Fiction - Psychological

The first time you see them, out for an evening walk on the cliffs, you'll think they're the perfect family. You'll see a wife who looks so happy, strolling peacefully beside her husband in his dark winter coat, holding her daughter's hand. But you...

One woman has nothing to lose.The other has everything.To the outside world, Gracie Dwyer has it all: the handsome husband, the adorable child, the beautiful home and the glittering career.Juliet's life couldn't be more different. A single mother struggling to make ends meet, she...

Is her new husband really who she thinks he is?When young doctor Lauren Matheson meets Joe, an older divorced businessman, at a glittering poolside in California, it's a chance encounter that seems life-changing for them both. Back home in London, their feelings only strengthen....

You never know where a lie may lead...While driving to a charming village tucked away deep in the Cascade Mountains of eastern Washington, where she is to begin a new job teaching high school English, Katrina Burton picks up a young hitchhiker who turns...

Raised by a single Swedish philosopher, Axel Heyst inherits his father's pessimistic view of society. As a child, he is taught about all the dark inclinations of humankind, warping his mind. Axel struggles with these beliefs and the atmosphere of the environment in which...

My roommate is a serial killer.And I have been powerless to stop him because I... am a cat.Don't get me wrong, Dean has never been cruel to me. He provides me with shelter, toys, and plenty of affection. But I have seen his dark...

This is the story about the Evans, a family of four, two parents, and their two children forging a middle-class life in central Florida. Jack is a professor at the university, and Natalie is a homemaker. This is also a story about the demons...

He promised to love her until her dying day... When Becca's first love shows up on her social media feed, she can't help but smile fondly. Once upon a time Connor was the love of her life, and though it was over ten years...

Nicholas Holland is an unusual hero-a noted psychologist and author, with a list of best-sellers to his name. After some deeply troubling experiences, however, he finds himself in an ever-deepening spiral of confusion, frustration, and guilt. In desperation he shuts down his own practice...

The perfect boyfriend... or the perfect liar?It's the moment single-mum Kate has been dreading.With her only daughter, Chloe, about to leave home, she's terrified by the prospect of an empty nest.That is until she meets charming lawyer, Adam. He could be the perfect catch...

Life as she knew it was over...or so she thought. Full of delicate strength, Terra, a young widowed Mother, endures a psychological journey in a series of dreams that leave scars on her heart as well as her mind. Through her struggle, she discovers...

They say she's guilty. She says she's not. Who do you believe? 'Help me Help me, please ' When Jenna hears the cry in the park one night, she feels she has no choice but to run and help. Cradling the injured woman in...

"A gripping psychological thriller."--Daily Telegraph"A fascinating and addicting read."--Suspense MagazineThe Sunday Girl delivers a dramatic thriller for any woman who's ever been involved with a bad, bad man and who knows how it feels to be broken, broken-hearted, and bent on revenge.Taylor Bishop is...

"Calling all fans of Sharp Objects and the third season of True Detective: You need to read Laura McHugh."--Refinery29 "A perfect thriller . . . a thoughtful commentary on America's opioid crisis and an utterly satisfying mystery."--Janelle Brown, New York Times bestselling author of...

Abducted as a teenager, a woman must now confront her past and untangle the truth of what really happened to her in this dark thriller from the author of The Wolf Wants In. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...

Holt's Almanac revolves around a clever and knowledgeable protagonist, Holt Dooley, and his encounters of actual folklore creatures that have been recorded around the United States. His journey starts as a criminal and ends in a peculiar fashion, making one want to re-read and...

Body horror, biological horror, organic horror or visceral horror is horror fiction in which the horror is principally derived from the unnatural graphic transformation, degeneration or destruction of the physical body. Such works may deal with decay, disease, deformity, parasitism, mutation or mutilation -...

Do you ever find yourself zoning out whilst driving on a familiar road? Does it ever feel like time has passed and you cannot remember what you have been doing? Imagine if this kept on happening. This is the predicament facing Flora. Her gaps...

On a flight to Washington D.C., environmental lobbyist Michael Warren's life begin to unravel.Michael is on his way to testify before a Senate Committee, and destroy the plans for a housing development built on land tainted with the same toxic waste that killed his...

This is the tale of Jenny Burnett, a young child, kidnapped by her uncle and sold on the black market to a childless couple. It is the compelling drama of Jenny's endless pining for her real mother, of her instinctive, yet daring, attempts to...

One of the great German writers of the 20th century draws from his own life to present a "brave, fearless, and honest" tale of one man's dark descent into depression and alcoholism (The Sunday Times, London) This astonishing, autobiographical tour de force was written...

Trent Wolfer has blown it, in every possible way, over and over and over. And now he's blowing it again. Fresh out of rehab, he's back in his hometown working a dead-end job at a fast food joint and cutting out on his breaks...

"It's a funny old house. They have this ceremony every summer . . . There's an old chapel, in the grounds of the house. It's half-derelict. The Hunters keep bees in there. Every year, on the same day, the family processes to the chapel....

Travis is the night manager at the Cross Motel in Sydney's notorious late-night district, Kings Cross. His life takes a drastic turn after a sex worker is brutally murdered on his shift.Having broken up with his girlfriend and lost his dream of becoming a...

The best revenge is revenge. Getting it is all that matters.Jules Cartell has it all: wealth; beauty; a handsome, loving husband; a partnership in her father's law firm; and the top executive position at one of Canada's leading corporations, Cartell Worldwide. Aside from her...

