Fiction - Thrillers - Psychological

In 2045 America is ruled by 'The Brain'. It's a country of dried-up rivers, computer project educations, holographs, and robots. Most species have died off and even fresh air is scarce. Children don't form bonds and therefore can't love. They become drones - dangerous...

"Let Him In is a feast of a novel." -- Darcy Coates, USA Today bestselling authorAn October Library Reads Pick!"Daddy, there's a man in our room..."Alfie wakes one night to find his twin daughters at the foot of his bed, claiming there's a shadowy...

Two women. An old friendship rekindled. A growing fear. Not everything is as it seems in a dark and twisty novel of suspense by the Edgar Award-winning author of Deer Season.Gwen Maner is a widowed single mom, returning to her Ohio hometown with her...

A snobbish Danish literary author is challenged to write a crime novel in thirty days, travelling to a small village in Iceland for inspiration, and then a body appears ... an atmospheric, darkly funny, twisty debut thriller, first in an addictive new series. An...

Two graduate students fall in love; one goes missing.... Eight years removed from the end of communism, Westerners flock to the former Hapsburg Empire hub when tragedy strikes. A British student at the international business school is missing, and her American boyfriend is desperate...

Johnson Vasquez is a policeman with a highly troubled past. He survived a plane crash, and in the six years following the disaster, his friends have undergone surreal changes. What he doesn't realize is that as he attempts to move forward, the crash will...

What would you do to save your child? What sacrifices would you make? Carrie and her daughter are trapped in a desperate situation with no obvious escape. Finally summoning up the courage to leave her abusive husband, Carrie seizes an opportunity and they flee...

Alexander thinks it will be easy to break up with his mistress because he has done it many times before with other women. But Karen is different. She doesn't want to be dispensable and decides to use Alexander's wife in her plans. His wife...

"The ending shattered me in a way only Tarryn Fisher can!" --Colleen HooverFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Never NeverIris Walsh saw her twin sister get kidnapped--so why does no one believe her? Iris narrowly escaped her twin sister's fate as...

The brand new psychological thriller from Alex Stone, bestselling author of The Perfect Daughter and The Other Girlfriend.Appearances can be deceptive...I was taught that life is pain. That love is pain. It was unavoidable. Acceptable. I never had anything, or anyone I could count...

An ordinary journey. A shocking secret. And the perfect murder...Hattie travels on the 18.53 train home every night. She sits in the same seat, in the same carriage, and sees the same people. The unwritten rule is you don't talk to your fellow passengers,...

"Polly Stewart's The Good Ones is a fantastic achievement. A classic Southern Gothic tale told through the prism of modern-day sensibilities. Not to be missed."--S. A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author of Razorblade Tears"A riveting, unflinching exploration of adolescent female friendships, small-town pressures...

But caution yourself, reader.The inner minds of two families create death in this addictive psychological journey. Profound loss and hatred are explored to a depth unknown previously.Michael is a boy from the suburbs with everything seemingly intact. He plays sports, has friends, and is...

But caution yourself, reader.The inner minds of two families create death in this addictive psychological journey. Profound loss and hatred are explored to a depth unknown previously.Michael is a boy from the suburbs with everything seemingly intact. He plays sports, has friends, and is...

Eleven-year-old Nate wasn't happy. There was a new kid on the block named Griffin Maxwell and he wanted Adam to be his best friend. That was Nate's job, they had sworn they were blood brothers forever. Two days after Adam's birthday party when Adam...

'Evocative and unexpected, tender and fierce, The Origins of Iris is unlike any other thriller I've read in years . . . Outstanding' - Sarah Hilary 'This novel is like a dream, from the haunting narrative to the beautiful prose to the way Iris...

"[A] superior thriller"--Publishers Weekly STARRED Review"J.P. Smith's latest thriller is an exquisite labyrinth of plot twists"--Traci Medford-Rosow, USA Today bestselling authorWhen it comes to contacting the dead, it's easy to go a step too farEvery year, as the anniversary of 9/11 inches closer on...

