Fiction - Psychological

In 1912, a young girl is found dead. In present day, young Jeremy's parents are involved in a murder-suicide. Soon after, he is committed to an insane asylum.Years later, Jeremy turns eighteen and is released. After he returns home to live with his uncle,...

Brynn has a stalker, but she doesn't know who to suspect. And until the police have a name to look into, they won't open an investigation, leaving Brynn on her own. Soon, her safety becomes threatened, and she's left feeling uneasy everywhere she goes....

Can she find the truth in time?When Natalie reluctantly agrees to attend a school reunion, she hits it off with former classmate Josh - a boy she barely spoke to while they were at school together - and finds herself swept up in a...

Morris came to Manderlay Colony to write, to share his truth, and create something literary. But on his last night in the quiet, small town, a series of events leave him trapped, with shrinking funds and no sure means of escape. As the hours...

Ian awakens, from a short nap on a bench, on the harbour promenade, in the picturesque fishing village of Howth, near Dublin. His mobile phone no longer works and his car has gone missing. He reports the theft of his car to the local...

When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers.As Dee looks back over her time in the Master's Lodging - an eerie and ancient house - a picture...

One of the best books of 2008, says PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY. Born without a face, Sarah Sims, who has been kept hidden away in a secret CIA facility, believes she is all alone in the world . . . until she meets her aunt, a...

Writing as Mina Hardy, New York Times bestselling author Megan Hart, delivers a twisted tale of domestic suspense where no one is what they seem--and the skeletons in the closet are all too real. Blame the booze, her shaky marriage, her troubled son, or...

A young girl lies huddled in a cardboard box, shrinking away from the social workers who have come to rescue her from a homeless camp. She doesn't speak and affection seems alien to her as she has no apparent ties to anyone. Placed in...

A true-crime podcaster investigates a decades-old suspected abduction, in this powerful psychological suspense novel. 1979 Sixteen-year-old Carolyn Russell grows increasingly infatuated with her school mathematics teacher who is also giving her private lessons. Then she disappears. 2014 Struggling journalist Stephanie Brett creates a true-crime...

His obsession is her addiction.After a torrid evening spent with the billionaire founder of her rehab institute, Clover expects a gourmet breakfast in bed.Instead, she finds herself abandoned in an overgrown forest, an unwilling participant in a twisted game.He claims all she has to...

A psychological thriller from best-selling author Valerie Keogh you won't want to miss!!What if someone from your past tried to destroy your future?When Melanie Scott is promoted to junior partner, she thinks she has put her past behind her and while out celebrating her...

Daisy sobbed as she pointed at the picture of my darling son. "It was him," she cried out distraught. "He was the one who attacked me." Today all my worst fears came true. I thought I had escaped the dark secrets of my teenage...

S is for Slasher is the nineteenth book in an epic series of twenty-six horror anthologies. Between these pages you will find a collection of thirteen violent tales from some of the best independent horror authors writing today. From universities to summer camps, holiday...

In Kat Tang's exciting and resonant debut, a "Rental Stranger"--a companion hired under various guises--walks the line between personal and professional in surprising new ways. Would you hire someone to be the best man at your wedding? Your stand-in brother? Your husband? In an...

Shortlisted for The Women's Prize The Times (London) Novel of the Year * Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, Financial Times, The Economist, The Irish Times, The Daily Telegraph (London), The New Statesman (UK), The Irish Independent, and The Independent...

"Steppenwolf" by Hermann Hesse is a profound and thought-provoking novel that delves into the inner struggles of a man named Harry Haller. Harry is a solitary and intellectual man who feels out of place in the world and struggles to reconcile his dual nature...

IT WAS THE ANSWER TO A MILLION PRAYERS... It was the miracle everyone had waited for: Sovwren--incredibly nutritious, indescribably delicious. Millions of Americans went for it, lived on it, lost weight on it--became the slim, lithe creatures of their most glamorous dreams. They tasted...

After retaliating against a drug lord, savvy, street-tough Val Duran flees to Hollywood. Meanwhile, an L.A. playboy beds a gorgeous redhead and wakes up with a psychopath trying to kill him. Neither Val nor Kilo know it yet, but they are on a collision...

A serial killer on the hunt opens the door to a woman's terrifying past in a pulse-pounding thriller by the author of The Lost Victim.Three years ago, Kate Doyle escaped a serial killer who died at the hands of her rescuers. FBI consultant and...

