Fiction - Thrillers - Psychological

An Atria book. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.Author: E. L. WestburyISBN-10: 1668270765ISBN-13: 9781668270769Publisher: Atria BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/11/2026Pages: 384Format: Paperback

Some pasts don't stay buried. Some silences are louder than screams.Sophia appears to have it all under control. Young, beautiful, and professional, she moves through the gilded corridors of a luxury hotel with quiet efficiency - invisible to the guests whose secrets she tidies...

What would happen if an ordinary suburban neighborhood vanished from reality overnight and awakened inside a terrifying prehistoric world?This gripping cinematic companion and story exploration dives deep into one of the most mysterious and emotionally intense sci-fi survival stories in modern cinema. Filled with...

It's not your imagination. He's cheating.You knew it before you found the evidence. The strange scent on his shirt. The pause before "I'll be late tonight." The fact that, for the first time in five years, he started locking his phone.I see what other...

In a world where truth is carefully shaped and memory itself can be altered, nothing is as it seems.The kingdom of Vaelor exists under a hidden system that records, edits, and controls what people are allowed to remember. History is not fixed-it is adjusted....

When a newly discovered body rekindles a brutal cold case, Native American forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman must fight to save her reputation-and her life-in #1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen's brand new, pulse-pounding, Pacific Northwest-set series. Perfect for fans of William Kent...

She thought she knew her husband. She was wrong.When Marcus Ashford dies in a late-night car crash, Claire is left to grieve the man she thought she knew completely. Eight years of marriage. A beautiful flat in Notting Hill. A life that made sense.Then...

Claire Avery knows how powerful families survive scandal: they turn catastrophe into administration before anyone can name the wound correctly. Inside that world, women are not always destroyed in obvious ways. Sometimes they are preserved, softened, rerouted, and made useful.For years, Claire has lived...

The Women We Pretend Not to Be is a fictional literary drama about power, perception, survival, and the quiet unraveling that begins when truth can no longer stay hidden.Set in Wichita, Kansas, the novel follows Venus - a respected woman known for her wisdom,...

A woman is found dead in her apartment.No signs of forced entry.No defensive wounds.Nothing stolen.She is sitting upright in an armchair facing the window, as though she simply stopped moving.Then it happens again.Analyst Sarah Hallow is assigned to a small Europol-linked unit created for...

She's looking for love. I know the perfect man. My husband. To the rest of the world, he's charming, delightful Freddie. No one knows what he's really like behind closed doors.And how can I ever escape a man everyone loves? Over dinner I say,...

Some memories protect you.Others destroy everything you are.Mara Vale built her career exposing dangerous men. Calm, brilliant, and emotionally untouchable, she knows exactly how manipulation works - because she has spent her life studying it.Then she wakes up married to one.Caden Mercer is powerful,...

Kallie Clark was ten years old when she met the dark-eyed stranger on a lonely road. He should have been a warning.Instead, he became her secret. She keeps coming back. No matter how much time passes, no matter how far her life takes her,...

She doesn't drink. She hasn't in seven years. So how did she wake up next to a body with no memory of the night? Nadia Hale has built a life on clarity. A million-pound wellness brand. A groundbreaking research project two weeks from launch....

SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIESThe author of The Chestnut Man and creator of the hit television series The Killing returns with a twisty, breakneck psychological thriller that takes an innocent children's game to its most terrifying and diabolical extreme.Count to one, count...

In 1952, a respected Jacksonville school teacher named Jim vanishes from a street called Never Return. Within days, his family declares him dead and cremated-without a body, without proof-leaving his fiancée, Mary, with only ashes and a lifetime of unanswered questions. But when Mary...

After a failed venture and personal crisis propel him from urban skyscrapers to the depths of the Amazon, Tom Glass - a pharmaceutical insider haunted by addiction, grief, and an unraveling career - chases the promise of AI-driven discoveries and nature's hidden cures.From candlelit...

