Fiction - Psychological

SarahWith one eye on the rear view mirror and the other on the road ahead, Sarah is desperate to get as far away from the remote Scottish cabin as she can without attracting attention. But being inconspicuous isn't easy with a black eye and...

It's been six years since fourteen-year-old Marvel Trustrom went missing. DS Zed Willard believes that Jonah Kobi, a serial killer, is responsible for Marvel's disappearance - but with no evidence or witnesses, forensic psychiatrist Dr Claire Roget is Willard's last hope. Can Claire find...

A vivid, mesmerizing novel about a teenage boy on vacation who makes an irrevocable mistake and becomes trapped in a spiral of guilt and desire--in the tradition of Alice McDermott's That Night and E. Lockhart's We Were Liars.Oscar is dead because I watched him...

An Irish Bestseller Finalist for the Irish Book Awards' Newcomer of the Year Perched high atop a seaside cliff in Ireland, a lonely Victorian mansion is home to Temple House School. And at Temple House, nothing is ever as it seems. Louisa is the...

Jordan Fineman perseveres. Even when his original diagnosis of bipolar disorder and severe obsessive-compulsive disorder takes on psychotic dimensions after a harrowing psychotic episode, he holds the faith. With an ever-present sense of humor and the guidance of a remarkably skilled psychiatrist, he continues...

#1 BESTSELLING CRIME THRILLEROn the loose: an Internet stalker turned serial killer...Jake Lassiter follows clues from Miami to London...And gets framed for murder himself."Catch me if you can." The message on the bathroom mirror evokes Jack the Ripper. But the dead woman's computer points...

Augustus Melmotte is a financier with a mysterious past. He is rumoured to have JewisAnthony Trollope was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the...

All he wants is his family...After escaping her ordeal at the hands of her obsessive ex, Jay, Felicity thought she was safe, building a new life with Scott and son Leo in a seaside town. Little does she know that Jay has tracked her...

Wilhelm Meister- the hero of the story - undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centres upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape what he views as the empty life of a bourgeois businessman. After a failed romance with the theatre, Wilhelm commits himself to the...

He stole her childhood. Can she escape before he takes her life? Emily longs to be an artist. Her dream comes true when her new stepfather, a rich painter, begins mentoring her. But she's shocked to discover his dark side, and fear sends her...

The count down has begun! On her nineteenth birthday Careen survived a terrifying assault at the hands of the Clown Killer. She was lucky; she escaped - the next eleven girls did not. On each dead body the killer left a card numbered two...

Kori Persephone Driscoe suffered through her dad's mental illness. All she wanted was for him to get better, but instead he disappeared. Kori trespasses into the abandoned Northville Psychiatric Hospital, the last place her dad was treated, seeking solace and traces of his memory....

Groundhog Day meets Ling Ma's Severance in End of the World House, a thought-provoking comedic novel about two young women trying to save their friendship as the world collapses around them.Bertie and Kate have been best friends since high school. Bertie is a semi-failed...

Erik Hoel's The Revelations is an edgy and ambitious novel debut about neuroscience, death, and the search for the theory of human consciousness, by a powerful new voice in contemporary literary fiction. Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Monday, Kierk wakes...

For readers of Give Me Your Hand and Something in the Water, a gripping thriller set on the Greek Isles. Liv has never been a woman with a lot of female friends, but when she meets fellow new moms Beth and Binnie in a...

A chance encounter with a stranger traps Tessa within the mind of a madman.Tessa was born with a gift. Through a simple touch she picks up pieces of others. A "flash" of color devours her-the only indication that she's gained something new from another...

When his young granddaughter Allie is suddenly abducted from a restaurant in rural Missouri, police officer Denny Davis' life takes a devastatingly dark turn.After thirteen years, a fruitless manhunt has turned him into a troubled alcoholic plagued by guilt - but a twist of...

When his young granddaughter Allie is suddenly abducted from a restaurant in rural Missouri, police officer Denny Davis' life takes a devastatingly dark turn.After thirteen years, a fruitless manhunt has turned him into a troubled alcoholic plagued by guilt - but a twist of...

Preface: "The major books by psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychotherapists, books by people like Robert Lindner (The Fifty-Minute Hour) and Irvin Yalom (Love's Executioner) tell of their patients' actual travails. The characters are anonymized versions of real people and their real therapeutic treatments. That's natural,...

For years, Clair has wanted to end her life.To her, death seems like a rational solution to her problems. Clair is convinced there are no rainbows in the sky, and certain the greener grass does not exist on the other side.With many suicide attempts...

Something evil lurks in the woods, on the outskirts of town. It lives in the shadows and strikes without warning, always with the same objective: to mutilate, kill and devour its victim.It's a monster with a cannibalistic craving for human flesh, and a sexual...

Something evil lurks in the woods, on the outskirts of town. It lives in the shadows and strikes without warning, always with the same objective: to mutilate, kill and devour its victim.It's a monster with a cannibalistic craving for human flesh, and a sexual...

After several incidents rock the Royal National Bank to its core, its share price tumbles and world stock markets begin to ripple. The world is on the brink of economic collapse.Tom is an unhappily married journalist from London, seeking to advance his career. Sally...

"Hafner's taut and utterly delightful debut is a novel of multitudes. . . . What a wonder of storytelling."--Weike Wang, New York TimesNew York Times Editor's Choice * Good Morning America Reading Pick * LitHub Most Anticipated Book * Christian Science Monitor Summer Reading...

