Fiction - Psychological

'Imperfect Minds - A collection of short stories' by Rose Butterfly is a collection of short stories that invites you to step beyond the visible elements of life and form a new understanding of perceptions, feelings, and relationships. Each story stretches our mind, to...

Fiction. Adult. Crime. Mystery. Mental Heath. Neuro-Diverse. Suspense. Women's Fiction. Fashion. Body Image. Family Violence.Locked up, Elise faces what she's "Blocked Out", to get out.Elise Forsyth is in the Locked Ward again, bruised and cut and strung out on heroin, her gun in the...

Can you last two weeks in solitary confinement?Five contestants sign up for the greatest human challenge. The premise is simple - stay in one room with basic provisions for two weeks and walk away with $50,000. Can't make it? Press the buzzer and walk...

Diverse, dark-humored, and deliciously bite-sized: JT Lawrence doesn't disappoint with this brand new collection of unsettling short stories. Perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn and Roald Dahl, these stories are guaranteed to get under your skin. *** "Lawrence makes every word count, telling each...

This is a fictitious book about a young bloke whose character's name is MrSir. The book doesn't constitute of surnames (last names) and so on - so you call him exactly that throughout the whole book...MrSir (in the book) is a poet, hence there...

Erik Hart thought he knew who he was, but everything - his name, his family, his school, his life... It becomes nothing, as if his whole world had been erased! After confronting someone who seems to know him and his past at the research...

The Knights of Redemption tells the story of five men who are arrested the same night for unrelated crimes and thrown together in a New Haven, Connecticut jail.Henry Whitman is the President of Yale University who always does the right thing and is the...

Erik Hart gets in over his head when he accidentally breaks an important company computer while on reassignment. Unwilling to lose his job, he agrees to pay for it by working for the cruel taskmaster Zachary, an enigmatic man who seemingly knows more than...

At some point in our lives, most of us will experience a time when it feels like our worries are weighing us down. In Walking with My Elephant, a friend is happily walking through life until they stumble upon an elephant named Worry. The...

"Come on my show and I'll give you the exposure and national attention to make you famous... " says tele-vigilante Johnny Wonder, plugging his hit reality TV show America's Next Great Psycho. "... and then I'll waste you."So begins the fever dream that leads...

What if our Dao, our path, encompasses not only this life, but a multitude of lifetimes? How would we know, if each life is lived without any knowledge of previous, alternate, existences?The Look in Her Eyes is the story of three men with the...

DAY ONE is the story of a man's search for meaning in his life. It follows the path of Paul Bryant, an executive, who has become estranged from his family and divorced from his wife. These events launch him on a journey of introspection...

Separated at birth, can the Malvado twins survive and thrive when one must overcome privilege and a guaranteed future and the other human trafficking and sexual slavery? Regina and Mark Malvado know they have a bonus child when the New York hospital sonogram tells...

It has been forty-four hollow days since Henry died. The phone has stopped ringing; people no longer make spontaneous visits. Having paid their respects, friends and neighbors have moved on from their concern and back to daily routines, removed from her grief and mourning....

Marzee Banks is a peeping Tom.Scantily clad college girls sunning on the beach, and spying through unsuspecting lovers' windows at night-these pursuits possess him. Marzee Banks is a bright African-American college student, striving to escape what he considers the hum-drum of lower middle-class blackness...

Three people face life's powerful issue of which path to take. Enter William Bell, a quirky fellow who calls himself a life facilitator but hates the term. Whether they want assistance or not, William uses unique approaches to help them. Debra is a newly-widowed...

Spouses Simon and Sarah try to solve the mystery of Mildred, a woman with a nasty dog and a very particular schedule. Their investigation will lead Sarah to a secret truth of her own.A doctor interviews a swan about his strange compulsions and identity...

In a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania parking garage, artist Dana Donato is grabbed from behind, beaten, drugged, and awakens in an underground dungeon. She is rescued by someone nearby who hears her screams when she realizes her captor's truck left the driveway.At the hospital, testing done...

On a drizzly October night in the coastal town of Santa Cruz, California, seventeen-month-old Nevaeh Buchanan drowns. Her mother, Alyssa Buchanan, is wild with rage and regret for placing her trust in her husband, Seth Buchanan, a former pro-surfer who is in the grip...

With his evocative, stylized prose, apocalyptic intensity, and apparent boundless imagination, Tennison Long's fourth and final novel, On Becoming Yesterday's Actors, suggests a scanning of the narrator's mind, a Luddite Gen Xer who sifts through life via varying digressions, while encompassing the differences of...

Russell Smith's highly praised new novel features some typically caustic satire, alongside a deep and melancholy awareness of the force of desire in our lives. The combination of wit and perception in Muriella Pent -- and its brilliant dialogue, beautiful descriptive prose, assured handling...

After a week lost in the Australian outback, thirteen-year-old Tom Ferry makes his way back to Angel Rock. To the horror of everyone in the small town, he is alone. Exhausted and traumatized, he can't remember what happened to Flynn, his little brother. Shortly...

A thrilling Knopf New Face of Fiction debut, A Cold Night for Alligators takes the reader on a breathtaking ride through the seedy, sensual Florida Everglades, unravelling a mystery at the heart of which lies a devastating family secret. Twenty-six-year-old Jasper hasn't seen or...

One morning in Don Mills, Phil and his brother Jay agree to let their friend Norman Kitchen tag along on an adventure down into a ravine -- and what happens there at the hands of two pitiless teenagers changes all their lives forever. Years...

Elizabeth Norris has spent sixty years living with the lies and secrets of a troubled family; an unstable, abusive father, a cold and distant mother, a sibling incapable of understanding anything but anger, and a lover ruled only by insatiable ambition. And yet there...

