Fiction - Psychological

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER They were the family with everything. Money. Influence. Glamour. Power. The power to halt a police investigation in its tracks. The power to spin a story, concoct a lie, and believe it was the truth. The power to murder without...

A gripping thriller debut, set deep in the heart of the world's most powerful political arena. A year ago, fresh out of Harvard Law School, Mike Ford landed his dream job at the Davies Group, Washington's most powerful consulting firm. Now, he's staring down...

The fifth novel in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series--the inspiration for the Hulu original series Shardlake! Summer 1545. A massive French armada is threatening England, and Henry VIII has plunged the country into economic crisis to finance the war. Meanwhile, an old servant...

"Timely, monumental. . . . Yet another piercing examination of American culture by the writer this reviewer considers our country's greatest living novelist. . . . It is brilliant. How blessed we are to have her as a novelist in our chaotic, confusing times....

A REESE WITHERSPOON HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK WITH OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD!"Will keep you up. In a 'can't put it down' way. It's 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' with XX chromosomes." --The Skimm"Deliciously duplicitous. . . . equally as twisty, spellbinding, and addictive...

How do you solve a mystery when you can't remember the clues?In this darkly riveting debut novel--a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also an heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging--an elderly woman descending into dementia embarks on a desperate quest to find...

"Deeply moving, superbly crafted, and highly unconventional." --Washington TimesRaven Stole the Moon is the stunning first novel from Garth Stein, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Art of Racing in the Rain. A profoundly poignant and unforgettable story of a grieving...

Fresh out of college, small-town crime reporter Cara Nielsen sees disturbing things that suggest, for the first time in her life, that evil is real. But as the daughter of two secular academics, she pushes that notion aside. When her smart, ambitious boyfriend asks...

The Sins of Mrs. Ema is a provocative novel by author Mirela Kanini about true happiness in life. Is it money or love?How do we balance having a devoted husband and then fi nding the right person at the wrong time?How far will we...

The last thing Joanna Lawrence wishes to do is spend her summer in the United States, even if it is California. Where the lights and glamour may tempt some, she and Professor Brendan Keane find themselves once more facing the side of society kept...

A winner: tense and terrifying with a twist you'll never see coming. You won't soon forget these characters and the shocking ways their lives intersect. -- Laura Dave, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told MeEvery marriage has its...

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK"Chandler Baker, queen of the feminist thriller, has delivered once again! The Husbands is a poignant exploration of what it would take for women to have it all." --Sally Hepworth, bestselling author of The Good SisterTo what lengths...

In this haunting tale, Daphne du Maurier takes a fresh approach to time travel. A secret experimental concoction, once imbibed, allows you to return to the fourteenth century. There is only one catch: if you happen to touch anyone while traveling in the past...

Author: Eduardo DuranISBN-10: 0595138985ISBN-13: 9780595138982Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/20/2000Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.12h x 5.96w x 0.59d

Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. With his death just hours away, Troy Phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and his minions--a message that...

The author of the international bestseller A Suitable Boy returns with a powerful and deeply romantic tale of two gifted musicians. Michael Holme is a violinist, a member of the successful Maggiore Quartet. He has long been haunted, though, by memories of the pianist...

Enter a world equal parts Dexter and 50 Shades of Grey in this first award winning erotic thriller from A.R. Torre! My life is simple, as long as I follow the rules. 1. Don't leave the apartment. 2. Never let anyone in. 3. Don't...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - "Meaty, gripping, full of tantalizing twists" (Associated Press), this installment of the international bestselling series brings Inspector Harry Hole back from Hong Kong hot on the trail of a serial killer. Inspector Harry Hole has retreated to Hong Kong, escaping the...

Perhaps one of the most revered works of fiction in the twentieth-century, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a modern classic about integrity, courage, and bucking the system. Its title story recounts the story of a reform school cross-country runner who seizes...

"I DEVOURED The Perfect Girl. An incredible page turner with awesome characters and suspense. Bravo." --KATE WHITE, New York Times Bestselling Author"For anyone who loved The Girl on the Train, it's a must read." -- ROSAMUND LUPTON, New York Times Bestselling AuthorZoe Maisey is...

New York Times Bestseller"An exceptional thriller. It left my nerves jangling for hours after I finished the last page." -Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Shutter Island"Imagine drifting off every night knowing that your memories will be wiped away by morning. That's...

A finely-hued and twisting tale of psychological suspense--a story rich in deadly secrets, salacious lies, and unexpected betrayals--No Mark Upon Her is everything New York Times bestseller Deborah Crombie's fans have come to expect from this exceptional writer . . . and more.Olympic rowing...

They disappeared...That was just the beginning.When five strangers are abandoned on an island without any idea where they are or whom to trust, their nightmarish new reality begins to unfold.Someone is lying.Someone is hiding a terrible secret.They'd all do anything to get home... Wouldn't...

