Fiction - Thrillers - Psychological

"Debuting author Andreas layers a sense of foreboding with spats of violence to create a sinister and atmospheric story that will appeal to horror fans." --BooklistWhen three children in a Catholic group home are brutally murdered, the survivors are hurried into separate foster homes...

In some dystopic future, a confirmed atheist and an avid catholic find each other's beliefs so intolerable they agree to fight a duel - a violent combat that their hectoring discussions on everything from politics to theology seems always to defer. Along the way...

A child psychologist struggles to come to grips with her own dark childhood memories, in this "mesmerizing, unsettling novel" (The New York Times). When eight-year-old Julia was asked to be a bridesmaid at her cousin's wedding, she was thrilled. Nothing, not even her mother's...

Based on a true story, this "extremely compelling novel" delves into the mind of a murderer (Booklist). The Avenue of the Giants follows Al Kenner as he progresses from antisocial adolescent to full-fledged serial killer in the turbulent 1960s and '70s. A giant at...

This dark satire about an entitled young banker in a downward spiral is "a very modern and thoroughly haunting piece of work" (The Sunday Telegraph). It's 2008 and Matt Freeman is living in London, desperately trying to keep a toehold in the financial world...

Shamus Award, Lefty Award, and San Diego Book Award finalist Perfect for hard-boiled PI and Noir fans who like a tainted hero living by his own code Naomi Hendrix's sexy voice hovering over the radio waves isn't the only thing haunting the Southern California...

"A tough, no-nonsense detective . . . edgy, clever!" -Beverly BartonOne Wrong MovePrivate detective Claire Morgan has come home from her honeymoon just in time for Christmas at Lake of the Ozarks. And for the sheriff's department, laid low with flu, to hand her...

The Real Lolita author Sarah Weinman presents a landmark collection of 4 brilliant novels by the female pioneers of crime fiction--women who paved the way for Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Lisa Scottoline Though women crime and suspense writers dominate today's bestseller lists, the...

Seven Types of Ambiguity is a psychological thriller and a literary adventure of breathtaking scope. Celebrated as a novelist in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Philip Roth, Elliot Perlman writes of impulse and paralysis, empty marriages, lovers, gambling, and the stock market; of...

Ellie Frites is twenty-four, single, and going nowhere. She spends her days rotting in a cubicle and her nights drinking herself into an emotional stupor. One day, Ellie has a jarring hallucination: an old classmate stands beaten and bloodied in the woods of their...

On the day Nora discovered that her husband, Hugh, had gotten another woman pregnant, she made a vow: I will come back to life no matter how long it takes...It's taken Nora three years. With the help of her best friend, she fled New...

Can you hide a secret with the whole world watching?When an explosion rips apart a Chicago building, the lives of three women are forever altered.A year later, Cecily is in mourning. She was supposed to be in the building that day. Instead, she stood...

People are dying at a luxury retirement community . . . and not from natural causes.Ruth Mosby is the VP of operations at Serenity Acres, where the privileged elite go to die. For a hefty fee, wealthy retirees can live the good life in...

Psycho meets Silence of the Lambs"A taut, thrilling mystery." --Dominic Nolan, author of Past LifeFrom the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Blood for Blood, perfect for fans of James Patterson, Lee Child and Thomas Harris.A serial killer is terrorising London, removing a body part...

A gripping and suspenseful psychological thriller that Booklist calls "intriguing from start to finish," perfect for fans of New York Times bestselling authors Paula Hawkins and Gillian Flynn. It begins with a phone call. It ends with a missing child.On a warm summer's morning,...

From New York Times bestselling writer Jeff Abbott, a psychologically intense and emotionally gripping new suspense novel about a daughter's desperate search for her missing mother-one that may lead her closer to home than she ever anticipated. My mom would never leave me. This...

