Fiction - Psychological

A Town in Mourning. A Murder in Waiting...Blood stains the carpet of an empty house. A front door slams behind a mother with a suitcase full of secrets. Someone screams. A plane falls out of the sky.What happened the night flight 2940 crashed? And...

Haunting and compelling, this psychological thriller is perfect for fans of Gone Girl, Girl on the Train, and Daughter. Jane Hughes has a great boyfriend, a job in an animal shelter, and a tiny cottage in rural Wales. She's happier than she's ever been...but...

As an abused child, Melinda Master was sent to a psychiatric clinic to help healing her emotional scars. The young director of the clinic was John Randt, and despite his good intentions, nothing was done to help her. She left just as traumatized as...

It is 1966, and Tim Halladay, in his senior year at William and Mary, is in the process of discovering his true sexuality. He spends his weekends living in the basement apartment of his aunt Blade's Georgetown home. There, he uncovers the darker side...

It is early 1950, the midpoint of the Twentieth Century. Joe McCarthy is cranking up his demagoguery and Joseph Stalin had intensified the cold war. In Washington, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI is fighting a turf war with the newly founded Central Intelligence Agency. Harry...

Wake up, little darling. Do you like what you see? He's looking for the perfect woman. Someone who won't disappoint him, like so many have before. Someone who'll love him. Someone who won't have to die for her mistakes. Give up, little darling. FBI...

In this hard hitting and sharp-edged tale of the supernatural, Veteran New Hampshire State Police Detective Sergeant Frank O'Hara pursues a crazed serial killer whose crimes bear the grisly signature of Gary Ledbetter, a vicious murderer arrested by O'Hara and executed years earlier. Definitely...

Follow Adam Rhichter through his last days on earth battling alcoholism, drug abuse, depression and suicidal ideation. Adam finds himself in purgatory battling the very experiences that brought him face to face with his own death. He must now come to accept not only...

People are predictable. That's what makes them easy to kill. Out of misguided loyalty, police officer Prosper Snow is goaded into helping his friends perform a copycat killing, but when the real killer comes after him, it's not only his life on the line,...

It is the late 1960s. Cold war tensions and the Vietnam conflict dominate the media. John Bluderin, a drafted, dejected nineteen-year-old army specialist, has been assigned to military intelligence in Germany. Fluent in German and absorbed into the social fabric of Schw臙isch Gm?d, no...

From a tough life, Charles tells the story of abuse and bad choices to Tammy, his counsellor. Returning back to see Tammy three years later after being diagnosed with Schizophrenia, Charles has changed his attitude towards her and his life. With all the extremes...

The book depicts exaggerated, exciting, and interesting stories of some of the significant points in one female correctional officer's life and career as she worked in this field. She shares thoughts and opinions on her experiences working with offenders including high profile, high security...

An innocent group of campers ventures into the Adirondacks where they quickly learn that there's something deadly lurking in the shadows at Shadow Creek, in this heart-pounding thriller by New York Times bestselling author Joy Fielding.Due to a last-minute change in plans, a group...

Tally Nowata has saved many lives as a search and resuce worker. In the mountains of her home, she is an expert at survival. But in the Australian outback, she is only a tourist -a tourist whose boyfriend, Paul, went to pick up his...

INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELL'S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS This captivating novel about residents and servants on one block of a posh London street is a "sex comedy and a social satire, of the 'Upstairs Downstairs' variety, with a few murders mixed in for...

From Louise Millar, the acclaimed author of The Playdate, comes a gripping psychological thriller where one woman's streak of bad luck may be something far more sinister. A MAGNETIC AND CHILLING NEW THRILLER FROM HIGHLY ACCLAIMED AUTHORAuthor: Louise MillarISBN-10: 145165670XISBN-13: 9781451656701Publisher: Atria BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

You leave your kids with a friend down the street. Everyone does it. Until the day it goes wrong.TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED. . . . In a quiet London suburb, a group of mothers relies on each other for friendship, favors, and gossip. But...

