Fiction - Psychological

We had a plan, my husband and I.Settle down in Black Mountain.Raise two boys.Send them to Black Mountain Academy, the same school their father went to, the elite school that defined futures.We were going to give them the best possible life.Until our beautiful life...

From bestselling author Danielle Girard! Winner of the Barry Award!A widow and ex-FBI agent of hard-earned courage, Cody O'Brien is finally enjoying the quiet life, providing a good home for herself and her eight-year-old son, Ryan.Then Ryan is kidnapped in broad daylight.And Cody knows...

Written in a tone of suppressed eroticism and infused with surprising revelations of false identities, Find Courtney is a psychological thriller that keeps the reader guessing up to its startling climax.Author: Melissa ClarkISBN-10: 1882593901ISBN-13: 9781882593903Publisher: Bridge Works Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/22/2004Pages: 221Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize:...

A young philosophy professor finds himself in the middle of a drug-running operation after his personal life derails in this taut, white-knuckle debut for fans of Breaking BadOscar Boatwright, a disenchanted philosophy professor, receives terrible news. His mother, on her way home from Hawaii...

Written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845, Poor Folk is a novel inspired by the works of Gogol, Pushkin, and Karamzin, as well as English and French authors and is written in the form of letters between the two main...

In an age before psychology was a modern scientific field, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881) was a Russian writer of realist fiction and essays that explored the depths of the human psyche. Known for acclaimed novels Crime and Punishment, The...

Tybee II: The Abduction is a suspense-filled novel in which its main characters, Ted and Patricia Montgomery go undercover with the FBI in an effort to rescue children who have been kidnapped, including their own grandson. In typical Edward Vaughn fashion, the story takes...

*** THIS SUMMER'S MUST-READ PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER ***Esther lost her husband, Julian, and her children, Harriet and Dexter, in a car accident and is struggling with her grief.Spurred on by her own loneliness and a need to make amends for not being able to save...

When journalist Adam Chapman returns to the village of Little Bassington after inheriting his great aunt's estate, what he finds at first glance is an English idyll, untouched and unspoiled. The fields are as green as he remembers, the WI still gossip in the...

Addie is a normal guy trying his best to transform from an average and unlucky creature to a powerful and conquering superman. His transformation begins on a trek up Mount Bedlam, where he encounters beasts and demons, as well as people of different virtues,...

After the death of her abusive ex-husband in a car accident, Sonja Kent leaves Jacksonville to start a new life in Atlanta. Drawing strength from her Aunt Grace and friend Sandy, Sonja tries to put the past behind her. She is swept off her...

In the New York Times bestselling Jones Cooper series by Lisa Unger, falling in love should be a dream but sometimes it's a living nightmare in this "haunting, compulsive tale that will have you under its spell long after you've closed the book" (Tess...

Back to Florida. Back to work. -- DianeWith stars in her eyes! -- AnnieAuthor: Diane Williams DoyleISBN-10: 8223298597ISBN-13: 9798223298595Publisher: Diane Williams DoyleLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2023Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d

Well, you know how Book 13 ended. That question hanging in the air! This book starts the next morning, April 12th. Steve has to report back to the Army base in Georgia April 27th. That leaves Steve about 2 weeks in Berkinsville. Listening while...

Now that Janet and John are engaged it's time to focus our story of the beautiful model and the handsome soldier. But we'll keep up on the dynamic duo also. With Ward's nightly tutoring, the pressure of weekly challenge tests, and their duties at...

She's been told time and again to stay out of the woods and away from the old mine, but eleven-year-old Tessie Rowe has an imagination bigger than her mother's back yard. Since she was old enough to read, she's done nothing but absorb information...

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...

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...

"Have you heard from Eviana?" Simon's voice is shaky. "She went for a walk this afternoon and she never came back." My heart seizes in my chest, an invisible fist clenching it tight.Five days ago, my sister told me she was going to die....

A killer stalks the night and two detectives are hoping to find them before they strike again. Author: A. a. MercerISBN-10: 8223312832ISBN-13: 9798223312833Publisher: A.A. MercerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/03/2023Pages: 154Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.36d

At the age of nine, Gabriel "Gabe" Guzman (a.k.a. George Garrison) must move in with his grandparents after a tragedy leaves him parentless. His grandparents live in the countryside of South Florida, in a little area he nicknames World's End. There, he meets the...

It takes a guilty bastard to make a justified bitch. When a severed finger shows up on her doorstep in a seedy section of Las Vegas, Helen Taylor does not freak out. She's already crazy, as evidenced by her junk-stuffed house and its ever-growing...

In the small Nebraskan retirement town of Drewly, evil hides. As the folks go about their day-to-day business without a care in the world, evil grows. The locals know about the malevolence that dwells just beneath the surface. It has been there for centuries,...

In the novel The Benefits of Insanity, a doctor with a traumatic childhood recounts his experiences with the mental health system through his friendships. At the age of nine, Gabriel "Gabe" Guzman (a.k.a. George Garrison) must move in with his grandparents after a tragedy...

With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is a daring literary caper that is quick on its feet and delightfully surprising. Meet Henri and Louise. Two strangers, traveling alone, on the train from Belgrade to Istanbul. Except...

A psychologically authentic quest into a complex history of love and grief." -Kirkus ReviewsIn When the Smoke Clears, a raw and atmospheric novel, Kat Edwards examines the layers of grief and generational trauma with a touch so deft it's almost restorative."-IndieReader"Graced with insight on...