'An intelligent psychological drama with a gasp-making twist.' Good Housekeeping - thriller of the month 'Move over Gone Girl, you've got company on the top shelf.' Read & Rated Book Reviews When city girl Shona moves with her partner Mikey and their baby to...

You let her in. You'll wish you hadn't. Following a whirlwind romance, Rose and Chris's marriage has been unshakeable for twenty years. But when teenager Katie turns up on their doorstep, blonde, wide-eyed and beautiful, their perfect life threatens to crumble to pieces. Because...

He loves you. He'd do anything for you. But you shouldn't trust him. Jenny - poor, bullied and nursing her sick mother - hasn't had an easy time of it. But at last things are beginning to look up. Through writing about her experience...

They told us he had been missing for nearly two days, that he probably drowned. They told us a lie. Megan was ten years old when her older brother, Zac, went missing among the cliffs, caves and beaches that surround the small seaside town...

'From the first to the last page, I was completely and utterly at the mercy of this book. I was turning the pages like they were on fire, it was that good ' Bibliophile Book Club Imagine you are having lunch at an exclusive...

He watches. He waits. He kills... When Jessie Conway survives a horrific mass high school shooting, in the aftermath she finds herself thrust into the media spotlight, drawing all kinds of attention. But some of it is the wrong kind. Caleb Switch, a sadistic...

Little Frances slams the doors, and runs around the upstairs floors.She'll steal your pen or touch your hair, when you're sure there's no one there.The nuns are meant to keep her safe, but she gets out of her own grave.So pull your covers over...

From critically acclaimed author Russell Wangersky, comes a dark, psychological thriller about a man named Walt, a grocery store cleaner who collects the shopping lists people leave in the store and discard without thought. In his fifties, abandoned, he says, by his now-missing wife...

Locked in his dark cell, Greg lay awake in bed, fidgeting with the small cassette recorder, pressing the rewind and stop buttons to listen to the heavy click and spring-loaded clank that initiated and punctuated the faint whirring mechanics. He knew well enough no...

You plotted against me with the devil, himself. Will God let you repent for your sin? I WON'T.The poverty-stricken past of Medeia is stained with blood that's not hers, but it was the price paid for John to bring her into his wealthy life.His...

In an instant, Jennifer's life is forever altered.When her ten-year-old daughter, Sarah, is abducted in Dubai, expats Jennifer and her husband Kevin are thrown into an unimaginable nightmare. With very little help provided by the local authorities and the US Embassy, Jennifer watches her...

"I don't enjoy violence. I'm just-" She shrugged. "-good at it."She comes to life in a place she'd never have been caught dead: The stage of a strip club. Aghast, confounded, she turns to bolt, only to find herself staring into a wall of...

Twisted Timbers hasn't seen this much action since the sawmill fire that left a permanent scar on the normally quiet town in the Pacific Northwest. Sheriff Mitch Thompson has been working hard to rebuild the town's police department since that fateful night at Graham...

Author: George GissingISBN-10: 1731701713ISBN-13: 9781731701718Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2018Pages: 672Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.53lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.63d

Fresh out of school, Dr. Crane takes on a new patient who both intrigues and unnerves him. Charming, manipulative, and amoral, Max has exactly the sort of mind Crane finds himself drawn to with fictional characters.As Max weaves himself into Crane's life, Crane realizes...

A fearless detective. A stolen child. And a killer just getting started. From award-winning author Pamela Crane comes a terrifying tale of small-town secrets and murder.Ari Wilburn's life ended long ago--the day she watched her little sister die in a tragic accident and did...

"Perfect for fans of Ruth Ware and Paula Hawkins, Pamela Crane introduces a mind-twist that takes everything you love about thrillers, pushes it outside the box, and electrifies you with clever prose and a plot that will terrify you. A must-read thriller..." - Southern...

Lucy Guardino, your average Pittsburgh soccer mom, baking brownies and carrying a loaded forty-caliber Glock, is back From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author CJ Lyons, Book #2 in the critically acclaimed, international bestselling Lucy Guardino FBI Thriller series. Once a shining...