The Temptation Algorithm Write what you know. But what if what you know gets you killed? Joshua Presnell is a washed-up writer with a dying career and a mountain of demons. When his billionaire publisher, Valentine Cardi, offers him a chance to live the...

In this voicy, inventive, shocking thriller, a coma patient who learns to communicate again begins sharing increasingly chilling messages about the accident that caused his injuries--and who may have been responsible.As a communication facilitator, Leah Andrews has trained to help brain-damaged individuals who can...

"Burning the Raven Tree is a vivid, clever blend of folklore, myth, generational trauma, and the complicated bonds of family. Janyre Tromp pens pure poetry wrapped in small-town gothic drama, and it's a delight!"-Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network...

One simple mistake can change everything.After years of chasing love and stability, forty-two-year-old tech trainer Molly Pritchard tries to take control the only way she can - by secretly stopping her birth control to secure a future with her boyfriend. But when she discovers...

For fans of Simone St. James and Jennifer McMahon, Hail Mary is a thriller about a woman returning to her small hometown and a haunted family business, where generational secrets and cold cases refuse to stay buried. Welcome to North Shore Township. Where you...

She remembers him.No one else does.When a new patient walks into Anna's office, he seems like any other-quiet, guarded, carrying more than he's willing to say. But from the very first session, something feels wrong. Not obvious. Not enough to explain. Just... off.Then he...

THE TOWN THAT FORGOTA Final Girl Files Novelby R. A. SirenMaya survived the massacre.Twenty-three people died in one night.She was the only witness.But when Maya returns to Oakhaven, something is wrong.The police report says the murders never happened.The hospital has no record of the...

A snow-covered cabin.Christmases past and present.One grieving mother.Broken promises.Cryptic gifts.In an attempt to escape the constant reminders of her grief since she lost her beloved son, Kyle, last Christmas, Gerri Phillips heads back to her hometown of Slater Falls, Rhode Island.The snow-blanketed cabin is...

Author: Sonora JhaISBN-10: 0063440903ISBN-13: 9780063440906Publisher: HarperviaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/13/2026Pages: 352Format: Paperback

Misguided Illusions is a dark, provocative psychological thriller set in the neon-lit underbelly of New York City, where glamour masks obsession and desire turns deadly.As drag performers light up the stage with glamour, wit, and defiance, a far more sinister story unfolds behind closed...

From Monaco's glittering coastlines to the frozen harbors of Montreal, from ancient Prague to the secretive halls of a castle in Avignon, The Swiss Masquerade and Other International Mysteries delivers seven exquisitely crafted stories of intrigue, love, and deception. In this elegant collection of...

An unforgettable, horror-adjacent thriller about survival, perfect for fans of Girl A, Room and true crime. 'A deeply emotive and disturbing psychological thriller...will stay with you long after the final page.' Michael Wood, author of Evil in the Family We lived in a house...

VANISHING POINTBy Morgan CipherShe remembers everything about her perfect life. Except the truth.Emma Walker has it all: a breathtaking home on the cliffs of Blackwater Harbor, a brilliant and devoted neurosurgeon husband named Alex, and a precocious four-year-old daughter. But Emma also has a...

At 5:28 a.m., Mara Flores swipes her access badge, and the Tower lets her in. For twenty years, Mara has opened the café before dawn, kept the espresso machine running, and moved through the building as if she were part of the infrastructure. Necessary....

Animals don't talk to Kai DuMoire. They press against his mind. They panic. They plead. And once he feels it, he can't ignore it.At twenty-five, Kai is in freefall-no plan, no purpose-until a dog trapped in a locked car jolts him into action. With...

She works quietly, notices everything, and never leaves a trace-until the day she finds proof that the house she cleans is built on lies. In The Housemaid Hides Nothing, the walls of a polished Denver home begin to close in as a woman paid...

Everyone hides something. But what if the person you trust most is hiding more than you can imagine?Rachel has always lived in the gray space between right and wrong. Yet lately, the weight of those choices has begun to press down, leaving her teetering...