Lillian Reynolds faces the darkness of mankind daily as a licensed mental health counselor specializing in trauma. Her interest in psychology began during childhood. While exploring her grandparent's northern Michigan lakefront property, she realized something was different about her family tree.Now living in the...

"A serious, frequently brilliant novel with a sustained intensity that is rare in fiction. It's the most promising first novel that I've encountered this year." ―Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "[A] searching, emotionally resonant first novel . . . [Nobody Is Ever Missing]...

Cracked Surface is the sequel to Surface Tension and continues exploring my personal struggle with the desire to lead a "normal" life through the eyes of David Mathew. In Surface Tension, David is sixteen years old, represents the USA, and wins the gold medal...

Long blonde hair. Sparkling dark eyes. Perfect pearly-white teeth. I've never met her before but I know exactly who she is as I spot her through the crowds of the terminal. Because our new guest is the spitting image of the daughter we lost....

Footloose and broke, the unnamed narrator of Gone Tomorrow hops on a plane without asking questions when his director friend offers him a role in an art film set in Colombia. But from the moment he arrives at the airport in Bogot , only...

From the bestselling author of The Best of Friends comes a fast-paced thriller about how one woman's murder unravels the tangled web of lies and deceit connecting a group of Hollywood elite.When Kiersten McCann, president of the West Hollywood Moms' Club, turns up dead...

Mary Christina Barnes is an ordinary small-city Midwestern girl except for one thing: she was born with the uncanny power to feel the emotions of others and hear their thoughts. Her deeply religious mother sees her psychic gift as a sinister force. Haunted by...

Between the pages of an ever-shifting eternal text known as the Patasphere, a coven of psychedelic fiction fanatics and a duo of agents working for a private intelligence firm known as The Geist, LLC navigate their ways simultaneously through a labyrinthian pilgrimage to the...

A tumultuous and unstable mind because it still holds morality on the foremost pedestal, frustrated at the state of affairs, not only of the world but also of self. The world functions not in sync with what we are taught but with its own...

Jesus' Cat is the first book by this young prose writer. The stories involved in this collection reveal, on the one hand, a unique writing style, and on the other, an original perspective on the world and people. This combination allows characters to develop...

Dublin is alien territory for young and impoverished Egyptian academic Moataz, who is preparing a PhD on Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Moataz has enough problems with his family's high expectations and the unrequited, idealized love that he left behind in Cairo. Now he has...

Eric G. M ller's classy title, Meet Me at the Met, invites readers to follow a rich tale of romance, idealism, scandal, and emerging self knowledge. The novel has a double story-the living of a life and the process of writing that life-both tales...

The effects of psychological development on any performance are vital for development. The way we utilize any negative external or internal psychological influences and factors can lead us to poor focus, poor concentration, poor preparation, poor performance, poor attitude, poor behaviors and, at times,...

He is attracted to her. Of course he is. But what he feels for her, it is more than something carnal. It is inspired, almost otherworldly. This is it. The last weekend. They will all be dead by dawn.Every fall, Pagan Moore meets up...

Incarceration is a taut thriller of powerful writing and poignant characters, from the grieving widower who teaches prison inmates, to the mysterious new convict and his beautiful wife, to the biker gang members who haunt Ontario s windswept lake country. This suspenseful debut novel...

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes this electrifying novel of terror and suspense. C.J. Osborn was ten years old when the boogeyman came for her. Ever since, she has feared...

When eight people go on a cruise in the Bahamas, they plan to swim, sunbathe and relax. Getting shipwrecked is definitely not in the script. But after the yacht blows up they're stranded on a deserted island, and there's a maniac on the loose.Author:...

Journeying up the Mountain is the captivating story of a group of spiritual seekers discovering they are incarnate souls called to travel through higher realms, called to find the most revered teacher. Ammaji, the celestial guide, is living at the top of the world,...

Can anyone really stay hidden from the world? A powerful novel of solitude, survival, and psychological suspense from the author of Unravelling Alice . . . For three years, Ida has been living in the remote Welsh countryside to stay safe from a world...

A Wall Street Journal bestselling series.The mystery of three missing teens and a traumatizing murder unearths decades of buried secrets in a shocking novel of suspense by a Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author.Twenty years ago, five teenage campers disappeared. Two eventually...

For a bride-to-be and her fiancé, secrets and lies make this a killer celebration in this psychological suspense.Carrie and Oliver. A couple completely in love and the hosts of a wedding to remember at Colorado's legendary Stanley Hotel. This is Carrie's fairy tale come...

"Hunger" portrays the irrationality of the human mind in an intriguing and sometimes humorous manner. The novel is loosely based on the author's own impoverished life before his breakthrough in 1890. Set in late 19th-century Kristiania (now Oslo), "Hunger" recounts the adventures of a...

In 'The Secret Life of Insects', a forensic entomologist tries to solve the murder of his wife, who impossibly seems to have been killed in a forest at the same time she was asleep in bed with him. The husband in 'The Dream of...

The Edgar-nominated, #1 internationally bestselling author of The Daughter and The Playground weaves a breathtaking tale of betrayal, family, and secrets from the past in this crackling novel of psychological suspense.Two women. Two secrets. One terrible night.PAXOS, GREECEThe vacation house is a luxurious getaway...