Fiction - Thrillers - Psychological

The perfect holiday or the perfect nightmare... I sit sipping champagne in the warm water, bubbles frothing around me as I admire the breath-taking view of gorgeous blue skies and mountains. I can't believe I'm here, at this stunning holiday home. It's to die...

Ten years ago: On a warm summer's evening, four childhood friends gather at a slumber party... Before dawn breaks, the nightmare begins. One of them dies. One of them is a killer. Liz was the bubbly girl-next-door. She could never have imagined how everything...

I've always known Jack was different. Ever since he was eight years old and he killed his father. He was protecting me, just like I've always protected him. But now he's eighteen and this time he's gone too far. Steve is dead. He was...

They should have been watching. But my little girl is gone... On this crisp October day, the class of six-year-old children are wrapped up warm in gloves and coats for their trip to a local farm. They giggle as they stroke the animals and...

#1 INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER - A serial killer is spinning a sinister web and Detectives Joona Linna and Saga Bauer are caught dead center. This pulse-pounding descent into the chilling world of The Spider is another shocking thriller in the Killer Instinct series. Three...

When a surprise inheritance and whirlwind romance offer Mae a chance to escape her repressive aunt, she's all too eager to elope and start life anew in her childhood home. But when she and her new husband arrive, the towering Victorian sits in disrepair,...

Horror has a new name: Daphne. A brutal, enigmatic woman stalks a high school basketball team in a reimagining of the slasher genre by the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box. "A superb serial killer novel and a great coming-of-age story."--Gabino Iglesias,...

A man wakes up in an unknown landscape, injured and alone. He used to live in a place called California, but how did he wind up here with a head wound and a bottle of pills in his pocket? He navigates his surroundings, one...

A World Trade Center worker finds himself in a time loop grappling with mortality and fate as he relives the events of September 11th, 2001. The brain-damaged captive of a drug cartel mutely participates in an ancient struggle over life and death when his...

After one too many questionable decisions, Anthony Romano has lost his job and entr馥 to his favorite watering hole. At a crossroads, Anthony seeks professional help. But when his psychiatrist suggests his issues stem from his tumultuous childhood, Anthony realizes he must return to...

A female serial killer is claiming the lives of unsuspecting people in 19th century Romania. Guided by a sinister voice in her head, she kills her victims on command and won't stop until the voice says to. Can anyone stand a chance against a...

2023 Maxy Awards WinnerStephen Detals played professional baseball before flaming out in whiskey-fueled catastrophe.His father and grandfather killed themselves on their 39th birthdays. Stephen is 38. He battles alcoholism, abandonment, suicidal tendencies, and lethal family history to survive his impending birthday.This novel chronicles the...

The Prickling is a fiction thriller about an overworked paralegal, Ashley, struggling in her personal life. She goes to the mountains for the weekend to clear her head and make some tough choices. While hiking with her dog, she falls, strikes her head, and...

Every human being seeks love, attention, and admiration from someone in some way or another, and these two brothers, Nathaniel, and, Gabriel Whittmen, are no different.Although these two brothers grew up in the same household and were raised by the same parents, their personalities...

As five friends travel through the isolated California desert towards a popular music festival, their trip is interrupted thanks to our modern world's ever-evolving state of technology... Stranded and alone needing to recharge their electric vehicle. When the group of teenagers settle on a...

2023 Maxy Awards WinnerStephen Detals played professional baseball before flaming out in whiskey-fueled catastrophe.His father and grandfather killed themselves on their 39th birthdays. Stephen is 38. He battles alcoholism, abandonment, suicidal tendencies, and lethal family history to survive his impending birthday.This novel chronicles the...

This story is about a young woman who met the man of her dreams during a college party. They eventually marry and have two beautiful children, Oliver and Kayla. They spend ten years of their marriage living the most wonderful life. A life most...

In the vein of Ruth Ware's Woman in Cabin 10 and Shanora Williams' The Wife Before, this psychological romance thriller will have you on the edge o your seat, flipping pages late into the night.Too young to be trapped in an abusive marriage, Matilda...

"I am the City."Nicolas Fontaine is a Hitchcock-obsessed, down-on-his-luck cartoonist whose propensity for addiction's dug him a pathetic lifestyle of late-night television movies and sexual rendezvous with the city's slimiest. He's more than willing to answer when the fat man comes calling, with an...

Elizabeth witnesses traumatizing events as they happen from the perspective of the victim. Against her will, she travels to the minds of victims while asleep. She's a Dream Traveller, the only one of her kind. Her life is turned upside down when she witnesses...

Anxious Pleasures takes Franz Kafka's profoundly haunting and sad comic novella, The Metamorphosis, and reanimates it through the vantage points of those who surrounded Gregor Samsa during his plight. All the familiar characters are here, including the hysterical mother, stern father, faithless sister, and...

Finalist for the Libby Book Awards What if toxic pollutants traveled up the socioeconomic ladder rather than down it? A Black biochemist provides an answer in this wildly original novel of pollution, poison, and dark pleasure In Atlanta, Kenny Bomar is a biochemist-turned-coffee-shop-owner in...

**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "Alex Michaelides hits the trifecta with his third novel, The Fury. The highly original story presents the reader with the king of all unreliable narrators, enough twists and turns to power two novels, and a host of characters...

A psychologist must decide whether her sleepwalking patient is a victim or a brutal serial killer in this unpredictable psychological thriller. A night to remember... if you make it out alive. Psychologist Maggie Connolly didn't just stumble into trouble--she was born into it. Her...

Ever present in the Agent's mind is her promise that she would keep Kiddo safe. A year after the fateful events in Diablo, she finally catches up with the WCE operative who kidnapped her child. During this interrogation, the Agent learns that the WCE...

