Fiction - Psychological

Who will live, who will die, and can anyone survive in The Flower Bed? Can a person ever escape their past? Is love the balm for the soul? Is each person a unique flower, or are we just imitating those who bloomed before us?...

"True Self" is a crime story told in the first person of a Detective Sharon Hayes, "Styx" to her loved ones, and just "Hayes" for everyone else. There aren't a lot of people who call her "Styx". Hayes has a knack for investigating and...

In a bloody twist on the antiquated trope of "burying the gays," the newest anthology from Dark Ink Books boasts brand new short stories spotlighting LGBTQ+ characters. Presenting the darkest of themes as explored by sixteen established and award-winning genre fiction scribes from around...

"Daulton Dickey's Flesh Made World is a glorious mindfuck. The eloquence of Dickey's writing style consumed me like a drug, whisking me through time and space until I didn't know whether to go mad or fall in love. I did both and more, thanks...

Dr. Carolyn Robinson's life is in shambles. She's lost everyone and everything she's loved: Her family, her health, and her career. All that remains is her daughter, Anni. Together they leave their home to begin new lives. The terror of the past catches up...

Bassanio, a young Venetian of noble rank, wishes to woo the beautiful and wealthy heiress Portia of Belmont. Having squandered his estate, he needs 3,000 ducats to subsidise his expenditures as a suitor. Bassanio approaches his friend Antonio, a wealthy merchant of Venice who...

Master storyteller Pablo Medina's The Cigar Roller is a radiant novel recounting the life of Cuban master cigar roller Amadeo Terra. A proud and capricious man, tobacco has been the center of Amadeo's life, the source of his passion. For his considerable talents with...

Edgy, dark, and laced with comedy, this collection of short stories examines the psychological effects the mind can have on a person's life. In "Come Fly With Me," Calum turns to alcohol after his marriage fails. His only avenue of escape comes from a...

Step deep into the mind of a demented, killer as seen through the eyes of the investigators who caught him. Walk in the shoes of the personal and professional lives of these cops, as they spin their investigative web using the Internet to catch...

To most people, Emmett Conn is a confused old World War I veteran, fading in and out of senility. But in his mind, Emmett is haunted by events he'd long forgotten. In his dreams, he's a gendarme, a soldier marching Armenians out of Turkey....

Over the years, Alison Lurie has earned a devoted readership for her satiric wit and storytelling acumen. With Truth and Consequences, described by the New Yorker as "a comedy of adultery with a comedy of academia thrown in," Lurie returns with a modern social...

A Seattle Times Best Book of the Year - A BookPage Best Book of the Year - A Kirkus Best Fiction Book of the Year The New York Times bestselling author of "brilliantly paced contemporary adventure" (Elle) delivers her most gripping novel yet--at once...

Includes reader's guide and an excerpt from The weight of blood.Author: Laura McHughISBN-10: 0812986415ISBN-13: 9780812986419Publisher: Random House Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/30/2017Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d

"Absolutely gripping, this is revenge lit at its best. Provocative and compelling. I was left breathless at the final twist." --Lisa Jewell, author of The Family Remains, on Two Dead Wives An exhilarating psychological crime thriller that will have you racing to the finish!...

Author: Chris CampeauISBN-13: 9798990503397Publisher: Anuci PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/08/2024Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.22d

Author: Gerald EricksenISBN-10: 1637846045ISBN-13: 9781637846049Publisher: Hawes & JenkinsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/28/2024Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33d

Author: Kristi StrongISBN-13: 9798218475079Publisher: Strong LiteraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/25/2023Pages: 308Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d

Author: Duncan RalstonISBN-10: 1988819458ISBN-13: 9781988819457Publisher: Shadow Work PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2024Pages: 308Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.00h x 4.25w x 0.69d

When a woman's physician husband rents them an old mansion for the summer to help treat her "temporary nervous depression", something is waiting in the old nursery walls for her. Locked away with only her journal and her mind, will she be able to...

Psychotherapist Beth Linn is trying to stay focused on her work in the town where she grew up. But she's becoming increasingly triangulated between clients in a situation she senses could become deadly and the discovery of long-held secrets about her own past.Kim St....

The Village that Betrayed its Children is the story of a rural village in Southern Ontario where a crime was committed in the 1950s and 60s. Although the teacher of the two-room village school assaulted most of the female students, he was never brought...

Fantasies, or are they premonitions, of a great wave, an impending apocalypse, threaten to swamp a young woman in a slowly curdling relationship in Barcelona. From the outside it all looks good--"we have friends who design jewellery, who make politically committed electronic art, who...

East LA to Encino is a gripping exploration of the profound impact of family trauma, offering an unfiltered glimpse into one woman's journey toward redemption and healing. Elizabeth Dillon, the indomitable survivor, bares her soul in a roller coaster of raw, unvarnished emotions, from...

A breathless, propulsive look into the caustic sides of love, from the beloved Norwegian winner of the PEN translation prize and National Book Award Finalist "What is so impressive is rstavik's ability to capture -- with precision, candor and, indeed, tenacity -- her shifting...

"A truly spectacular psychological thriller with a dazzling mystery at its core. Shell Games is the ultimate one-sitting read that has everything--incredible family dynamics, characters that burst off the page and a premise so deliciously enticing and surprising that the pages quite simply turn...

