Fiction - Psychological

On the eve of the Occupy Wall Street protests, C is flat broke. Once a renowned textile artist, she's now the sole proprietor of an arts supply store in Lower Manhattan. Divorced, alone, at loose ends, C is stuck with a struggling business, a...

A mother's unthinkable crime and an investigator's forgotten past collide in a shocking novel of suspense by Anne Frasier, the New York Times bestselling author of The Body Reader.Private detective Olivia Welles hasn't been to her hometown since her childhood, not since the night...

From Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark, a thriller "that grabs you with the first paragraph and never let's go" (USA TODAY) about a woman desperate to uncover the truth behind her beloved stepmother's death. At a party in Manhattan, Maggie Holloway--one of the...

Introducing "Beautifully Damned" by Jane Wolf, a poignant and captivating collection of poems and short stories that explore the depths of the human experience. Drawing from personal struggles and connections with those around them, Jane Wolf offers a unique perspective on the beauty and...

Dreams are but our brains reflecting what they have seen, experienced, and imagined. These images can be distorted, reversed, warped, and deformed into something terrifying. Delve into stories born from nightmares and contorted into journeys dark and fearsome, the corrupt dreams of a darkened...

Morris Magellan wakes one morning to find himself stuck in a corporate job and living the suburban dream with a wife and two children, except this dream feels like a nightmare. Out of his depth and starting to drift from reality, we meet Morris...

Fear is an illusion banished by courage.Two months after escaping an underground prison, Abby is determined to redefine her limits by testing the boundaries defining her existence.Practicing law fulfills her need for order and consistency, but chaos soon decimates her neat and structured life....

Gripping, insightful, and deft, The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives, from the award-winning author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait. On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man...

Flash Fiction writing legend Tommy Dean called this debut collection "wickedly fun, deeply cutting, and as creepy as a funhouse mirror." Meet award-winning author M. M. De Voe in a collection of dark, challenging stories that represent some of her best writing in short...

A thought-provoking mystery about the intersection of faith and rationality. Walker, an emotionally frigid scientist, is propelled by the mysterious murder of his sister into an exploration of a world of alternative spiritual viewpoints-mingled with the grim reality of a brutal murder. In the...

What if your deepest, darkest fears were inked on your skin for the world to see?Famous plastic surgeon Derek Hollinger has it all: money, success, luxury cars, and an L.A. penthouse near the beach. Who cares if he has no friends or lovers? He...

Asle is an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the west coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbor, ﾅsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bj rgvin, lives another Asle, also a...

Selected by Evelyn Waugh as the best first novel of 1953, and phenomenally praised by critics on first publication, Hugo Charteris' A Share of the World is one of the great lost novels. This is the first republication in a concerted programme of bringing...

'Fatally addictive!' real reader reviewThe Forrester Detective Agency is going from strength to strength: they've expanded their office space and even hired a new office manager - a qualified and astute woman named Carol.What starts as a simple burglary case soon turns into something...

When a fortune turns into a nightmare, trust becomes the ultimate currency.Lynn Miller is having one of the happiest days of her life: she has just won a life-changing lottery! Now her dreams and goals seem within reach. But the glittering prize becomes a...

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families at war.Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in...

As Micah drives his family home from a much needed vacation, the unthinkable occurs; a flat tire with no spare. Hours pass by without help, extinguishing hope and darkening the fond memories of the trip, but finally, their savior arrives. A grizzled mountain man...

A farcical detective story and a profoundly refractive tale about a Russian émigré living in prewar Berlin who commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer even greater indiginities in the afterlife. - A wonderfully layered exploration of the vicissitudes...

Twenty years ago, someone murdered my best friend the night she was crowned prom queen. Now I'm finally going to prove it...After Bailey died, I fled our small lakeside hometown and never returned. But now I'm forced back here and I can't avoid the...

For a brilliant forensic linguist, crimes of the past hold clues to new series of murders in a twisting novel of suspense by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of A Familiar Sight.The double murder of a married couple in a small Washington town...

Dance Moms meets Little Fires Everywhere in award winning author Tammy Greenwood's addictive new novel set in the hyper cutthroat world of ballet girls and their mothers as they compete for a prestigious prize... AN INDIE NEXT PICK "The Still Point is a must-read...

At thirty-two, a man's life is brought to a close by a concoction of fentanyl-laced Percocet.As his life ends, an extraordinary spiritual voyage begins - sparked by a burning quest to unravel the circumstances of his untimely end.Samuel's spirit is welcomed into the ethereal...

Traded to a brothel owner as payment for a gambling debt, Dolly Stroud's Arizona life is forever changed.Forced into a world of exhibition and danger, Dolly is left to fend for herself - until well-meaning neighbor Trace Anderson interferes and presents the opportunity for...

This book contains graphic sex and violence, and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.When successful author Sherri Lambert moves back to her hometown after 40 years, she doesn't expect to run into high school heartthrob Dylan Roberts - or to...

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...

