Fiction - Psychological

In the late nineteenth century, in Washington Square, two children play with a red balloon... and so begins the strange romance between Daniel, beautiful and tiny, and Grace, known as The Fat Princess, an orphaned girl whose enormous girth matches her wealth. Each wishes...

In her first collection of short stories, Laura Kasischke exposes the dark heart of the domestic--it's wrapped in shabby silk, tucked away in a dresser drawer. If A Stranger Approaches You reminds us that intersection of the bizarre and the quotidian is always at...

After a thirty-something altruistic punk rocker fleeing a troubled marriage is hired for a grant-writing job at a southern California psychiatric hospital, he quickly gets entangled in a neuropsychiatrist's mysterious research into the collective unconscious, and becomes romantically involved with a former patient. A...

Here is Arthur Upfield's first published novel from 1929: Austilene Thorpe is accused of murder but then disappears from gaol. Her fiance, Martin Sherwood, goes blind from shock. His famous adventuring brother Monty, learns that Austilene is in a refuge for murderers in the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION An electrifying short story collection about the wives, lovers, and mistresses of history's most notorious men. A schoolgirl catches the eye of the future leader of Nazi Germany. An aspiring playwright writes to a...

Now a major film, distributed by Artificial Eye. A tense and compelling literary thriller set in Berlin. One afternoon, near the site of the Berlin Wall, backpacker Clare meets charismatic local Andi. There is an instant attraction, and when Andi invites her to stay,...

Here today. Dead tomorrow? My best friend, Emily, is dead - killed last night in a hotel fire. But it was meant to be me. Now I have 24 hours to find my daughter. Before he finds out I'm still alive. 24 Hours is...

This remarkable novel is both a thriller about other selves and an excursion through post-war artistic bohemias. The narrator endures a series of often surreal misadventures in search of a lost love in Italy, Greece and Iceland, as well as Paris and Oxford. He...

From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Pretty Revenge--a "gripping tale of subterfuge, betrayal, and retribution" (Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish)--comes the story of a journalist obsessed with finding a crime novelist who disappears after a deadly attack on her...

Named a Best Book of the Year by PopMatters A literary sensation in France, this poetic, thrilling debut charts the all-consuming passion between two women and the ruin it leaves in its wake. A thirty-something teacher drifts through her life in Paris, raising a...

"The character at the heart of the novel is both terrifying and realistic. For fans of dark thrillers and crime fiction, this novel will not disappoint." Self-Publishing Review"The characters are expertly drawn. The story builds toward an explosive conclusion." Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Trigger warning: caution...

An admired but cold and ruthless surgeon lies and cheats to rise to the top of his profession as a member of the President's cabinet. He founds a hospital in Nepal where he conquers 8000-meters peaks. Fame and self-esteem rise but he fails at...

Professor Su Jing'an is a respected academic and a man of habit. He follows his routine to the tick of the clocks in his study and nothing can stop him from having his afternoon coffee. Nothing that is, but old age. When a young...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Monogram Murders and Woman with a Secret returns with a sharp, captivating, and expertly plotted tale of psychological suspense.All Beth has to do is drive her son to his soccer game, watch him play, and then...

Fabrizio Garrone is an impoverished but aristocratic translator who has been living a life of quiet desperation in Milan. He feels underappreciated and tormented by a persistent sense of having been cheated by life. But when he reads about a lost Viennese novel--The House...

In a small Lebanese village a disillusioned imam, diagnosed with terminal cancer, must face his demons. Having consented to an arranged marriage, he has found himself in a loveless union and lusts after another. To please his family, he took up the robe and...

Martin Eden is a tale about a young sailor struggling to become a writer. Eden is trying to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite. His principal motivation...

Four drug dealers steal 1.5 million dollars from a dead psychic who placed a voodoo curse on his money before it was stolen. Psychic Billy Knight vowed on a national television that he would take his money with him to his grave. His curse...

The classic pacifist novel by a major Polish writer, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize At the beginning of the twentieth century the villagers of the Carpathian mountains lead a simple life, much as they have always done. Among them is Piotr, a...

A Survivor Story Featuring Strong Female Characters, an Undercover Cop, and the Hills of San Francisco"After you read... 'human trafficking' will never be a concept for you again--but instead a personal affront to your very soul." --Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of...

Under a cloudless Mediterranean sky, two families wheel their suitcases past swaying palm trees towards their hotel to grab a spot by the pool. But behind the smiles, someone is hiding a terrible secret... I never wanted to come on this trip. I thought...

"Dombey and Son" is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, originally published as a serial between 1846 and 1848. The story revolves around the owner of a shipping company who is disgruntled by his lack of a male heir, rejecting his daughter and...

Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy also spelled Tolstoi, Russian in full Lev Nikolayevich, Graf (count) Tolstoy, (born August 28 September 9, New Style], 1828, Yasnaya Polyana, Tula province, Russian Empire--died November 7 November 20], 1910, Astapovo, Ryazan province), Russian author, a master of realistic fiction and...

She's looking for happiness, trying desperately to make a connection. But once again, her search for a soulmate implodes, and she is left hopelessly alone. Walking barefoot across town, Evelyn Jameson fears that no one will ever love her for who she is. But...

A darkly gripping debut novel about a teenage girl's fierce struggle to reclaim her life from her abusive fatherFifteen-year-old equestrian prodigy Roan Montgomery has only ever known two worlds: inside the riding arena, and outside of it. Both, for as long as she can...