"Addictive, suspenseful and masterfully written...will delight fans of Big Little Lies." --Michele Campbell "[A] witty, hyperlocal mystery...With a light, Liane Moriarty-esque touch..." --New York Times L. Alison Heller, whose work has been praised by Liane Moriarty as "warm, witty...refreshingly true to life," explores the...

Twenty-five-year-old Ann Josephson is a kleptomaniac who satisfies her compulsion by stealing from people at her gym. When a handsome stranger strikes up a treadmill conversation, Ann must battle her crippling social anxiety to avoid suspicion as the resident petty thief, but soon finds...

Sally Oliver's Garden of Earthly Bodies is an exquisitely eerie and unsettling speculative novel that grapples with questions of trauma, identity, and the workings of memory. Named a Best New Book by Bustle, Book Riot, and Tor.com Months after her sister's death, Marianne wakes...

The character of Anne is so well drawn, that by the end of the book, she feels like a friend or someone you know and are rooting for. The depiction of therapy is fascinating -- it's obvious that Sharon Baltman knows of what she...

After Sydney Grey returns to her quaint hometown of Stoney Creek and begins renovations on her childhood farm, she discovers a set of journals written by her mother.Presumed to have abandoned her family 20 years ago, a long-hidden secret about her mother is uncovered....

Recently separated from her cheating husband and unaware of a budding pregnancy, Georgia Charles is on her way to Yukon to visit a childhood friend. After she's attacked by unknown men, Georgia's trip becomes a fight for survival. Escaping to the wild, she seeks...

Kurt Hammer ends up in Lima, Peru to escape his demons and put an end to his alcoholism.The holiday soon takes a sinister turn though, when Kurt witnesses the brutal murder of an old friend.Facing the most difficult case of his life, can Kurt...

Nestled in the quiet and remote Cornish village of Trellen, The Old Chapel should be the ideal holiday getaway; but it's not, for something is wrong with The Old Chapel. Very wrong.Desperate to find answers as to why a dark-robed figure stalks its rooms,...

Ahnia has a dicey past. It's scratching under the surface; dying to get out.She's hit rock bottom. Broke and desperate to be on top again, she partners up with Mac: a man she hardly knows. He's utterly untouchable, and soon they are both in...

This book contains graphic sex and violence, and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.Kidnapped and abused by two cowboys, Daisy Dale sees an opportunity for escape. Running for her life, she hides in a farmhouse.Step by step, Daisy grows closer...

In this heartwarming tale, a British airman risks it all to feed a starving, war-stricken family. Thirty years after serving in World War II, middle-aged Rob takes a holiday in Italy. Struggling with PTSD and depression, the journey sparks a dream that brings long-stifled...

SMALL SECRETS: a psychic suspense novel" Mama Marion says I wouldn't have the sight if God didn't intend for me to do good with it. I just wish God didn't feel I needed to see this." Emmy age 16Her visions started when she was...

Seeing isn't always believing.Trapped by her past trauma, Macy McCall worked with a variety of therapists and medications- most yielding minimal results. Her newest doctor, Daniel Yates, helps bring forth her biggest breakthroughs and she believes she can see the light at the end...

The writers of these stories invite us, the readers, to travel with their narratives to places close by and faraway, in the past, present and future, remembered, experienced, and imagined. Engaging in their stories we will recreate the worlds these authors have sketched to...

It starts with a chance sighting: a face from her past, someone Beth hasn't thought about for years. Suddenly she feels a terrifying wave of panic - the flash of a memory, of crushing weight and pain, and the flicker of firelight and smoke....

In this splendid new translation of Voltaire's satiric masterpiece, all the celebrated wit, irony, and trenchant social commentary of one of the great works of the Enlightenment is restored and refreshed. Voltaire may have cast a jaundiced eye on eighteenth-century Europe-a place that was...

Winner of the Prix Goncourt (France), the Leipzig Prize (Germany), Premio Von Rezzori (Italy), shortlisted for the 2017 International Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an...

"When I walked through the large iron gate of the hospital, I must have still been alive..." So begins Ahmed Bouanani's arresting, hallucinatory 1989 novel The Hospital, appearing for the first time in English translation. Based on Bouanani's own experiences as a tuberculosis patient,...

When Tom Brodzinksi tries to give up smoking, he inadvertently sets off a chain of events that threaten to upset the tenuous balance of peace in a not-too-distant land. When he flips the butt of his final cigarette off the balcony of his vacation...

From the award-winning author Brian Evenson comes Immobility, a far-future thriller that looks at a post-human world struggling to stay human When you open your eyes things already seem to be happening without you. You don't know who you are and you don't remember...

Childhood sweethearts William and Mary have been married for sixty years. William is a celebrated surgeon, Mary a devoted wife. Both have a strong sense of right and wrong. This is what their son, Joe O'Loughlin, has always believed. But when Joe is summoned...

Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark brings us another New York Times bestselling novel that she "prepares so carefully and executes with such relish" (The New York Times Book Review) about a witness to a murder who finds that what she's seen might make...

A love triangle, where two of the members attempt to murder the third. - King, Queen, Knave, like all Nabokov's writing, bears the unmistakable stamp of his genius - brilliant, erotic, deliciously macabre, and wholly unique. "Fascinating...audacious and delightful." - The New York Times...

When Harriet Mahoney first sees it, Isabel Krug's bed is covered with sheared sheep and littered with celebrity biographies. Unpublished, fortyish, and recently jilted, Harriet has fled Manhattan for Isabel's loudly elegant Cape Cod retreat, where she will ghostwrite The Isabel Krug Story, based...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Suspense, humor and plenty of heart . . . spooky and satisfying."--People Michelina Bellsong is on a mission. She is following a missing family to the edge of America . . . to a place she never knew...