Fiction - Thrillers - Psychological

A female serial killer is claiming the lives of unsuspecting people in 19th century Romania. Guided by a sinister voice in her head, she kills her victims on command and won't stop until the voice says to. Can anyone stand a chance against a...

2023 Maxy Awards WinnerStephen Detals played professional baseball before flaming out in whiskey-fueled catastrophe.His father and grandfather killed themselves on their 39th birthdays. Stephen is 38. He battles alcoholism, abandonment, suicidal tendencies, and lethal family history to survive his impending birthday.This novel chronicles the...

The Prickling is a fiction thriller about an overworked paralegal, Ashley, struggling in her personal life. She goes to the mountains for the weekend to clear her head and make some tough choices. While hiking with her dog, she falls, strikes her head, and...

As five friends travel through the isolated California desert towards a popular music festival, their trip is interrupted thanks to our modern world's ever-evolving state of technology... Stranded and alone needing to recharge their electric vehicle. When the group of teenagers settle on a...

2023 Maxy Awards WinnerStephen Detals played professional baseball before flaming out in whiskey-fueled catastrophe.His father and grandfather killed themselves on their 39th birthdays. Stephen is 38. He battles alcoholism, abandonment, suicidal tendencies, and lethal family history to survive his impending birthday.This novel chronicles the...

This story is about a young woman who met the man of her dreams during a college party. They eventually marry and have two beautiful children, Oliver and Kayla. They spend ten years of their marriage living the most wonderful life. A life most...

"I am the City."Nicolas Fontaine is a Hitchcock-obsessed, down-on-his-luck cartoonist whose propensity for addiction's dug him a pathetic lifestyle of late-night television movies and sexual rendezvous with the city's slimiest. He's more than willing to answer when the fat man comes calling, with an...

Elizabeth witnesses traumatizing events as they happen from the perspective of the victim. Against her will, she travels to the minds of victims while asleep. She's a Dream Traveller, the only one of her kind. Her life is turned upside down when she witnesses...

Anxious Pleasures takes Franz Kafka's profoundly haunting and sad comic novella, The Metamorphosis, and reanimates it through the vantage points of those who surrounded Gregor Samsa during his plight. All the familiar characters are here, including the hysterical mother, stern father, faithless sister, and...

Finalist for the Libby Book Awards What if toxic pollutants traveled up the socioeconomic ladder rather than down it? A Black biochemist provides an answer in this wildly original novel of pollution, poison, and dark pleasure In Atlanta, Kenny Bomar is a biochemist-turned-coffee-shop-owner in...

**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "Alex Michaelides hits the trifecta with his third novel, The Fury. The highly original story presents the reader with the king of all unreliable narrators, enough twists and turns to power two novels, and a host of characters...

A psychologist must decide whether her sleepwalking patient is a victim or a brutal serial killer in this unpredictable psychological thriller. A night to remember... if you make it out alive. Psychologist Maggie Connolly didn't just stumble into trouble--she was born into it. Her...

Ever present in the Agent's mind is her promise that she would keep Kiddo safe. A year after the fateful events in Diablo, she finally catches up with the WCE operative who kidnapped her child. During this interrogation, the Agent learns that the WCE...

"Reminiscent of Maggie Shipstead's Astonish Me and Julia Phillips's Disappearing Earth, Winterland tells the story of a previous era, shockingly pertinent today, shaped by glory and loss and finding light where none exists. In the Soviet Union in 1973, there is perhaps no greater...

A town haunted by its past, in the shadow of an abandoned house.A close-knit family struggling to find answers and survive.The beginning of a three-book series, psychological thrillers that keep you on the edge of your seat.The rural farming community of New Haven has...

The blushing bride. The handsome groom. A secret one of them will kill for...It's the day I've been dreaming about my whole life. As I glide down the flower-strewn aisle overlooking the Greek orange groves, in my pearl-encrusted ivory gown, I finally see my...

