Fiction - Thrillers - Psychological

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The year is 1971. The place is Detroit. Harry Levin, a scrap metal dealer and Holocaust survivor, has just learned that his daughter was killed in a car accident. Traveling to Washington, DC to claim the body, he learns that the accident...

It was supposed to be my family's promising new start, but now it's a nightmare I can't wake up from...I need the two men sitting opposite to trust me. My family's happiness is riding on my getting this job. I smile - there's no...

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Mistletoe and holly and lights all aglow. It's my favorite time of year. Until my husband had to go and ruin it. Christmas is officially canceled at my house now that I've kidnapped my husband and...

Immensely exciting and atmospheric' ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH'Move over Rebus' Daily Mail'Exciting, pacy, authentic'ANGELA MARSONS'Convincing Glaswegian atmosphere and superior writing'The Times Don't miss Alex Gray's latest novel - WHEN SHADOWS FALL is out now in paperback "It doesn't matter whether you've read them all or...

Small dreams can damn as much as full-blown nightmares, as proven in the short stories Laura Argiri has written in her debut collection, Guilty Parties. Small town life can host the bitterest gossip, and and small-minded folk can offer the cruelest taunts and regrettable...

"You've found this, Chumley. Good for you. Now take my advice and put it back down. This manuscript isn't meant for you. You don't have the stomach." Sometime in 2016, dark web posts began appearing about a document known only as "the Manuscript." Originally...

A distinguished Professor of AI-neuroscience and Theory of Mind, Cayce Varin has dissident thoughts. He differs from acceptable opinion on matters of grave importance to respectable Human Biologicals and the Federation of Pandemos, the global state. Upon confessing his divergent theories to a Graduate...

She thought she had the dream life - and then her nightmares began..."A proper mind-blowing page-turner" - Elizabeth Haynes (Into the Darkest Corner)Eva Curtis is a pathological perfectionist whose attention to detail means she never makes mistakes - until one slip-up leads to the...

Her daughter is dying ... and a killer with a fetish for body parts stalks London.As Detective Sergeant Jamie Brooke copes with the daily pain of watching her daughter suffer through her last days, she is assigned to a macabre murder case. The mutilated...

He's always enjoyed the darker things in life, finding that the thrill of the hunt and the kill are the only aspects of life he truly loves... Bill Wright has spent years building a successful career that allows him ample time to work on...

The kinetic story of a sixty-five-year-old female assassin who faces an unexpected threat in the twilight of her career--an English-language debut from an award-winning South Korean author At sixty-five, Hornclaw is beginning to slow down. She lives modestly in a small apartment, with only...

If you loved Behind Her Eyes, prepare to be totally and utterly blown away by Insomnia. Sarah Pinborough is a twisted genius.--Lisa JewellIN THE DEAD OF NIGHT, MADNESS LIES ...Emma can't sleep.CHECK THE WINDOWS.It's been like this since her big 4-0 started getting closer.LOCK...

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...

From the author of The Boys' Club, a gripping novel set in the high-stakes world of art forgery that moves across the globe, from the trendy art galleries of Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood to the high-flying international art fairs of Hong Kong.Can you spot the...

***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES*** Whether you've read them all or whether you're discovering Alex Gray's bestselling series for the first time, ECHO OF THE DEAD will have you gripped until the final page. 'Echo of the Dead will keep you guessing LIN ANDERSON'Echo...

In the vein of the Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Club pick The Other Woman, Sandie Jones's explosive next novel The Guilt Trip will have readers gripped to the very last page. They went away as friends.They came back as suspects. Rachel...

He stole her childhood. Now she wants it back.Mara Sitwell was only a child when she went missing nineteen years ago.Now she's been found alive and well, wandering barefoot and confused in remote woods.She tells investigators she was imprisoned in an underground cell -...

Mysterious deaths. A looming evil. When her patients start dying, can a devoted doctor stop the slaughter?Abandoned and forsaken by her loved ones, Dr. Emma Steele settles to live for her career, her patients, and wine. When her mentor is slaughtered, she risks her...

"Just when you think you cannot be any more shocked, you are...... because wow, I did not see that ending coming at all." - Bookstagrammer (AsReadByDanielle) Rose, newly married to surgeon Nathan Winter, wants for nothing in her perfect life - except the one...

Belinda Brand becomes an overnight sensation when Hollywood offers to make a film of her runaway bestseller. A confident, modern woman, she has the world at her feet - and a secret she is convinced no one will ever discover. Leah, her gentle and...

'The taut plot is full of well-timed twists. A solid pyschological thriller.' Independent on Sunday 'Creepy and gripping, this pacy read will give you goosebumps!' Closer '[An] intricate story that ticks all the right boxes.' The BookbagFrom the author of WHAT GOES AROUND. A...

A sheltered mother. A medically fragile child. They can't just disappear. Or can they?A typical day of medical appointments and errands. Elizabeth can handle it, she tells herself. She'll do it all until her husband returns on the weekend.But someone else has a plan...

A gripping new page-turning thriller from the USA Today bestseller!Best friend. Teenager. Murderer.A young girl found dead in a neighbor's field.A fourteen-year-old who confesses.Just a child herself, could Chrissy Cornwall really be a cold-blooded killer?Years later, the murderer is getting out and Natalie Bryers,...

Teacher versus pupil.It's your word against hers . . . As a school nurse, Anna Pierce is a well-respected and trusted member of the community. So when she is accused of hitting a pupil, the reaction is one of shock and disbelief. The pupil...

After Abbie Devereaux escapes a kidnapper, no one seems to believe her. Even worse, Abbie can't remember anything prior to her abduction. Determined to prove she was kidnapped, Abbie sets out to retrace her steps--and comes face-to-face with a very real psycho-killer. Only this...

