Fiction - Psychological

The internationally bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish follows that success with an addictive thriller filled with shocking twists about the aftermath of a brutal high-society murder.In a world of wealth and privilege, a killer is hiding . . .Dr. Kate English has...

"Like settling down with a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel--if it was rewritten by James M. Cain."--Denver Post Michael Gruber's Night of the Jaguar--like his earlier novels featuring Miami detective Jimmy Paz (Tropic of Night, Valley of Bones)--transforms the conventional thriller into something extraordinary, taking...

Dair Canard has long been a master at weaving stories out of thin air. A natural actress, she leads a life that's a minefield of untruths she can never admit to anyone--especially not to Peyton, her husband of eight years. But the bizarre death...

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER"Witty and macabre."--Caroline Kepnes"Slick and chilling."--Megan Miranda "A perfect summer book."--NPR USA Today bestselling author Samantha Downing is back with her latest sneaky thriller set at a prestigious private school--complete with interfering parents, overeager students, and one teacher who just wants...

What a wonderful rabbit hole to fall down. --Erika Swyler, author of Light from Other Stars and The Book of Speculation A terrifying and timely book. --Erica Ferencik, bestselling author of The River at Night and Into the Jungle As spine-chilling as it is...

Some people will do anything for financial security... Formerly homeless hustler Bianca Thomson-Wingarden had it all planned out. She found a rich man to get her pregnant and marry so she could give her child a lavish life of financial security she'd carefully prepared...

Debra Lowry loved to read from a very early age. She read all of the "Nancy Drew Mysteries", as well as just about any book she could get her hands on! She grew up in Davenport, Iowa. She attended The University of Iowa, where...

Antiques dealer Megan Fields is young, smart and beautiful. Everything the devil seeks in his personal possessions. After a gift from a client starts to turn her world upside-down, Megan seeks help from her best friend Carol and a local college professor. Together, the...

He thought his life couldn't get any worse...Wesley Gates is down on his luck. He's drowning in debt.His demanding career isn't letting up. And, to top it all off, after years of ignoring their failing marriage, his wife has had enough.Heartbroken and in desperate...

Some mistakes haunt the guilty, While others seek revenge.Roger leaves the house filled with the memories of his father's abuse to follow his sister, Kara, to the big city. He's fleeing the trauma of his childhood, though his debilitating anxiety disorder stays with him....

The multimillion-copy New York Times bestselling author B.A. Paris returns to her heartland of gripping psychological suspense in The Therapist--a powerful tale of a house that holds a shocking secret. When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a...

A missing girl. A dark secret. Dr Claire Roget is drawn into a deadly game to find the truth behind a young girl's disappearance in this chilling mystery. It's been six years since fourteen-year-old Marvel Trustrom went missing - six long years for Marvel's...

"What if my daughter had lived? Rachel-would she have looked like Jay's daughters? She died because of me."Lord Jim Fausscyn. Spare to the heir. Unprovided for. Must make his own way. Naval career first. Then His Majesty's foreign service. Luckily, he'd won the pulchritudinous...

I should wonder why I feel so comfortable with Taylor. Why I'm so enamored with a stranger I met at a bar.I should, but I don't. Alice Brewster is at a low point. After being let go from her job at the ritzy Grant...

In this internationally acclaimed novel, Steve Sem-Sandberg brilliantly refracts the story of Georg B?hner's groundbreaking play Woyzeck through a new lens. W., the astonishing novel by August Prize-winning author Steve Sem-Sandberg, is a literary reimagining of one of modern literature's touchstone texts, the play...

From the bestselling author of The Perfect Child comes a shocking thriller about the disturbing complexities of a mother's love and the deadly consequences of unravelling family secrets.On a humid summer day in Alabama, a mayor's wife turns up brutally murdered under a railroad...

What would you do if the love of your life forgot you... and met someone else?I waved my husband goodbye at the airport, and he vanished without a trace. I sat awake, night after night, looking at photos of our family. I knew he...

Timothy Gardener is a very simple, very private individual who prefers to keep to himself, but his next door neighbor is a complete lunatic! Apparently a mathematical genius, Gardener's neighbor seemingly never leaves his house, and he creates wealth, at least it seems to...

The Damnation of Theron Ware (1896) is a novel by Harold Frederic. Inspired by his upbringing in Utica, New York, The Damnation of Theron Ware is a story of faith, community, and rural life from an underappreciated master of American realism. A bestseller in...

The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829) is a short novel by Victor Hugo. Having witnessed several executions by guillotine as a young man, Hugo devoted himself in his art and political life to opposing the death penalty in France. Praised by Dostoevsky...

Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Controversial for its honest depiction of work, desire, and urban life, Sister Carrie has endured as a classic of naturalist fiction and remains a powerful example of social critique over a century after its publication....

An exploration of the class struggle in nineteenth century London where a potential inheritance turns family and friends into desperate foes eager to escape their circumstance. A compelling story about greed, deception and the innate need to survive. Michael Snowdon lives like a pauper...

(Dark Laughter is a 1925 novel by the American author Sherwood Anderson. It dealt with the new sexual freedom of the 1920s, a theme also explored in his 1923 novel Many Marriages and later works. The influence of James Joyce's Ulysses, which Anderson had...

Izzy Lewis is an ordinary girl working at a coffee shop, but she has an interesting hobby-stalking her favorite customers on social media. But when she stalks the wrong couple, things take a dark turn. A harrowing thriller about privacy, privilege, and lies by...

