Fiction - Psychological

Just out of prison after serving time on a drug charge, Roper Rackard comes across a woman's body while mowing the tall grass at the far end of his new boss's property, and although he is innocent of her death, Roper panics. Terrified that...

A DECEMBER INDIE NEXT PICK!Haunting and sincere, Idol, Burning subverts and astonishes. Rin Usami balances humor, obsession, heartbreak, and sacrifice in her debut, crafting a story that's both enveloping and expansive. Usami's writing is thrilling and deft, and her novel illuminates the shadows cloaking...

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...

Callie has a great life, living in a ten-acre home in the Adirondacks with her husband, Abel. Their son is away at college and Callie, a writer, is content living a relatively secluded life. Then Abel skids off the road into an icy lake....

The "propulsive and mesmerizing" (The New York Times) story collection by the International Booker-shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Our Share of Night--now with a new short story. The short stories of Mariana Enriquez are: "The most exciting discovery I've...

From the bestselling and wildly imaginative novelist Mark Leyner, a romp through the excesses and exploits of gods and mortals. High above the bustling streets of Dubai, in the world's tallest and most luxurious skyscraper, reside the gods and goddesses of the modern world....

"An uncanny effect often arises when the boundary between fantasy and reality is blurred . . ." - Sigmund FreudNicholas Royle's stories are "immaculately sinister", according to Olivia Laing in the Times Literary Supplement, while Phil Baker, in the Sunday Times, described Royle as...

Signal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything on Division Street changes. Each of their lives, and that of Ben Wilf, a young...

"A fantastic read . . . I absolutely loved this book . . . I was hooked." --Amazon reviewer, five stars Her long-lost love is missing--and obsession with the case could save her or sabotage her, in this gripping new suspense by the author...

"Amazing . . . I loved this book from start to finish. . . . So many twists and turns." --Goodreads reviewer, five stars A car crash claims three lives--but the survivors have not escaped unscathed, in this powerful novel by the bestselling author...

A collection of obscure, weird, offensive, gross and twisted short stories! Matt Shaw put a listing up in his store asking people to challenge him. The idea was, they paid a small fee and gave him a single word. He then had to write...

A collection of obscure, weird, offensive, gross and twisted short stories! Matt Shaw put a listing up in his store asking people to challenge him. The idea was, they paid a small fee and gave him a single word. He then had to write...

From the author of Below Deck: Hell or High Water The Below Deck series of books, from horror author Matt Shaw, are stand-alone tales of horror. The characters are the same in all of the stories but the stories are separate from one another....

From the author of Below Deck: Hell or High Water The Below Deck series of books, from horror author Matt Shaw, are stand-alone tales of horror. The characters are the same in all of the stories but the stories are separate from one another....

A fun, crazed, expletive-ridden, contemporary story about a woman named Emily who gets burned by a lover. She sets out on a path of revenge, only to set into motion events that lead to a conclusion that even she couldn't see coming. Full of...

When a celebrity professor at an elite college in Los Angeles is found strangled, Jessie is called in to wade through his hidden life and abundance of secrets. Many people, it seemed, had reason to want him dead. But the true killer may be...

When a celebrity professor at an elite college in Los Angeles is found strangled, Jessie is called in to wade through his hidden life and abundance of secrets. Many people, it seemed, had reason to want him dead. But the true killer may be...

Having graduated college with an eating disorder and a rapidly worsening drinking problem, our narrator is set adrift in the real world. After drunkenly sabotaging her plans to move to New York for a lucrative job in investment banking, she finds work both at...

It has been ten years since Charles Davis was diagnosed with schizophrenia and began rebuilding his life from scratch. Waking up in a hospital ten years ago was a major turning point for Charles; now, as he grapples with a fresh wave of symptoms...

It has been ten years since Charles Davis was diagnosed with schizophrenia and began rebuilding his life from scratch. Waking up in a hospital ten years ago was a major turning point for Charles; now, as he grapples with a fresh wave of symptoms...

A thought-provoking debut novel that examines the intersection of climate change, human connection and radicalization.The Rooftop Garden is a novel about Nabila, a researcher who studies seaweed in warming oceans, and her childhood friend Matthew. Now both in their twenties, Matthew has disappeared from...

Suspenseful and cinematic, New York Times bestseller Bittersweet exposes the gothic underbelly of an idyllic world of privilege and an outsider's hunger to belong. On scholarship at a prestigious East Coast college, ordinary Mabel Dagmar is surprised to befriend her roommate, the beautiful, wild,...

"I'll drop anything for a new Adele Parks: she nails it every time"--Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Apartment"Absolutely gripping"--Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of The Family Remains"Whip-smart protagonist, immensely satisfying"--Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author...

No relationship is more charged than that between a psychotherapist and her patient--unless it is the relationship between a mother and her daughter. This disturbing literary thriller explores what happens when the line between those relationships blurs. Jody Goodman enters psychotherapy with questions of...

***Silver Winner of the 2023 Wishing Shelf Book Awards for Books for Adults (Fiction)***Is Zenna a muse, a sleep-deprived apparition, or something much more sinister?Suffering long-term amnesia, artist Jo Mckye is ready to start a fresh, new project after the success of her debut...