A man must save the life of a little girl who may be his own flesh and blood in this pulse-pounding novel of psychological suspense from the USA Today bestselling author of Kill All Your Darlings. When Michael Frazier's ex-wife, Erica, unexpectedly shows up...

In the English countryside, a former Special Forces officer must go undercover in a high stakes game . . . but he might not make it out alive.Someone is luring men from the streets to play a mysterious, high stakes game in the English...

In this audacious psychological thriller where nothing is what it seems, a man facing death makes a life-changing choice that puts him--and the people he loves--in serious trouble. Ted McKay had it all: a beautiful wife, two daughters, a high-paying job. But after being...

After a lavish night of guilty pleasures in Monte Carlo, four best friends face an awful morning of arrests -- and a fight for survival.Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most...

New York Times bestselling author Michael Gruber, a member of the elite ranks of those who can both chill the blood and challenge the mind (The Denver Post), delivers a taut, multilayered, riveting novel of suspense Somewhere in Pakistan, Sonia Laghari and eight fellow...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JESSICA CHASTAIN AND RALPH FIENNES - A haunting novel exploring the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of Moroccan Muslims and Western visitors who converge on a luxurious desert villa for a decadent weekend-long party. "Surprising...

A New York Times Noteable Book Mesmerizing, exhilarating, and profoundly moving, Mr. Peanut is a police procedural of the soul, a poignant investigation of the relentlessly mysterious human heart. David Pepin has been in love with his wife, Alice, since the moment they met...

Soon to be the major motion picture The Operative, starring Martin Freeman and Diane Kruger. For readers of John Le Carr and viewers of Homeland, a slow-burning psychological spy-thriller by a former brigadier general of intelligence in the Israeli army One of The Washington...

"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...

"Thrilling and suspenseful...a modern-day grown-up Nancy Drew." -- Jamie Lee Curtis, TimeA Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the MonthEmily Harlow is a professional organizer who helps people declutter their lives; she's married to a man who can't drive past a yard sale without...

'I was sucked in by the first page' JANE CORRY'A gripping thriller perfect for avid fans of Ruth Ware' Woman's OwnThe USA Today and #1 eBook bestseller of The Girl Who Lied and Sister SisterSINCLAIR WIFE DEAD HUSBAND CLEARED Police have ruled out suspicious...

A beautiful house. A new beginning. The almost perfect neighbours...When newlyweds Jane and Alex Clarke move into an idyllic house on the quaint Bristol Lane, they are excited for a new beginning in what will be their 'forever home'.And when an elderly neighbour welcomes...

USA Today Bestseller 'Gobsmacked...a thrilling finale' Rachel's Random ReadsAlice: Beautiful, kind, manipulative, liar.Clare: Intelligent, loyal, paranoid, jealous.Clare thinks Alice is a manipulative liar who is trying to steal her life.Alice thinks Clare is jealous of her long-lost return and place in their family.One of...

A No.1 e-book bestseller, perfect for fans of Ruth Ware, Shari Lapena and Clare Mackintosh. Two suburban women. Two dark secrets. The almost perfect murder. Everybody needs good neighbours... Melissa and Hester have lived next door to each other for years. When Melissa's daughter...

As the chatty classroom of kindergarten children excitedly awaits the final bell to release them for the weekend, Chloe, racked with exhaustion, desperately attempts to keep her eyes open. Nervously staring at the battered wooden desk, her six-year-old mind becomes fixated on the sound...

Orwellian.... It's a well-worn term at risk of becoming so cliché and fashionable that ironically its meaning gets lost. "Orwellian" has gained meme status saturating pop culture signaling its place as a literary cross over to a widely recognizable concern for society. But "bumper...

Nominated for a 34th annual Lambda Literary Award - A scintillating thriller with an emotional punch: "The tension builds to unbearably claustrophobic levels. To say more would rob readers of the 'no, he didn't' suspense that makes Bath Haus an unexpectedly twisted, heart-pounding cat-versus-mouse...

Inside 50 StatesAn Idaho farmer who aches for absolution after a tragedy is given one more chance at redemption. Two runaways cross paths in a Tennessee bus station with only one ticket between them. A family sees looters racing toward their home as they...

A deal has been struck to spare Mandisa from her father's fate, and Hakim appears to have a strategy. He's operating in secrecy, and his family is worried about the consequences. It's too late to go back now that Dr. King has discovered Mandisa...

A man mysteriously cuts off communication with everyone close to him. A woman finds herself in a strange city with an unknown companion and doesn't remember how she got there. A wild, unbroken horse suddenly obeys every command. Devon Williams is a world-renowned hypnotist...

One of them is lying...He doesn't have a wife. Not anymore. So who is this woman claiming to be his spouse? And what does she want from him? When newlywed housewife Julia Windsmith returns home after a much-needed break, she is shocked to find...

Angie Smith and Curtis Loew are having dreams they can't shake. At the heart of each is Angie's daughter, Kaya. Angie's dreams end in death, the spreading of hand-shaped bruises across her daughter's throat. Curtis' dreams end in something else, something closer to obsession...

An incomparable master storyteller in all forms, in The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares Joyce Carol Oates spins six imaginative tales of suspense. "The Corn Maiden" is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet, but somewhat slow, eleven-year-old girl with hair the...

A New York Times bestseller, Turn of Mind is a literary thriller about a retired orthopedic surgeon suffering from dementia and accused of killing her best friend. With unmatched patience and a pulsating intensity, Alice LaPlante's debut novel brings us deep into a brilliant...

From a master "mind reader who writes psychological horror stories about seriously disturbed minds" (New York Times Book Review), this gorgeously eerie story collection explores the deepest entwinings of lust and repulsion, creation and dissolution, Eros and Thanatos. In the title story of her...