Fiction - Psychological

Prepare to be transported into a world of intrigue and danger in The Brilliant Mirage, a chilling psychological mystery. Retired man Carl Walker becomes drawn into a treacherous search for hidden diamonds from World War II after his neighbor Drew tells him about their...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!?A mindbender. -Jessica KnollRiveting...a winner. -Laura DaveA knockout. -Mary KubicaFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Flight comes a twisted con-woman thriller about two women out for revenge--or is it justice?Two women. Many aliases.Meg Williams. Maggie...

Foot Fetish Manual is created to help all men who struggle with their sexual inclinations toward female feet. It will guide you from your first foot-kiss until you become a veteran in ''un-shoing'' and foot worshipping your ladies. You will also find out why...

A CrimeReads Best of 2023 Notable Selections A BuzzFeed Most Anticipated Thriller of 2023 "[A] a powerful tale of guilt and betrayal...Tell Her Everything...is about a doctor who betrays the principle of empathy. But it is through the empathic act of writing - of...

Delicately attuned to the complexities of both the natural world and human psychology, this potent classic of twentieth-century Danish literature is narrated by an isolated schoolteacher stuck in a mire of loneliness, deception, and spiritual despair. One of the greatest works of modern Scandinavian...

A glory-starved soldier spends his life awaiting an absent, long-expected enemy in this influential Italian classic of existentialism, now newly translated and with its originally intended title restored. At the start of Dino Buzzati's The Stronghold, newly commissioned officer Giovanni Drogo has just received...

Accomplished in his career but unaccomplished in love, a middle-aged architect is torn apart by his obsession with an enigmatic young woman in this delicately told story of desire and abjection by a titan of Italian literature. Antonio Dorigo is a successful architect in...

Sometimes it's easier to believe the lie. But is the truth right in front of you?Everyone says Poppy jumped. My beautiful, creative sister, with her paint-splattered dresses and sunshine smile, took her own life. And I think they're right. Until the day I get...

From the bestselling author of The Best of Friends comes a heart-stopping psychological thriller about the shades of truth and the power of lies in the wake of one mother's unspeakable loss.Therapist turned stay-at-home mom Jules Hart's idyllic suburban life shatters when she crashes...

"Full of twists and turns, this is an exciting, pacy read." --Heat, Book of the Week"The brilliant Teresa Driscoll builds tension and menace with a flick of a sentence." --Fiona Barton"A creepy and addictive read" --Katherine Faulkner"A deliciously sinister story..." --Jane CorryFrom bestselling author...

Her words cut deep. Teddy's a world-famous playwright in the mold of David Mamet, but for the past year he's been stuck. An assignment to write a play about Emily Dickinson should have been simple--but instead it has turned into pure obsession. Then, one...

A father and his estranged daughter reconnect to try to understand a decades-old trauma in this haunting novel, part ghost story, part lyrical exploration of family, aging, and how we remember the past.At age 11, Helen disappeared in the wilderness of Mount Rainier National...

**Soon to be appearing on Netflix as "Obsession," starring Richard Armitage and Charlie Murphy** This New York Times bestselling novel, now in a brand-new edition, is a daring look at the dangers of obsession and the depth of its shattering consequences. Damage is the...

James Monroe is a sophisticated American professional on mission for The World Bank in Africa during the early 1990's. Despite his worldiness, his actions betray a late twentieth century innocent abroad who embodies both the bravado and the debilitating insecurities of the modern American...

In a psychosomatic masterpiece, John Gilmore explores the dichotomy of a young man and woman's wants and desires as opposed to harsh reality. What starts as a simple photo shoot with a beautiful girl, leads Eli Woodrow into a world he never dreamed of,...

This is a book about reading. Not about writing. Writing doesn't matter and the people who write matter even less. Or so this writer's story goes. Puerto Montt looks at literature as a dangerous calling, in a world where reading is at the centre...

A man lives in total solitude in an abandoned mountain village. But each night, at the same hour, a mysterious distant light appears on the far side of the valley and disturbs his isolation. What is it? Someone in another deserted village? A forgotten...

Edgar award-winning author of the popular historical novels A Conspiracy of Paper and A Spectacle of Corruption, David Liss showcases his amazing versatility with this brilliant new tale of contemporary suspense: a literary thriller set in Florida, where killing is a matter of conscience....

A throwback to classic psychological horror stories, this tale of revenge and retribution is set in the bleak winter isolation of Foxwood Manor, a boys English prep school in the woodlands of Dorset. The stage is set when arrogant former pupilMartin Price inexplicably shows...

Tom Lowe's identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He designed and built his family's dream home, working extra hours to pay off the adjustable rate mortgage he took on the property, convinced he...

Charles, a once-promising poet, is a professor at a minor liberal arts college, admiring of passion but without passion himself. Now living a desperately comfortable existence, he decides to return to his thirtieth college reunion. While there, he relives an intense love affair he...

In a crowded two-bedroom apartment in Tokyo, four Japanese twenty-somethings are waiting for their lives to begin. They have come from all over Japan, bringing with them dreams of success and romance, but life isn't exactly going as planned. Kotomi waits by the phone...

The classic Japanese novel of alienation and the search for meaning and connection in the modern world, in a brilliant new translation--for fans of Salinger, Camus, Sartre, Hesse, and the hit anime series Bungo Stray Dogs, which features a character based on No Longer...

An electric collection of new short stories from the inimitable, bestselling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking InIn the title story of Walk Between the Raindrops, a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP....

When young, beautiful Kitty Garstin finds herself in a bind after turning down too many suitors for too many years, she marries Walter Fane unthinkingly, without love. They move to a British outpost in China where he works as a doctor; there, bored and...