Don't Worry About a Thing The meditator Dust is steered into community work by the Divinology Church, where like Dante in infernal circles he trawls people's rubbish in aberrant and miserifying scenes. With sainted girlfriend Blue Wendy and ascetic Anna Rex, all underhinged by...

Hugo Danner--a man with strength unparalleled. A man to physically rival any human, any beast, any machine, and maybe even the gods themselves. But will the world accept his existence?Hugo didn't ask for this gift that his father, brilliant biologist Abednego Danner, bestowed upon...

Hugo Danner--a man with strength unparalleled. A man to physically rival any human, any beast, any machine, and maybe even the gods themselves. But will the world accept his existence?Hugo didn't ask for this gift that his father, brilliant biologist Abednego Danner, bestowed upon...

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring memory, grief, and long-buried secretsRetired policeman Tom Kettle is enjoying the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a white Victorian Castle in Dalkey overlooking the sea. For months he...

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...

"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...

"This is a deeply impressive book, and I think an important one. Its intensity, its narrative attack, the fascinations of its era and setting, make it impossible to tear the attention away. Energy and inventiveness distinguish every page." -- Hilary MantelFrom an unforgettable new...

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...

Audio edition of the landmark of 20th Century literature, by acclaimed author Paul BowlesIn this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story of three...

A lightly surreal story of misfortune, menace, and high-end stereo equipment in the cutthroat, capitalistic world of modern ChinaThe hero of The Invisibility Cloak lives in contemporary Beijing--where everyone is doing their best to hustle up the ladder of success while shouldering an ever-growing...

A lightly surreal story of misfortune, menace, and high-end stereo equipment in the cutthroat, capitalistic world of modern ChinaThe hero of The Invisibility Cloak lives in contemporary Beijing--where everyone is doing their best to hustle up the ladder of success while shouldering an ever-growing...

Bestselling author Julianna Baggott delivers her mind-bending debut short-story collection, featuring an array of genres populated by deeply human characters, and with film rights to the stories already having been sold to Netflix, Paramount, Amblin, Lionsgate, and others!In the title story, set five minutes...

Who is the small, greenish girl Paul Brickner repeatedly sees skittering around the edge of his yard in upstate New York? No one else seems to see her. Ever since Spring was injured in a fluke fall, Paul has been possessed with the anxiety...

In the vast Kazakh steppes of the crumbling Soviet Empire, Alyosha has finished his army service and is promised a gift from his deaf commander: an everlasting steel tooth. As he waits for it in the infirmary, he agrees to help out a medical...

A TOP 40 AMAZON BESTSELLER.Sex. Lies. Revenge.On the heels of a devastating loss, Evelyn fights to put her life back together. Only ... part of her husband belongs to another woman, and the devil owns her soul."If you tell her the lie, I will...

Ten years after Jason Miller killed his best friend in Afghanistan, another drug overdose results in him being sent to White Oaks Mental Hospital to be evaluated as a suicide risk, or so he believes. Soon, Jason realizes the one thing he has in...

"Hafner's taut and utterly delightful debut is a novel of multitudes. . . . What a wonder of storytelling."--Weike Wang, New York TimesNew York Times Editor's Choice * Good Morning America Reading Pick * LitHub Most Anticipated Book * Christian Science Monitor Summer Reading...

PARTITA-a novel in linked short stories Hospitalized and treated for depression after the birth of Lil, her second daughter, concert pianist Elizabeth Hannaford dies in 1969.Determined to fulfill her promise to her mother to take care of Lil, elder daughter Grace struggles, longing for...

Gladys Swartz was a plain girl boiling with suppressed desire. In a book on the occult, she read of a bodily possession and conceived a devilish plan. She brought about her own death by accident, then, wandering the earth as a restless spirit, she...

Set in 1920s Europe, this poignant dark academia novel sheds new light on Shakespeare's masterpiece, finally allowing Laertes to tell his side of the story.Laertes Belleforest lives two lives: a wild, passionate one with his best friends studying Classics in Paris, and a stifling...

Set in 1920s Europe, this poignant dark academia novel sheds new light on Shakespeare's masterpiece, finally allowing Laertes to tell his side of the story.Laertes Belleforest lives two lives: a wild, passionate one with his best friends studying Classics in Paris, and a stifling...

DƐVDMVTH is a mythographical-rhetorical work, a book of flowers, of arcadian theophanies & semiopathic assaults. In sur-rendering its totems & mementoes of Western arcana to the agency of their own dissolution, DƐVDMVTH brings the dead into rebellion, constructs a monument to an uninterpretable key...

Jess used to be a man. Then he found himself in a female body. It wasn't funny. (Why would anyone even think it was?)*"There's a scene in Tootsie (1982) that is surely one of the most unacclaimed scenes of all time: Dustin Hoffman's character,...

Nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Nicholas Wilde's third novel, Down Came a Blackbird, probes deeply into the mind of an unloved boy, whose nightmares fuse with the lost dreams of those who lived in an old dark house long before he was born. James...

The story surrounds a boy and his harrowing ordeal meted out by his fellow pupils at school and his father from his home life.Twenty years after some bizarre killings start and the story of a serial killer begins. It takes a party from a...