A slim but powerful work of metafiction by a Nobel Prize-winning French writer and intellectual. Andr Gide is the inventor of modern metafiction and of autofiction, and his short novel Marshlands shows him handling both forms with a deft and delightful touch. The protagonist...

A wealthy family tries--and fails--to seal themselves off from the chaos of post-World War II life surrounding them in this stunning novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers. In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red...

The scientist Roithamer has dedicated the last six years of his life to "the Cone," an edifice of mathematically exact construction that he has erected in the center of his family's estate in honor of his beloved sister. Not long after its completion, he...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Laurie R. King's Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes series weaves rich historical detail and provocative themes with intriguing characters and enthralling suspense. Russell and Holmes have become one of modern literature's most beloved teams. But does this adventure end it all?...

The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling...

The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to 'live well', Henry James's The Ambassadors is edited with an introduction and notes by Adrian Poole in Penguin Classics. Concerned that her son Chad may have become involved with...

Joe Allston, the retired literary agent of Stegner's National Book Award-winning novel, The Spectator Bird, returns in this disquieting and keenly observed novel. Scarred by the senseless death of their son and baffled by the engulfing chaos of the 1960s, Allston and his wife,...

If you've ever experienced sibling rivalry, you can be thankful you never had a brother like Lenny Kuhr.While growing up in the 1950's on a family run dairy farm in Binghamton New York, the psychological and emotional dynamics of three brothers unfolds into a...

Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and named a Best Summer Beach Read by BuzzFeed From one of Brazil's most important living writers, a powerful reflection on the effects of isolation and feelings of inadequacy in our time. Sick and abandoned by his wife...

Tia never harmed anyone. So why does someone want to destroy her? Tia is walking home with her children, along the lakeside of their quiet, safe town, when she realises something is wrong with her five-year-old daughter, Rosie. She seems troubled, not at all...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR TELEVISION EVENT FROM NBC, STARRING RUSSELL HORNSBY, ARIELLE KEBBEL, AND MICHAEL IMPERIOLI. Lincoln Rhyme, the quadriplegic detective made famous in The Bone Collector is back in a thriller from the masterful Jeffery Deaver. When a sadistic killer leaves clocks...

A masterpiece of 20th-century Russian literature--now in its first complete English translation "One of the greatest Russian writers of short stories" chronicles life in a Soviet gulag, drawing on his own years in a USSR prison camp and laying bare the perils of totalitarianism...

Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she's now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that...

From the bestselling author of Catch-22, Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive second novel Something Happened takes a satirical look at business life and American culture. Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the...

One of the sinuous and subtly crafted stories in Tobias Wolff's new collection--his first in eleven years--begins with a man biting a dog. The fact that Wolff is reversing familiar expectations is only half the point. The other half is that Wolff makes the...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - "A dark and thoughtful tale... Grisham is at his best." --People In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm: Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it...

Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Italo Svevo's charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conducts readers deep into one hilariously hyperactive and endlessly self-deluding mind. The mind...

Two missing girls. Two brutal murders. All connected to one farmhouse. Who is to blame? When pretty and popular teenagers Piper Hadley and Tash McBain disappear one Sunday morning, the investigation captivates a nation but the girls are never found. Three years later, during...

This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early...

Catherine Williams earns her living shucking oysters in a filthy, mosquito-infested shed, like all Geechee women in Pin Point, Georgia, in 1904. Even though she graduates eighth grade and yearns to escape, none of the men whose children she bears can help her. Prohibition...

Your daughter is missing. Did someone close to you take her?Seven-year-old Beatrice has gone missing. Her mother Claire's whole world has been turned upside down in just one moment and she can't stop shaking. She's desperate to find her precious daughter, but nothing about...

With raw, lyrical ferocity, All the Comfort Sin Can Provide delves into the beguiling salve that sin can promise-tracing those hidden places most of us are afraid to acknowledge. In this collection of brutally unsentimental short stories, Grant Faulkner chronicles dreamers, addicts, and lost...

Mary Higgins Clark, the bestselling "Queen of Suspense," returns with Alvirah Meehan--one of her most beloved characters--in these six dazzling, intertwined, and thrilling tales of sleuthing and suspense. Together with her devoted mate, the ever-resourceful Alvirah has jumped into crime solving on a grand...

"Powerful." --The Washington Post "Fiercely astute." --Tayari Jones, O, The Oprah Magazine "A voice for the invisible." --Essence A sister seeks to uncover the truth about her twin's disappearance in this critically acclaimed novel hailed as "a powerful song about what it means to...

From USA Today bestselling author Carter Wilson comes a psychological thriller about forgotten strangers, dark pasts, and a secret so big it just might destroy everything.They meet on a plane, but nothing about this situation is coincidental... This flight will take them somewhere they...

From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner--also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom William Faulkner was a master of the short story. Most of the...