Fiction - Psychological

It was a homecoming. Aspiring novelist Elizabeth Farmer thinks all of her dreams are finally becoming a reality when she and her husband move to the quaint, seaside tourist town of Haven. But reality and fiction intertwine as Elizabeth discovers the disturbing secrets of...

Detention on your first day of High School is one thing, but your teacher trying to eat you is a bit excessive... Set in suburban Florida, Tyler Graham and his friends must band together to survive a zombie outbreak.Written by Jed Cullen, Zaven is...

Detention on your first day of High School is one thing, but your teacher trying to eat you is a bit excessive... Set in suburban Florida, Tyler Graham and his friends must band together to survive a zombie outbreak.Written by Jed Cullen, Zaven is...

A married couple, Fridolin and Albertine, are troubled by events and jealous of each other's attentions the night before at a masquerade ball. Suddenly, Fridolin, a doctor, is summoned to the bedside of a dying man, an elderly councilor, whose daughter he finds attractive...

A scandalous liaison. A killer on the loose. Can a young woman save her sibling from going down for murder?Vancouver, Canada. Software engineer Indira Saraf refuses to march to her traditionalist parents' old-world drum. Resentful of her brother's golden-boy acceptance but still a devoted...

In a small Appalachian town, an amateur detective unearths a dark conspiracy and his own haunted past, in a chilling novel about sacrifice, art, and revenge.Med school dropout Harlan Winter returns to his impoverished West Virginia hometown, where the law is scarce, arsonists are...

"We all knew that a drastic shift had taken place in America. We were well aware that American hegemony was on its last legs. And just like music, what was this new scene morphing into? No one knew. What we did know is that...

From the internationally bestselling author of Three Floors Up, a novel of psychological suspense exploring the vagaries of love and relationships through three interlocking stories. A honeymoon in South America that should have been romantic becomes more nightmarish by the minute. A senior doctor...

Families are messy because relationships are. The Strange family of Castle Cove, North Carolina is no different. Three brothers grow up with the same parents who love them equally and provide for them generously because they can, yet each brother turns out different. Harrison,...

The scent of lilacs, poetry, and classical music bring Marla and Adam together after Marla's high school boyfriend is convicted of murder and disappears from her life. The charming, brilliant Adam promises Marla a life of culture, luxury, and family devotion. Having grown up...

The scent of lilacs, poetry, and classical music bring Marla and Adam together after Marla's high school boyfriend is convicted of murder and disappears from her life. The charming, brilliant Adam promises Marla a life of culture, luxury, and family devotion. Having grown up...

This irreverent debut delivers a headlong human comedy of trauma and triumph, narrated by the concealed inner selves of a woman on the brink: Katherine, a lost creative soul and suburban mother of two, who has struggled into her forties with the urge to...

In this twisty, fast-paced thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Take Your Breath Away, a man desperately tries to track down his father--who was taken into witness protection years ago--before his enemies can get to him.Your dad's...

From the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Cabin at the End of the World, a gripping novel in which the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy is only the beginning of unimaginable terrors."An atmospheric, gut-twisting descent."...

When Andrew Tredinnick reported his wife missing at just after one o'clock on a dismal February morning, he didn't expect to be stood where he was only hours later.It started as just a normal night out with the girls. Andrew kissed Shona goodbye in...

Every time he speaks others seem to die. He loves a woman but is terrified of the words he must say. He wants to be with her but is afraid of causing her death. If it were not for her smile he would not...

'They speak to me, Vicks.' Celandine hugs Vicky in windswept Kensington Gore. 'They speak to me from heaven.' London 1921. 24-year-old Celandine Greenstreet wants to write symphonies, but she hides an astonishing secret. What is the dreadful rift that forms between her and Alex?...

A secret admirer's devotion turns deadly in a twisting novel of psychological suspense.Mia Anderson is an invisible woman. An unremarkable thirty-two-year-old Tennessee librarian, she's accustomed to disappearing in a crowd, unseen and unheard. Then she receives an anonymous note: You look beautiful today.It doesn't...

In this terrifyingly twisted thriller, a young couple discovers the horror held within their newly purchased dream house. It's the house of their dreams. Former marine Harry and his wife, Sasha, have packed up their life and their golden retriever, Dash, and fled the...

The Mayor of Casterbridge, one of Thomas Hardy's most powerful novels, opens with a scene of shocking heartlessness. In a fit of drunken rage, Michael Henchard, an out-of-work laborer, sells his wife and baby daughter to a passing sailor. When the horror of what...

Set amidst the tatters of post-Katrina Gulf Coast Mississippi, Waveland is a brilliantly observed portrait of our times from one of the most incisive novelists at work today. Partially retired architect Vaughn Williams does what he can to remain "viable." Battling the doldrums of...

From the author of The Devil's Feather comes a haunting psychological thriller about a scarred Iraq war veteran whose physical trauma may reflect the inner turmoil of a killer.Somewhere in the endless, deadly desert between Basra and Baghdad, Lieutenant Charles Acland's convoy was attacked....

A blistering new thriller about the horrors of war and the struggle to survive in the face of pure evil. Foreign correspondent Connie Burns is hunting a British mercenary that she believes is responsible for the rape and murder of five women in Sierra...

Traumatized as a child, Marty Wilkens struggles to come to grips with himself and to understand the dark forces driving his life. He may have been seen as living a normal childhood. But inwardly, Marty lived in a world of his own creation. It...

