Fiction - Thrillers - Psychological

Emily and Elizabeth spend their childhood locked in a bedroom and terrorized by a mother who drinks too much and disappears for days. The identical twins are rescued by a family determined to be their saviors.But there's some horrors love can't erase...Elizabeth wakes in...

Time is running out...The nude bodies of a corrupt judge and a Jane Doe are found under the icy, black waters at Groward Bay Marina, chained to the prongs of a mammoth fork lift. A videotape points to Merlin Finn, a ruthless gang leader...

"It's so f*cking good." --Georgia Hardstark, My Favorite Murder "You can hear the ominous music from the first line onward--this is a fantastic thriller." --Lee Child "Superb psychological suspense." --Lisa Gardner THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER You Love Him. You Trust Him. So Why Are You...

In this mystery from New York Times bestselling author Dick Francis, a jockey becomes the sole inheritor of his late brother's business, horse, mistress, and enemies. Steeplechase jockey Derek Franklin has had more broken bones than he cares to count, but it seems his...

From a bestselling Australian suspense author.What if a stranger is watching you sleep ... and no one believes you?Carly Townsend is starting over after a decade of tragedy and pain. In a new town and a new apartment, she's determined to leave the memories...

'They're lying, ' my little stepson whispers, his blue eyes shining with tears as I tuck him into bed for the first time. 'They think I've forgotten, but I remember everything. I know my mummy is still alive.' My best friend warned me that...

It's 1984. Patricia Vickers returns like a phantom to deliver an unwelcome revelation. Jayne Thornhill is reminded of those spiteful 1960s' schooldays: bullying, Charlie the skeleton, s饌nces, strip poker and sexual encounters with the school's handymen. Jayne's confessions have now been whitewashed from lavatory...

Kim McCreight's thrillers are smart, propulsive and impossible to put down. - Laura Dave, author of The Last Thing He Told MeIn this relentlessly twisty literary thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight, a desperate intervention brings together a group of college...

'Sometimes we can't see what's right in front of us, Kat. Everyone has secrets, even the people we love, the people we live with...'Kat remembers the days when her only daughter Amy wouldn't leave her side. Amy was the baby who cried when you...

In the vein of The Couple Next Door, a debut psychological thriller about a woman who moves with her family to the gothic seaside house where her husband grew up -- and where 15 years ago another family was brutally slaughtered. For Sarah and...

From the author of Behind Her Eyes, now a Netflix Original Series hit"Sarah Pinborough is about to become your new obsession." --Harlan CobenLisa is living a lie and everyone is about to find out.Lisa lives for her daughter Ava, her job and her best...

Travis Wren has an unusual talent for locating missing people. Hired by families as a last resort, he requires only a single object to find the person who has vanished. When he takes on the case of Maggie St. James -- a well-known author...

By the bestselling author of A Beautiful, Terrible Thing, a haunting thriller about a mother and daughter who must draw strength from each other when they find themselves trapped in a cabin with a stranger who wants to either control them--or kill them. FOURTEEN...

The darkness closed around her. She tried to clear her vision, but there was no light, no noise, nothing. Only the emptiness, the echoing sound of being alone. Fear pulsed through her. The man had come out of nowhere. Who was he? Blinking away...

Crime and Punishment follows the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov, in attempts to defend his actions, argues that with the...

For two years, Walter Stackhouse has been a faithful and supportive husband to his wife, Clara. She is distant and neurotic, and Walter finds himself harboring gruesome fantasies about her demise. When Clara's dead body turns up at the bottom of a cliff in...

A chilling Japanese psychological thriller and Edgar Award finalist about four women, forever connected by one horrible day in their childhood -- fifteen years later, someone wants to make sure they never forget. When they were girls, Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuko were tricked...

Caught in the bustle of everyday life, Cassie is unaware of an ominous presence in the shadows. Hunted like an animal, her every movement is being tracked. Follow Cassie, as she discovers things are seldom what they see, and nothing is ever guaranteed.I don't...

Abandoned by her parents as a child, Bobbye Revels longs for love and security. While she's an awkward player in the game of life, she makes a name for herself playing softball in the city leagues in Atlanta. Upon graduation from high school, Bobbye...

2022 Psychological Thriller of the Year (BestThrillers.com Book Awards)"Unpredictable, brilliantly crafted and deliriously unhinged, we can't get enough of Ashes in Venice, and you won't either." -BestThrillers.comA heartless psychopath with size 16 shoes, nursing home hookers and an irreverent Las Vegas homicide detective with...

Bad Things Come in Small Packages When pregnant prom queen Misty Glass dies, no one suspects who's responsible: Romy, a fourteen-year-old loner with a desperate crush on Misty's boyfriend. Romy never meant for her "harmless" prank to turn deadly... Twelve years later, she's a...

The #1 International bestselling author of Pretty Little Wife returns with another thrilling domestic suspense novel that asks, how many wives and girlfriends should disappear before your family notices?Elisa Wright is a mom and wife, living a nice, quiet life in a nice, quiet...

Blade-sharp, whip-smart, and genuinely original -- a thriller to refresh your faith in the genre, your belief that a story can still outpace and outsmart you.--AJ Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in The WindowClever and surprising...The superb character-driven plot...

In THE PERFECT SMILE (Book #4), criminal profiler Jessie Hunt, 29, fresh from the FBI Academy, is assigned a disturbing new case: a woman in her 30s has been murdered after using a dating website for her affairs with married men. Had she gotten...

'I just want to be your friend.' She smiled at Lily, her dark brown eyes impossibly sincere. 'And to be a mother to Emma too, of course.' Her gaze flickered to Lily's sister, but only Lily saw her expression momentarily change - from warm...

