Fiction - Psychological

Complex, urgent, and fascinating, this novel about walking, memory, and writing has earned comparisons from Virginia Woolf to Karl Ove Knausg rd. The narrator walks from Glebe to a central Sydney, Australia caf to return a manuscript by a recently deceased writer. While she...

THE BRAIN HAS NO FIREWALLPierce Reston is a member of an elite unit of extreme persuasion experts.After people across the nation begin reporting 'missing time', and a series of unexplained terrifying coincidences, he's assigned to investigate.Women going missing in Prague, and a national outbreak...

Warm, wise, and magical--the latest novel by the bestselling author of THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP and THE LITTLE FRENCH BISTRO is an astonishing exploration of the thresholds between life and death Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past....

"False memories and clairvoyant dreams combine in Agualusa's sweeping, intricately plotted tale of personal and political history in Angola . . . " - Publishers Weekly When Daniel Benchimol--consummate dreamer--uncovers the photographed reveries of a famous Mozambican artist, Moira, his fascination quickly develops to...

Named a "Must-Read" by Town & Country * Elite Daily * InStyle "The love child of Gossip Girl and Crazy Rich Asians, plus the social climbing of a Gatsby party." --Refinery29 In the tradition of The Emperor's Children and The House of Mirth, the...

Written in 1912, Death in Venice is Thomas Mann's best-known novella -- a haunting, elegiac masterpiece in which the main character, Gustav Aschenbach, is a successful and much-revered author. While vacationing in Venice, this highly disciplined writer, who always has maintained extraordinary control of...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - The middle-aged hero of Rabbit, Run, returns--from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century. The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run, ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux, has come to enjoy considerable...

"I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?" The question is posed by Jean, a photographer, who arrives on Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, to research a century-old crime. As she...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The Dexter series continues with a deadly duel with a copycat. - The Killer Character That Inspired the Hit Showtime Series Dexter Dexter is displeased. Like any self-respecting, totally decent, soundly homicidal guy, Dexter Morgan takes great pride in his work...

One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. In the words of one contemporary, it divided the world "into two different Parties, Pamelists and Anti-pamelists,"...

National Book Award Finalist The breakout novel from a writer of extraordinary talent: In the wake of a devastating terrorist attack, one man struggles to make sense of his world, even as the world tries to make use of himBrian Remy has no idea...

An electric collection of new short stories from the inimitable, bestselling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking InIn the title story of Walk Between the Raindrops, a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP....

Sometimes to find heaven, you have to go through hell...Sarah has the perfect life-a successful career, a successful lawyer husband, and the freedom to do whatever she wants. Or does she?Behind the fa軋de, her marriage is a shambles, she hates her career, and she...

The Guardian Best Translated Fiction CrimeReads Best International Crime Novel of the Year In this gothic tale reminiscent of Faulkner's Light in August, a young woman's journals divulge the horrible secrets of a wealthy family in late nineteenth-century rural France. Before he is called...

From the bestselling author of What Have You Done comes a real whodunit about the bloody crimes that keep families together and tear them apart.Eighteen-year-old Jenny Moore is looking forward to a fresh start at college. There's just one problem: the people in her...

First published nearly a quarter-century ago and one of the very few short-story collections to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, this is American fiction at its most vital--each narrative a masterpiece of sustained power and seemingly effortless literary grace. Two New York attorneys newly flush...

The highly acclaimed debut from an author profiled by the New Yorker as her country's "unlikely literary star," Last Night in Nuuk follows the lives of five young Greenlanders exploring their identities at the cusp of adulthood. Niviaq Korneliussen is a ground-breaking young writer...

Laura Brandon's promise to her dying father was simple: to visit an elderly woman she'd never heard of before. A woman who remembers nothing--except the distant past. Visiting Sarah Tolley seemed a small enough sacrifice to make. But Laura's promise results in another death....

"My intention is to portray a truly beautiful soul." --Dostoevsky Despite the harsh circumstances besetting his own life--abject poverty, incessant gambling, the death of his youngest child--Dostoevsky produced a second masterpiece, The Idiot, after completing Crime and Punishment. In it, a saintly man, Prince...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A "suspenseful, dazzlingly clever and gravely profound" (The Washington Post) novel that brilliantly recasts Shakespeare and lends new weight to the age-old question of Hamlet's hesitation, from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement.Trudy has been unfaithful to her...

Once the Orme family's magnificent ancestral estate, Observatory Mansions is now a crumbling apartment complex, home to an eccentric group of misfits. One of them is Francis Orme, who earns his livelihood as a living statue. When not practicing "inner and outer stillness," Francis...

New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year "A new masterpiece of American literature." --Dennis Lehane, Entertainment Weekly "A Prayer for the Dying reads like the amazing, unrelenting love child of Shirley Jackson and Cormac McCarthy. It's twisted proof that God will...

From the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander series comes a touching and intimate story about an embattled man's unexpected chance at redemption. Many years ago a devastating mistake drove Fredrik Welin into a life as far as possible from his former position as...

When lightning strikes, lives are changed. BECCA On a sunny day in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, eight-year-old Becca Burke was struck by lightning. No one believed her-not her philandering father or her drunk, love-sick mother-not even when her watch kept losing time and a...

Knot doesn't remember how they came to live with Bigman, nor whether their name is actually Knot. Bigman calls, and Knot answers. Not a boy. Not a girl. Not getting any bigger over the past twenty years.John Bigman makes enough money selling good weather...

"Dark, seductive . . . Noirish and sexy, this provocative novel explores what it's like to be a woman on the edge." --Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire " A] crispy biscotti of a novel . . . You'll feel indecent reading it in public." --Molly Young,...