In the desert's merciless grip, a top-secret military base harbors a diabolical experiment-a drug engineered to unleash carnage and horror. Enter Luke, a hardened operative tasked with infiltrating the outcast community under the guise of a drug dealer.Cornered in his RV by The Scrubs,...

The quest for self-discovery never ends, especially for Harry Haller--better known as the Steppenwolf. After a life spent in self-imposed isolation, Harry meets the mysterious Hermine and becomes captivated by her intoxicating power. Through their nighttime adventures, the Steppenwolf experiences the decadent underbelly of...

"Jeremy" by Hugh Walpole is a captivating novel that intricately explores the nuances of coming-of-age, psychological turmoil, and familial dynamics within the realm of English literature. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century England, Walpole masterfully portrays the journey of young Jeremy as he...

Pushcart Prize-winning author Chris Campanioni tells a story about the silences of generational trauma and the tenuous conditions in which stories get passed down in migration, a surface flimsy enough to allow the traffic between novel, notebook, reportage, and myth.While collecting the scattered stories...

Rachel and Talia Fontenot are sisters born into brutal, rural poverty of southeastern Louisiana in the 1960s.Raised with one another until tragic circumstances intervene and they are separated. Talia disappearing into a life of drugs and petty crime, Rachel fleeing to New Orleans. It...

A lifetime of endings, a million goodbyes. None of them right. It's funny what you remember when you've got nothing else to think about. All those things you should've said while you had the chance. You never learned did you? You never, ever learned.Belle...

Dr. Catherine "Cat" Powers is FBI Forensic pathologist and special agent with an uncanny sixth sense for bringing murders to justice. During a vacation in Belize with her young son, Joey, Cat gets a phone call from her boss. Young prostitutes are being picked...

Nick Easton, business owner, finds himself captive in the basement of an old barn. He doesn't understand why. But after months of hell, he is confronted with a choice.Marg Cunningham is the police detective tasked with finding Easton. The trail leads in several directions,...

Full text.The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, a sensitive young man, and is presented almost entirely through the impressions other characters have of Jacob. Thus, although it could be said that the book...

This will change how you look at everything Shaped by her yogic practices, Annajoy carries on an elegant meditative dance with the unremarkable trivial events occurring during her daily life in Amsterdam. Using imagination and reverie, she discovers mysterious minidramas enacted by characters more...

So taken by Margaret Sanger was H. G. Wells that he based a novel on the time that he spent with her. "Secret Places of the Heart" is a thinly-veiled autobiographical work revolving around Sir Richard Hardy's attempt to remedy his matrimonial problems during...

"Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island" is a 1928 novel by H. G. Wells. It tells the story of Arnold Blettsworthy who, after being betrayed by a business partner, is advised to go travelling in an attempt to recover from his severe disillusionment. However, instead...

Yalo propels us into a skewed universe of brutal misunderstanding, of love and alienation, of self-discovery and luminous transcendence. At the center of the vortex stands Yalo, a young man drifting between worlds like a stray dog on the streets of Beirut during the...

Author: Dusty BunkerISBN-10: 0595216218ISBN-13: 9780595216215Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2002Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.06h x 4.62w x 0.64d

Author: W. Somerset MaughamISBN-10: 1434401316ISBN-13: 9781434401311Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2024Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d

Author: James HallISBN-10: 0440217822ISBN-13: 9780440217824Publisher: Bantam DellLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/10/1997Pages: 464Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 6.86h x 4.18w x 1.26d

From international bestselling master of suspense Nicci French comes a chilling new psychological thriller about a woman determined to get justice for a murder no one else believes happened.Nancy North is ready to put her life back together. After suffering a psychotic break that...

Written by self procliamed "Genius" Rocky Mullin. A individualized take on a anthology that takes the authors expeiences and morals and puts it into a deep cutting form of continuous poetry. With personal events inspiring the authors writing, Accident Prone is bound to touch...

During his research on Near-Death Experiences, Dr. Prasad Vedurmudi, a genius neurologist at the prestigious University of Chicago, made a mind-bending discovery. A specific region of the brain acts as a gateway, transporting the departed to the next dimension. But there's more-a tantalizing possibility...

A mind-bending horror novel that blurs the lines between the psychological and the supernatural. The son of a schizophrenic, Jared Gordon has lived his entire life with a genetic time bomb coded into his DNA. So when the night terrors and hallucinations arrive in...

A propulsive novel of rupture and repair in the digital age, delving into a hidden world deep under the ocean--from the New York Times bestselling author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin. "Everything gets fixed, and we all stay broken." Anthony Fennell,...

Author: E. V. SeymourISBN-10: 1835267491ISBN-13: 9781835267493Publisher: Joffe Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2024Pages: 398Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.99d

From international bestselling master of suspense Nicci French comes a chilling new psychological thriller about a woman determined to get justice for a murder no one else believes happened.Nancy North is ready to put her life back together. After suffering a psychotic break that...

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing M?bius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love. Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She's an accomplished actress in rehearsals for...

Winner of the Prix Goncourt A powerful autobiographical novel of loss, the incandescent love that remains, and the small decisions that define the course of fatePaced and structured with the inevitable suspense of a countdown, Brigitte Giraud's tense and haunting novel follows one woman's...