Fiction - Psychological

Alexandr and Christine and Zachary and Lydia have been close friends since they first met in their twenties. Thirty years later Alex and Christine are spending a leisurely summer evening at home when they receive a call from a distraught Lydia. Zach is dead.In...

From the "mesmerizing storyteller" (The New Yorker) and author of the bestselling memoir Makes Me Wanna Holler presents a profound novel--in the tradition of Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities and Zadie Smith's White Teeth--that captures the dynamics of class and race in...

There are some things nobody can possibly know...and others that nobody should dare to guess... A pair of thrill-seeking boys crept into Palisades Park after dark to ride the Cyclone. When the roller coaster returned to the station, it was carrying only one child....

One of Nylon and Chicago Reader's Books We Can't Wait To Read In 2017, and one of Buzzfeed and Vulture's Best Books to Read This Summer A father searches for his addict son while grappling with his own choices as a parent (and as...

Author: Allen WylerISBN-10: 0985994258ISBN-13: 9780985994259Publisher: Stairway PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/05/2013Pages: 302Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.68d

The multi-award-winning, widely-acclaimed mystery master Donald E. Westlake delivers a masterpiece with this brilliant, laser-sharp tale of the deadly consequences of corporate downsizing. Burke Devore is a middle-aged manager at a paper company when the cost-cutting ax falls, and he is laid off. Eighteen...

Prefiguring themes of his later work, the acclaimed Japanese writer Shusaku Endo here writes of choices made by young adults learning who they are and what they want in life. Yoshioka Tstomu is a student, not much interested in his studies, short on cash...

Sabina Murray's first book since she won the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Caprices seduces with its dark delight in her taboo subject.When we meet Katherine, the winning-and rather disturbing-twenty-three-year-old narrator, she has just left Italy and arrived in New York City, but what has...

An electrifying tale of deceit and obsession from New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl Mary KubicaIn downtown Chicago, Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace. A haunting letter addressed to My Dearest is found among her possessions, leaving her...

"The truth is I hurt people. It's what I do. It's all I do. It's all I've ever done." He lives on your street, in a nice house with a tidy garden. He shops at your local supermarket. He drives beside you on the...

An electrifying tale of deceit and obsession from New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl Mary KubicaIn downtown Chicago, Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace. A haunting letter addressed to My Dearest is found among her possessions, leaving her...

MISSING - Have you seen this girl? Nineteen-year-old Leila Hawkins was last seen on 24 June, 1994, when she left her parents' anniversary party early and ran into the stormy night wearing her twin sister Stella's long red coat. She was never seen again.Stella...

Set in fictional Hamilton, Maine and focuses on Spencer, who buys a house to fulfill a promise to his deceased wife and child, who he lost tragically years prior. Shortly after moving in he learns that his house has the ability to heal and...

"Come out, come out, wherever you are..."A beautiful young woman trapped within a killer's sick and twisted game.Stella Hughes called for help, but help did not come in time.She could not hide, fight, or escape.Stella was ensnared in the killer's web.The victim of a...

MEMORY'S EYES is a contemporary New York Oedipus novel. It is written for readers who enjoy playing with concepts and storylines, here namely the classical Oedipus myth, Sophocles' three Theban plays, the psychoanalytical concept of the Oedipus complex, and its pop-cultural adaptations in cartoons...

An "all-consuming, completely engrossing" novel about secrets, affairs and perfect small towns from USA Today bestseller Nicola Marsh that will be devoured by fans of Kerry Fisher (Psycho-Thrilla Books). Bustle Best Books of Fall 2020 Ever since her twin girls left home, Marisahas felt...

In his debut novel, rock legend Pete Townshend explores the anxiety of modern life and madness in a story that stretches across two generations of a London family, their lovers, collaborators, and friends.A former rock star disappears on the Cumberland moors. When his wife...

"Beautifully written, compelling, challenging and thought-provoking." N. Jennings"Magnificent! ... extremely well written; I enjoyed every minute of it. Casts a critical and compassionate light on the Indian residential school system." T. MooresIn August 1947, Mary Brock boarded a train in Toronto. She was headed...

A spare, sparkling tour de force about one woman's journey to becoming a cop, by master of noir James Sallis, author of Drive. Sarah Jane Pullman is a cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army...

A gripping thriller about three young girlfriends, a dark obsession and a chilling crime that shakes up a quiet Iowa town, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Weight of Silence.For twelve-year-old Cora Landry and her friends Violet and Jordyn, it was...

'I couldn't put this book down. Make sure that you set aside many hours of spare time to read this amazing book. Wow, wow, wow.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, Goodreads reviewer 'Amazing read... Had my attention from the first page to the last. I couldn't put it...

In the blink of an eye, she's gone. Maggie's daughter Penny is her whole world... and she'd do anything to protect her. So when Maggie wakes one night to find a strange woman in her home, she runs to barricade herself in her bedroom...

One mistake could change your life forever. Tara has it all. Married and about to move into her dream home, she can't explain why she is tempted by one last fling with her ex before she settles down. David would do anything for Tara....