All I ever wanted was to be special to someone. I never believed that someone would be my stalker, who would soon become my Master. He kidnapped me. He held me captive. He methodically broke and rebuilt me, and made me crave the pain...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of John Ford's THE BROKEN HEART. According to Charles Lamb, "Ford was of the first order of poets. He sought for sublimity, not by parcels in metaphors or visible images, but directly where she has her full residence in...

Luka Dekker and her sister Connie are the inheritors of a secretive and disturbing family history going back three generations to the disappearance of their great-grandfather. Their troubledmother, Lark, also mysteriously disappeared; and their beloved grandmother, who raised thetwo girls, had a life haunted...

A "wildly entertaining" (NPR), "gripping" (The Washington Post) work of historical fiction about an incendiary tragedy that shocked a young nation and tore apart a community in a single night, from the author of Florence Adler Swims Forever. Richmond, Virginia 1811. It's the height...

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 * An NPR and Time Best Book of the Year * Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize (Canada) * Finalist for CALIBA's 2022 Golden Poppy Awards A successful art dealer confesses the story of his...

Groundhog Day meets Ling Ma's Severance in this "brilliant" (PopSugar) and "exhilarating" (The Millions) comedic novel about two young women trying to save their friendship as the world collapses around them. Bertie and Kate have been best friends since high school. Bertie is a...

Named a Best Science Fiction Book of 2022 by The New York Times "Sharply, beautifully written." --The New York Times Book Review "Intriguing, frightening, witty, and humane." --The Wall Street Journal Black Mirror meets Severence in this thrilling speculative novel about a tech company...

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Margaret Qualley and Paul Mescal! A young woman and her husband travel around Europe to celebrate their first year of marriage--a year that the woman has no memory of--in this "wildly beautiful and darkly sinister" (Rosamund...

This bestseller and winner of every major literary award in Taiwan is an elegiac novel about love and loss, broken dreams and desolate hearts--and music: "A delightful read."--Ha Jin A widower grieving for his young wife. A piano tuner concealing a lifetime of secrets....

Delirium's Muse--the mind's frightening yet fascinating ability to rationalise the irrational, to grant an escape from the ravages of reality into the more comforting cradle of delusion, where addiction is anthropomorphized, attacked, and defeated; where wellness is a product of will; where safety and...

** SELECTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AS 1 OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ** ** INCLUDED ON THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 ** "At The New York Times Book Review, I think it's fair to say we were...

Addison Blake is thoroughly convinced there is no gray area when it comes to luck - either you're born with it or you're not. She frequently notices the happy, fortunate people and wonders why she was not destined to be one of them. Orphaned...

In one minute, delivering a not guilty verdict at the end of a trial for a disturbing murder of a child, Matthew Rice's life begins to unravel. The very structures his life is built upon collapse. He finds refuge, if not security when he...

It's amazing where you can roam at the foot of an escalator. William, free to think at the bottom of his, is about to embark on the shocking finale to his mysterious search.There's much else to ponder, too. There's his love for the barbed...

This is a new, updated second edition of The Happiness In Between that was originally published in 2017. Same story different cover.Sandra did all the right things growing up, but after she left home for college her choices always went wrong, especially choosing to...

The problem with most stories about love is that they lose the truth in the romance or lose the romance in the truth. Shooting Stars some-how holds onto them both. It is a wondrous story that in some ways feels too special to be...

On a desert island, stranded, and lost......friendship is the first thing to go.But can Dee survive without it?He just wanted a nice vacation, but the cruise Dee Sanders and his friends took turns into a disaster. Now, after a rogue wave and a harrowing...

From the award-winning author of The Last Getaway comes a thought-provoking story of intrigue and suspense.Paula Hickman watches the man with whom she shares a dark history move in across the street. Will he unpack their secrets as well?Stunned to see that the man's...

In Voyages to Nowhere, Tom Newton makes boundless imaginative leaps across mid-twentieth century European history. The two novellas, each set in a unique psychogeographical landscape, share a shattered dystopian vision, wherein time and space are dazzlingly transposed."Revolution in Dreamtime"Paris entre deux guerres-two artists on...

Three hundred thirty-three fatalities and no survivors. So begins Pulitzer Prize finalist Jean Heller's chilling hard-boiled saga, as a flight crashes on takeoff when one of its engines explodes in midair. After that, it's a toss-up--you may or may not be able to catch...

In this follow-up story from Twelve Mondays, Emma St. Roman knows her body lays in a coma as her soul visits the man in the garden. He encourages her to return to the mysterious door and turn the doorknob, reconnecting her soul and body....

THE DANGER NEXT DOOR. When Miles Peterson was 16, he killed a man in South Florida and was arrested for murder. Two years later, those charges have been dropped under suspicious circumstances and Miles' family moves to the D.C. suburbs hoping for a fresh...

The book starts in the neighborhood of Miramar in San Juan, Puerto Rico towards the end of the 1960s It begins in midst of a relationship between two college students. The woman is Susan Ruiz, the daughter of a well known artist of the...

A six-year-old befriends a mysterious young girl and the pair vanishes into thin air.Paranormal elements From NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and WALL STREET JOURNAL bestselling author, Addison Moore. Cosmopolitan Magazine calls Addison's books, "...easy, frothy fun!"A brick wall of an ending that will...

Inspired by real events. Read the grimmest tale in the history of the Indian judiciary.Trust no one; the devil walks among us.She sees everything and hears everything.And if She ever whispers to you, you must obey.Shalini now knows that death is not the worst...

For nearly a century and a half, Hawthorne's masterpiece has mesmerized readers and critics alike. One of the greatest American novels, its themes of sin, guilt, and redemption, woven through a story of adultery in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony, are revealed...