sisters, a lifetime of secretsLilian and Rosie were once the closest of sisters, but the untimely death of their parents pulled them apart. Now, three years on, Rosie has reached out to her big sister, asking to meet. Driving on an icy road...

Alice Raikes takes a train from London to Scotland to visit her family, but when she gets there she witnesses something so shocking that she insists on returning to London immediately. A few hours later, Alice is lying in a coma after an accident...

A traumatized witness to a serial killer's crimes is the only key to solving them in a gripping novel of psychological suspense.After his sister disappeared, FBI consultant and psychologist Ryan Strickland spent years looking for answers in an investigation gone tragically cold. But in...

SONG IN THE RUINS is an epic story of love, loss, acceptance and forgiveness, grounded in history, time and place. It spans across two continents, from a small village in India-to the turmoil ridden campuses at Stonybrook, Berkeley and beyond-to the serene Willamette River...

On her 21st birthday, Kate meets Dan. Instantly attracted to his boyish charm and mysterious ways, before long, she has fallen for him big time. After he suddenly disappears without a trace, a shocking letter arrives, and his lies and behaviour become clearer. But...

This book is Willa Cather's most dramatic novel, a dark and prescient portrait of a marriage that subverts our oldest notions about the nature of domestic happiness. As a young woman, Myra Henshawe gave up a fortune to marry for love--a boldly romantic gesture...

Missing. Lost. Dead?People go missing every year. More than 600,000, in fact. Sometimes they are found. Sometimes, so much time goes by that people eventually give up. They must be dead. They're gone. Vanished.Where do they go?Tess is one of those 600,000 people. Except...

Missing. Lost. Dead?People go missing every year. More than 600,000, in fact. Sometimes they are found. Sometimes, so much time goes by that people eventually give up. They must be dead. They're gone. Vanished.Where do they go?Tess is one of those 600,000 people. Except...

Missing. Lost. Dead?People go missing every year. More than 600,000, in fact. Sometimes they are found. Sometimes, so much time goes by that people eventually give up. They must be dead. They're gone. Vanished.Where do they go?Tess is one of those 600,000 people. Except...

Missing. Lost. Dead?People go missing every year. More than 600,000, in fact. Sometimes they are found. Sometimes, so much time goes by that people eventually give up. They must be dead. They're gone. Vanished.Where do they go?Tess is one of those 600,000 people. Except...

Missing. Lost. Dead?People go missing every year. More than 600,000, in fact. Sometimes they are found. Sometimes, so much time goes by that people eventually give up. They must be dead. They're gone. Vanished.Where do they go?Tess is one of those 600,000 people. Except...

A never-before-published novel by the late, great Gary Brandner. Do you know who you are? "He stared at his image in the streaked men's room mirror and tried to relate the face to the name. He still dripped the cold water he had dashed...

It was meant to be the perfect break-up... Just because it's over between us, doesn't mean we can't be friends. My ex-husband and I still care for each other a lot, and we are determined to put our sweet little boy, Toby first. Now...

"a crowd-pleasing blend of historical, occult, and psychological horror" -BooklistIt's the autumn of 1940 and Roland Hellmich has lost everything: his job, his friends, his home-perhaps even his mind. A German immigrant to Canada at the outbreak of World War II, Roland finds distrust...

New England, Summer, 1951-When a thirteen-year-old boy drowns in the Charles River, a family is left devastated, and the town of Norumbega is changed forever. Eight years later, Frances Adams lives in the shadow of her dead brother Mac. She feels no identity, until...

A Kafkaesque and darkly humorous "suburban gothic" that tracks the unraveling of man's body, mind, and life. James Orr--husband, father, reliable employee and all-around model citizen--awakes one morning to find half his face paralyzed. Waiting for the affliction to pass, he stops going to...

In a novel that's part comic mystery, part political satire, and part case vignette, a psychiatrist reviews his involvement with a narcissistic national leader who has turned up dead on the consulting room couch. When Peter D. Kramer wrote about his work with psychiatric...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEA BEST BOOK OF THE YEARThe Washington Post・Kirkus ReviewsA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEThis extraordinary Strega Prize-winning novel confirms Domenico Starnone's reputation as one of Italy's greatest living writers. Told against the backdrop of Naples in the 1960s,...

FINALIST for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionA BEST BOOK OF 2022Oprah Daily・TIME Magazine・Washington Post・Publishers Weekly・Lit HubBestselling author of Breasts and Eggs Mieko Kawakami invites readers back into her immediately recognizable fictional world with this new, extraordinary novel and demonstrates yet...

Inside an apartment building on the outskirts of Milan, the working-class residents gossip, quarrel, and conspire against each other. Viewed through the eyes of Chino, an impressionable thirteen-year-old boy whose mother is the doorwoman of the building, the world contained within these walls is...

Augustus 'Gus' Martin is an embattled LAPD negotiator. Months after suffering a significant blow to his career, he's clawed his way back up only to come face to face with The Unicorn - bank robbers who may in fact be a terrorist group -...

Can you trust your lover?After an abusive childhood and soul-splitting heartbreak, Hollis hovers around her hometown, secretly killing the men who are unfortunate enough to fall for her charms, until her lonely friend, Josie, asks Hollis to move in with her. Hollis attempts to...

Everyone has their limits...What's yours?A brilliant financial attorney, Claudia is under Clawson's control both at his law firm where she works and at home. He even orchestrated her marriage. He has kept her under his thumb since she was a small child even though...

When the woman first awoke, she didn't know where she was, who she was, or how she got in the predicament that she finds herself. Slowly, some things come back. She knows her name is Kelly. As she learns more, Kelly also finds out...

"Sharon Stonekey, in her surprisingly direct narrative, creates three New York families with college age protagonists who won my affection with their charm, intelligence and bravery. In a 1990 Manhattan exploding with the AIDS epidemic, theirs is a story of knowledge and redemption. Engaged...

First published in 1886, 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' is one of the most disturbing horror stories and an examination of man's capacity for evil by Robert Louis Stevenson, a Scottish novelist, and essayist, poet, and travel writer. One pitch-black...

Everyone has the same questions about best friends Owen and Luna: What binds them together so tightly? Why weren't they ever a couple? And why do people around them keep turning up dead? In this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author...

A woman flees from New York City, trying to escape her psychotic ex-husband only to find he's followed her with deadly intentions. After a nasty divorce, Psychologist, Annabelle O'Brien moves across country to take a job in the resort town of Lake Nager. But,...