Deep in the Adirondack Mountains lies a speck of a town called Rangeley. There isn't much to this tiny town, but it is at the crossroads of serene fishing streams off the Mink River, pristine hunting grounds in the surrounding mountains, and vast estates...

A Publishers Weekly Best Mystery/Thriller of 2021Audie Award finalist for Multi-Voice PerformanceFor fans of riveting true crime docuseries a la Serial and Making a Murderer, The Anatomy of Desire is a modern tale of crime and punishment exploring unbridled ambition, blinding passion, and the...

A Today Show and New York Post Summer Reads Selection! Riveting and compulsive, national bestselling author Wendy Walker's The Night Before "takes you to deep, dark places few thrillers dare to go" as two sisters uncover long-buried secrets when an internet date spirals out...

'I can tell we're going to be the best of friends...' When Louisa Sullivan takes her little boy to his first playdate at a new friend's house she doesn't realise life is about to change for her family. Because she's about to meet Darcy...

The New York Times bestselling "Sisters of Suspense" thrill readers with this page-turning new novel of suspense where the wedding of one woman's dreams turns into a waking nightmare--and five years later, a killer bent on exacting vengeance is closer than she realizes... EVERY...

'A spooky rollercoaster of a book. Lots of twists and turns - I loved it' Simon McCleave ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐No one expected them to go there. The question is: will any of them leave?Six friends travel to a remote island north of the Scottish Highlands for...

A twisty domestic suspense debut for fans of Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies that follows three women who live on Galveston Island in a close-knit, wealthy community where parents behave badly and the lies they tell themselves become dangerous when a new girl disappears...

Jane Fairweather has experienced the worst of humanity in her foster homes; whatever potential for normalcy she possessed was shredded after her first assault.Facundo has been waiting years to find the man responsible for his mother's brutal murder. As a marine veteran, all he...

"mesmerizing debut" --Publishers Weekly"...the electric denouement more than justifies the tension throughout."--The New York Times"...a sweet and sour and ultimately redemptive delight of a mystery, redolent of 80s Florida and adolescence in all its sinister glory. I devoured it." --Kelly Link, author of Magic...

You can run but I will find you.Working as a successful PI in Los Angeles, Heather Nelson hasn't seen any of her high school classmates from Iowa in over a decade. When she makes a last minute decision to attend her class reunion, she...

Alex Cross watched a man die at the hands of an old enemy. . . and he's back from the grave for revenge.Alex Cross, I'm coming for you-even from the grave if I have to. Along Came a Spider killer Gary Soneji has been...

New York Times Bestseller"The Changeling meets an episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit but set in the UK." -The SkimmIn her enthralling debut, Gilly Macmillan explores a mother's search for her missing son, weaving a taut psychological thriller as gripping and skillful...

Bad things don't happen in Cason Glen.The locals make sure of it.So, when the residents of the town's most exclusive subdivision discover one of their own is missing, it sends a wave of panic and discord throughout the neighborhood.They are supposed to be safe.But...

Agent Tori Hunter takes in the body of the beautiful young woman curled up in the trunk of the car. Knowing what she will find, Tori gently lifts the bottom of the victim's blouse. Decorating her back are two small dots an inch apart....

USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Bestselling and award-winning author and investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan delivers another twisty, thrilling, cat and mouse novel of suspense that will have you guessing, and second-guessing, and then gasping with surprise. We all have our reasons for being who we...

When a man agrees to do a favor for a friend, he gets more than he bargained for as he becomes embroiled in a woman's murder in this new thriller from the USA Today bestselling author of Layover. Ryan Francis has it all--great job,...

If you've ever experienced sibling rivalry, you can be thankful you never had a brother like Lenny Kuhr.While growing up in the 1950's on a family run dairy farm in Binghamton New York, the psychological and emotional dynamics of three brothers unfolds into a...

Number one New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz takes readers on a twisting journey of lost love, impossible second chances, and terrifying promises.A decade ago, Emily Carlino vanished after her car broke down on a California highway. She was presumed to...

A dark, glittering debut novel echoing Hitchcock's Vertigo, The Body Double is the suspenseful story of a young woman who is recruited by a stranger to give up her old life and identity to impersonate a reclusive Hollywood star. A strange man discovers our...

A woman's suspicions about her ex-boyfriend become a dangerous obsession in a twisting novel of psychological suspense by Washington Post and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Minka Kent.Eight years ago, Grace McMullen broke Sutton Whitlock's heart when she walked away. But it was only...

Tia never harmed anyone. So why does someone want to destroy her? Tia is walking home with her children, along the lakeside of their quiet, safe town, when she realises something is wrong with her five-year-old daughter, Rosie. She seems troubled, not at all...

PLAYAndrew, the manager of Shanamore Cottages, watches his only guest via a hidden camera in her room. One night the unthinkable happens: a shadowy figure emerges on-screen, kills her, and destroys the camera. But who is the murderer? How did they know about the...

Jazz will stop at nothing to save her brother. Their foster mother, Carol, has always been fanatical, but with Jazz grown up and out of the house, Carol takes a dangerous turn that threatens thirteen-year-old Joaquin's life. Over and over, child services fails to...

Two missing girls. Two brutal murders. All connected to one farmhouse. Who is to blame? When pretty and popular teenagers Piper Hadley and Tash McBain disappear one Sunday morning, the investigation captivates a nation but the girls are never found. Three years later, during...

Sadie and Will Foust have only just moved their family from bustling Chicago to small-town Maine when their neighbor Morgan Baines is found dead in her home. The murder rocks their tiny coastal island, but no one is more shaken than Sadie. But it's...