Fiction - Thrillers - Psychological

A comedy festival is supposed to kill with laughter. This one leaves bodies.At the Dead Man Theater, a masked figure called the Critic appears in the balcony and exposes the comedians' darkest secrets in front of a laughing crowd.Then people start dying.As fear and...

Justice has a pattern.So does obsession.When violent offenders begin dying in meticulously staged scenes across the city, authorities are quick to believe they're facing a vigilante-someone hunting the worst of the worst. To the public, it looks like justice finally catching up.To forensic psychologist...

A MURDER OF CROWESby Michael Paul PatrickDr. Eli Crowe learned early that monsters don't always look like monsters.When he was a child, his mother-a devoted teacher-was murdered. The case was never truly solved. The questions never stopped echoing. And the absence left behind shaped...

You don't bury the past on this land.It digs itself out.After escaping an abusive past and the shadow of a stalker who knows the terrain better than law enforcement, Stacy Parker returns to the last place she ever thought she'd call home-Carter Ranch, nestled...

Some people will do anything for family. Even kill for it...When Sophia, a wealthy woman far from home, meets Rebecca, a struggling nurse and mother, at a paint-and-sip class in New York, their friendship unfolds just as you might expect.The lonely outsider finds her...

Have you ever fallen in love with a fictional character?America fell in love with the perfect book boyfriend, Andy Creighton, but then the unthinkable happened - the author of his popular book series made a drastic decision that broke hearts across the country.And now...

Norma's life has been a jagged puzzle, never quite fitting until motherhood pieced her together. Escaping the shadows of an abusive marriage, she's forged a new life with her loving husband, striving for the normal family life she never knew. But beneath her warm...

"A deep and compelling dive into a question seldom answered: How lucky am I?" Jerry Spinelli, Newbery MedalistWhat if you believed fate was on your side-even when the stakes are life and death? "A compelling tale of passion, poker, and unrealized dreams, a dizzying...

I didn't plan on coming home at forty-three. And I definitely didn't plan on letting the wrong man into our house.Newly divorced, unemployed, and out of options, moving back into my childhood home was supposed to be temporary-just long enough to get back on...

A wedding on an isolated island in the Pacific Northwest turns deadly, when unexpected guests with ulterior motives show up and secrets surface.A controlling bride. An angry cousin. A vengeful ex. Claire wails when her wedding cake shaped like a birch tree slides toward...

A fire marshal with a tormented past. A serial killer with a penchant for arson. Carrie Trent is a survivor. Not because of the serial killer who dragged her from the fire that claimed her fiancé, but because she fights back. It takes Carrie...

Hunger is an ancient god, and it has finally decided to speak.Yukon Territory, 1885. Dr. Arthur Penhaligon is a man stripped of his pride, seeking refuge from a scandalous past in the most desolate corner of the world: Oakhaven. But the Arctic is not...

From the author of Man, F*ck This House (and Other Disasters)Two feuding #VanLife influencers must put aside their differences in order to survive when they are stalked by a masked killer in a remote stretch of Death Valley.Morgan and Jasper are the couple everyone...

From the author of Man, F*ck This House (and Other Disasters)Two feuding #VanLife influencers must put aside their differences in order to survive when they are stalked by a masked killer in a remote stretch of Death Valley.Morgan and Jasper are the couple everyone...

I heard my sister being murdered over the phone. It was staged to look like a robbery gone wrong, but in her last moments, she was betrayed by someone she knew. Someone who had access to her home. Now her three girls are going...

Eleanor Cross was nine years old when she first met Leo Gable-a boy with unsettling intelligence and an impossible ability to foresee death. She didn't understand it then. By her teenage years, the horrifying truth became impossible to ignore: Leo wasn't predicting deaths. He...

"Wow! Captivating story. What a twist!!" - Jerry E. (ARC review)"Loved, loved, loved the big twist--I did not see that coming!". - ARC reviewSomebody was watching her every move.They knew her schedule, where her daughter went to daycare...After walking out of an abusive relationship,...