Six-year-old Jacob Thompson is not supposed to be home this Friday afternoon; he should be spending the night with a friend. Instead, his drunken father takes him hunting, during which Jacob witnesses his father's death-an event that for years afterward Jacob believes was an...

Father Pete acts like he's having a nervous breakdown. He invites his congregation to walk out of mass in protest with him. This fails. No one listens to his sermons, and he's too old and far too embarrassed to start over.Three days later Father...

When C. S. died in his home, at the Kiln, he found himself in the realm not quite what he expected. He found himself in the realm he could only fantasize and yet he quickly adapted to even Archangel's surprise. He also found a...

A FAMILY MURDERED...In 2006, the Blum family were brutally killed in their home. Detective Jon Stanton worked the case but was never able to turn up enough to make an arrest. Now, having left the San Diego PD, he still keeps the Blum file...

Dr. Priscilla Beaty has two sons, a successful career, and an all-consuming interest in Crimson Tide football. She additionally has a very long string of lovers and an even greater number of enemies. Some people are both. It falls to Detective Addie Bramson to...

In the tradition of Hermann Hesse and Charles Bukowski, David M. Carew writes dark, searing novels set in the "underground" of a great American city-Nashville. Carew's 2001 debut, Voice from the Gutter, was hailed "a minor masterpiece . . . an existential novel you...

Perfect Crimes on a Weekly Basis... Webster Tremont never has lived up to family expectations - and never has wanted to. The independent-minded son of prominent billionaire Brandon Tremont, Webb shuns his trust funds to become a cop, but when a series of events...

"So you're asking if divorce is possible?" Wellington asked. "Yes, but one question first," Bunky said. "Does Catherine love me? She says she does, but I don't know. Can a narcissist actually love someone?" Dr. Wellington smiled ruefully. "Of course she can. She's been...

What if you made the life for yourself that you had dreamed of since you were little? Starting a family with a wonderful spouse, having a good career and living in a nice house are some things that many long for while others take...

Alabama, 1942. The war is everywhere, but Victor - a 16-year-old boy sent by his father to care for his dying grandmother on a lonely island in Mobile Bay - can only dream of it. Then he wakes one amazing night to a thunderous...

Carole and her lover thought they had committed the perfect crime, murdering Carole's abusive husband and making it look like an accident. Unfortunately there was a witness, someone far more twisted than they are, with plans for a killing spree of his own.Author: Jack...

A shocking death exposes dangerous forces of seduction, obsession, and vengeance lurking beneath the idyllic surface of a prestigious New England university.It is more than just the late November weather that has cast a chill over the campus of Atherton University. When the wife...

Whitechapel, November 1888: Jack the Ripper is committing his last known murder and beneath the bed on which he's butchering his victim cowers a fifteen-year-old boy. So begins the adventures of Trevor Bentley: a boy who embarked on an errand of mercy and ended...

Two families have come to the California mountains expecting a fun weekend camping trip. What they will find instead is terror in the form of a violent psychopath and his mother, a powerful witch.Author: Richard LaymonISBN-10: 147780627XISBN-13: 9781477806272Publisher: 47northLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/12/2013Pages: 321Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize:...

EVIL IS RELEASED ONTO THE STREETS OF SAN DIEGO. . .A series of deadly fires rages across the city, claiming the lives of entire families. Helpless to stop the fires, the SDPD assigns their most famous detective, Jon Stanton, to the case. The evidence...

Indie sensation and New York Times bestselling author of the Ex Games series and the Private Club series, J.S. Cooper introduces the Swept Away series--three new, dark and sexy romances about a woman marooned on a desert island with a mysterious stranger--but is he...

From "a writer to watch," this gripping psychological thriller follows a young woman who uncovers a decades-old secret in her idyllic suburban neighborhood--but who will believe her? THE PERFECT HOUSE . . . THE PERFECT LIFE . . . THE PERFECT TRAP Hannah Riley...