Designed to offer a simulated experience of studying abroad, the French House at the University of Wisconsin instead repeatedly falls victim to tragedy. But for college freshman Simone Duchamps, an American of French descent, the residence provides her first niche. Finally, a place where...

The borrowed money is gone. He's left to take the blame. Can a desperate man escape a deadly scam?David Pascal has hit rock bottom. After failing at startups and losing his fianc馥 to another guy, the unsuccessful entrepreneur wallows in depression in front of...

"Intriguing lead characters strengthen this engaging Southern murder mystery." -Kirkus ReviewsOn a hot, muggy afternoon in Eden, a tiny, rural town deep in southeast Louisiana, two boys make a grim discovery: they unearth the decades-old remains of a child, strands of hair and clothing...

They say they have no children. So who did I see at the window?My darling little boy Albie adores playing at our new neighbours' house. And after the terrible year we've had, I feel so lucky that we can start over in this perfect...

A woman slaughtered. Her husband accused. Can this military investigator stop the killer from claiming more victims? Fairchild Air Force Base. Sergeant Evelyn "Mac" McGregor strives to show she's cut out for service. So when a gruesome crime interrupts her dreaded morning run, the...

This psychological page-turner, perfect for fans of Paula Hawkins and Gillian Flynn, explores how far couples will go to keep their marriage intact--unless their secrets tear it apart first. Adam is having a hard time adjusting to the stay-at-home-dad life. The sleepless nights and...

A dark secret. A deadly obsession. No place to hide.Max Hunter, my boyfriend, booked the beautiful boat house on the Norfolk Broads as a surprise autumn breakA week away to heal after a fraught few months following my father's death. A chance to put...

"Have you heard from Eviana?" Simon's voice is shaky. "She went for a walk this afternoon and she never came back." My heart seizes in my chest, an invisible fist clenching it tight.Five days ago, my sister told me she was going to die....

All of my life I've been scared. I've tried to live by their rules. Always denying who I am to make them happy. Everything I did was wrong, but I tried. It is time for me. Time to be who I really am. ***...

Welcome to Crescent Hills, where beauty only runs so deep. Scandal lurks below the surface behind the McMansions, designer clothes, and fancy cars. When the town is shaken by the disappearance of journalist Ivy Fields, whispers of betrayal and intrigue begin to unravel the...

The House of WhispersLiving Nightmares Book OneA notorious murderer haunting the streets of Bedeville stumbles upon a mysterious woman, becoming obsessed as he spends his nights endlessly toying with her and turning her world into a living nightmare. This dark and twisted retelling of...

Quinn Pierce, a therapist trying to outrun her past, receives a request she can't refuse. Elliott Bennett, the distraught husband of renowned socialite and philanthropist Laura Bennett, asks her to help find his wife and her former college roommate. She arrives at Harrow Isle,...

Long blonde hair. Sparkling dark eyes. Perfect pearly-white teeth. I've never met her before but I know exactly who she is as I spot her through the crowds of the terminal. Because our new guest is the spitting image of the daughter we lost....

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Crossfire(R) saga.You can't believe all of them, but can you trust any of them?Lily Black was presumed dead for years.Now, she's back in the unquestioning arms of her loving husband, Kane. Where she's been...

Elementary school teacher Cary Smith thinks she has finally outrun her secrets. She's avoided attention all her life, but the moment beautiful Tina Flores joins the faculty, Cary wants to be noticed. Although the school has a zero-tolerance policy toward anything "immoral," Cary dares...

Her father. Dead. For ever. She said the words over to herself. They meant nothing. She was going to be alone. Without him. Always. She said the words over to herself. They meant nothing. Up in that room with its windows wide open, shut...

A digital romance turns deadly in this sensual domestic thriller from USA Today bestselling author Samantha M. Bailey.Eden Miller's world is crumbling. Her husband blindsided her with divorce, and her daughter barely speaks to her. In an impulsive decision to escape her present and...

