Fiction - Psychological

Uncle Silas (1864) is a novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Expanded from an earlier short story, Uncle Silas is considered an important precursor to the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, and remains the author's most popular novel. It has been adapted several times...

When Catherine Porter murders her only son and takes her own life, no one can understand why. Vilified for her crimes, she becomes synonymous with everything evil and wicked amongst the locals, and parents begin using her name to scare their errant children into...

When Catherine Porter murders her only son and takes her own life, no one can understand why. Vilified for her crimes, she becomes synonymous with everything evil and wicked amongst the locals, and parents begin using her name to scare their errant children into...

When Catherine Porter murders her only son and takes her own life, no one can understand why. Vilified for her crimes, she becomes synonymous with everything evil and wicked amongst the locals, and parents begin using her name to scare their errant children into...

A haunted house horror attraction. Twelve people. $100,000 for the survivor.After fellow students torment a teen girl for years, she goes to therapy ... and comes up with an idea.Years later, they are all working comfortably. But everyone needs more money, one way or...

Annie Hansen, a schizophrenic private eye, is tasked with solving the murders of the town mayor and a local doctor in the small town of Serendipity, Canada.Together with handsome detective Mark Snow, they set to bring the killer to justice. But Annie is haunted...

Annie Hansen, a schizophrenic private eye, is tasked with solving the murders of the town mayor and a local doctor in the small town of Serendipity, Canada.Together with handsome detective Mark Snow, they set to bring the killer to justice. But Annie is haunted...

Eric Adler. Architect.Shortly after his wife is killed in a car crash, Eric accidentally discovers that she was having an affair with his best friend. He feels betrayed and sets out on a ruthless quest for revenge. But does he really? Or is his...

ANTHEM, by Ayn RandPART ONEIt is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we...

Since recovering from amnesia five years ago, Jessica Mack has done her best to ignore the voices that plague her from the spirit world. But when FBI agent Zach Smith wants her to use her "gift" to find an abducted four-year-old, she is forced...

Dear reader, When we were children, we dreamed of being heroes. We wanted to slay dragons and defeat the monsters that scared us.As we grew older, we were forced to try and find our monsters. We had been told they would be easy to...

Twenty-five years ago, Lauren Phelps and her sister Patty were kidnapped from their backyard on Long Island. Lauren escaped her captor, but Patty was killed.Ever since, Lauren has suffered from nightmares of the "Shadow Man." Trying to recall his face and avenge her sister's...

It was a simple job: keep an eye on the minister's wife until she goes safely to bed. Then all hell broke loose.The death of a beloved Chicago televangelist's wife is only the beginning; someone is homiciding their way through the Temple of Majesty...

Sometime the distance between suicidal despair and freedom seems like an impossible dream. From early in her teens, Leah Rebecca struggled with clinical depression. This mental anguish dragged her through more than two decades of crippling despair. Her life was filled with reckless and...

Inspecting Psychology takes a sleuth's magnifying glass to the interplay between psychology, psychiatry and detective fiction to provide a unique examination of the history of psychology. As psychology evolved over the centuries, so did crime writing. This book looks at how the psychological movements...

East Berlin, 1961. Kirstin Beck is determined to escape to the West. She watches from her townhouse window as the border with West Berlin is closed, and a barbed wire fence strung through the cemetery behind her house. With a grandmother in West Berlin...

After a woman's body is found in a local beauty spot, her heart surgically removed, D.I. Andy Ross and his team are called in to investigate.But this time, they face a criminal mastermind unlike any they have before, who soon becomes known as The...

When novelist Jake Conley regains consciousness after a serious head injury, he discovers he's affected by a rare condition: synaesthesia.This not only gives his brain heightened psychic powers, but also affects his behavior. Nationally prominent after discovering the tomb of King Aldfrith and writing...

When novelist Jake Conley regains consciousness after a serious head injury, he discovers he's affected by a rare condition: synaesthesia.This not only gives his brain heightened psychic powers, but also affects his behavior. Nationally prominent after discovering the tomb of King Aldfrith and writing...

Possibly the best account yet of the role of Torquemada in the Inquisition, with particular emphasis in the back half of the book of the notorious "Infante de la Guardia" incident and the role of that affair on Ferdinand and Isabella's decision to expel...

Twenty-five years ago, Lauren Phelps and her sister Patty were kidnapped from their backyard on Long Island. Lauren escaped her captor, but Patty was killed.Ever since, Lauren has suffered from nightmares of the "Shadow Man." Trying to recall his face and avenge her sister's...

The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoevsky completed...

A family curse can reach across generations.After bank manager Jonathan Ward inherits an old manor, strange things begin to happen. On his first night at the property, a beautiful young woman appears outside his door, pleading for help. Moments later, she has disappeared.Strange apparitions...

After 40 years of marriage, Olivia's husband unexpectedly passes away. But when Ben's will reveals a life-altering secret, she suffers a blow no widow should ever experience.Olivia learns that she gave birth to a baby who later died in the nursery. Instead of telling...

When Hank Gild is given the opportunity to take up his dream job, he accepts the offer with excitement. As a tour guide at the historical imperial castle on Lake Starnberg, Hank delights his guests with stories of the late Bavarian emperor-his antics, his...

