Fiction - Thrillers - Psychological

Cambodia, 2001 - a country re-emerging from a half-century of war, genocide, famine and cultural collapse.German Detective Maier travels to Phnom Penh, the Asian kingdom's ramshackle capital, to find the heir to a Hamburg coffee empire. As soon as the private eye and former...

"Smart girls so rarely have any reason to be afraid." Nobody thinks Lee Petrova is smart. Fifteen years old and a beauty queen in nine different states, no one has ever spoken to her long enough to find out. They have put a hundred...

They seem like a normal family with normal issues but someone is trying to destroy that. Again. Nia is there to save her niece. But she's not clear from what. As she delves deeper into the mystery, some shocking truths about her family come...

Cattle rustling, dark money and murder in a place where nobody even locks their doors.When Lindy Larsen's marriage ended, she moved to the ranch in The Badlands she inherited from her father. It has never been profitable so she takes a job in town...

The lives of two women are disrupted when Bonnie, an unusual girl from high school, moves to their small winter town after her husband's death. But as Bonnie tries to fit in, they learn her sudden appearance isn't what it seems.Author: Barb HowardISBN-10: 1990201083ISBN-13:...

Narrated by Rory KinnearDeath, deception, and a detective with quite a lot to hide stalk the pages of Anthony Horowitz's brilliant murder mystery, the second in the bestselling series starring Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne."You shouldn't be here. It's too late . . . "These,...

Easytown is the city of a thousand stories; tales of betrayed trusts, tarnished virtues, easily obtained vices, and street justice are common. Treat yourself to a glimpse into the dark, future world of New Orleans, where humanity's base desires have overshadowed common decency, and...

Nothing More Than a Puppet: Unveiling Dark Secrets - A Tale of Love, Intrigue, and Unseen ThreatsAttention: Dive into the world of twisted fates and unravel the hidden mysteries that threaten to tear a once-loving marriage apart. "Nothing More Than a Puppet" is a...

Sienna Holloway believed she married for love. No algorithms. No compatibility scores. Just chemistry, commitment, and a man who chose her. Then her husband takes a job with the company behind the Your Perfect Match band - a sleek device designed to pair people...

Book three of the Collar King series finds that Mad Maxx's flock of lambs are growing larger by the minute. It seems that everyone has the Maxx Madness. All around the first and fourth floor hearts that once were cold beat with fresh fervor....

In book seven of Das Kaiser Haus, Mad Maxx is forced to make several difficult sacrifices. His Elder Masters believe they have neutralized Mastermind Malfred's power, but have they? No one in the House believes this slippery foe is going to take their insult...

In book six of Das Kaiser Haus series, Mad Maxx finds himself the hostage of a new enemy. Through a brutal series of events, the Voter called Malfred the Mastermind has trapped the boy in his metal. As the Elders rush to save their...

Librarian with the soul of a warrior.Maggie Sloan survives an explosion and begins the slow process of healing with the help of her unusual team. When her world is shattered by a heart-wrenching murder, Maggie's team trains her to fight to win, whatever the...

After surviving a school shooting, Mona Ouellet moves from Montreal to Peterborough, switches her PhD discipline from English Literature to Psychology, and tries to move on with her life. Unfortunately, her nightmares follow her--and so do a host of "bad men" who seem to...

Maryanne Wilson's death was definitely an accident. Her husband Bob had absolutely no intention of killing her. But it was almost certain that a court of law would see things differently, particularly after Bob had sex with Maryanne's corpse . . . and that...

"Friendship or Love, Power or Loyalty - these are the choices that mankind has struggled with from time immemorial." Set in present day Mumbai and Delhi, the rivalry between two corporate houses and the contrasting backdrops of The Glamour World and Indian Mafia, the...

The protagonist suffers from chronic pancreatitis and has spent months at the hospital. So-called friends and girlfriends drift away in his time of need. The only ones by his side are his family, giving him strength to fight the pain. Soon things become even...

A quest to identify seven deadly sins A mystery behind seven keys that were passed to seven men A deadly race against time to seek atonement On the outskirts of New York City, Jim Morgan, an international bestselling author learns through God that he...

When Utkarsh Singh Raghuvanshee aka USR, meets with a horrific accident, everything seems to be over for him. But thankfully, destiny sends Kripa Thappar to his rescue. Their eyes meet and an unspoken connection gets formed between the two. She immediately rushes him to...

This book tells us a story of a man who had his world turned upside down at various stages and how he undertook this journey. It was like walking in hell. The interesting part in this story is what happens to him in the...

A new world order under the Brotherhood has been established. It is a world of one government, one world time, one religion. Benjamin Oraon, a young man in his twenties, from Jharkhand, India, is struggling with his identity as a Naxalite. He embarks on...

Scott Pennell witnessed something horrible on Halloween night, 1969 -- he found the body of his girlfriend, Kacey Wymer, impaled upon the stick shift of his car. Kacey's brutal murder affected him so intensely, that he lost all memory of that time in his...

Nyles Bagwell, a popular principal, has a humongous secret he is keeping from everybody, including his loving wife, Jenny. He loves her dearly and is afraid of losing her trust. Nyles doesn't want Jenny to find out that he has a gambling problem and...

Five women are joined by more than the bonds of friendship. However, they have no idea that the secrets they individually harbour create a darkness that will draw them closer together with deadly consequences. There is some hope that the arrival of a mysterious...

In this dark and fictional account of a true story, an agent of the tsar's secret police is sent to protect the twisted and perverted monk, Rasputin -- and goes insane. The Mad Monk leads the agent through the streets of revolutionary St. Petersburg...

