Fiction - Psychological

Luke Delaney takes the thriller genre to new heights with his debut crime novel, Cold Killing--an unforgettable and haunting duel between a seasoned detective and a brilliant serial killer.Detective Inspector Sean Corrigan finds the body of a brutally murdered young man in his own...

"A mesmerizing storyteller who seems almost unnaturally able to enter the tormented inner lives of her characters."--Denver PostBlack Dahlia & White Rose is a brilliant collection of short fiction from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, one...

From the Orange Prize-nominated author of The Observations comes an absorbing, atmospheric exploration of one young woman's friendship with a volatile artist and her place in the controversy that consumes him. Jane Harris's Gillespie and I presents a strongly voiced female protagonist evocative of...

A first-year resident at a major Boston children's hospital, Peyton Shields finally has the career she's always dreamed of--even though her marriage to Kevin, an up-and-coming young lawyer, is suffering from her hard work and impossibly long hours. But a late-night drive home in...

"A provocative novel that raises fascinating questions about marriage and how to find our way back when love falters. Thoroughly original, highly engaging, and wonderfully tender."--Laura Fitzgerald, author of Veil of Roses"The Transformation of Things is an elegant and involving page-turner....Part mystery, part love...

"Of the many writers working in the great tradition today, one of the best is Russell Banks." --New York Times?"Like our living literary giants Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon, Russell Banks is a great writer wrestling with the hidden secrets and explosive realities of...

First highlighted in The New Yorker fiction issue, here is award-winning writer Nell Freudenberger's debut story collectionLucky Girls is a collection of five novella-like stories, which take place mostly in Asia. The characters--expatriates, often by accident--are attracted to the places they find themselves in...

Joanne McMullen's fears for her sister's sanity have brought her to remote King's Island, Maine. Mary's grief over the loss of her child is threatening to send her over the edge--and her insistence that she has heard an eerie, childlike wailing in the woods...

The lives of brothers Charlie and Owen Bender are changed forever on the night their father walks into the Vermont woods with a death wish and a shotgun. The second shock comes when his suicide note bequeaths the family's restaurant to Charlie alone, while...

What sort of mother would leave her all alone... a gripping and heart-wrenching domestic drama that won't let you go.Lily, who is almost three years old, wakes up alone at home with only her cuddly toy for company. She is afraid of the dark,...

'An excellent thriller that had me hooked from the start' Katerina Diamond'Breathlessly fast-paced and cleverly unsettling ... the very definition of unputdownable' Heat'A paranoia-inducing plot that makes you question everyone ' Sam CarringtonDon't. Trust. Anyone.It was supposed to be a fresh start.A chance to...

Brad Peterson is a highly trained Special Forces operative with less than a month of military service left. He is looking forward to a bright future in the civilian sector.But when his last mission in Afghanistan goes horribly wrong, Brad is injured and his...

Orwellian.... it's a well-worn term at risk of becoming so cliché and fashionable that ironically its meaning gets lost. "Orwellian" has gained meme status saturating pop culture signaling its place as a literary cross over to a widely recognizable concern for society. But "bumper...

Named one of Essence's 9 South African Entertainers You Should KnowAn extraordinary, ambitious, globe-spanning novel about what we owe our consciencesFleeing her moribund marriage in Cape Town, Beth accepts a diplomatic posting to Shanghai. In this anonymous city, she hopes to lose herself in...

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...

Henry James's beloved masterpiece, now in a beautiful hardcover edition featuring James's groundbreaking essay "The Art of Fiction," with a foreword by acclaimed novelist Brandon Taylor A Penguin Vitae Edition The Portrait of a Lady is regarded by many as Henry James's finest work,...

He's a decorated war veteran and he wants to die.She's a prominent psychologist and she won't give up on him.Neither knows how to lose. When a suicidal client seeks her help, Dr. Angela Blackwell cannot turn him away, despite the fact that he isn't...

"Blind Love" is a mesmerizing thrill ride that you will not be able to put down. In this ambitious psychological thriller, a single mother appears to meet her perfect mate. But he is not who he appears to be - as his twisted nature...

Launched into a new perspective of life after experiencing death firsthand, Jessica returns to recall what it's really like and is faced with the biggest challenge of all: change. Growing up in a mentally and physically abusive home was an early and ongoing tragedy...

Elliott Sterling's life needs a reboot. A patient's suicide has shredded his self-confidence, his wife wants a divorce, and he is alienating their son. Elliott has lost a sense of life's meaning, that is, until he moves and meets his 87-year-old neighbor, Milena Hodrová,...

On a seemingly ordinary Saturday morning, Fraser McCourt awakens to a nightmare.He finds himself in the grounds of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park, close to the University - and he's naked. A short distance away is the lifeless body of fellow student Reggie Bartholomew, with strangle...

Notes from Underground is widely considered the forerunner of modernist literature and one of Dostoevsky's greatest literary achievements. The novel recounts the thoughts and encounters of a civil servant known only as The Underground Man who has quit his job and lives in a...

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust. It was written sometime between 1589 and 1592, and may...

"A love story like no other."--Karl Ove Knausgaard "Hot as viscera." --The New Republic A "blistering anti-romance" (Catherine Lacey) about love addiction and what it does to us.Wouldn't I do anything to reverse my loss, the absence of him? In the first scene of...

Kalopsia - (n.) The delusion of things being more beautiful than they really are.They say you never know what goes on behind closed doors, but do you really know what goes on outside your front door either?Kate is a twenty-something, successful woman. Funny, attractive...