Two ordinary women. Two damaged lives. One friendship that would save them both Kit Mason has lived a life of unimaginable pain. An ex-prostitute, she has fled the clutches of an abusive pimp and now finds herself living hand to mouth in a new...

2019 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Coming down from his carefree youth and unwanted fame, Jack Kerouac undertakes a mature confrontation of some of his most troubling emotional issues: a burgeoning problem with alcoholism, addiction, fear, and insecurity. He dutifully records his ever-changing states of...

The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915.One day, Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect (the most common translation of the German description ungeheuer Ungeziefer,...

The modern Italian classic about Calabrian organized crime--now an award-winning motion picture--makes its English-language debut. In the remote Aspromonte Mountains in southern Calabria, Italy, three best friends embark on a life of crime in order to raise themselves up out of the poverty of...

Savannah is used to getting what she wants, when she wants it. Savannah is beautiful, charming and cunning and uses her wiles to her advantage. What dark secrets hide under this facade? When a new paralegal comes to work at the same prestigious law...

A drifter working as a ranch hand in East Texas must protect a widow and her young son from the ruthless criminal who is determined to destroy them.Carl Herbold is a cold-blooded psychopath who has just escaped the penitentiary where he was serving a...

In the tradition of The Girl on the Train comes the UK bestseller The Ice Twins, a terrifying psychological thriller with a twisting plot worthy of Gillian Flynn. One of Sarah's daughters died. But can she be sure which one? A year after one...

THE SANCTUARY is the gripping story of vigilante priest, Danny Hansen, who is now serving a fifty year prison term in California for the murder of two abusive men. Filled with remorse, Danny is determined to live out his days by a code of...

The inspiration for the hit film series, Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter, now available on Netflix. Beneath a dark winter sky. . .death waits patiently. A journalist is murdered in the frozen white landscape of a northern Swedish town. Annika Bengtzon, a reporter at a...

Reclusive old Mr. G.L. Solomon's favorite things are single malt whiskey, Steve McQueen movies, and gingersnap cookies. He hates processed cheese, washing detergent commercials, and the way the teacup rattles in the saucer when he picks it up. Solomon has become accustomed to his...

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...

Judge Lara Sanderstone, young for the bench at thirty-eight, is a brilliant and brave woman whose judicial career suddenly takes second place to her hunt for the savage murderer of her young sister and brother-in-law. In the aftermath of the hideous crime, Lara is...

With Flight of the Intruder, Final Flight and The Minotaur, Stephen Coonts has established himself as one of the nation's premier novelists of technological suspense thrillers. Following the Summer '90 release of the major film version of Flight of the Intruder, the pool of...

The house had history. Perhaps too much history. 362 Belisle Street is a homeowner's dream. A nice neighborhood, close to schools, new hardwood oors, unique original detail. So why then, wonders real estate agent Glenn Darnley, won't this charming property stay off the market?...

Author: James T. CookISBN-10: 1414043198ISBN-13: 9781414043197Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/23/2004Pages: 264Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Author: Dustin CollinsISBN-10: 1414020376ISBN-13: 9781414020372Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/24/2003Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d

Author: Dustin CollinsISBN-10: 1414020368ISBN-13: 9781414020365Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/24/2003Pages: 136Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Ashley Stassler is not your average artist. He has been wildly praised for a series of bronze sculptures that group families together, depicting them in moments of excruciating physical and emotional pain -- but the art world has no clue as to how he...

Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. She began her writing career in 1975 at the age of fifty-nine, and over the next two decades she published three biographies,...

A razor-sharp thriller from the Edgar Award-nominated author who "blurs the lines between dreams and nightmares" (Abilene Reporter-News, TX). Darby McCormack was in high school when she first encountered the killer: someone murdered a woman in the woods where Darby and her two best...

New York Times bestselling author Joy Fielding is the mistress of the "taut suburban thriller"(Kirkus Reviews). Now Fielding unnerves readers with a richly layered page-turner that swings from haunting intrigue to electrifying suspense in the space of a heartbeat. PUPPET Living a no-strings-attached life...

Sometimes it's a short story that plays off of a Hitchcock movie classic, sometimes a noir novella like Twisted Circles Turning or Downward Facing Dog, in which a mystery story writer uncovers surprising clues about his own life while working on the story of...

"Smith spins out a sensuous, sinuous psychological thriller that compels attention to the final line."--BooklistAmelie and Janet are in love with the same man: Janet's husband.One knows it; the other doesn't. Or does she?As bestselling novelist Amelie Ferrar knows, an affair with a married...

Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform...

THE PERFECT HUSBAND. THE PERFECT STEPSON. THE PERFECT LIE? "Tremayne...does a terrific job of building suspense until events reach their climax in the midst of a violent storm." -- Library Journal When Rachel marries dark, handsome David, everything seems to fall into place. Swept...

Years ago, in the town of Saxon Falls, young Kelsey Willard disappeared and was presumed dead. The tragedy left her family with a fractured life--a mother out to numb the pain, a father losing a battle with his own private demons, and a sister...

While investigating the death of his lover's brother, Ben Hope returns for a race around Europe as he uncovers clues and secrets suggesting the murder of eighteenth-century composer Mozart in this suspenseful thriller by international bestselling author Scott Mariani. When former British Special Air...