"Compelling, fast-paced." --Library Journal, starred review "Stellar." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "A page-turner." --Kirkus Reviews From the New York Times bestselling author of the Oprah Book Club pick Back Roads comes this fast-paced literary thriller about a small town police chief who's forced to...

From three-time Edgar Award-winning mystery writer Ruth Rendell, writing here under her Barbara Vine pseudonym, an ingenious novel-within-a-novel about brothers and sisters and the violence lurking behind our society's taboos. When their grandmother dies, Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her sprawling, book-filled London home,...

This book begins about a precocious, nosey little girl, who has eavesdropping down to a science. The stories surrounding this coal mining community are about family, neighbors and friends. ClaraBy loves her Daddy. The drama of this book will have you laughing and crying,...

Lula Mae Carson is the best darn cook and baker in all of Friendly, Louisiana, not to mention being a fine fisherman. There isn't a jar of preserves sold in Friendly that does not come from her, and God comes from heaven to taste...

General Kent Brown has been a patient at the Camarillo State Mental Institution for over a decade, but the day has come: Kent's son Samuel is on his way to pick him up. Kent doesn't feel ready to face his son, not after what...

You've heard of psychopaths. Those twisted beings with no empathy for others, who cannot put themselves in your shoes, who do not care what others feel. Epitomised by the serial killer and the ruthless CEO. But empathy is a sliding scale. If the psychopath...

When Danny Fores loses his family in a car accident, he sinks into depression. Two years later, he's still blaming himself for their death. Then Danny meets Diane Warner, a thirty-five year old lawyer: she brings the good, the bad and the murderous to...

"A true psychological thriller that will leave you breathless." --Wendy Walker, bestselling author of All Is Not Forgotten and Emma in the NightEmotionally guarded Daphne Amos always believed she'd found a kindred spirit in her fiancé, Heath. Both very private people, they've kept their...

A woman's disappearance exposes a life of secrets in a twisting novel of psychological suspense from the author of The Memory Watcher.Meredith Price is the luckiest woman alive. Her husband, Andrew, is a charming and successful financial broker. She has two lovely stepchildren and...

From the bestselling author of Pretty Girls Dancing comes a shattering serial-killer thriller about revenge, deliverance, and survival.Cady Maddix survived a brutal upbringing--emotionally scarred but hardened--with a will for self-preservation. Hunting fugitives has given her life purpose and control. But when the Deputy US...

An Amazon Charts bestseller.You want to know what the worst thing is? It's not the embarrassment, or the looks on people's faces when I tell them what happened. It isn't the pain of him not being there--loneliness is manageable. The worst thing is not...

To Rebecca it was a brave decision that led to her freedom from domestic abuse. To Solomon it was the ultimate betrayal.It's been ten years since Rebecca's testimony saw Solomon locked away. Enough time for the nightmares to recede, the nerves to relax; enough...

An ordinary outing takes Greta, Alex, and four-year-old Smilla across Sweden's mythical Lake Malice to a tiny, isolated island. While father and daughter tramp into the trees, Greta stays behind in the boat, lulled into a reverie by the misty, moody lake...only later to...

From one of the U.K.'s most dazzling novelists -- whom Richard Ford has called "a profound writer" -- comes this daring new novel set in the unsteady, self-contained world of a luxury liner.While on a transatlantic trip with her soon-to-be-fiancé Derek, Elizabeth unexpectedly runs...

Welcome, neighbor!Julie Prentice and her family move across the country to the idyllic Mount Adams district of Cincinnati, hoping to evade the stalker who's been terrorizing them ever since the publication of her bestselling novel, The Murder Game. Since Julie doesn't know anyone in...

The Missing...In a hidden basement, eighteen-year-old Toni is held captive and no one can hear her screams. She's been abducted after investigating unspeakable things in the darkest corners of the Internet.The Vigilante...Fearing the worst, Toni's mother turns to ex-SAS operative Mitchell to help find...