The Dead Don't Speak but perhaps they do in this short horror novella. Thomas Grady is a school teacher who runs over a bicyclist one night. Leaving him for dead. A week later Thomas is confronted by the man on a city bus one...

How Do You Maintain Your Identity When the Lines of Reason Become Blurred? The year is 1968, and the Vietnam War is in full swing. Dr. Bridget Castle, a neurosurgeon in Boston, handles the victims of anti-war protests, the casualties of war, and the...

"Although Torin is the one who struggles to communicate, I was the one left speechless by this daring, delicate, and ultimately unforgettable love story." - BB Easton, author of 44 Chapters About 4 Men, the inspiration for Sex/Life on NetflixAn emotional and unique neurodivergent...

How far are you willing to go for the ones you love ... and how far are you able to go?For Nathan Bray, this philosophical thought experiment becomes brutally real when an inexplicable event causes the oceans of the world to disappear, leaving him...

Your next stay-up-all-night thriller, about identical triplets who have a nasty habit of killing their boyfriends, and what happens when the youngest commits their worst crime yet: falling in love with her mark. Make him want you.Make him love you.Make him dead. Sissy has...

In this heart-stopping psychological thriller, Emily Hollister's seemingly perfect life unravels when she becomes the target of someone intent on taking over her life. "I know what you did." The anonymous note starts an ominous game of cat and mouse. Soon, Emily finds herself...

In this heart-stopping psychological thriller, Emily Hollister's seemingly perfect life unravels when she becomes the target of someone intent on taking over her life. "I know what you did." The anonymous note starts an ominous game of cat and mouse. Soon, Emily finds herself...

Your worst enemy is closer than you think.Someone is watching Amy when she starts a new life in Manhattan. Her mysterious "best friend" sends her creepy text messages...and murders anyone who stands in her way.When the rising body count threatens to expose the deadly...

Following the intense, toxic friendship of two kindred spirits across their lifetimes, The Best Friend is a dark, suspenseful novel and first standalone from Jessica Fellowes, New York Times bestselling author of the Mitford Murders series and the companion Downton Abbey books. Bella and...

A woman who returns to her hometown to investigate her childhood friend's disappearance soon finds herself embroiled in a deadly web of half truths, cover-ups, and dark magic. On the surface, Liv Edwards has a near-perfect life--a handsome new fiancé, an apartment in Boston,...

He saved my little girl when I couldn't. I invited him into our lives. But I had no idea he knew my darkest secret... It is an ordinary September morning when I nearly lose my little girl. My mouth is dry, my hands shake...

"Readers will be hard-pressed to put this down." Publishers WeeklyAn estranged daughter. A missing grandson. A mother faced with an impossible choice. Renee Gulliver appears to have it all: a beautiful house overlooking a scenic estuary on England's East Coast, a successful career as...

The gripping new psychological thriller by bestselling author J.A.Baker! Prepare to be hooked!I am safe here, in my cottage in the woods where no one knows me or my real name. All is peaceful and calm and the real world can't hurt me -...

Noa Morgan worked hard to put the past and Emily behind her. Not that she remembers much about the forty days she spent in captivity. When Noa realises she is being stalked, she knows it's him. Despite everything she's done, he's found her. And...

She thought she'd escaped her poisonous past...Thirteen years ago, Maggie Ellis left her small town and vowed to never return. In her rearview mirror were two men she loved and an ominous secret that would forever haunt her. Now, tragedy has brought her back,...

"Last Ride to Stillwater" begins with a killer named Jimmy Bigelow who, fleeing the authorities in the mountains of western Montana, will stop at nothing, including killing those in his path, to escape the hangman's noose awaiting him in Deer Lodge. It is late...

Brenda DeVoe lives a lonely, quiet life in a secluded house by the backwoods of Virginia. Her days are spent working as a volunteer at the local animal shelter, caring for unwanted and injured pets. Once the toast of their small town, Brenda and...