A drowned man. A sinister circus. And murder... murder... murder.Nod Blake, the cynical, wise-cracking private eye, is back. He's an aging throwback to a bygone era of detecting on the mean streets; a dinosaur of a private eye who never got the memo that...

In the midst of World War I, the son of a British aristocrat and daughter of an English colonel are roped into a treasonous plot. They must navigate secret agents and spies who are convinced of their guilt. A chance meeting between Catherine Abbeway...

Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work--and seeks out Philip Slate, a sex addict whom he failed to help some twenty years earlier. Yet Philip claims to be cured--miraculously...

Has somebody at any point exploited you for their advantage? Has somebody you cherished entered your life quick and afterward left without to such an extent as a clarification after they took all that they could from you? You may have been a survivor...

A spellbinding book about a missing child, and about the life of a writer. Bold, suspenseful, and impossible to put down. This one will stay with me for a long time. -- Samantha Downing, #1 internationally bestselling author of My Lovely WifeThe acclaimed author...

In this dystopian novel set in the 2030s, a man suffering from a gunshot wound is trying to remember what happened to him in the years since Trump got elected.Fimple is an alcoholic psychological counselor suffering from post-traumatic amnesia. As he recovers in the...

This is a story of blooming love and betrayal, about children coming of age, of conscience and the sociopaths who lack it; it is a story about trust and how true love empowers and heals us. In the end, it is a story about...

Obscure Destinies Is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1932. Willa Sibert Cather was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, works such as O Pioneers , My ntonia, and The...

The news is very shocking. Russian troops are terrorizing Ukrainian civilians, raping their women, abducting their children, looting their homes and killing indiscriminately. Shocking, but, sadly, nothing new. The same thing happened in Myanmar, in Syria and Bosnia.This book, set in 1992 as the...

When Alejandra German first immigrates to America, she has great hope that her new life will be much better than the one she left behind in Uruguay. But as the years pass, Alejandra discovers that her challenges have followed her. Now the mother of...

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM They thought they would be friends forever--but what comes first, friendship or love? Revised edition: This edition of The 30th Candle includes editorial revisions. Linda, Dikeledi, Nolwazi and Sade spent their twenties pursuing fast-paced careers and love lives in...

Margo learns how to manipulate from a very early age. She grows up with a single mother who enjoys her drink every night after her shift at the restaurant and brings a different man home every day. Margo wants to be nothing like her...

An outsider threatens to expose the secrets at an elite private school in this suspenseful debut novel for readers of My Dark Vanessa and Dare Me Louise Manson is the newest student at Highfield Manor, Dublin's most exclusive private school. It seems nearly perfect:...

A harrowing, unforgettable masterpiece by the winner of the Booker International PrizeA 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...

The Bannerman Shortlist has been announced.Six authors. Six stories.And Gideon Bannerman is missing.'Colin Batrouney's new novel is unexpected and alluring. Balancing out satire which hits home with feelings which run deep is something only truly accomplished writers can achieve - and he does.' -...

For two sisters, confronting the past could come at a terrible price in a riveting novel about a family tragedy--and family secrets--by the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author Elle Marr.Fiona and Violet Seng were just children when their family's Cessna crash-landed in the Washington...

In Book 2, Ramon's Dream travels continue, and the discoveries he makes start to lead to physical healing in the real world. Ramon also learns more about Lt. Steven Brisco, both during his time in Vietnam and in the present day, leading their lives...

A moving, page-turning story of two families in crisis and the unexpected places from which love can grow."The true mystery Lapid seeks to unveil is one of the most burning questions of our time: What does it mean to be a woman in today's...

Relaxation. Recovery. Revenge...The sunlight sparkles on the bright turquoise of the pool, next to the freshly painted house with its trailing pink flowers and terracotta roof. I feel a jolt of pride. My partner José and I have dreamed of this moment, opening our...

A nerve-tingling and atmospheric thriller from master of suspense Nicci French about two families shattered by tragedy and the secrets that have been waiting decades to be revealed.On the day of Alec Salter's fiftieth birthday party, his wife, Charlotte, vanishes. Most of the small...

On the anniversary of her husband's death, forty-nine-year-old Emily Holt runs away, leaving an unmade bed, an unlocked house, two college-aged sons, and an overabundance of bad memories. Struggling to make peace with the death of a husband who'd been lost to mental illness,...

The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Peter--both in their violence and in their maddening unreality. The blaze of events which followed was,...

They promised you'd be safe. They were wrong. It started with a convicted killer's first threat of revenge... "For every precious thing I lose, you lose two." DA Kirsten Lord saw her husband gunned down before her eyes. Now Kirsten is living in fear,...

The first novel from New York Times-bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a thrilling, dark tale of family, revenge, and two souls intertwined by love and violence--now back in print for fans of America's most prolific storyteller.Written when Joyce Carol Oates was in her early...

"Oates is a fearless writer." --Los Angeles Times "Oates is a master of the dark tale--stories of the hunted and the hunter, of violence, trauma, and deep psychic wounds."--Booklist (starred review) Sourland is a gripping, haunting, and intensely moving collection of short stories by...