Have you ever felt like you were being watched in your own home?Alice and Tom thought they had found the perfect sanctuary: a sprawling country estate sold at an impossibly low price. It was supposed to be their fresh start, an escape from the...

Emma's life looks perfect. A wealthy husband. A beautiful home. But inside those walls, she lives in terror. Every smile is a lie. Every day is a performance to survive.The night she takes control, the night he dies, should have set her free. Instead,...

Some secrets don't fade. They hunt.Expanse, Colorado. Population 313. A town so remote it barely exists on a map--the perfect hiding place for Annie Wolfe and her daughter, Coral. Their cabin is nearly off the grid, and Annie has done everything to keep them...

An arts council run by corrupt and unscrupulous philistines routinely casts its votes in favor of talentless charlatans and pretentious mediocrities for its own enrichment until one outraged young artist of irreproachable talent and attainments decides to exact her revenge against the system by...

In a scorched world scraping toward survival, one man unearths an enigmatic, long-buried relic from a forgotten age. As the fragile outpost he's helped create begins to fracture, he must face a devastating truth: some things were buried for a reason. A dystopian western...

Would you still love me if I were a murderer...? Morello is a nobody: a homeless orphan and starving artist with nothing but impossible dreams of escaping obscurity. Then Florence appears--dazzling, dangerous, and offering Morello a way out, on one chilling condition: each year,...

Lottie has saved all year for her family vacation by the sea with her husband and young son. But as soon as they arrive at their rental it is clear they have made a huge mistake coming here... Next door, Olivia looks like just...

When a mysterious comet blazes across Earth's sky, every pregnant woman on the planet dies except one.Annette survives. But what grows inside her isn't a miracle... it's a warning. As her husband Marty clings to reason and her sanity begins to fracture, something ancient...

THE GENTLE CHILDRaised with kindness. Rooted in poison. Emily Caldwell did everything right. She moved her family to a secluded farmhouse to escape the toxins of the modern world. She raised her fourteen-year-old daughter, Mary Kate, with "gentle parenting," organic food, and absolutely no...

The year has changed.The guilt hasn't.And the house remembers everything.At the edge of a frozen lake stands an abandoned house that should have been left behind with the old year.A torn Happy New Year banner still hangs from the porch.A cracked digital clock glows...

Everyone in this house is lying.The problem is... she doesn't know why.Mara wakes up with a bruise she can't explain-and an hour of her life completely missing.Her husband's story doesn't match the details.Her stepdaughter watches her like she's waiting for her to remember.And the...

It's 1992. Agent Adams is handed another missing persons case--this time, it's Julia Monroe, a twenty-four-year-old Harvard graduate who had only just returned to her family's Bethesda home. Julia vanishes without a trace. No signs of forced entry. No goodbye note. Just an empty...

Every marriage has secrets. Hers could ruin everything. She didn't marry for love. She married for survival. Claire Whitman is the wife everyone envies.She has a devoted husband, a beautiful home, and a life built on quiet stability. From the outside, her marriage looks...

Detective Maya Chen never planned to spend Christmas Eve crawling up a snow-choked mountain road, but a terrified 911 call changes everything. The Ashford family-wealthy, powerful, and deeply dysfunctional-has gathered at their private lodge for the holiday and the reading of the late Marcus...

One year after escaping her abductor, a woman searches for the girl who didn't get away in this #1 bestselling forensic thriller laden with grisly details, high tension, and jaw-dropping twists for fans of Riley Sager, Jeneva Rose, and Alex Michaelides. **NOW A DELUXE...

Perfect for fans of Tess Gerritsen's Rizzoli & Isles and Kathy Reichs, comes an explosive thriller about a team of two strong women and a crime that will shake you to your core.THREE SEPARATE HOMICIDES. THREE UNRELATED VICTIMS. ONE GRISLY SECRET.When the body of...