An emotional roller coaster ride that poses the question: Is love strong enough to change the trajectory of a troubled past?In this suspenseful sequel to Robin A. Lieberman's gripping debut novel, Searching for September, September (Seppie) Webb has found love again after an abusive,...

Many people do not believe in God because our physical senses cannot detect God. Zero cannot be detected by our physical senses, yet this modern world relies on zero. Advancing incongruities: Suppose God is out there somewhere at a plane our physical senses are...

A dying veteran. A long-lost son. And an infatuated nurse. Are any of them who they claim to be?When an abusive stranger offers to care for terminally ill veteran Barry Brown while claiming to be his long-lost son, Detective Jack Carver is tasked with...

In this twisty new stand-alone novel from internationally bestselling author Nicci French, a young woman agrees to do a favor for her first love--but when things go horribly wrong, one small task turns into a murder investigation that completely upends her life, ensnaring her...

What happens when a family loses everything and has no place to go?Terrance Mack has a wife and two young boys. Never in a million years did he expect to find his family living on the streets, with no home, no jobs, in a...

Foster kids and best friends Shadaisy and Tristan live in New York City. The problem is, they just shot their social worker, a man who performed heinous acts every week. Now they are fleeing, with a tenuous plan in place for their future. But...

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,...

In their holiday home, a stone's throw from the beach, Elizabeth dials the police with trembling hands. 'My little boy, he's missing.' Elizabeth is Joe's foster mother, but she loves him like her own. The five-year-old, who adores superheroes and watching the birds outside,...

When a photographer witnesses war crimes, will she have to abandon her calling to save herself? As Lena and Kojo work in conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Darfur, Sudan and other places across East and Central Africa, there is immense psychological pressure,...

Will Glenndenning is a medical school drop-out, a PhD drop-out, and very nearly a drop-out from life itself. Now middle-aged, he has settled into a comfortable, solitary life as a science writer and amateur biotech analyst. Yet, from his roots in Lost Mine, Texas,...

Twenty-two-year-old Clare Thomas Lane begins therapy by court order, not by choice.Clare is sure that she doesn't need the help of a shrink. Clare's fortysomething psychotherapist, Avery Frontiera, doubts her own ability to connect with this prickly young shoplifter. As Avery and Clare begin...

A MAN WITH IMMENSE LOVE examines the interesting character of Aiden William Melone. It portrays fascinating traits of the protagonist through the lenses of various people in his life. It depicts the differences between men and women, or on a broader spectrum, between individuals,...

An emotional roller coaster ride that poses the question: Is love strong enough to change the trajectory of a troubled past?In this suspenseful sequel to Robin A. Lieberman's gripping debut novel, Searching for September, September (Seppie) Webb has found love again after an abusive,...

Elizabeth Ann Ellis's latest captivating exposé, 'DARK REALITY', is refreshingly new. It reveals one woman's unpretentious and astonishing untold life account of the Dark Reality of Isabel Croft's hidden past?Nobody knew Isabel was missing and kidnapped during the night, restrained, drugged and abandoned in...

Dashingly attractive, Caleb looks like the most modest, Christian lad on Earth.He is the ideal gentleman-clever, kind, and reserved but with the gift of words but that is until he meets lonely, psychologically tired Lucy.After a series of terrible relationships with guys, Lucy decides...

Let's play and Lily knew exactly how to win. Giving Matt just enough, to think he was in the game. There's no way you want to lose the hand that feeds you. So far, hasn't he delivered? Prestige, money, social standing? We must not...

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...

In the third book in Kenna McKinnon's 'Annie Hansen Mysteries', Annie and her partner, Mark Snow, investigate the murder of Mark's aunt Clarise, after she's found dead in the lobby of their apartment building.Several people have seen Clarise before her death, but none of...

In the third book in Kenna McKinnon's 'Annie Hansen Mysteries', Annie and her partner, Mark Snow, investigate the murder of Mark's aunt Clarise, after she's found dead in the lobby of their apartment building.Several people have seen Clarise before her death, but none of...

In the third book in Kenna McKinnon's 'Annie Hansen Mysteries', Annie and her partner, Mark Snow, investigate the murder of Mark's aunt Clarise, after she's found dead in the lobby of their apartment building.Several people have seen Clarise before her death, but none of...

In the third book in Kenna McKinnon's 'Annie Hansen Mysteries', Annie and her partner, Mark Snow, investigate the murder of Mark's aunt Clarise, after she's found dead in the lobby of their apartment building.Several people have seen Clarise before her death, but none of...

In the third book in Kenna McKinnon's 'Annie Hansen Mysteries', Annie and her partner, Mark Snow, investigate the murder of Mark's aunt Clarise, after she's found dead in the lobby of their apartment building.Several people have seen Clarise before her death, but none of...

Ghosts and goddesses beckon Lev Ockenshaw. Oh, bother. Fortunately, he's got a pill for that. In 2014, Lev is happily telling campfire stories in Boston with his longtime friend, Stanley, and his coworker, Aparna. One day, he receives an anonymous, threatening email referring to...

"Relentlessly thrilling . . . an orgy of the unpredictable." --New York Times Book Review "Like Thomas Pynchon taking on late capitalism. . . . surrealistic, granular in its details, and concerned with social entropy and desperate attempts at communion." --Wall Street Journal From...

What would you do if life gave you one too many lemons? If it felt like the bad hits just kept coming, one after the other? For Naomi, that was reality. Her life was filled with abuse and constant hardships. Love was never readily...