An eloquently narrated story with metaphorical religious myths and a virtuoso composition on magic realism and psychoanalytic forms, Fire Born is an enrapturing tale of harsher times, set on an alluvial land in Bangladesh that will make readers appreciate the efforts to bury the...

Even serial killers get the blues. Instead, Florida's deadliest is in a funk.Despite the thrill of a fresh hunt, Britney Cage's personal life is as dead as her last victim.It's been weeks since she's heard from Stu, the handsome cop whose love promised something...

Emotions are a terrible thing for serial killers to have.Britney Cage's emotions are getting in the way-of her friendships, of her relationship with the sexy cop she's dating, of her plans to track and kill her next victim. Florida's most dangerous serial killer might...

Fast-paced psychological suspense/thriller from award winning erotic novelist Scarlett FlameA dark romance set in modern day London, focusing on a submissive's fraught journey in the Lifestyle seeking the Dom/sub relationship she craves.This is the first book in the series Captive's.Scarlett Flame came top in...

'Keogh is the queen of compelling narratives and twisty plots' Jenny O'Brien**The brilliant new psychological thriller from bestseller Valerie Keogh.'A wonderful book, I can't rate this one highly enough. If only there were ten stars, it's that good. Valerie Keogh is a master story-teller,...

'Keogh is the queen of compelling narratives and twisty plots' Jenny O'BrienThe brilliant new psychological thriller from bestseller Valerie Keogh.'A wonderful book, I can't rate this one highly enough. If only there were ten stars, it's that good. Valerie Keogh is a master story-teller,...

A stand-alone sequel to the page-turner hit, Killer Motives: A Hudson Valley MysteryAfter a year that turned her world upside down, Victoria Mancusio's seemingly perfect life is back intact-except for one looming loose end. And Victoria doesn't like loose ends.After a series of events...

Perfect for fans of T. M. Logan's The Curfew or Alex Stone's The Other Girlfriend.From the bestselling author of The Perfect Holiday comes a twisty psychological thriller, set on the sun drenched shores of France.Three women's lives are about to change forever.The Daughter.My father...

The brand new thriller from Diana Wilkinson, author of 4 Riverside CloseI'm not being paranoid. It's all there in the crossword clues...in black and white. There's no doubt the threat is real. Today, the answers spell out my murder.May Third. Amanda. Silver Birch. Noontime....

A traumatized teacher. An absent husband. A silent night shattered... All Marissa wants is to spend Christmas alone. With her husband out of the country on a volunteer mission, she hopes for a peaceful holiday at home. But when a mysterious intruder breaks into...

"Gripping." --Alex Michaelides, New York Times bestselling author "Blisteringly brilliant." --Sarah Pinborough, New York Times bestselling authorThree friends. Two bodies. A party to die for... From international bestselling author Harriet Tyce comes a chilling psychological thriller set in one of Edinburgh's poshest neighborhoods, where...

You want your sister to have all her heart desires.But - what if she wants your children?Maggie has everything her sister Rose always wanted. A handsome husband and two adorable children, Emily and Elliot. But what Rose doesn't see is that Maggie is struggling....

"A moody, atmospheric thriller perfectly crafted." --Charlie Donlea, USA Today bestselling author of Twenty Years Later A dark new thriller perfect for fans of Megan Miranda and Shari Lapena where murder exposes the dark secrets at the center of a group of friends and...

A stalker. A killer. A virgin hero who will sacrifice himself to save the woman he loves. FBI Special Skills Consultant Lathan Montgomery has a genetic anomaly that he uses to solve cold cases, but it forces him to live in seclusion. When he...

'Enthralling from the first page to the last. Devoured in one sitting. Noelle Holten has become one of my must-read authors' Angela Marsons, bestselling author of the Detective Kim Stone series Psychopaths can take root in the unlikeliest soil... DC Maggie Jamieson crosses paths...

