Fiction - Psychological

The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a...

For over one hundred years, England manned their warships by impressing men and boys from the poor areas of the country and sending them to sea without their consent or concern for their families left behind. This is the story of two families that...

A spellbinding novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school--by the legendary author "who is surely on any shortlist of America's greatest living writers" (The New...

Darby Kane, author of the #1 international bestseller Pretty Little Wife, returns with another twisty domestic thriller about a wife wondering who tried to kill her husband twice before finally succeeding... because that was supposed to be her job. Dr. Richmond Dougherty is a...

Boris Orolova has struggled with efforts in trying to get Ivan Zhuk to behave while he is incarcerated. One drastic terrible issue leads to another with Ivan causing Boris to hire outside help - enters former Major Daniel Ward an Iraq War veteran and...

Step into the enigmatic world of "The Manor of Shadows: Secrets in the Hallowed Halls," where every corner of the grand estate holds a mystery waiting to be uncovered. As the tale unfolds, the arrival at this imposing manor sets the stage for a...

I clean, I tidy, I fold.I listen, I watch, I lie...I told her I was the housekeeper, and who was she to question? What I lack in experience, I make up for in hard work. I do my best to keep this enormous house...

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - From the best-selling author of Three Strong Women comes a thrilling novel about a triple homicide that dredges up unsettling memories from a lawyer's childhood. A Best...

Saving Myself: A Love Story by Claudia Gaye is a gripping tale set in the deep South, where Autumn, a woman raised to be "proper" and civilized, battles through the tumultuous journey of survival against physical, emotional, and mental abuse. Her story is one...

"She has to look at you like God. If she can touch God whenever and make God do whatever she wants, you're not God anymore to her." -"The" Pimp God (Warren B) A Pimp God is a critical thinker, a strategist, a female architect...

A teenage girl breaks free from her father's world of isolation in this exhilarating novel of family, identity, and the power we have to shape our own destinies--from the New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Things and Watch Me Disappear The first thing...

It is crunch time for the fastidious copy editor Seamus Cullen, who decades earlier had lived very differently. Failing at work and required to take leave, he finds solace in memories of his freewheeling twenties, and pursues them back to a present that's subtly...

When your boss is at a conference in a city where there's a suspicious death, it's unlucky. If it happens twice, it's odd. But when she's in the same city at the same time as a third unexplained death . . . Could she...

The bestselling author of The Drowning Woman returns with a terrifying tale of a writer caught up in a web of ever-growing paranoia and menace that will keep you guessing in this "dark, twisted heartstopper." (Heather Gudenkauf) Camryn Lane is living her dream. After...

Drawing inspiration from real-life events and individuals, it is a narrative rich in action, suspense, and political intrigue. At its core are the CIA's Omerta operations-secret missions aimed at rescuing the U.S. from an imminent financial collapse fueled by national debt and government corruption....

Josef Dietrick lives with his self-absorbed mother, abusive step-father, and bullying step-brother, Marteen, in 1930s Berlin, Germany. When a brutal sexual attack at the hands of Marteen's friend, Tielo, sends Josef homeless into the streets, he is taken in by the kind-hearted Lucas and...

In the vein of The Bad Seed comes a twisty, atmospheric psychological suspense about a meddlesome elderly guest at a decadent luxury hotel who believes she has left her problematic past behind, until she decides to interfere in the lives of a young mother...

When a storm arrives in the forest, Lee finds himself trapped in a tent in the rain. While his world grows smaller as the storm continues, Lee suspects there is something different about the weather it has brought to the woods. Written during and...

A confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld's international sensation, The Discomfort of Evening. It tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside...

"Spine-tingling fun." --People"Lisa Unger, you've done it again." --Sarah Michelle Gellar, Emmy Award-winning actressA couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this unputdownable thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six.Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making...

The Boys of Barren County is a dark and gritty story about a group of teenagers who love to live life on the edge, so much so that they resort to sex, drugs, and murder. All in the name of keeping themselves occupied.Author: Jason...

A powerful and provocative novel about racial identity, Passing tells the story of two African-American women in 1920s New York who are reunited after many years. It explores themes of class, gender, and the legacy of slavery, and was widely celebrated for its honesty...

When six gifted children vanish around the globe, an investigation reveals genetic experimentation, dubious funding and the disappearance of a research assistant.Searching for proof of the Exodus, biblical archaeologist Lynne Raven meets enigmatic billionaire heir Connor Mackenzie. As the two grow closer, a disturbing...

A surreal fairytale about a character who loses their pet whale and goes on a series of adventures looking for it. The story is based on dreams the author had and recorded, made sketches of, and then made into a dreamlike narrative. Each page...

A QUESTIONABLE SUICIDE... A DETECTIVE'S SUSPICION... AND A DESPERATE HUNT FOR A SERIAL KILLER BEFORE MORE VICTIMS ARE FOUND. New York Police Department's Sixteenth Precinct in Manhattan is under siege by the flu, and Detective Nick Larson and his partner, Detective Victor Sacco, are...

The eternal quest for love can lead to happiness and pain at the same time. It seems like all the joys of life come with a price when we open our heart. But there isn't any challenge that is too big when our soul...