The Others disposed of Earth's spaceship fleet as easily as swatting a fly. They blew up the Moon, letting the resulting cloud of rocks and gravel go into orbit. Then, for good measure, they turned off all the power, leaving Earth with nine billion...

A story of the lives of three women, tightly woven together and surviving the harsh societal environment of an Appalachian mining town in the early to mid-1900s. Two religions contrast with each other--the Cherokee spirits of the native people and the Old Testament God...

'The definition of a page-turner.' Marie Claire 'A vivid, suspenseful thriller that should appeal to those with a taste for armchair travel.' Sydney Morning Herald 'A smartly constructed, tense thriller that will leave you guessing until the very end. It's a remarkable debut from...

Eighteen years ago your baby daughter was snatched. Today, she came back. A sinister and darkly compelling psychological thriller from the No.1 bestselling author of The Girl With No Past. Eighteen years ago, Simone Porter's six-month-old daughter, Helena, was abducted. Simone and husband, Matt,...

When a young man inherits a vast mansion from an estranged great-uncle, his apparent good fortune sours when unsettling things begin to happen ... A terrifying psychological thriller cum gothic ghost story from the bestselling author of A Suitable Lie. 'A beautifully written tale,...

In her award-winning novel*, Natasha Mostert blends alchemy, the Art of Memory, high magic and murder to create a highly original psychological thriller that is steeped in sensuality. Gabriel Blackstone is a cool, hip, thoroughly twenty-first century Londoner with an unusual talent. A computer...

In Old Gate, Virginia, stands a grand house built by Randolph Bliss, a charming New York carpetbagger who, in 1878, shook off dire warnings to build his home elsewhere. For the ground beneath Bliss House is tainted with the kind of tragedy that curses...

Mr. Miller is watching youMichael Bellicher is working for a successful consultancy agency and has everything going for him. During a night spent at work, he witnesses something he should never have seen. Attempting to flee the tightening stranglehold of the conspirators, Michael finds...

Hitch a ride with the master of setting as he blends and bends genres with science-rich, thought-provoking short stories. "Buy the ticket, take the ride." "A maestro of the field, Gene O'Neill's stories are consistently well-executed. He writes with authority, depth, and loads of...

"Finely wrought; Ollestad builds a delicate tension between the characters, exposing their raw desire and exploring the concept of artistic inspiration...A quietly tense and absorbing read." --Kirkus French Girl with Mother is a provocative, propulsive thriller that marries the spirit of James Salter with...

Alexander thinks it will be easy to break up with his mistress because he has done it many times before with other women. But, Karen is different. She doesn't want to be dispensable and decides to use Alexander's wife in her plans. His wife...

Award-winning author Brad Parks delivers a tense novel of thrills, twists, and deceit that grabs you and won't let go until the final, satisfying page. Tommy Jump is an out-of-work stage actor approached by the FBI with the role of a lifetime: Go undercover...

"A twisting, heart-wrenching journey into a marriage, a gripping thriller . . . Reardon grabs his readers on page one, then deftly ratchets up the suspense until the breathless ending."--Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling authorJulia Swann, mother of two young boys, is on...

The perfect brother. The perfect boyfriend. The perfect lie.Mags doesn't believe her brother's fall was an accident. In that forty-foot stairwell, he didn't just slip over the edge.But there is only one witness, Jody, the girlfriend grieving at his bedside.Which is another story Mags...

Readers Favorite Award Winning Novel! "Michael Segedy gives valuable insight into the minds of two young men and how jealousy and fear can be a deadly combination." Reviewed by Audio Book Reviewer "I don't know much about young adult fiction category, being long gone...

A haunting, evocative novel about a woman who might have to face the disturbing truth about her own daughter. Hanna and Joe send their awkward daughter Dawn off to college hoping that she will finally "come into her own." When she brings her new...