Revenge of the Translator is acclaimed French writer Brice Matthieussent's brilliant, hilarious, rule-defying exploration of the creative acts of writing and translating, and the often complicated relationship between authors, their translators, and readers.Author: Brice MatthieussentISBN-10: 1941920691ISBN-13: 9781941920695Publisher: Deep Vellum PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2018Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight:...

A harrowing account of the hidden violent reality of life in her native country by the figurehead of Mauritian literature.Author: Ananda DeviISBN-10: 1941920403ISBN-13: 9781941920404Publisher: Deep Vellum PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2016Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.20w x 0.50dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 10/17/2016

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is a masterpiece of aestheticism and a moral parable. Dorian Gray is a young man of impossible physical beauty whose portrait -- painted by the artist Basil Hallward -- becomes connected on an occult level with...

A perfect divorce. A new flame. And a deadly obsession. Nadine and Jake Saunders were married in their teens. Tied to one another by a night of passion that resulted in a pregnancy neither could turn away from. Now, years later, their children have...

Leo Tolstoy's novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich begins shortly after Ivan Ilyich's death. A small group of legal professionals, court members, and a private prosecutor have gathered in a private room within the Law Courts, and while looking through a newspaper one of...

Charley Willis was thirteen years old when her parents were killed in their family home and she was found hiding in a cupboard upstairs. Fifteen years later, Charley is marrying Seth Chambers. It should be the happiest day of their lives, a chance for...

My little boy's room was empty, his bed neatly made. Alarm bells should have rung immediately. Then the knock on the door came. All I remember is a thick fog wrapping itself tightly around me. This couldn't be happening to us. Three years ago,...

She made her bed. You'll lie in it. Rebecca only wanted to help out - to be kind. Richard seemed so alone after his wife, Nicole, died, and Rebecca wanted to make sure he knew he had someone to rely on. But now she's...

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize A sharp, photo-realistic novella of memory and thwarted hope set in modern-day Tokyo--an "unflinching . . . powerful" showcase of the best in contemporary Japanese literature (Shelf Awareness) Divorced and cut off from his family, Taro lives alone in...

From the author of 'A Man without Qualities, ' a novel about spirituality in the modern world. Agathe is the sister of Ulrich, the restless and elusive "man without qualities" at the center of Robert Musil's great, unfinished novel of the same name. For...

A revelatory World War II novel about a German prisoner of war fleeing for the border and encountering a variety of Germans, good and bad and indifferent, along his way. Now available in a new English translation. The Seventh Cross is one of the...

An NYRB Classics Original Deep in Provence, a century ago, four stone houses perch on a hillside. Wildness presses in from all sides. Beyond a patchwork of fields, a mass of green threatens to overwhelm the village. The animal world--a miming cat, a malevolent...

Twelve early comedic short stories by the Russian master of the form. An NYRB Classics Original The Prank is Chekhov's own selection of the best of his early work, the first book he put together and the first book he hoped to publish. Assembled...

"A full-bodied literary achievement bustling with sweat, regret, and sound." --KIESE LAYMONNdiya Grayson returns to her childhood home of Chicago as a young professional, but even her high-end job in a law office can't protect her from half-repressed memories of childhood trauma. One evening,...

"In Stephen Florida, Gabe Habash has created a coming-of-age story with its own, often explosive, rhythm and velocity. Habash has a canny sense of how young men speak and behave, and in Stephen, he's created a singular character: funny, ambitious, affecting, but also deeply...

"Davidson's latest novel is her best work yet. One Small Sacrifice is a fast-paced winner. Highly recommended." --#1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben"Twisty, absorbing, and deeply humane, it's a thriller you won't want to miss." --New York Times bestselling author Megan AbbottNYPD...

From USA Today bestselling author, Louise Jensen, comes another mind-bending thriller where the "twists just do not stop, ramping up the fear and anxiety and keeping readers on their toes and watching their backs" (Booklist, starred review). Ali thought she was ready to date,...

One evening as the sun is setting, Amelia Madison's car slides into the sea off Mason's Pier. Her body is never found.Two years later, Elena Langdon meets Nicholas Madison. She is grieving the loss of her mother, he is grieving for his wife. Together...

In this Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller, a devastating secret is revealed, and a family must finally come to terms with the past.Single mother Maisey Addington has always fallen short of her own mother's expectations--never married, a bit adrift, wasting her high IQ...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Collateral "is at her best in this outstanding novel written in gorgeous prose...a sex-filled masterpiece of mystery and romance" (Library Journal) about a woman caught in a love affair that could be her salvation--or her undoing.Once...

The dark side of a seemingly perfect Connecticut suburb comes to light when one woman's long-buried secrets refuse to stay in the past, in this engrossing debut novel of psychological suspense. It's an idyllic New England summer, and Sadie is a precocious only child...

First published in 1919, W. Somerset Maugham's "The Moon and Sixpence" is an episodic first person narrative based on the life of Paul Gaugin. At the center of the novel is the story of Charles Strickland, an English banker who walks away from a...

An "entertaining and profoundly original" (San Francisco Chronicle) moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. - From the bestselling author of The Circle. "Nobody...

TV producer Farrell Slater just stumbled on a story that might save her career...or get her killed. A prestigious New York auction house just sold a Faberg Egg for six million dollars. But Farrell knows it is a fake. So does a college student...

When a rash of suicides tears through Cambridge University, DI Mark Joesbury recruits DC Lacey Flint to go undercover as a student to investigate. Although each student's death appears to be a suicide, the psychological histories, social networks, and online activities of the students...

A gripping standalone thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles seriesINTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD FINALIST - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LOS ANGELES TIMES AND SUSPENSE MAGAZINE In a shadowy antiques shop in...