How to describe the Great Ski-Lift?A colossal and audacious high-altitude defying network. A system formed by ski-lifts and cable-ways linking an infinite number of possible lines and points across the Sierra mountain chain.Our journey begins with Oskar entering the symbolic realm: a deserted forecourt...

Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.Author: Eleanor...

A doctor is diagnosed with an incurable skin cancer. As he faces his mortality, and attempts to avoid it, his life parallels a New York family immediately recognizable as having a common thread with him. The doctor was adopted and has no known siblings...

Two athletic honeymooners vacationing in the woods near Big Sur, on the California coast, just want to take a breather from each other's firefighting, smoke-jumping, rappelling out of helicopters, and forensic DNA analysis career duties. They find themselves accidentally hiking into a rural nudist...

Brothers Oren and Josh disappear into the woods. Only Oren comes out. Twenty years later, the mystery of what happened to Josh is going to be exposed, and somebody is finally sending him home-bone by bone.Author: Carol O'ConnellISBN-10: 0425231054ISBN-13: 9780425231050Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

View our feature on Marjorie Liu's A Wild Light.For too long Maxine Kiss has felt an inexplicable darkness inside her-a force she channels into hunting the demons bent on destroying the human race. But when she finds herself covered in blood and crouched beside...

Everyone thinks my husband is dead. Just like we planned... Eleven years ago, my husband disappeared. Eleven long hard years I waited, my heart breaking for our son, who didn't know his father was coming back. Today, my hands shake as I try to...

Five best friends. One unforgettable bachelorette weekend. A Vegas adventure that will change their lives forever.Jess has always been the responsible one, the planner. But for her bachelorette party in Las Vegas, she's ready to let loose with her four best friends. VIP passes,...

Two long years have passed, the time stolen from Frank's life. He was guilty, and he understood that, deserving the prison sentence for his girlfriend's death. But with time comes change. He's a reformed man now, severed from his addiction, and clean from its...

Author: Amory Patrick BlaineISBN-10: 196014233XISBN-13: 9781960142337Publisher: Manhattan Book GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/10/2024Pages: 424Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d

The Place Where Love and Anger Meet Inherent in every human being is the capacity for great goodness and great harm. To live peacefully and productively in the world, we must learn how to recognize and channel these diverse energies. In this groundbreaking work,...

When finance writer Yuki's enigmatic and estranged older brother is found decomposing in his apartment, her only clues to his bizarre demise are her memories of him. As Yuki descends deeper and deeper into her own psyche, she catches glimpses of her true nature....

Heathers meets The Stepford Wives in this creepy and frighteningly funny dark thriller about a woman who will do anything to find her missing sister. Even pretend to be one of them.After her twin sister, Chiara, goes missing at a mom-fluencer weekend, Adrienne Shaw...

Author: Scarlett R. AlgeeISBN-10: 1734389753ISBN-13: 9781734389753Publisher: Cold War Radio PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/2024Pages: 34Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.08d

She wants him back. I want her gone.I've never felt welcome in my husband Dominic's family home. His parents make it clear I'm a poor comparison to his perfect first wife, Carla. But we're here for Christmas, so it's important to pretend everything is...

A story of boy meets girl meets AI therapist, Sike explores our aching pursuit of love and self-control Adrian earns his living writing lyrics for rappers he never meets, and finds success with a hit song about his own fruitless search for love. After...

"The farm was all I knew, and I was happy with that," Floyd answered. "What I missed in school, I learned from my family and hard work. I was never interested in much else. The things I can do now came naturally, like I...

Five best friends. One unforgettable bachelorette weekend. A Vegas adventure that will change their lives forever.Jess has always been the responsible one, the planner. But for her bachelorette party in Las Vegas, she's ready to let loose with her four best friends. VIP passes,...

A heartbroken motherWhen seventeen-year-old Isla Richardson is killed in a hit-and-run incident, a community's lives are thrown into disarray. For Isla's mum, Abby, it is her second devastating bereavement, having lost her husband five years ago. As Abby begins to uncover secrets about Isla's...

In this gripping and emotionally charged novel based on real events, readers are introduced to a young woman named Mercy, whose life has been marked by immense hardships and trauma. The story delves into the deep wounds and struggles that Mercy has endured, including...

Author: Alex BrownISBN-10: 1961763125ISBN-13: 9781961763128Publisher: Open Kimono PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2024Pages: 90Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.38d

Author: Daniel HurstISBN-10: 1836182996ISBN-13: 9781836182993Publisher: BookoutureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/05/2024Pages: 254Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.58d

Solomon, along with his literature professor, Yan Eadful, develops the much-coveted WRITE (Wellness and Recreational Institute for Therapeutic Exploration) program. However, a string of deaths forces the program to end abruptly. A decade later, Solomon is weighed down by unmet potential and estranged from...

A thrilling metafiction about grief, the internet, and the difficulty of knowing others, The Voices of Adriana combines the psychological acuity of Marguerite Duras with the creative possibility of One Thousand and One Nights.Adriana has become obsessed with her father's online dating. Recently widowed,...