Fiction - Psychological

Barry Giggles has it made. He has everything anyone could want: a 'castle' in Bondi, Australia; good looks to go with his great body (if you ask Barry, he's the definition of attractive); plenty of cash to help him live off weed and booze...

When first published in 1974, Wrappings by Vicki Viidikas was the most important shift in Australian women's fiction. Now back in print after 40 years, with a new introduction by Jane Grant, it is still powerful and provocative.Wrappings plays across categories of fiction, poetry...

There's a dead man in my apartment. Only me and my ex have a key. But neither of us would have done this. We have too much to lose... I wake on the sofa, my head throbbing. How did I get here? In the...

Detective Kurtis Morgan was at the end of his rope. He'd lost everything; his wife, his career prestige, his partner, but worst of all, his sanity. With the latest string of murders going cold, he crawls into a bottle for comfort. A new killer...

"Nutshell is a genre-bending thriller that offers readers a birds eye view into the rigors of med-school through the lens of a supernatural-tinged, multi-generational drama." -Vine VoiceDuring Dust Bowl days in west Texas, a country doctor with shaky credentials delivers a baby, a so-called...

Finalist for the Midland Authors Award Fates and Furies meets Melancholia in this ominous and absorbing debut novel about marriage and motherhood in a time of ecological collapse, as mothers around the world begin to mysteriously vanish from their homes Ada--a woman from Montreal...

Drawing from everyday life in Mexico and abroad, these subtle, unsettling stories probe the boundaries between sanity and madness, life and death, safety and danger. The first story collection from prize-winning author Fabio Mor畸ito available in English, Mothers and Dogs features fifteen tales that...

"Susi Holliday is one of our best and most original creators of tense and twisty tales . . . Nothing is as it seems and no one can be trusted in this brilliant page-turner." --Ian Rankin"Tense and twisty as all hell." --Mark Billingham"Tense, creepy...

This audiobook is read by January LaVoy, Publishers Weekly Audiobook Narrator of the Year in 2013. She has also been nominated for 18 Audie Awards, receiving seven, and has garnered over three dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards. At the Little Academy, mothers fret over their...

"Propulsive and chilling." --People Magazine "An intoxicating thrill ride. Hillier jams her foot on the accelerator and never lets up." --New York Times Book ReviewThings We Do in the Dark is a brilliant new thriller from Jennifer Hillier, the award-winning author of the breakout...

Named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR"This weird, lovely and sweetly satisfying novel [is] engaging and accessible...Clover's emergence from a shuttered life is moving enough to elicit tears, and Brammer's take on death and grieving is profound enough to feel genuinely instructional." --The...

From the National Book Award-winning, bestselling author of Three Junes comes "an engrossing, richly drawn and exquisitely told story of small-town residents grappling with the difficulties of changing times" (People). "Full of secrets and surprises...A must-read." --J. Courtney Sullivan, author of Friends and StrangersWhen...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this "spellbinding" (Vogue), "smoldering" (The Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls. "Under Cline's command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this "spellbinding" (Vogue), "smoldering" (The Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls. "Under Cline's command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing...

When an anonymous neighborhood forum gets hacked, the darkest secrets of New York's wealthiest residents come to light--including some worth killing for--in this gripping suspense novel from the author of Just One Look. "Big Little Lies meets Gossip Girl in this unputdownable read as...

Independence: the freedom to be yourself--or a day for fireworks, depending on your point of view Summer has come to Chapel Isle, the quaintly quirky island that Abigail Harker has called home since she moved into the caretaker's cottage at the local lighthouse. The...

"Imagine if Patricia Highsmith had written The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and instead of heroic daydreams she gave her protagonist murderous ones--that would be Bookworm. Robin Yeatman's story is subversive, surprising, and satisfying in a way that only the best comic noir can...

"Exquisite." --Minneapolis Star Tribune - "Brilliantly observed." -- People, Pick of the Week"A beguiling novel, deceptively easy to read; beneath the surface swim disturbing and age-old questions about freedom and fate." -- Hilary MantelFrom the bestselling author of Late in the Day and The...

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...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL - NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR"Defiantly populated with living women . . . beautifully drawn, dense with detail and specificity . . . Notes on an Execution is nuanced,...

Nancy Blake works as a nurse day in, day out, at Peacock Street psychiatric hospital. One day, while changing the beds as a part of her daily routine, Nancy witnesses the funeral of one of her patients on the grounds of the hospital, from...

Jacob Benson had a normal life until his wife's fatal car accident leaves him devastated. Through a chance encounter, he goes on a quest to help solve a baffling missing person's case that has eluded the community. This unfolds a darker path when he...

"Trust me when I say, this is messed up." - MATT SHAW, author of Sick B*stards."I believe pain lingers," Angel said. "Do I believe in spirits? In the supernatural? Probably not."The Lonely Motel holds many dark secrets... and Room 6 just might possess the...

"This was a white-knuckled ride with tension that was tangible, fantastic characters that flew off the page, and a tight plot that kept me turning the pages." - K.H.A., GoodReads "I was amazed at the high-tension scenes that propel this novel to its riveting...

Beat Cop CPOP 1986 is a Police Officer's gritty cop story set in New York City during the turbulent 1980s. A new female cop and a more experienced male patrolman work in adjoining precincts but come together in the aftermath of a tragic occurrence....