The complete lost classic of psychological horror from the master himself, Arthur Machen!It is a coincidence...But what happens when one coincidence turns into two? Or three? Or more?Dyson knows something is strange after a man in spectacles casts aside an ancient coin that has...

HE OWNS YOUR HOUSE...When Cam and Desiree Woodson find the luxurious rental home in a quiet, suburban Atlanta neighborhood, they believe they've discovered the perfect place for their growing young family-and for their tight budget, the price is too good to be true. But...

The twisty locked-room mystery from two-time Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author Carol Goodman, about a group of former classmates trapped on their college campus--with a murderer among them."One of the best and smartest locked-room mysteries I've read in a long time. A page-turner with...

When your whole life becomes one big lie...The night my mum disappeared, after a panicked 3am phonecall, I knew something was wrong.The police tried to reassure me. There had to be a logical explanation they said - perhaps she's taking a break after the...

After the bodies of six young girls were discovered in a shipping container that had been dumped in a scrapyard, FBI agent Blake Wilder is summoned onto the horrific scene. A closer inspection of the bodies reveals strange markings, similar to Spenser's victims in...

James Patterson's #1 bestselling hero Detective Alex Cross hunts down a serial killer who targets entire families--and who will next be coming for the Crosses. A precise killer, he always moves under the cover of darkness, flawlessly triggering no alarms, leaving no physical evidence....

A CRIMEREADS AND WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE BOOK OF 2023From Nicola Lagioia, winner of the Strega Prize for Fiction, a spellbinding literary thriller based on the true story of one of the most vicious crimes in recent Italian history. An intoxicating novel that takes...

It takes talent to get away with murder. Piper Dunner should be America's Sweetheart. After winning the iconic talent show American Star, she's living her dream with a platinum album and millions of fans. But a series of disasters sends her back to obscurity....

Jacob O'Connell just wants a simple life: a career he can enjoy, a wife, kids, and a home of their own. As he closes in on these modest goals, significant time lapses begin to develop in his memory, forcing him onto a precarious search...

"A Southern Gothic for the video-game age, mixing scares and shootouts, relationships and reprisals in one big, brash package." -Leslie Mizell, Editor and WriterStill reeling from the death of his beloved wife and unborn child, homicide detective Isaac Murphy must investigate a growing string...

When danger lurks in your sleep... dreams aren't real unless they are when someone wants to watch you drown you better pay attention Sage and Marlow are reunited in this second book of A Nursery Rhyme Mystery series. When Sage's dreams merge with Marlow's...

Phobias are defined as an irrational and extreme fear to something. It could be anything as long as it causes an intense and debilitating fear. What happens when these irrational fears/phobias become reality? When the irrational becomes rational and there's a reason to be...

Two college seniors: Noah, frail like the hollow-boned birds he enjoys watching, caged by his intellect, and by his sense that the only boy as smart as himself is his best friend; Ray who has spent years aping leading men so that his every...

"All Michael ever wanted was a normal childhood and a normal life. Things did not turn out like he wanted. When Michael was ten-years-old his world was shattered and his life was forever changed. He had no idea of the horrors that awaited him...

Bus #89 is a fictional story about a group of bus passengers who ride the bus to and from work every day that are terrorized by a psychotic young man riding among them.Author: Douglas StraitISBN-10: 1530154189ISBN-13: 9781530154180Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/23/2016Pages: 82Format:...

Twenty-four years ago, five-year-old Tori walked into her newborn brother's room in the middle of the night to see a shadowy figure abducting him.The next morning, her baby brother's lifeless body was found in the crib.No one believes what she saw that night. Not...

ONE SMALL SCRATCH AND THE SECRETS WILL COME POURING OUT . . . Jenna has spent the last twenty-five years trying to forget what happened to her as a teenager. Trying to forget what they did. But it has always been there - the...

A flickering fire above a town of everlasting bliss, smiles, and joy. A man in over his head, selfish and arrogant, seeking to tear down what brings others happiness.Henry is a man of ordinary living. All he wishes for is to be alone. With...