This is definitely not a ghost story. But for a while after you're gone, I see you everywhere. Every ragged young person sitting huddled on a pavement, every stretched-out body under cardboard in a shop doorway. Two parents stand by powerlessly as their only...

* An ABA "December 2023 Indie Next List" pick.From the award-winning author of A Questionable Shape and White Dialogues, a brilliant, anxious, and hilarious new collection.A man lends his phone to a stranger in the mall, setting off an uncanny series of Unknown calls...

Paco Sullivan is the only man in Alpha Company to survive a cataclysmic Viet Cong attack on Fire Base Harriette in Vietnam. Everyone else is annihilated. When a medic finally rescues Paco almost two days later, he is waiting to die, flies and maggots...

In the town of Saint Laurent, up-and-coming painter Gabriel Core attends pretentious art shows, seduces women in bathroom stalls, and fixates on a television show about Vincent Face, a postmodern Don Juan whose blasé sexual conquests provide a mysterious strength to Gabriel's shaky sense...

After another disastrous relationship, single-mum Samantha just wants a fresh start - for her and her teenage daughter and best friend, Lily.Samantha accepts a post as matron in an exclusive residential home on the outskirts of a quiet village in the Peak District.But nothing...

The Book of Blue DaggersA Modern Tale of Occult Horror Desperate to cheat death, a young thief turns to the occult and a sentient book, only for her to awaken its cryptic malevolence. Diagnosed with a rare, lethal disease, Sophie believes the enigmatic Book...

With its six trenchant tales of perverse love, Diaboliques proved so scandalous on its original appearance in 1874 that it was declared a danger to public morality and seized on the grounds of blasphemy and obscenity. More shocking in our day is how little...

Very few people get the opportunity to stay here. And some don't get to leave ... Zoey doesn't remember anything about last night. But she knows something went badly wrong. For she is no longer in New York. She's woken up in the desert,...

In this haunting, richly woven novel of modern life in Japan, the author of the acclaimed debut One for Sorrow explores the ties that bind humanity across the deepest divides. Here is a Murakamiesque jewel box of intertwined narratives in which the lives of...

Ups and Downs follows two best friends, Miguel and Gracie, through an emotional roller coaster of a day. Although their experience is filled with smiles, wiggles, and giggles, they are faced with multiple feelings throughout their time together. Celebrate with Miguel and Gracie as...

THE LAST TESTAMENT OF CRIGHTON SMYTHE is the shocking and gruesome novella by Scottish horror scribe Gavin Gardiner, author of the bestselling psychological nightmare, FOR RYE.Crighton Smythe could see how everyone was going to die - except himself. A social outcast who relied on...

This psychological thriller with a masterly, pulse-quickening plot revolves around two seemingly very different men, who ultimately have much more in common than they realize. Thomas Clarin is a divorce lawyer whose profession has fostered a profound and abiding distrust of marriage. Rejecting the...

Blackmail, murder, revenge...twists and turns that will have you screaming at and with the characters. Sarah Rosenthal is a Senator's daughter. Despite the high profile lifestyle that comes with her father's career, she has managed to avoid most of the chaos.On the surface, things...

Both novellas in one paperback book. Follow the odyssey of an 8-year-old girl named Becky, who, in book 1, writes in her diary about incest and the foster care system that let her down. Catch up with Becky as an adult in book 2.Author:...

Arlene Cameron never wanted kids, yet she gave birth to four. Who does that? The government handing out checks per child must have made those labor pains a little easier. She was a Christian woman who treated her children like the enemy. Could attempted...

Author: Constance McKeeISBN-10: 1941165877ISBN-13: 9781941165874Publisher: Constance McKeeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/25/2015Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d

Fiction. An elderly man retires and watches his wife slowly die from cancer. WHAT IT TAKES chronicles his grief. Sometimes he tries his best to surmount his grief; sometimes he wearies and coaxes his own end along. He tries to fathom who his grown...

Author: Bobbie J. a. PfeiferISBN-10: 1893652688ISBN-13: 9781893652682Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/1999Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 8.54h x 5.55w x 0.73d

A New York Times Notable Book The renowned New Yorker writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist delivers a hilarious, poignant, and profoundly moving tale of living, loving, and aging in America today At Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, doctors have noticed a marked uptick in Alzheimer's...

Author: Robert MulshineISBN-10: 1410722260ISBN-13: 9781410722263Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/08/2003Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.08h x 6.12w x 1.02d

Author: Joel BartowISBN-10: 1403357803ISBN-13: 9781403357809Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2002Pages: 256Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

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...