We're all faced with challenges in our lives which in the moment often seem unsurmountable and hopeless. That was the case for Sophie, a high school student who found herself sitting on a park bench one torturous autumn day, ready to end her life...

Uncle Silas (1864) is a novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Expanded from an earlier short story, Uncle Silas is considered an important precursor to the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, and remains the author's most popular novel. It has been adapted several times...

When Catherine Porter murders her only son and takes her own life, no one can understand why. Vilified for her crimes, she becomes synonymous with everything evil and wicked amongst the locals, and parents begin using her name to scare their errant children into...

When Catherine Porter murders her only son and takes her own life, no one can understand why. Vilified for her crimes, she becomes synonymous with everything evil and wicked amongst the locals, and parents begin using her name to scare their errant children into...

When Catherine Porter murders her only son and takes her own life, no one can understand why. Vilified for her crimes, she becomes synonymous with everything evil and wicked amongst the locals, and parents begin using her name to scare their errant children into...

A haunted house horror attraction. Twelve people. $100,000 for the survivor.After fellow students torment a teen girl for years, she goes to therapy ... and comes up with an idea.Years later, they are all working comfortably. But everyone needs more money, one way or...

Annie Hansen, a schizophrenic private eye, is tasked with solving the murders of the town mayor and a local doctor in the small town of Serendipity, Canada.Together with handsome detective Mark Snow, they set to bring the killer to justice. But Annie is haunted...

Annie Hansen, a schizophrenic private eye, is tasked with solving the murders of the town mayor and a local doctor in the small town of Serendipity, Canada.Together with handsome detective Mark Snow, they set to bring the killer to justice. But Annie is haunted...

ANTHEM, by Ayn RandPART ONEIt is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we...

Since recovering from amnesia five years ago, Jessica Mack has done her best to ignore the voices that plague her from the spirit world. But when FBI agent Zach Smith wants her to use her "gift" to find an abducted four-year-old, she is forced...

Dear reader, When we were children, we dreamed of being heroes. We wanted to slay dragons and defeat the monsters that scared us.As we grew older, we were forced to try and find our monsters. We had been told they would be easy to...

Twenty-five years ago, Lauren Phelps and her sister Patty were kidnapped from their backyard on Long Island. Lauren escaped her captor, but Patty was killed.Ever since, Lauren has suffered from nightmares of the "Shadow Man." Trying to recall his face and avenge her sister's...

It was a simple job: keep an eye on the minister's wife until she goes safely to bed. Then all hell broke loose.The death of a beloved Chicago televangelist's wife is only the beginning; someone is homiciding their way through the Temple of Majesty...

Sometime the distance between suicidal despair and freedom seems like an impossible dream. From early in her teens, Leah Rebecca struggled with clinical depression. This mental anguish dragged her through more than two decades of crippling despair. Her life was filled with reckless and...

Inspecting Psychology takes a sleuth's magnifying glass to the interplay between psychology, psychiatry and detective fiction to provide a unique examination of the history of psychology. As psychology evolved over the centuries, so did crime writing. This book looks at how the psychological movements...

East Berlin, 1961. Kirstin Beck is determined to escape to the West. She watches from her townhouse window as the border with West Berlin is closed, and a barbed wire fence strung through the cemetery behind her house. With a grandmother in West Berlin...

After a woman's body is found in a local beauty spot, her heart surgically removed, D.I. Andy Ross and his team are called in to investigate.But this time, they face a criminal mastermind unlike any they have before, who soon becomes known as The...

When novelist Jake Conley regains consciousness after a serious head injury, he discovers he's affected by a rare condition: synaesthesia.This not only gives his brain heightened psychic powers, but also affects his behavior. Nationally prominent after discovering the tomb of King Aldfrith and writing...

When novelist Jake Conley regains consciousness after a serious head injury, he discovers he's affected by a rare condition: synaesthesia.This not only gives his brain heightened psychic powers, but also affects his behavior. Nationally prominent after discovering the tomb of King Aldfrith and writing...

Possibly the best account yet of the role of Torquemada in the Inquisition, with particular emphasis in the back half of the book of the notorious "Infante de la Guardia" incident and the role of that affair on Ferdinand and Isabella's decision to expel...

Twenty-five years ago, Lauren Phelps and her sister Patty were kidnapped from their backyard on Long Island. Lauren escaped her captor, but Patty was killed.Ever since, Lauren has suffered from nightmares of the "Shadow Man." Trying to recall his face and avenge her sister's...

The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoevsky completed...

A family curse can reach across generations.After bank manager Jonathan Ward inherits an old manor, strange things begin to happen. On his first night at the property, a beautiful young woman appears outside his door, pleading for help. Moments later, she has disappeared.Strange apparitions...

After 40 years of marriage, Olivia's husband unexpectedly passes away. But when Ben's will reveals a life-altering secret, she suffers a blow no widow should ever experience.Olivia learns that she gave birth to a baby who later died in the nursery. Instead of telling...

When Hank Gild is given the opportunity to take up his dream job, he accepts the offer with excitement. As a tour guide at the historical imperial castle on Lake Starnberg, Hank delights his guests with stories of the late Bavarian emperor-his antics, his...

How far would you go to end a nightmare?For Alex Mason, the landlord of a luxury apartment complex in northwest Philadelphia, his newest tenant, a professional young woman with excellent references, is almost too good to be true - a stroke of good luck.But...