The highly anticipated sequel to The Doll Maker and second book in the French Quarter series. Desperate to conquer her past, the reluctant successor of a Voodoo priestess fights for control of her future. Despite its unsavory history of alleged Voodoo rituals, The Doll...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive and Bright Young Women comes a smoldering erotic thriller with a singular, mind-bending ending. Now, Faye is one half of a power-producing duo with her Hollywood husband. Henry is a married father running...

Some houses keep secrets. This one remembers.High on a lonely hill, a decaying mansion waits. Locals whisper its name only in fear: Haunted Hill House. Its windows glow like eyes. Its doors are scarred with claw marks. And inside, the clocks are forever frozen...

Step into the labyrinth of Case 79, a psychological thriller where nothing is as it seems. Hidden codes, cryptic puzzles, and shadowed truths draw readers into a chilling investigation that blurs the line between logic and madness. Each page is designed to test the...

A tense, gripping psychological thriller from top 10 bestselling author KERI BEEVIS. A must-read for fans of Louise Candlish. Shalini Boland and C.L. Taylor I survived the car crash. But someone is determined I won t survive the truth. I was the only one...

The Ultimate Review of Bugonia: Unpacking the Dark Comedy and Paranoia in Yorgos Lanthimos's Thrilling MasterpieceIf you're looking for a movie that will leave you on the edge of your seat while making you think deeply about the world we live in, Bugonia is...

Step into the shadows of Michigan, where the Great Lakes whisper ancient secrets and the folklore of its Indigenous people intertwines with the shifting realities of our modern world. DARK TAKES OF MICHIGAN is a collection of 17 short stories that explore the eerie...

They say I put the "psycho" in psychoanalyst... and maybe they're right.One moment I was a respected psychoanalyst and researcher. The next? Inmate #36729, locked up at Hazelwood Grove Correctional Facility-in the infamous Block Crash Out.Before I got here, I had never even heard...

"The Bell is harrowing and deeply human suspense. If The Perfect Storm and Chernobyl had a love child raised by The Abyss, this would be it."Sixty-Six Atmospheres down, it's not the Depth that kills. It's the Pressure.The Bell is a heart-pounding, claustrophobic thriller that...

Precisely when Sharon thought the worst of her nightmares was behind her, two men named Gabriel-one young and loving, the other shadowed by a monstrous past-shatter her world into a thousand pieces. Determined to finish the puzzle of her life, Sharon begins to uncover...

A man hopelessly obsessed with finding the key to an indecipherable 700-year-old manuscript descends into a ghostly world of madness. "Wholly mesmerizing . . . A wonderfully strange and engrossing thriller."-Kirkus Reviews Fast-paced and deeply cerebral . . . Wheeler's writing is adept and...

Your new house comes with a new you. Your nightmare is just beginning.The hit man Gordon Carney, his wife Karen, who is a frustrated writer trying to break into print, and their son Brady move into a Spanish-style bungalow in the Hollywood Hills where...

When ten-year-old David Connor witnesses the brutal murder of his parents in the snow-covered mountains, his nightmare is only beginning. Hunted by a relentless psychopath determined to silence the last loose end, David must rely on courage, instinct, and sheer willpower to survive-not only...

Accidents. Lots of tragic, horrific, and deadly accidents are plaguing the tiny watermen's town of Rock Narrows. The close-knit community soldiers on with typical Eastern Shore stoicism, never once suspecting a killer is on the loose.True-crime writer Sydney struggles with the relentless demands of...

After Psycho finally escapes Christine she falls into the hands of Circe, a practicing witch who runs a shop offering potions, candles, and counseling. Circe is a pursuer of cash, and she trains Psycho as a money-maker. Psycho, the mother of two, needs a...

Marcus finds his world spiraling out of control after a single mistake entangles him in the dark obsession of Officer Ciara, a ruthless figure hiding behind the law. As Marcus tries to distance himself from the deadly chaos, he discovers that Ciara's twisted fixation...

John Roe, a young boy of London slums, loses his mother in a freak incident: homicide at the hands of a lunatic. Years later, now adopted son of the prestigious House of Dawson, John joins Oxford University accompanied by his foster brother Edward. John...