Matthew Hall is a gifted programmer with a solid job, a wedding on the horizon, and a life that finally feels under control. But when he joins a fast-growing fintech company in Atlanta, he discovers a culture built on speed, shortcuts, and almost no...

Fourteen-year-old Agnes has a rare way of seeing the world: she can read people through the letters in their names. Shapes, lines, angles-each one reveals something real, something hidden.When she stumbles onto evidence of corruption and danger in her coastal town of Hull, her...

There is a place that is not Heaven or Hell, its name is Limbo...One Friday evening Daniel de Luc, an elusive crime writer, disappears from his Cape Town apartment. His wife Paola, beyond worried after days of hearing nothing, is contacted by an eccentric...

We all thought it was a new day dawning. Too bad it was just business as usual. Once again, we find ourselves on the run from some idiot with foul intensions. Where do we find these people? Ah, you see that is the secret....

She draws criminals for a living. Now one of them is watching her.Harper Leighton has built a career sketching the most dangerous people in the room--capturing their tells, their guilt, the truth they try to hide.But when her aunt dies under suspicious circumstances, Harper...

'GIRL A' MEETS 'SHARP OBJECTS' WHERE LIFE'S SOUR TWISTS LINGER ON THE BREATH OF A FINAL SWEET EXHALE. LEMON SHERBET IS A WORK OF DARK WOMEN'S LITERARY FICTION FOR READERS OF LIANE MORIARTY AND DOUGLAS STUART. When X is sectioned in a secure psychiatric...

Scott Smith's classic thriller A Simple Plan meets H.G. Wells' Science-Fiction classic The Time MachineWhen Nate discovers his dead aunt's journal, he uncovers more than family secrets. He finds a blueprint for rewriting the past itself.Drowning in grief after the accident that left his...

Elara Vesper is a librarian with a gift she keeps locked away-the ability to read the emotional history of any object she touches. In the quiet sanctuary of the Sea Haven Library, she's built a careful life, using her psychometry only to help patrons...

After a mysterious fire destroys their home, Beth and Chris launch into a desperate fight for survival. Fear of losing each other pushes them to take drastic measures, leaving tragedy in their wake. A town's calm shatters as the twins become fugitives on the...

Kylie Cheung turns the superhero genre on its head in this dark, feminist exploration of power, policing, and violence.A breed of newly arrived superhumans form an elite team that patrols and protects the world, keeping ordinary inhabitants safer. But criminology researcher Dr. Elisabeth Atwood...

When Desiree and her 11-year-old daughter, Maya, move into a sleek new high-rise apartment in Charlotte, North Carolina, they are hoping for a fresh start. Desiree's boyfriend, Jayden, plans to spend his weekends helping them unpack and settle in. However, after the very first...

To hide her darkest secret, a woman must submit to a killer's twisted demands in a shocking novel of psychological suspense from bestselling author Elle Marr.Body broker Penny Lin keeps her distance from the past as she transports donated cadavers in Portland, Oregon, to...

With all the evil in this world, you can find the Devil 'round every corner. But sometimes, the worst demons of all are right in your own backyard.A severed head washes up on the banks of the Mississippi, a voodoo veve carved into its...

When a mysterious artist vanishes from her studio, architect Iris Reid is pulled into a desperate search. The hunt for the missing woman takes a chilling turn: the more Iris discovers, the less about Luna, the artist, seems real. Her past, her name, her...

The Resistance Suite is a charged, deeply human collection of linked stories about ordinary people standing up to systems that are designed to break them. Moving between prison blocks, poisoned hollers, flooded mountain towns, and secretive labs, these stories trace how resistance begins in...

He Lies on the Jester's Cart is a psychological noir of grief, corruption, and the boundaries between reason and madness.Marzio, heir to an industrial empire, dies in a factory fire; the verdict is suicide. His lover mourns, until he appears again before her eyes....