Pinder's The Indulgence resonates with our times. It is a courtroom drama about what happens when love turns to hate and everyone turns to the law. The endorsements say it all: "The Indulgence is a gripping, powerful read. The protagonist, actress Lucinda Yates, is...

'I raced through this book, at a rate of knots. And, oh my, I wasn't expecting what the author delivered! Shocks aplenty, I can tell you!' Amazon Top 500 Reviewer⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Jonah never thought he had it in him to kill a woman, but he...

A twisty psychological drama about a friendship gone bad. Perfect for fans of Friend Request and I am Watching YouYou can't escape the past...Juliet and Chrissy were best friends until one fateful summer forced them apart. Now, nearly twenty years later, Juliet wants to...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME TRUST BOOK PRIZE 2012While carrying out historical research at an Ontario asylum, psychiatrist Harry Karlinsky comes across a familiar surname in the register. Could the "Thomas Darwin of Down, England" be a relative of the famous Charles Darwin?In a narrative...

From childhood trauma and suicidal thoughts to the heights of surgical success, Dr. Alex Davis transforms his desire to make everyone live a happy life into a chilling philosophy of "society cleansing"-a twisted journey of perseverance and willpower that reveals how a benevolent healer...

The first mystery novel in the Inspector Canal series.Author: Bruce FinkISBN-10: 1912573229ISBN-13: 9781912573226Publisher: Gods&radicalsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/20/2018Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d

Author: Virginia WoolfISBN-10: 161427553XISBN-13: 9781614275534Publisher: Martino Fine BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/18/2013Pages: 178Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d

An aging singer abandons Italy for South America as he struggles with the loss of his stardom, in a Strega Prize-nominated novel by the famed filmmaker. Born on the streets and born singing, Tony Pagoda has had his day. But what a day it...

Author: Freida McFaddenISBN-10: 1420534289ISBN-13: 9781420534283Publisher: Large Print PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2026Pages: 442Format: PaperbackLarge Print

From the author of Rollerball... Six couples from Austin, Texas, have vacationed on Lake Como in Italy during the month of August for the last seven years. This year they learn that during this month for the last seven years little girls have gone...

A life sentence signifies the end of one road for Jed, a convicted violent criminal, yet the start of a whole new existence. Desperate to escape the shackles of his past, he opens his psyche to the people he meets in the prison system...

Flash cars and country house, but all is at stake. JUST ONE CLICK is all it would take for thirty-something mother-of-two Nicole Hollis to remove the sexy 'what if' man she lusts after from her Facebook... But she just can 't do it. Instead...

"... Don't miss this keenly observed, smart, funny, and well-crafted book!"-Lyric Winik, NYT Award Winning Writer Jess Porter spent her childhood bouncing from therapist to therapist and prescription to prescription. An outcast at school and a misfit at home, the only solace she ever...

Amelia Rothman, a foreign-rights editor from New York, has a turbulent personal life. She juggles a divorce and two teenage kids, and decides to seek hypnotherapy to help her deal with insomnia and anxieties. But when during the session an unexpected event emerges, she...

Losing Face takes the form of Word documents, interspersed with emails. It covers the accident and recovery of Cass, who sustains terrible facial injuries in a car crash, including the loss of an eye. Her friend Em supports her throughout and the two very...

Her heart is dying. Casey Schillinge is a vivacious young woman on the verge of making her mark on the world. While backpacking, she is struck down by a tropical disease and suffers cardiac failure. But at the eleventh hour, Casey receives a life-saving...

With its grassy hills and breathtaking city views, London's Hampstead Heath is the perfect place to spend an afternoon with friends and loved ones--and on an unseasonably warm Valentine's Day, the lawns are especially full. So when an aggressive lovers' quarrel breaks out, there's...

An intense, candid, and unflinching excursion into the emotions and behaviors of the heart. In his years of practice as a psychotherapist, Dr. Elias Meyers had guided hundreds through analysis and had treated an equal number of conditions. He helped his patients contend with...

With the suspense of a thriller and the moral resonance of a Joseph Conrad classic, The Stowaway is an adventure story of the highest caliber, a profound tale of good and evil all the more moving because it is based on actual events. When...

"The fast pacing and gorgeous scenery hook the reader from the beginning."--Publishers WeeklyAlex Price, a bush pilot during the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, is looking forward to a pleasant evening with his old friend and former prospecting partner Stan, and Stan's lovely Athabascan...

A psychological time bomb is triggered in Kellen O'Reilly as he begins to experience disturbing "flashbacks" to his unresolved and turbulent past. It is winter in Montreal. Dr. Satorius, head of Coldhaven Manor, a psychiatric clinic just outside the city, is taken to court...

Illona Haus's grittiest, most riveting thriller yet -- the third novel featuring Detective Kay Delaney -- takes readers into the twisted mind of a serial rapist and on a desperate hunt for the detective he has brutally abducted. They don't know if she's alive.......

The police found Janice Jensen bathed in blood, sitting on the floor in the lotus position, calmly munching grapes. Her husband, a cop, lay dead on the couch with four bullet holes in his head. Her infant son lay dead in his crib. Janice...

A penetrating story of a Montreal with only the lingering effervescence of its past, a Montreal of loss, or regret, of sadness.Author: Ray SmithISBN-10: 0889842027ISBN-13: 9780889842021Publisher: Porcupine's QuillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/1999Pages: 233Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 8.88h x 5.52w x 0.76d

Amanda Aaron, a woman of mixed Ojibwe and white heritage, spent twenty years living in Milwaukee, away from her home and family. After the deaths of her parents, a short-lived marriage to an abusive non-Indian, and finally a tragic accident in which her friends...