A quiet neighborhood. A lovely home. A promising new beginning. In a heartbeat everything can change in this propulsive novel of suspense by USA Today bestselling author Kaira Rouda.Julie Jones has left her suffocating marriage. With her teenage daughter, Jess, she's starting over. Their...

How far would you go to end a nightmare?For Alex Mason, the landlord of a luxury apartment complex in northwest Philadelphia, his newest tenant, a professional young woman with excellent references, is almost too good to be true - a stroke of good luck.But...

Becoming Lightning, Becoming Bird concerns a journey of evolving consciousness in a particular woman at the midpoint of her life. It answers the question of how a journey of evolution might appear through a woman's experiences beyond the ideas in R.M.Bucke's Cosmic Consciousness and...

Who knew innocence could cause so much death? The cure for the sick is in the Devil's blood. He invests this magic in the children. One child's life saved in exchange for a sacrifice. And parents are eager to sacrifice. But what happens when...

Paul Ferroll (1855) is a novel by Caroline Clive. Published to widespread critical and commercial acclaim, Paul Ferroll gained comparisons to Jane Eyre and predated the rise of popular detective fiction, but has since been largely forgotten. A captivating novel of Victorian social conventions...

Author: Hermann HesseISBN-10: 8200112918ISBN-13: 9798200112913Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/21/2009Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.60w x 0.60d

Bergden and Alyssa Crane are dutiful citizens of the Regime. Bergden, a Regime blackjack and Alyssa, a faithful wife, do what they can to provide for their son, James even when it means sacrificing their very freedom. But when Bergden is accused of treason,...

Author: Ensemble Cast, Susan NussbaumISBN-10: 1665158972ISBN-13: 9781665158978Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/28/2013Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d

The Yule-Man Julemanden The Return To Denmark The Mayhem Spree Volume Three The Suspense Thriller Part Three Is a American Mystery Suspense Thriller Psychological Action Adventure Novel Written By MCGOKU305 San That Is Introducing a New Antihero And Villain Name The Yule Man and...

In Ferris by Kevin Grijalva, a man spends his twenty-fifth year trying to remember what it was like living inside his mind. As he walks through the city, he wonders what arises from what is in front of him. His memories are faint, and...

She really should know better...Lucy's life was fun and uncomplicated. Nights were spent partying with best friend Em, doing what twenty-somethings do: dancing, drinking and ditching any men who wanted more than just a one-night stand.All Joe Morris wanted was for Lucy to be...

The news of her mother's death hits Nell as if she's been shot. The letter must be some kind of prank, but who could be so cruel? Because Nell's mother died nearly 30 years ago. When Nell was just a tiny baby, her parents...

The letter is addressed to me. No stamp, swirly handwriting in black ink. I pull out a piece of paper, stiffening when I read the message. Hands trembling, the note slides to the floor: Your husband is having an affair. Six words written in...

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (11 November 1821 - 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and journalist. Dostoevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with...

After sisters Markie and Kam get tangled with the wrong people at the wrong time, long-buried family secrets begin to emerge.A serial killer is targeting people close to them. As danger inches closer and closer to home, twisted desires become a reality. The deeper...

After sisters Markie and Kam get tangled with the wrong people at the wrong time, long-buried family secrets begin to emerge.A serial killer is targeting people close to them. As danger inches closer and closer to home, twisted desires become a reality. The deeper...

A diabolically twisty, psychologically unsettling novel about a woman with no recollection of her past, named one of Suspense Magazine's Best Books of the Year, from the authors of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish and The Wife Stalker. "Jaw-dropping...

'A red-hot, non-stop rollercoaster of a book' - Lisa JewellWhat would you do if your husband framed you for murder?Five years ago, Olivia Sutherland was convicted of plotting to murder her husband.Now she's finally free, Olivia has three goals. Repair her relationship with her...

When is being selfish the right thing to do?A child wanders the courthouse hallways alone. She won't speak. Or, can't speak. Anna agrees to foster the abandoned girl. But danger lurks in Anna's past. Just when she thinks that all her striving has finally...

From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery & suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her...

Kazumi Matsuoka haiku master and vineyard owner, having witnessed a vehicle crash on her property, learns that the young woman in the overturned van is the daughter of her friend, English professor Warren Clifton. Some of the characters we meet in the novel, Beside...

A mother's secret past and her daughter's present collide in this richly atmospheric novel from the acclaimed author of The Animals at Lockwood Manor. In the summer of 1973, Ruth and her four friends were obsessed with Pre-Raphaelite paintings--and a little bit obsessed with...

When four couples receive invitations to try out a luxury island resort, they are excited for a week of relaxation and reconnecting.For some, it's the honeymoon they never had the chance to take.For others, it's a last-ditch attempt to save their crumbling marriage. But...

The Dragon in Shallow Waters (1921) is a novel by Vita Sackville-West. While she is most widely recognized as the lover of English novelist Virginia Woolf, Sackville-West was a popular and gifted poet, playwright, and novelist in her own right. A prominent lesbian and...

A NOVEL OF LOVE AND LOSS FROM BESTSELLING AND PRIZEWINNING AUTHOR JOYCE CAROL OATESAmid a starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape in New Mexico, a married couple from Cambridge, MA takes residency at a distinguished academic institute. When the husband is stricken with a mysterious...