Fiction - Thrillers - Psychological

A na ve divorced mother of two faces the darkest parts of herself in this heart-stopping thriller from the author of USA Today bestseller, The Girl With All the Gifts. Liz Kendall wouldn't hurt a fly. Even when times get tough, she's devoted to...

"Ingenious and funny . . . Magnificent." -- Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen and V for Vendetta Jack Sparks died while writing this book.It was no secret that journalist Jack Sparks had been researching the occult for his new book. No stranger to controversy,...

Wedding bells ring Detective Alex Cross and Bree's wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington D.C.'s most corrupt: a dirty congressmen and an underhanded lobbyist. Next, the elusive gunman...

In this exhilarating new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kate White, one young woman searches for clues to the murder of her family, only to discover a shocking secret about herself that holds the key to everything.Jillian Lowe seemed to have it...

From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of Seven Days and The Choice comes a gripping serial killer thriller with a psychological edge you won't want to put down!A serial killer is stalking your home town.He has a type: all his victims look...

Combining the propulsive narrative drive of The Firm with the psychological complexity of The Silent Patient, a gripping and original thriller about two professional women--colleagues at an international fashion conglomerate--who enter an elevator together . . . but only one is alive when they...

"You won't want to put this book down." -SAN FRANCISCO BOOK REVIEW"A small-town psychological thriller with a big-time payoff. This stunning debut is a must-read for Gillian Flynn fans." -BEST THRILLERS Kara Peterson last drove away from Paige, Ohio ten years ago after reporting...

An addictive psychological thriller from a kindle bestseller. For fans of Karin Slaughter and Erin Kelly. SOME SECRETS ARE BEST LEFT BURIED... Cat panics when she sees a photofit of a murder suspect flash up on the news. It looks exactly like her, and...

Jasmine Aimaq's stunning debut explores Afghanistan on the eve of a violent revolution and the far-reaching consequences of a young Kochi girl's tragic death. Afghanistan, 1970s. Born to an American mother and a late Afghan war hero, Daniel Sajadi has spent his life navigating...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the "edge-of-your-seat read" (Karen Robards, New York Times bestselling author) Someone Is Watching, a chilling story of a woman whose tranquil life is shaken when a mysterious young woman enters her life. Terry Painter enjoys her...

I have three names: I was born Leigh-Ann. I became Cherrie. When I was a child, they called me Little Bones...My father was Mr Bones - the notorious serial killer of 25 years ago.As a child I witnessed his crimes.Everything is different now. I...

Ruth Ware meets Shari Lapena in this internationally bestselling psychological thriller about the inescapable pull of destiny and revenge. Norah Richter has recently moved from Berlin to Vienna, hoping to put her old life behind her. While walking to her new office one morning,...

You think you can trust the ones you love most. But what if one secret could make you question everything? Every day, a woman like Louise passes you in the street: elegant, confident, determined. But underneath, she's struggling. She doesn't know her sister, Alice,...

How do you catch a killer who leaves no trace? A victim killed with a single, precise stab to the heart appears at first glance to be a robbery gone wrong. A caring, upstanding social worker lost to a senseless act of violence. But...

An NPR Best Book of the YearThe author of the wildly popular The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying and downright Hitchcockian psychological thriller--as tantalizing as the cinema classics Rear Window and Wait Until Dark--involving a young woman caught in a vise of...

The New York Times Book Review raves about author Val McDermid, calling her "as smooth a practitioner of crime fiction as anyone out there. She's the best we've got." Her newest thriller, Beneath the Bleeding, once again proves it to be so. Winner of...

If you love reading Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers you will be totally gripped by this gritty, gangland crime thriller. Once you meet fearless and strong Scarlet Drew, you won't be able to stop reading. Head of the family crime business, and with a...

Big Little Lies meets The Haunting of Hill House, Lacie's Secrets is the latest psychological thriller from writing duo Teresa Sorkin and Tullan Holmqvist, authors of the award-winning thriller The Woman in the Park. For the past 18 years, Kate Williams has tried to...

What if the person you trust most in the world is lying to you?I'd heard of the Baby Caroline case, of course. When a baby is snatched from her mother's arms, the whole country knows about it. I knew about the parents left lying...

"A twisty, jet-fueled thriller... Don't miss it " - Lisa GardnerPacked with the electrifying pacing and pulse-pounding suspense of Harlan Coben and Lisa Gardner, a thrilling debut about a mother desperate to find the connections between her missing husband and a deadly stalker who...

Set against a ticking clock, this "haunting" and "atmospheric" thriller pits a ruthless cult against a mother's love, revealing that our darkest secrets are the hardest ones to leave behind (Sally Hepworth, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Sister). Four days to...

Who will you cross to protect your own?When Hannah packs up her past and moves to the cottage next-door to her sister, she hopes the luxe neighborhood and close family ties will be the perfect escape for her son and the shadows that trail...

'Oh... my... goodness. What a rollercoaster of a read, just brilliant, full of twists and turns and I was gripped from the first page. A brilliant, addictive psychological thriller... A nail-biting and edge-of-your-seat ending.' NetGalley Reviewer, 5 stars You'd be lost without her... She's...

"An unsettling experience. [C]onfounding, touching and well-written." -THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Austin Fletcher, a disturbed young Vietnam War vet, is willed a small house deep in the woods of northern Maine. He comes to own it by the generosity of a brother-in-arms-a...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - FINALIST FOR THE ITW THRILLER AWARD - Perfect husband. Perfect father. Perfect liar? "Terrific."--John Grisham "Superb."--Lee Child "Breathtaking, heart-pounding."--Louise Penny "A fast-paced, relentlessly gripping read."--Chris Pavone Vivian Miller. High-powered CIA analyst, happily married to a man she adores, mother...