Kalopsia - (n.) The delusion of things being more beautiful than they really are.They say you never know what goes on behind closed doors, but do you really know what goes on outside your front door either?Kate is a twenty-something, successful woman. Funny, attractive...

Kalopsia - (n.) The delusion of things being more beautiful than they really are.They say you never know what goes on behind closed doors, but do you really know what goes on outside your front door either?Kate is a twenty-something, successful woman. Funny, attractive...

The blistering, compulsively readable new novel from Herman Koch, author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Dinner.When a medical procedure goes horribly wrong and famous actor Ralph Meier winds up dead, Dr. Marc Schlosser needs to come up with some answers. After...

Philosopher, essayist, dramatist, poet, novelist, Unamuno was an impassioned and unorthodox thinker whose novels foreshadow the works of Gabriel Garc a M rquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Carlos Fuentes. Elegantly simple in language, these novels probe the elemental forces of human personality: In Two...

"Drury is a truly great writer."--Esquire "A beguiling novel . . . perceptive and captivating."--The New York Times "Startling and utterly original."--Newsday In this mesmerizing novel, Tom Drury once again journeys to the quiet Midwest to spend an action-packed October weekend in the lives...

The new novel from the award-winning author of The End of Vandalism is a wry and sophisticated heist drama. Set in the rugged region of the Midwest that gives the novel its title, The Driftless Area is the story of Pierre Hunter, a young...

John Kaye's two novels have established him as one of today's most stunning chroniclers of Los Angeles, a city of rockers and private eyes, script girls and wiseguys, innocents and Charles Manson. In The Dead Circus it's 1986. Gene Burk is an ex-cop, fanatical...

Stewart O'Nan is one of the most highly acclaimed fiction writers of his generation, selected by Granta as one of the Best Young American Novelists and hailed by The New York Times as a master. Grove Press is proud to issue his award-winning debut...

Will Self has one of literature's most astonishing imaginations, and in How the Dead Live his talent has come to full flower. Lily Bloom is an angry, aging American transplanted to England, now losing her battle with cancer. Attended by nurses and her two...

From a writer who's been praised for her "intelligence, heart, wit" (Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls), The Ice House follows the beleaguered MacKinnons as they weather the possible loss of the family business, a serious medical diagnosis, and the slings and...

Paula Daly is acclaimed for her distinctive voice, masterful plotting, and terrifying depictions of ordinary people whose everyday lives are turned upside down through deception and murder. In her unsettling new domestic thriller, The Trophy Child, Daly digs beneath the serene surface of the...

An utterly original and compelling novel from "one of our living masters (McSweeney's), originally published in 1998 and now re-issued by Grove with a new introduction--a conversation between the author and Daniel Handler. Paul Emmons has his faults--envy, lust, naiveté, money laundering, and art...

"A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella."--James Joyce, Ulysses 1918Audrey Death--feminist, socialist and munitions worker at Woolwich Arsenal--falls ill with encephalitis lethargica as the epidemic rages across Europe, killing a third of its victims and condemning a further third to living death....

In Falling, Christopher Pike explores the depth and breadth of human emotion through two brilliantly etched characters: Kelly Feinman, who pays a terrible price to understand the nature of true evil; and Matt Connor, a classic anti-hero who captures the reader's sympathy. Kelly Feinman:...

UPDATED--with a sneak peek at the next book in the series Book Two of the Fire of Heaven Trilogy From the realms of science, the paranormal, and Bible prophecy emerges a novel for our times: fast-paced, carefully researched . . . with a warning...

Born to parents who died shortly after her birth, twenty-year-old genius Sarah Sims has been hidden all her life in a secure CIA facility. Yet her days of anonymity are limited because her aunt has discovered her existence and is determined to lead Sarah...

To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff's characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping, pungent,...

First published in 1926, this book is Willa Cather's sparest and most dramatic novel, a dark and prescient portrait of a marriage that subverts our oldest notions about the nature of domestic happiness. As a young woman, Myra Henshawe gave up a fortune to...

Michael Byers's award-winning collection The Coast of Good Intentions tells graceful tales of achingly unresolved lives on the Pacific Northwest coast. Byers captures the lives of ferry workers, carpenters, park rangers, and adolescents leaving home, against a backdrop of crab factories, cranberry bogs, the...

In many ways, Kristen Elliott is a normal, seventeen-year-old girl. Kristen loves her family. She works hard academically, and tries to please her mother. She takes on the additional responsibility of caring for her twin siblings, Nick and Alison. She idealizes her best friend,...

"This is an important read for anyone dealing with an eating disorder: the individual, the family or friends. Ms. Lipton conveys a touching portrayal of the struggles involved with trying to overcome this illness." -Cynthia R. Pegler, MD, Adolescent Medicine Specialist "A riveting and...

Logistics expert Jane Malcolm got her training under fire literallyin the Gulf War, where movement of supplies and equipment meant the difference between life and death. Eight years later, she's running her own logistics consulting firm. But as shestands on the brink of her...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A thrilling and emotionally powerful novel from the author of the Jane Hawk series "A literary miracle . . . a tapestry of intrigue and suspense."--The Boston Globe His birth was marked by wonder and tragedy. He sees...

New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King takes us to a remote cottage in Cornwall in this gripping tale of intrigue, terrorism, and explosive passions that begins with a visit to a recluse code-named . . . Once studied by British intelligence for...

Lucas Jordan has an extraordinary psychic skill that police all over the country find invaluable: he locates missing people. And since being recruited by Noah Bishop for his FBI Special Crimes Unit, Lucas has learned to hone his remarkable ability so that what he...