Fiction - Psychological

For fans of Matt Haig and Anthony Horowitz, a "strange, compelling, and ultimately moving head-spinner of a novel" (John Connolly) in which the lives of a disgraced police officer, a prolific author, and an upstanding citizen are inextricably bound together by a series of...

From the Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of The Hole, a slow-burning thriller with a touch of horror and the uncanny A disappearance. A missing brother. A lawyer asking questions. And a vast forest in the mountains--the western woods--where the trees huddle close together emanating...

'What are the possibilities of my strength? That is a thought I have never had before. What if some morning as the old woman stood at the head of the staircase she were suddenly to feel a weight thrusting against the back of her...

At age sixty-five, Emily Alexander fell and broke her hip. Since she had been living alone and had no friends to help out, she was forced to recuperate in Willowbrook Care Center. Carefully maintaining her hidden identity, she registers with her alias Maggie Winters....

"Twisted and intense, this marvelous debut novel transforms from a domestic drama into a story of secrecy and survival you can't put down." --The Philadelphia InquirerWhen Ikemefuna is put on a plane from Lagos to Texas, she anticipates her newly arranged All-American life: a...

A stylish, atmospheric mystery with a startling twist . . . satisfies like Simenon and surprises like Ruth Rendell. I can't give it any higher praise.--NPR Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings quietly drinking...

After a lifetime mourning the disappearance of her young daughter, Laura Fields forms a support agency to help other grieving parents of lost children and finds herself drawn into the dangerous and entangled world of cults. The lives of five desperate families collide as...

The perfect family... The perfect murders... A family massacred. A village in mourning. Can anyone sleep safely while a killer is on the loose? Laura Percival, owner of The Stables, notices something wrong at her friend's house when out on her morning ride. Further...

For better, for worseWildlife vet Holly's life seems blissful: husband Dylan is the man of her dreams, she has a rewarding career and a lovely home. And yet, a tiny niggle is growing daily. Dylan is becoming increasingly remote - but why? Holly is...

First novel by former arts journalist Dominic Jay A gripping roman à clef, set in 1980s London and Manhattan Authentic insights into the 1980s fetish club scene Combines art photography and storytelling in a new hybrid form "Reading Tableaux was like revisiting old haunts,...

Would you go to a beauty clinic that promises to transform your life? If you're prepared to put the work in.It seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. An all-inclusive stay at a top-of-the-line wellness retreat for a month of pampering and luxury. Not...

"Astonishingly timely and clever, utterly gripping." --Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Sarah Vaughan has done it again. Superb." --Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author The bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal--now a hit Netflix series--returns with a psychological thriller...

From the bestselling author of The Party comes a "dark and wild ride of redemption, betrayal, and friendship" (Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of The Push) following a homeless woman fleeing a dangerous past--and the wealthy society wife she saves from drowning....

Forgive and forget? The past and present collide for two sisters who survived a tragedy--and must now survive the truth behind it.It's been twenty years since Cara's boyfriend died in a horrible accident and her sister, Anna, went to prison. The tragedy has become...

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...

What do you do when your life is flipped upside down?​ ...and how do you cope when your memories and sanity begin to fail you?Things took a turn for the worst for Mark when his wife, Rachel, passed away.But he's got other matters to...

Olivia Alexander (nee Sharp) thinks her biggest problem is discovering her husband's affair.Then a stranger accosts her on the street warning, "Don't sign anything." When Olivia reluctantly follows his advice, everything starts to fall apart. Suddenly assassins, safe houses, and ruthless global corporations are...

Near-future San Francisco is a dark world where reality is changeable and different dimensions overlap.Teen Malibu Makimura discovers she can feel people's emotions, and senses an ominous voice growing inside her. She lands a job at a women's nightclub drawing surrealist caricatures. One night...

Near-future San Francisco is a dark world where reality is changeable and different dimensions overlap.Teen Malibu Makimura discovers she can feel people's emotions, and senses an ominous voice growing inside her. She lands a job at a women's nightclub drawing surrealist caricatures. One night...

Near-future San Francisco is a dark world where reality is changeable and different dimensions overlap.Teen Malibu Makimura discovers she can feel people's emotions, and senses an ominous voice growing inside her. She lands a job at a women's nightclub drawing surrealist caricatures. One night...

Near-future San Francisco is a dark world where reality is changeable and different dimensions overlap.Teen Malibu Makimura discovers she can feel people's emotions, and senses an ominous voice growing inside her. She lands a job at a women's nightclub drawing surrealist caricatures. One night...

Near-future San Francisco is a dark world where reality is changeable and different dimensions overlap.Teen Malibu Makimura discovers she can feel people's emotions, and senses an ominous voice growing inside her. She lands a job at a women's nightclub drawing surrealist caricatures. One night...

"Infinity" by Leonard Zimmerman, MD. The country Truman is on planet #3 in another galaxy. The planet is an identical copy of Earth in our galaxy, and Truman has the same geography, atmosphere, water, people, and history as the U.S. Because Truman was headed...

***This is the special edition paperback of Nicky the Driver.***He can't take his eyes off me.I remember Nicky Biancolli from junior high. Back then, he was always staring. My cousin warned him off, and after that, he faded into the background.Now, ten years later,...

Some people will do anything for the one they love...When big time Hollywood actor, Jay Daniels, meets small time Aussie author, Ari Travers, at her local writers' group in Australia during a break in the filming of his current movie, he's instantly taken with...