Two women are watching each other. Phoebe Miller isn't sure when the rusty car started showing up in the cul-de-sac she calls home, or why its driver would be spying on her. What could be interesting about an unhappy housewife who drowns her sorrows...

Evil can always find an accomplice... Nine years ago, police found Shaye Archer wandering in the French Quarter, beaten and abused and with no memory of the previous fifteen years, not even her name. But her last case uncovered more than she ever anticipated.She's...

A forensic psychologist fights a mental war against two serial killers in this disturbing thriller from Mike Omer, Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author of A Killer's Mind.An online video of a girl clawing at the ceiling of her own grave could be...

A stolen identity leads a woman down a dark and desperate path in a gripping novel of psychological suspense by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Minka Kent.After barely surviving a brutal attack, Brienne Dougray rarely leaves her house. Suffering from debilitating headaches and memory...

The author of the bestselling novel The Party--lauded as "tense and riveting" by New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda--returns with a chilling new domestic drama about two women whose deep friendship is threatened by dark, long-buried secrets.Frances Metcalfe is struggling to stay afloat....

From the author of the international and New York Times bestseller I Let You Go comes the psychological thriller Ruth Ware called a "deliciously creepy tale of urban paranoia." It all starts during her commute home one night. Zoe Walker glances through her local...

Just as this nightmare began, I once again find myself bound, destination unknown. However, this time, my kidnapper is the man who shattered my world beyond repair.Aleksei Popov--Russia's number one mobster, and the man I was sold to.His intentions for me are clear--submit, obey...

One of the Best Books of the Year: Janet Maslin, The New York TimesVultureNPR "Social Creature is a wicked original with echoes of the greats (Patricia Highsmith, Gillian Flynn)." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times For readers of Gillian Flynn and Donna Tartt, a...

The World Fantasy Award-winning thriller about a girl no one can remember, from the acclaimed author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K. My name is Hope Arden, and you won't know who I am. But we've met before -- a...

"The Missing has a delicious sense of foreboding from the first page, luring us into the heart of a family with terrible secrets and making us wait, with pounding hearts for the final, agonizing twist. Loved it."--Fiona Barton, author of The Widow A harrowing...

Move over Sue Grafton, Michael Connolly, and Adrien McGinty, Shortell-McSweeney is in town. In the early Eighties, everyone from the Guerilla Girls to Lou Reed can be spotted walking the cobblestone streets of Soho. Sigourney Madigan has worked many "rainbow colored" jobs since leaving...

"Lara Bernhardt writes with ferocious honesty and tenderness, laying open the ugly world of the trafficking of young girls with a bright spear of hope."-Jacquelyn Mitchard, New York Times best-selling author of The Deep End of the OceanOklahoma Book Award Best Fiction FinalistHow much...

Can her own dark secret set her free?Day one. As my eyes adjust to the darkness, I slowly start to recognise my surroundings: the small hole in the door and a narrow window allowing only a small chink of light. The jewellery given to...

'AMAZING' MARIAN KEYES 'Chilling' JANE CASEY 'Riveting. Claire Allan's best yet.' JO SPAIN Not all secrets are meant to come out... Twenty-five years ago, on Halloween night, eight-year-old Kelly Doherty went missing while out trick or treating with friends.Her body was found three days...

What happens on the water, stays on the water.Or so they thought. Allison and her handsome, charismatic husband, Doug, are on a Caribbean cruise to celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary. But the steady stream of idyllic photos and happy hashtags they post online is...

Each of us has a question we dread. When the simple community of Lakehaven is shaken by a violent crime, doubts begin to arise among the locals about whom they can trust. In a quiet neighborhood in the wealthy Austin suburb of Lakehaven, the...

A detective and an FBI agent join forces on what seems like an open-and-shut case--but a new rash of killings sends them on a pulse-pounding race against time in this intense thriller. ​ Michael and Megan Fitzgerald are siblings who share a terrifying past....

Named a New York Times Best Book to Give "This house of correction is booby-trapped with twists, the floors paved with trapdoors, quicksand churning in the garden. Enter if you dare." -A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the...

Me and Will. Will and Me. A perfect match. He said he would always be there for me, but it's been a year since he drained his coffee, walked out the front door and vanished.Did he leave me? Or did something terrible happen? I'm...

"I live in a village of stone walls and tall trees, a place of cold hearts and secrets . . ." When Elise Buckley moved with her family to Abingworth, it was supposed to be a new start. She hoped the little English village,...

**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "Alex Michaelides's long-awaited next novel, 'The Maidens, ' is finally here...the premise is enticing and the elements irresistible." --The New York Times "A deliciously dark, elegant, utterly compulsive read--with a twist that blew my mind. I loved this...

This morning, I was packing up lunches, ironing, putting on the laundry I should have done last night. Now my precious daughter is accused of murder. When ten-year-old cousins Maddy and Brianna are arrested for a terrible crime, Maddy's mother Juliet cannot believe it....

"My lungs began to burn as I started sprinting. It wasn't just that I wanted to catch Fritz. I had the distinct feeling that I was chasing him, that I had to catch up with him, before something caught up with me." How long...

A psychiatrist, a mother, and an expert hitman each race against time in these three fast-paced thrillers from the world's #1 bestselling writer, James Patterson.Dead Man Running: Psychiatrist Randall Beck specializes in PTSD cases -- and his time is limited. Especially when he uncovers...

Eight Years after the bombing of Area 51, Former Soldier, Ted Anderson lives in grief, being the sole survivor of Task Force Seven. Everything he lived for, after attaining a modern world without war, he slowly watches the news and everything he fought for...