Three weddings at one isolated venue. Three dead bodies. Three missing brides... And one of them is a murderer.It's Christmas Day at Wilder House, and three magical winter weddings are set to begin. But as the tables are arranged, and the food is prepared,...

"Reminiscent of Maggie Shipstead's Astonish Me and Julia Phillips's Disappearing Earth, Winterland tells the story of a previous era, shockingly pertinent today, shaped by glory and loss and finding light where none exists. In the Soviet Union in 1973, there is perhaps no greater...

A town haunted by its past, in the shadow of an abandoned house.A close-knit family struggling to find answers and survive.The beginning of a three-book series, psychological thrillers that keep you on the edge of your seat.The rural farming community of New Haven has...

The blushing bride. The handsome groom. A secret one of them will kill for...It's the day I've been dreaming about my whole life. As I glide down the flower-strewn aisle overlooking the Greek orange groves, in my pearl-encrusted ivory gown, I finally see my...

Life left Phillip so abruptly, he entered the afterlife with very little sense of self. After pulling himself back together, he managed to find his way to the resting place of warriors, and begins to piece back the story of his life. Shockingly, he...

Most mothers hope their little girl turns out like their dad, but not Zoe. She hopes the apple falls far from the tree.Zoe didn't meet her daughter the way most mothers do. She finds five-year-old Maddie alone and dirty on a countryside road. Frightened...

In this group of wealthy, mysterious friends, she has your back...and may stab you in it. Pampered Susan is living the perfect life in leafy Kingston, London, but she'll never let anyone see the darkness she's concealing behind the diamonds and rosé. Grace is...

Designed to offer a simulated experience of studying abroad, the French House at the University of Wisconsin instead repeatedly falls victim to tragedy. But for college freshman Simone Duchamps, an American of French descent, the residence provides her first niche. Finally, a place where...

The borrowed money is gone. He's left to take the blame. Can a desperate man escape a deadly scam?David Pascal has hit rock bottom. After failing at startups and losing his fianc馥 to another guy, the unsuccessful entrepreneur wallows in depression in front of...

"Intriguing lead characters strengthen this engaging Southern murder mystery." -Kirkus ReviewsOn a hot, muggy afternoon in Eden, a tiny, rural town deep in southeast Louisiana, two boys make a grim discovery: they unearth the decades-old remains of a child, strands of hair and clothing...

They say they have no children. So who did I see at the window?My darling little boy Albie adores playing at our new neighbours' house. And after the terrible year we've had, I feel so lucky that we can start over in this perfect...

Family Secrets are never a good thing - or are they? A Story to Tell: A Secret to Keep is the compelling debut novel by Fiona Rich. This domestic noir is full of emotional depth, that slowly builds suspense leaving the reader hungry to...

A woman slaughtered. Her husband accused. Can this military investigator stop the killer from claiming more victims? Fairchild Air Force Base. Sergeant Evelyn "Mac" McGregor strives to show she's cut out for service. So when a gruesome crime interrupts her dreaded morning run, the...

This psychological page-turner, perfect for fans of Paula Hawkins and Gillian Flynn, explores how far couples will go to keep their marriage intact--unless their secrets tear it apart first. Adam is having a hard time adjusting to the stay-at-home-dad life. The sleepless nights and...

A dark secret. A deadly obsession. No place to hide.Max Hunter, my boyfriend, booked the beautiful boat house on the Norfolk Broads as a surprise autumn breakA week away to heal after a fraught few months following my father's death. A chance to put...

"Have you heard from Eviana?" Simon's voice is shaky. "She went for a walk this afternoon and she never came back." My heart seizes in my chest, an invisible fist clenching it tight.Five days ago, my sister told me she was going to die....

All of my life I've been scared. I've tried to live by their rules. Always denying who I am to make them happy. Everything I did was wrong, but I tried. It is time for me. Time to be who I really am. ***...

Welcome to Crescent Hills, where beauty only runs so deep. Scandal lurks below the surface behind the McMansions, designer clothes, and fancy cars. When the town is shaken by the disappearance of journalist Ivy Fields, whispers of betrayal and intrigue begin to unravel the...

The House of WhispersLiving Nightmares Book OneA notorious murderer haunting the streets of Bedeville stumbles upon a mysterious woman, becoming obsessed as he spends his nights endlessly toying with her and turning her world into a living nightmare. This dark and twisted retelling of...

Quinn Pierce, a therapist trying to outrun her past, receives a request she can't refuse. Elliott Bennett, the distraught husband of renowned socialite and philanthropist Laura Bennett, asks her to help find his wife and her former college roommate. She arrives at Harrow Isle,...

Marie Harper is a young mother of six-month-old Heather who was created during a brutal rape. Living in the Pacific Northwest near the ocean, working for a local tribal doctor's office, Marie has created a safe life for the two of them. One rainy...

SHE WAS AT WAR WITH HER MEMORY, BUT HER PAST IS THE TRUE ENEMY.Amara Amadi is locked up in a hospital room with no memory of how she got there. Her shaky grip on reality is, however, the start of the mystery beginning to...

Emily Conlin, missing for twenty years in rural West Virginia, has recently been found alive in the forest, bloody and bedraggled. Now, with the "help" of a down and out novelist, she is finally ready to tell the story...but whose story is it? The...

She thinks the island will keep her safe--she is wrong.Traumatised by the death of a child in her care, top London paediatrician Claire seeks refuge on remote Selkie Island in the wilds of the Irish Sea with her husband Daniel and their baby daughter...

She's a pariah with a killer past. Her bid to escape it is nothing short of terrifying in a heart-pounding novel of suspense by Washington Post and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Minka Kent.Afton Teachout has been an outcast in her small town for...