Obsession. Revenge. Secrets. When grieving mother Dina Young learns that the man who killed her daughter is being released from prison, her grip on sobriety falters. But when she calls her new AA sponsor for support, the sparky Rosie Rey suggests revenge instead and...

Every secret has its shadows. How far will one woman go to step into the light?In the shadowy streets of Hull, Paige Carrigan forges a new life, haunted by a past that refuses to stay buried. Orphaned and once entrapped by an abusive ex,...

After three years, her missing husband has returned-but can she ever trust him again? A bereavement, I called it. A death without a body, a coffin, a note, or a reason. But what do I call it now, now that you've come back? When...

If only, like the four-eyed fish, you could see both above and below the surface of the world you dwell in. But most of us skim the surface of our lives, failing to see what's hidden beneath.Cal has his fishing and an honest job....

"Gripping . . . hooked me in straight away and I finished this book in less than 2 days . . . really kept me guessing." --Goodreads reviewer, five stars In this gripping thriller by the author of Don't Believe Her, one phone call...

The escaped victim of a cult is at risk of being swallowed up again in this tense novel of psychological suspense by the author of Only You . . . When Daisy wakes up, she knows something is very wrong. She is alone in...

Meet Frankie Baxter. She's trying to make ends meet and keep the boat afloat for her three kids. She's harassed, sometimes impatient, but she's a fabulous mum. So imagine her distress when Henry, her youngest child, goes missing...Henry returns safely accompanied by a stranger,...

Every secret will surface for therapist Harry Hope in this chilling thriller from the CWA Debut Dagger-winning author of Cold Echo.The last thing psychotherapist Harry Hope expects on his walk home one evening is to be knifed. At first, he thinks it's a random...

This book will reveal what it is like to live with Asperger's, with an Aspie in your life - someone who thinks differently to everyone else - and is thus in a vulnerable place. Throughout a life of abuse, bullying, tragic loss and social...

Life is good. A new home in the countryside, a well-paid job and, best of all, a son for Nick and Kay to rejoice in. To top it all, as little Davy's second birthday approaches, Kay's long-estranged dad comes back into the picture. It...

The subject is MURDER. The players include the Metropolitan Police, the FBI, a satirical journalist and a professional musician. In the background a mysterious hidden manipulator pulls the strings of the establishment. More of a 'why done it?' than a 'who done it?' the...

A near-fatal mistake during the attempted bust by the cops leaves a bullet lodged in the right temporal lobe of Charlie's brain. Operating to remove it would likely kill Charlie. Living with it will change him forever. Two men linked forever by a tangle...

There's a newcomer to the small Northumberland village of Haydon...a charming novelist and movie buff, researching a crime thriller about a serial killer on a rampage in a remote Northumberland community. The only trouble is, it's a work in progress and it's going to...

"Right on time," Daniel Mansen mouths to Alice as she pushes him to his death. Haunted by these words, Alice becomes obsessed with discovering how a man she didn't know could predict her actions. On the day of the funeral, Daniel's cousin, Thom, finds...

An unsettling, supernatural thriller; The Notch is based in the stunning countryside of rural Wales. Through the four main characters the book closely explores infidelity, domestic abuse, murder and the painful intricacies of being forced to face our demons...Will Alice get her revenge? Will...

Two boys caught in the crosshairs of their father's chilling legacy. Since birth, a basement laboratory has been the centre of the brothers' world, where an ever-present glass wall divides them. When years of experiments lead to the brutal murder of their father, freedom...

Charles has one driving obsession: he loves his ex-wife dearly. And on the day Kaz left him for famous and powerful Alex King, he swore deadly vengeance. He pursues Alex from London to Venice, unaware that his arch-enemy has lost his good fortune and...

How do you identify a psychopath? That's the question Dr Emilia Dalton, a young psychology academic, and her colleagues are trying to answer.When Emilia's mentor and the head of the psychopathy lab at Burley Griffin University is murdered, all members of the lab are...

It begins with a favour for his uncle. He's a dogged journalist. His visit coincides with a total solar eclipse. He's been here before, and so has his uncle. He's determined to disprove his uncle's theories. He doesn't believe in any local bunkum, or...

The gripping psychological thriller from bestseller J. A. Baker What happens when the past and the present collide? Dominic Rose, a teacher and a recluse, lives in an old cottage at the edge of the woods with his frail, bedridden mother. A loner, Dominic...

Smart and accomplished, it is customary for pyschoanalyst, Dr Faye Monroe, to control the dialogue, ask the questions, tease answers. When she encounters a new client,  the erudite Oliver Blake, the nature of engagement tilts, and with it the axis of Faye's constructed world. A...

Why would an off-duty policeman be certain he's delivered this blue-eyed new-born before, and yet pictures slightly different circumstances in which he had failed to save it? What compels a 7-year-old blue-eyed girl to pen an anonymous letter to a man she briefly spies...

Anger is never far away. A fight to suppress. It's destructive.Maybe it will always be with her until, from her eyes, justice is seen to be served. But who can draw a line between justice and revenge?She knows herself; the rage is building; she...

Such an inauspicious start in life, being tossed into the Mersey at birth. Not by accident either. However, for Henrietta May-Patterson, this dousing proved to become her salvation.An alternative look at what life might have been like as fate smiled on our anomaly.Intertwined connexions....

It took one hell of a coercion but finally I saw her mouthed words pass her lips; she'd do it for Jerry. He wouldn't want her to capitulate. I thought grimly; yes, let's face it you're a sitting duck with that name, that face...