From the legendary New York Times bestselling author of Flowers in the Attic and My Sweet Audrina (now Lifetime movies) comes the first book in a new series featuring identical twin sisters forced to act, look, and feel truly identical by a perfectionist mother....

New York City, the near future: Mitchell Zukor works on the cutting edge of corporate irresponsibility, and business is booming. A brilliant mathematician, he spends his days calculating worst-case scenarios for FutureWorld, a consulting firm that indemnifies corporations against potential disasters. As Mitchell immerses...

This eerie ghost story, from Richard Matheson, the award-winning author of Hell House and I Am Legend, inspired the acclaimed 1999 film starring Kevin Bacon. Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awakened psychic abilities he never knew he possessed. Now...

With her acclaimed novels Harvest and Life Support, Tess Gerritsen has injected a powerful dose of adrenaline into the medical thriller. Now, Gerritsen melds page-turning suspense with chilling realism as a small-town doctor races to unravel the roots of a violent outbreak--before it destroys...

The closing of the grand old Fauborg Hotel in Beverly Hills is a sad occasion for longtime patrons Alex Delaware and Robin Castagna, who go there one last time for cocktails. But even more poignant--and curious--is a striking young woman in elegant attire and...

The second of James's three late masterpieces, was, in its author's opinion, "the best, all round, of my productions". Lambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular achievements, is dispatched to Paris from the manufacturing empire of Woollett, Massachusetts. The mission conferred on...

Robert has been an imaginary twin brother to Lillian for over eighteen years.After the sudden and deliberate death of their older sister, Robert is forced to confront the inevitability of his own death as an imagined being.Interspersed between Robert's grappling with the logistics of...

"Blood Will Tell is a fierce novel of suspense, secrets, and family drama. Chavez brilliantly intertwines story and tension into a captivating novel." -- Samantha Downing, internationally bestselling author of My Lovely Wife and For Your Own GoodFrom the author of the acclaimed debut...

Forensics expert Laughton Rees hunts an unusually clever killer who appears to be staging murder scenes just for her in this twisty new psychological thriller by the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy.How do you catch a killer if the victim doesn't exist?A glamorous...

Sheriff Bree Taggert's downfall is part of a killer's cunning design in #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh's novel of murder, lies, and revenge.Called to an isolated farm to check on an elderly widow, Sheriff Bree Taggert finds a...

He'd do anything to protect his wife. But what if that meant making the biggest mistake of all?James Casper is one of the good guys. A DEA agent. A loyal husband. With his sights set on the man at the top of the city's...

Zoe fainted on her wedding day, and she never knew why. She's always felt sure something bad happened. Ten years later, she's going to find out what... It was supposed to be the happiest day of her life. Zoe was sitting in her hotel...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF OUR KIND OF CRUELTY"A stunning, dark novel about who women want to be and the reality of who they are." --Samantha Downing, author of His Lovely Wife"Promises to please those who enjoy psychological thrillers and all those who love Elena...

A musician, a taxidermist, and a scientist all attempt to exert control over their intersecting fates.Author: Jorge ConsiglioISBN-10: 1999368460ISBN-13: 9781999368463Publisher: Charco PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/18/2021Pages: 150Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.60dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2021Publishers Weekly 03/29/2021

A Refinery29 Best Summer Thriller - An Amazon Best Book of the Month The anxieties of motherhood take center stage in this "atmospheric and very creepy" debut psychological thriller that reinvents the changeling myth with the flair of Angela Carter (Guardian). Everyone says Lauren...

The lyrical first novel of youth and love by acclaimed modernist master Gaito Gazdanov, author of The Spectre of Alexander Wolf Two old friends meet nightly in Paris, trading conversational barbs and manoeuvring around submerged feelings. Throughout the ten years of their separation, thoughts...

They were only watchingThe mysterious lovers the three girls spied on were engaged in a deadly sexual game no one was supposed to know about. Especially Andie and her friends, whose curiosity had deepened into a dangerous obsession . . .Now, fifteen years later,...

You couldn't have done anything to save her. Or could you? Sylvie Armstrong has been running from her past for twenty years - until her mother's death forces her to return to her home town, along with her newborn daughter. Overwhelmed by grief in...

Stoner author John Williams's first novel is a searing look at a man's relationship with his absent father, and how early trauma manifests throughout one's life John Williams's first novel is a brooding psychological noir. Arthur Maxley is a young man at the end...

By turns lyrical and philosophical, witty and baffling, A School for Fools confounds all expectations of the novel. Here we find not one reliable narrator but two "unreliable" narrators: the young man who is a student at the "school for fools" and his double....

Is the devil in Eldon Fochs? Is he a sexual psychopath? Or is the church protecting him to blame?Author: Brian EvensonISBN-10: 1566894158ISBN-13: 9781566894159Publisher: Coffee House PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/09/2016Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.50d

A double life with a single purpose: revenge.Jane's days at a Midwest insurance company are perfectly ordinary. She blends in well, unremarkably pretty in her floral-print dresses and extra efficient at her low-level job. She's just the kind of woman middle manager Steven Hepsworth...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2020, now a Hulu Original Series! "'Saint X' is hypnotic. Schaitkin's characters...are so intelligent and distinctive it feels not just easy, but necessary, to follow them. I devoured [it] in a day."-Oyinkan Braithwaite, New York Times Book...

THE VOICE SEEPS LIKE BLOOD...Soothing, cajoling, raising, commandingAuthor: Val McDermidISBN-10: 1250093236ISBN-13: 9781250093233Publisher: St. Martin's PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2006Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.93d