Fiction - Psychological

"Explosive and propulsive, The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty proves Charlene Elsby to be a formidable talent. This book will haunt you."-Juliet Escoria, author of Juliet the Maniac"Depraved, stark, and dripping in blood, The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty by Charlene Elsby is an experience that...

A single act in the heat of the moment sees Sally's life begin to spiral out of control. In her panic, she reaches out for help from her only friend Miriam, who walks straight into a nightmare. Later, when the psychologist, brought in to...

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...

How do you go on your first date after losing your husband on 9/11? It's been three years and yet Lilly struggles with hope and courage to meet the right kind of man who can help her find herself as a woman again. Kind...

To Frances, an only child living in McCarthy-era Brooklyn, her mother, Hilda, and her aunt Pearl seem as if they have always been friends. Frances does not question the love between the two women until her father's job as a teacher is threatened by...

When Scott Nelson first meets Natalie, all he can think about is slitting her throat. Until he realizes they share alarmingly similar homelives. Scott is an outcast with an abusive father, while Natalie is a punk with colorful hair and dreams of being an...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Six years after their cousin vanished from their home while they were sleeping, two sisters set out to learn the truth behind what happened--even if it puts their own lives in danger--in this haunting thriller from the internationally bestselling author of...

When Scott Nelson first meets Natalie, all he can think about is slitting her throat. Until he realizes they share alarmingly similar home lives. Scott is an outcast with an abusive father, while Natalie is a punk with colorful hair and dreams of being...

Can the secret love child of a U.S. Senator deliver the cure for a bioterror threat before time runs out? Lily Tso is bored and unfulfilled. Orphaned at birth, the twenty-two-year-old Hotel Guest Service Officer is overwhelmed to discover her parents are alive. But...

"Reinvents the medical thriller."--Library Journal Dr. Sarah Baldwin races to a Boston hospital with a young woman whose normal labor has suddenly become a matter of life and death. As she struggles to save both mother and baby, she doesn't know that two other...

Some think love is color-blind, Torres and Christina Sosa thought so, but will quickly learn to be in an interracial marriage could lead to disaster.After moving to beautiful North Charleston, South Carolina, anxious about their new surroundings, Torres and Christina hope for some southern...

A wise, affecting novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Dickens and Prince, High Fidelity, and About A Boy.New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line....

Given a second chance with an old love, a coolly detached archivist questions the life he could have had, and whether it's not too late to live it. A poignant, ingeniously constructed new novel from "one of Europe's most exciting writers" (New York Times...

A Narcissist. A Murderer. Or Both?Kieran Harrison's life is outwardly perfect. When he meets the charismatic and beautiful Serena, he believes he's met his perfect mate, unawares of the narcissism embedded in their relationship. One toxic encounter after another, slowly hooks him, bound by...

Young Ephraim Goldman is the author of a perennial bestseller. A celebrated academic lion, he hobnobs with the movers and shakers of his era, such as Einstein, Berenson and Bertrand Russell.Ephraim's son Bernard is a young writer, desperate to make his own reputation in...

Set in both England and colonial India, The Woman in the Bazaar follows Captain George Coventry as he wrestles with guilt and the consequences of his actions. Rigid even by old fashioned standards, George Coventry holds misogynistic beliefs regarding the role women fill in...

Author: Yoko OgawaISBN-10: 8200064948ISBN-13: 9798200064946Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2013Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbs

First published in 1909, "Martin Eden" is a novel by American writer Jack London. The story revolves around a young lower-class autodidact named Martin Eden and her struggle to become a writer in the face of great adversity. John Griffith London (1876 - 1916),...

Siddhartha Hermann HESSE (1877 - 1962), Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha, son of an Indian Brahman, leaves his family and begins a lifelong journey towards Enlightenment. On the...

If you're incapable of telling the truth, then ensure you are the Last One To Lie... Fear and dread fill Matt Walker's veins as he returns to his West London apartment. He promised himself things would be different this time, yet here he was...

One of LitHub, Bookshop.org and i-D's most anticipated books of 2024With her novels The Exhibition of Persephone Q and The Visitors, Jessi Jezewska Stevens has proven herself as our preeminent purveyor of comical, techno-millenarian unease. Now, with this first collection of her acclaimed short...

Inspired by contemporary "creepypastas," ROOM OF CLOTH is a horror novel for the Information Age that will appeal to fans of literary horror and psychological suspense. Discretion advised: this novel contains scenes of graphic violence and allusions to physical/emotional abuse and sexual trauma." ....

An unsettling, immersive, and wildly entertaining debut novel from an exciting new voice in horror for fans of Paul Tremblay and Stephen Graham Jones."Edenville is a delightfully gooey blend of gothic, cosmic, folk and body horror churned by a sharp-bladed critique of academia."-- Lucy...

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...

An immersive and multifaceted novel--The Talented Mr. Ripley by way of Elena Ferrante--that explores the lies at the heart of an old woman's identity and the desperation of a young woman's struggle to belong. Today's Athens is a city of contradictions and complexity--it is...

"A rock solid follow up to Craving Control and I'm fully invested in this series. Did I say invested? I meant hooked." Goodreads reviewer, SachaBW On her eighteenth birthday, Lilianna Mayberry survived every woman's worst nightmare. Sure, she was left with permanent scars and...

Eleven years ago, Carter "Slash" Hudson was ready to end it all. Lost and shattered, devoid of hope, he was saved at the bell by the frankness of one little Cherub. Back then, he swore he'd always put her first, even if that meant...