Grace has the perfect life. Then her husband replaces her with a younger, blonder version. Three years later, Grace's sixteen-year-old daughter Tara is stabbed to death in a seedy hotel. Grace's life stops. After a harrowing trial, Tara's boyfriend is convicted of her murder....

Then: Morning light shines into the nursery, casting shadows across the pale pink walls and wooden cot in the middle of the room. She opens the door expecting to hear the soft coo of her daughter Sofia stretching herself awake. But the room is...

My child means everything to me. But saving his life means destroying my best friend's family... I didn't plan to fall pregnant, but when I found out, I was overjoyed. Even though I'd be going it alone, I swore I'd give my baby everything...

This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau, author of Palimpsest: A Collection of Contemporary Horror follows the gut-wrenching journey of Miller and her estranged mother, Sylvie, who has always had a tense relationship. After Miller's father dies, she agrees to a...

Welcome to Meadowsville...the town that houses the elusive and deadly vampire, Blackheart. Follow your favorite characters like Christian Reed, Alexandra Hughes, and David Adams as they defend their hometown against the living legend. This re-release of the original first book in the Preternatural Trilogy...

In Elle's upbringing, sexual abuse and rape was something not to be exposed, never discussed, and conditional. She remained quiet in fear of retaliation from another relative or the offender himself. Never mind how Elle feels or the residual lifelong problems and concerns that...

Author: Jeffery DeaverISBN-10: 1668012936ISBN-13: 9781668012932Publisher: Pocket BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/07/2023Pages: 496Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.50h x 4.10w x 1.10d

Fyodor Dostoyevsky "An Honest Thief" is an 1848 short story that famously tells the tale of Emelyan Ilyitch, the tragic drunk. It begins with our narrator conversing with Astafy Ivanovich, an aged soldier and temporary lodger. An unfortunate coat theft leaves Astafy dismayed one...

Virginia Woolf's development and evolution as a writer are highlighted in these 23 exceptional short stories. This collection pores over the intimate details of life in beautiful poetic prose. These brilliant pieces of short fiction incapsulate classic 20th century modernism. Particularly celebrated stories, such...

An English teacher is gaslit by his charismatic high school bully in this tense story of deception, manipulation, and murder.Author: Conner HabibISBN-10: 1324064862ISBN-13: 9781324064862Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2023Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.55w x 0.76dAward: PEN/Faulkner Award - Nominee

The hilarious sequel to the cult favorite Youth in Revolt, now a major motion picture starring Michael Cera and Justin Long. In the wry and subversive further journals of Nick Twisp, we reunite with America's most literate teen diarist as he accidentally ignites criminal...

Dr. Tom Medlar's sailboat, the Harmony, is his pride and joy, and the focus of more lavish and meticulous care than he affords to either his career or his marriage. But then one day Tom takes his wife, Audrey, and their friends, Flick and...

Soon to be a film directed, written and produced by Baltasar Korm疚ur, co-written by Olaf Olafsson. Only In Theaters July 12."Delicate, absorbing...as satisfying as it is moving." -- VogueA mesmerizing, panoramic story of one man's search to find a lover who suddenly disappeared decades...

Nicolas Allard is a young graduate of a university in Paris, 1941, when the City of Lights has been dimmed down by the war. He bears an impossibly ambitious goal in mind; to come to know all there is to know in the universe....

Hank Anderson is stuck in the aftermath of the tragic life of Kenny Jensen when Seth Oberstreet is dropped at the door of Anderson & Greenberg Counseling, hundreds of miles from home. In moments, the speed and trajectory of Hank's recovery is up for...

This is Lyndon Morgan's latest book "Ruby Ring," a psychological mystery based in Wales. Wrapped up in poetry, music, and suspense; it is ultimately about the struggle of a young woman trying to resolve a mental conflict that she has lived with for centuries....

One thing is always true.Lost time can no longer be made up.The third book by Matteo Bonissi, an Italian writer.very short story (approximately 50 pages), to be read in one breath.What will happen to Albert when he has to face Time?Author: Matteo BonissiISBN-10: 8354990346ISBN-13:...

Blood Bound: The radical debut thriller of intense proportions. Are you looking for a chilling and suspenseful read? Look no further than Blood Bound! This edge-of-your-seat thriller follows FBI agent Ray and Manhattan police department cop Julia as they team up to take down...

Honeymooners at a posh resort receive an ominous warning with deadly consequences in the latest gripping, twisty psychological thriller from New York Times bestselling author Sophie Hannah. Jane and William are enjoying their honeymoon at an exclusive couples-only resort......until Jane receives a chilling note...

Three couples rent a luxury cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway to die for in this chilling locked-room thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger. What could be more restful, more restorative, than a weekend getaway with family and friends?...

What happens when a family finds dead bodies in their house? Or when reflections in the mirror are not what they seem? The horror is here for you to read. Martin Kane delivers a thrilling collection of twisted, horror stories that are based on...

This Book "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations....

Come one, come all and see the greatest show in the Imperial Valley! The Circus Oasis is back! The original Circus Oasis hotel was shut down in the 70s after tragedy struck the Salton Sea. Many years later, after a massive rejuvenation of the...

Mercy just wanted a quiet evening with her folks after a hard week at work, followed by a rather eerie phone call. Instead, she finds herself alone in the old family home as the dark descends. Unfortunately for Mercy, she's not alone for long....

Everyone has their own version of morality, including villains. After all, villains are the main character of their own stories. This literary collection explores villains of all kinds, seeking to ask the question, what makes someone a villain? Are they truly villains, or are...