Award-winning standalone thriller from master of psychological suspense Brian Freeman about a small town rocked by the murder of a teenage girl."Freeman proves once again he's a master of psychological suspense." --Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author"Suspense doesn't get more excruciating than...

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...

Some people leave you forever changed. And maybe some wounds are just too big to heal. But Jane is coming to realise that confronting her past is the only hope she has of saving herself.Jane has a skin condition, vitiligo, which makes her look...

Welcome to the Jetty Cat Palace Caf where synchronicity and wonder abound Morgen, a quirky music teacher and pianist, is devastated when she learns that her mother, also a concert pianist, became pregnant with her after a sexual assault and abandoned her life as...

Dr Maxwell Stein, a seasoned child psychologist practicing in New York, is about to head off on vacation, when the past comes back to haunt him. A visit by a former patient, now a mysterious adult, takes him by surprise to deliver a priceless...

Elizabeth Bowen's deceptively simple novel opens with the weddings of two quietly conventional sisters: Laurel to Edward, and Janet to Rodney. Ten years later, one intense week is all it takes to unravel the couples' peaceful lives as a long-concealed secret explodes to the...

Annie's been told that El Camino changes everyone, and change is what her 28-year-old son, Jake, needs. After six years lost to the chaos of schizophrenia, he is finally stable. Driven by love and determination to see Jake thrive, Annie takes him to Spain...

She appears only at night. Watching. Waiting... When local children begin to vanish, Officer Alex Mercer is positive the cases are tied to recent threats against his family-especially since the first girl to go missing is his best friend's daughter. It all ties back...

This suspenseful, touching, quirky little tale of Christmas is a fast-moving, frequently shocking, account of a children's crisis hospital on one Christmas Eve. This one night of the year has a mysterious power, from millennia of pre-Christian harvest festivals and ancestor worship, when ghosts...

Bodies marked with religious symbols are recovered from Coyote Bog sending Sergeant Corinne Aleckson and Detective Dawes on a quest. Who buried them in the bog. They pore through missing persons' files, consult an FBI profiler, and are soon in pursuit of an angel...

In a sweeping saga of music and vengeance, the acclaimed author of The Vampire Chronicles draws readers into eighteenth-century Italy, bringing to life the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius....

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO PROTECT YOUR DAUGHTER?From the first moment single mother Nicolette Winchester held her daughter in her arms, she knew she'd do everything in her power to keep her safe. Now eighteen years old, Ella is bright, kind and a...

2021 Reprint of the 1925 Edition. "Willa Cather's lyrical and bittersweet novel of a middle-aged man losing control of his life is a brilliant study in emotional dislocation and renewal. Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man in his fifties who has devoted his...

A seemingly well-reasoned justification of murder comes to pieces as the murderer is forced to confront the true nature of his crime.After much thought Rodion Raskolnikov determines that certain special people deserve the right to step outside of normal law and order to accomplish...

They were taken.Off the street. From parking lots. Malls. Playgrounds.Snatched from life and thrust into hell.They took Orion Darby on a perfect summer day, while she could still taste her first kiss on her lips.She joined the others with chains on their ankles and...

LIMITED EDITION COVER From New York Times bestselling author Samantha Towle comes a gripping psychological thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat.I'd once believed that nothing would equal the pain of losing my parents.I was wrong.I had barely even begun...

Professor Godfrey St. Peter doesn't like the new direction that his life has taken. When he and his wife move into their new house, he decides to keep his study at the old house so that he will not have to let go of...

As Bibi-Gul takes a pill to get to sleep, she thinks about how little her family knows about her. But the pill does not work, and she finds herself stuck in a strange place. When she sees she cannot escape, she strives to find...

A twisted psychological thriller of lies, blackmail, and revenge.How far would you go to save your reputation?Rachel has it all. A successful YouTube channel in the trendy OC, martini lunches, a luxurious home overlooking the ocean. So what if she enjoys the occasional shoplifting...

A GRIPPING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER WITH ONE TWIST AFTER ANOTHER...The forest is my happy place. A chance to get away from my stifling apartment, the sweat of the city, a job I hate. A Sunday morning hiking in the woods with my dog is a...

Had it come back? No, it couldn't have. He had buried it for good. Or at least that's what Scott told himself. But what if it had? Was that why the scarecrow now watched him? But the more Scott tries to ignore it, the...

From the bestselling author of The Social Affair and HER comes a riveting new thriller about a writer desperate to make a comeback who realizes that success may cost more than he can afford to pay when a stranger arrives at his door. George...

There's only so much one woman can take...Everything is going wrong for Kat Matthews.Overweight. Drinking far too much. Career going nowhere fast. One failed marriage already behind her. She's never been this unhappy before, and to top it all off she's now being bullied...

Horror has found a home The day began when Sheriff Frank Watkins found two bodies and three heads. Then things got strange.After a childhood trauma, Paranormal TV host Charlie "Thunder" Raines spent a lifetime seeking answers to the unexplained. While filming in a haunted...

Sometimes murder is the only choice...Even if it's risky.Alex is forced to decide how to free herself from her day trading neighbors, but discovering their secrets leaves her only one option.At the same time, her coworker, Stephanie, is putting Alex's job in jeopardy again....