Twelve-year-old Avery Norton is head over heels in love with her best friend. With Paul Dillon at her side, she's invincible against the slippery roofs of Martha's Vineyard gingerbread houses, indifferent to sermons from her overprotective mother, Faye, and excited for another buoyant summer...

Beware the fog. Somehow, Will managed to survive the 'shakedown' mission that he was assigned by his mysterious backer. Now he actually has to begin work on the task for which he was originally summoned to the world of Torpenhow - helping to spot-weld...

Fathers and Children, arguably the first modern novel in the history of Russian literature, shocked readers when it was first published in 1862 - the controversial character of Bazarov, a self-proclaimed nihilist intent on rejecting all existing traditional values and institutions, providing a trenchant...

What begins as a search for a lost dog propels a group of unconnected characters into a difficult journey of self-discovery. Sessional English prof and aspiring writer, Brent, looks for his missing pit bull. His girlfriend, Katherine, an aspiring actress, refuses to help. Their...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Poetic Suspense Thriller⭐⭐⭐⭐ Alluringly mysterious and thrillingCan she save the missing girl ... and herself?Dana Fairchild feels the atmosphere of the marsh seeping into her skin with each day she spends in the cold unwelcoming mansion of her father's family. When her young...

Can we ever know the ones we love? A comic seeks the truth behind his girlfriend's disappearanceUp and coming comedy talent, Jozee Jackson's life seems almost perfect, until she disappears after a silly drunken argument with devoted boyfriend and new comedian, Adam Hanson.Adam is...

A young woman who needs to feel safe, a man who is driven to protect her at all costs, and the little girl whose dreams hold all the answers. Brandon Devereaux has been undercover, investigating Johnny Talino and everyone around him--including his wife. When...

"A riveting experimental novel about a commune where the members' belief that they can live on light and love alone proves fatal for one of them." ―Publishers Weekly, starred reviewOne apartment, three women, one man. One of the women is dead. When the emergency...

Natasha Calder's Whether Violent or Natural is an unnerving, sinister, and brilliant dystopian novel about the choices we make at the end of the world, posing the question: Who can you trust when there's almost no one left? Years after complete antibiotic resistance has...

Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies is an exquisitely eerie and unsettling speculative novel that grapples with questions of trauma, identity, and the workings of memory. Named a Best New Book by Bustle, Book Riot, and Tor.com Months after her sister's death, Marianne wakes...

Darcey Steinke's first novel, now back in print, is an unusually assured and lyrical debut. Set on an island resort town off North Carolina, it tells of summer people and islanders, mothers and sons, women and men, love and its dangers. It is the...

The tenants never saw it coming. The Murray building, constructed in the seventies by the eccentric billionaire, Samuel Murray, contains a secret so horrific and abhorrent that those caught up in it might not see the light of day ever again. Time is ticking....

On her way to a speaking engagement, bestselling novelist Eli Grey gets into a cab and accepts a drink from the driver, trusting that everything is fine. She wakes up chained in the stranger's basement. With no close family or friends expecting her to...

The Painted Veil is beautiful story of Kitty Fane who is the main character and through her one can witness a myriad of emotions and sentiments. She, being an extrovert personality likes to mingle with people but circumstances in her life are such that...

The book opens in Shimla with a big, fat celebration from Lalaji on the cards. Not every day it happens that Lalaji would be 'celebrating' and inviting people. Occasion - his daughter, Sakshi's 18th birthday. She is one of the reasons for the 'birth'...

The Metamorphosis' is a short novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. The story begins...

The Metamorphosis is a novel written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. It is the story of a young man, Gregor Samsa, who transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in...

'The Painted Veil, ' a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, is a beautifully written affirmation of the human capacity to grow, embrace change, and to learn how to love deeply. The title is taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet, which begins...

Andrea was Leah's best friend. A strange attraction between a wild, confident, fun-loving, widow and a quiet, insecure housewife.But Leah's gentle and loving nature hides the depths of an underlying iron-hard mental strength. After surviving her vicious husband's terrifying games and the mental asylum...

Having been forced to leave his father, sister and home town of Rome at the age of seven, Francesco De Luca grows up in England, never fully understanding why he was parted from his family. Twenty-six years later, Francesco's wife, Lauren, dies in circumstances...

He Knew He Was Right is a novel written by Anthony Trollope which describes the failure of a marriage caused by the unreasonable jealousy of a husband exacerbated by the stubbornness of a wilful wife. As is common with Trollope's works, there are also...

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When the first hate letter arrives in the aftermath of her patient Bonnie's death, obstetrician Dana Cavanagh reads it with shaking hands before placing it next to the small news article from the court's verdict: not guilty.Hate mail continues to trickle in, but one...

After the death of his twin brother, Catholic priest Rupert Brown gains guardianship of his fifteen-year-old niece, Neti.Burdened with grief and questioning his faith, Rupert tries to recreate a family home for Neti, made more difficult by the sudden return of her mother after...

After sisters Markie and Kam get tangled with the wrong people at the wrong time, long-buried family secrets begin to emerge.A serial killer is targeting people close to them. As danger inches closer and closer to home, twisted desires become a reality. The deeper...