From Francis Levy, author of Seven Days in Rio, which The New York Times called "a fever dream of a novel," comes The Kafka Studies Department, a highly original collection of short, parable-like stories infused with dark humor, intellect, and insight about the human...

A haunted paleontologist returns to the museum where his sister was abducted years earlier and is faced with a terrifying and murderous spirit in this chilling novel from the author of A History of Fear--perfect for fans of Simone St. James and Katy Hays.Curator...

Axel Petersen's life imploded when his teenage daughter disappeared. Manyyears later, no one knows where she is or what happened to her. On the twentieth anniversary of his daughter's disappearance, Axel meets a girl ona train. She's almost exactly the same age as his...

Cama Truesdale's ex-husband and young son leave Boston for a fishing trip in South Carolina's Low Country. In the early morning hours, Cama is jolted awake by a phone call. There's been a fire on board the boat. Her ex-husband is dead. Her son...

One small mistake can have life-altering consequences... Veteran social worker Ellen Moore is a fiercely dedicated children's advocate and a devoted mother and wife. But one blistering summer day, a simple moment of distraction will have repercussions that Ellen could never have imagined. Meanwhile,...

In this razor-sharp novel of marriage and divorce gone awry, Elizabeth Benedict navigates the turbulent waters of love, power, and vengeance with biting wit and penetrating insight. When the Manhattan psychotherapist Eric Lavender meets the sexy, stylish lawyer Colleen O'Brien Golden, his bachelor life...

Reese's Book Club Pick December 2023 A summer in Greece for three best friends ends in the unthinkable when only two return home. . . . Ten years ago, after a sun-soaked summer spent in Greece, best friends Bess and Joni were cleared of...

Jack Collins was a happily married and successful Perth businessman. So why didn't he return home after a routine interstate conference? And why hasn't he been seen since? To find the answers, Jack's tormented sister-in-law recruits an ex-cop with a dark history. What she...

The novel that launched the career of one of Australia's greatest writers, following the doomed infatuations of a young, single mother, enthralled by the excesses of Melbourne's late-70s counterculture The name Helen Garner commands near-universal acclaim. A master novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, Garner...

"Marshall recalls Stephen King's ability to set a story in the world of the commonplace, then suddenly jolt it into a more hellish realm."--New York Times Bad things have always happened in Black Ridge, Washington--and Michael Marshall, the acclaimed, bestselling, Phillip K. Dick Award-winning...

From the bestselling author of The Party comes a "dark and wild ride of redemption, betrayal, and friendship" (Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of The Push) following a homeless woman fleeing a dangerous past--and the wealthy society wife she saves from drowning....

*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE* "Pearl, an exceptional debut novel, is both a mystery story and a meditation on grief, abandonment and consolation, evoking the profundities of the haunting medieval poem. The degree of difficulty in writing a book of this sort -...

The thrilling conclusion to the award-winning psychological suspense series from author Amy Rivers.Psychologist Kate Medina is on a mission to dismantle the human trafficking ring that has plagued her hometown for decades. Frustrated by a lack of hard evidence, Kate focuses on community education...

One of Zibby Mag's Most Anticipated Books Coming Out in 2024 One of SheNet's Highly Anticipated Books of 2024 A genre-bending story about love and loss, hope and heartbreak, and the healing to be found in life's little limbos, those in-between spaces where you're...

Spencer Mazio is an idiot and a genius. A hero and a coward. A star athlete who suffers from debilitating panic. He's a bookie, a brawler, a womanizer and a fool. Last of the Famous International Playboys is his uproarious and heartbreaking story-a young...

Elegant, slippery, and provocative, Antiquity is a queer Lolita story by prize-winning Swedish author Hanna Johansson--a story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo On a Greek island rich with ancient beauty, a lonely woman in her thirties upends the relationship between a mother...

In an evocative debut, A.D. Long sheds light on the devastating consequences of ostracizing those who yearn for love and connection the most. Evann has no excuse to be living among the city's destitute. Raised in a middle-class family, he's never wanted for anything-except...

Four months after the explosion at the Garden, a place where young women known as the Butterflies were kept captive, FBI agents Brandon Eddison, Victor Hanoverian, and Mercedes Ramirez are still entrenched in the aftermath, helping survivors in the process of adjusting to life...

By turns hilarious and heartfelt, dark and illuminative, Ben Marcus's Leaving the Sea is a ground breaking collection of stories from one of the single most vital, extraordinary, and unique writers of his generation. In the heartfelt "I Can Say Many Nice Things," a...

We the Other People -The Beggars of the Mercury Lights- introduces a new voice in American social literature, narrating the relationship between political power and invisible poverty amidst a crisis of conservative values, social injustice, the excesses of extremism, and the politicization of human...

From bestselling author Anya Mora, a deliciously dark, twisty and utterly gripping new novel about the dangers of obsession.We were sent to Glennmare Academy. An elite boarding school on a windswept island off the coast of Seattle where the unruly daughters of affluent East...

About the BookMatt Sacchetti is the soft-spoken director of a funeral home in a small town. His friends are unaware of his past and oblivious to the waking nightmares he lives with. Matt was a boxer at college. It paid his tuition. But when...

First published in 1966, Naguib Mahfouz's Adrift on the Nile is an atmospheric novel that dramatizes the rootlessness of Egypt's cosmopolitan middle class. Anis Zani is a bored and drug-addicted civil servant who is barely holding on to his job. Every evening he hosts...