Fiction - Psychological

The Pacific Northwest is no stranger to serial killers, and when bodies start to pile up in Seattle and the police have no clue, it falls to the denizens of the streets of Seattle to bring this new murderer to justice. Working out of...

Sherwood Anderson, inspiration to Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck and Wolfe, explores newly emerging sexual freedom in this work. F. Scott Fitzgerald regarded "Many Marriages" as Anderson's finest novel. Unforunately for Anderson, the sales of "Many Marriages" dropped following a crusade in America against "dirty books".Author:...

A brutally murdered husband. An abused wife who wanted him gone for good... Did the wealthy widow arrange his death--and can a disgraced detective discover the truth? "Your husband is dead." Lorraine Rowe receives the news from an anonymous killer threatening her too--unless she...

Five entered the escape room. Only four came out alive.Lisa Ashton receives a last-minute reprieve from death two weeks before her birthday. Regaining consciousness, she is horrified to learn one of her friends has been killed - and saved her life.As she recovers, she...

Cepik Small doesn't belong here. Around Coney Island, he's known as "Epic" but his life could not be less so. And no matter how hard he tries, he can't shake the feeling that he was born in the wrong place, at the wrong time....

An Airport Maid... A Descent Into Madness... Bertha, a middle-aged airport hotel maid, is stuck in a perpetual rut. She pieces together remnants of the rooms' inhabitants, imagining their lives down to every minute detail. As her fantasies become increasingly real, lines between reality...

They were searching for ghosts. But what they found was much worse...TV Producers Matt McKay and Ted Gould are looking for one thing... ghosts. As the creators of a popular paranormal investigation show, they've staked their reputation on the existence of the super-natural. But...

26-year-old ad executive Michael chambers, the average boy next door is daunted with the task of raising his 16 year old sister Kate after his mother dies of cancer when he was only 16 years old. Things begin to go horribly wrong for Michael...

"The Golden Bowl" is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James's career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle of interrelationships between a father...

Sophie Shields has been captured by the person she's been trying to escape for most of her life. The powerful politician who molested her when she was only a child. She changed her name, her hair color, and moved across the country multiple times...

YOU'VE NEVER READ A LOVE STORY AS TWISTED AS THIS.Juliette loves Nate.She will follow him anywhere. She's even become a flight attendant for his airline, so she can keep a closer eye on him.They are meant to be.The fact that Nate broke up with...

A twisty and propulsive read, this dark psychological thriller of sibling rivalry, love, betrayal, and the dire consequences of family fallout brilliantly plays on our fears of loneliness and abandonment, harkening to the modern gothic bestsellers by Ruth Ware and Liz Nugent. Is a...

For fans of The Haunting of Hill House comes a dark tale of a mansion haunted by a legacy of tragedy and a family trapped by lies.Margot and Myron Spielman move to a new town, looking for a fresh start and an escape from...

What makes a woman climb the London roofs? Is she a cat buglar, a thrill-seeker, or maybe an ordinary woman hunting the neighborhood killer?Jenna Elson has tried to escape her troubled past, but her uncle's sudden death has brought her home to London.The police...

The Seven Who Were Hanged By Leonid Andreyev,Author: Herman Bernstein, Leonid AndreyevISBN-10: 1977695116ISBN-13: 9781977695116Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/10/2017Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.13d

A psychological mystery full of clues hidden in plain sight. Can you figure out what's really happening to the lesbian protagonist before the novel ends?In 2030, Lane Thompson, a 'nobody', sat on the edge of a rooftop in New York and smoked a cigarette....

Ruby is on the run, but the black eyed children haven't forgotten her... Battered and wheelchair bound, Ruby has now found refuge in a dingy apartment building. Her brain is wracked by nightmares and an all-consuming sense of paranoia. The days are marked by...

Deeply shocking in its time, The Last Day of a Condemned Man is a profound and moving tale and a vital work of social commentary. A man vilified by society and condemned to death for his crime wakes every morning knowing that this day...

The Master of Ballantrae By Robert Louis StevensonAuthor: Robert Louis StevensonISBN-10: 1976012481ISBN-13: 9781976012488Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2017Pages: 126Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.27d

The title of this novel is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness and open-hearted simplicity lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks...

A GRITTY AND DARK TALE OF REVENGE A tortured husband's grief stalks him like a friendly attacker. After his beautiful wife and young children die in a horrific car accident, Mark Hansberg risks all he has and more to solve the riddle of his...

Arlene Cameron never wanted kids, yet she gave birth to four. Who does that? The government handing out checks per child must have made those labor pains a little easier. She was a Christian woman who treated her children like the enemy. Could attempted...

As recounted in Appalachian Justice, Jessie is an adult survivor of horrendous childhood abuse. At the age of thirteen, she was rescued by reclusive mountain woman Billy May Platte. Now forty-seven, Jessie is outwardly successful but inwardly struggles to reconcile the broken pieces of...

Growing up on reading books on sea adventures, Jim constantly daydreams about becoming a seafaring hero, yet he has never faced any real danger. While he is serving aboard a vessel called the Patna, carrying Muslim pilgrims to Mecca, when the ship suffers damage...

Is an obsessive-compulsive person ever truly "done"?We are at war with ourselves. -- Estamos en guerra con nosotros mismos. Meet Ethan, a bright yet painfully shy former exchange student to Spain. He has returned to Las Rozas during the town's annual fiestas--complete with carnival,...

From Jamie Grefe, author of Domo ArigaDIE (Rooster Republic Press), The Mondo Vixen Massacre (Eraserhead Press), and the man responsible for the official novelizations of Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington's Adult Swim series Decker: Classified and Decker: Port of Call: Hawaii, comes a double-novella...

A gripping psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist from the #1 bestselling author of "The Stolen Twin." 2018 PRG Reviewers' Choice Award First Place Winner for Best Book 2018 PRG Reviewers' Choice Award Second Place Winner for Best Book Series A fresh start. That's...

I wasn't given a choice. Not when I did my first line of cocaine. Not when I became a single mother. But I changed, and every decision I've made was to protect myself and my son from my weaknesses--and my past. Until Jude came...

In the woods behind their Delaware suburb, Bennet, Toshi, and Jay decide to build a sex fort as a lure for girls. This summer, before they start tenth grade, they'll lose their virginities. But things go awry, and Jay's anger, fueled by his involvement...

DEATH IN THE FAMILY BUT COME BACK SOON, the sign said. Obviously it was a lie. The people in the grocery store just wanted to make sure he couldn't buy the spice he needed to make the recipe he'd selected for that night (recipes...

After a bruising experience as a teacher in Africa, Harry Clewe has come to the mountains of Snowdonia in Wales for some peace and quiet. One day, he stops to pick up an attractive blonde hitchhiker . . . and his life will never...

Would you recognize a sociopath in your own family? Wes Shaw's different than his siblings-darker, awkward, the perpetual ne'er-do-well. Mary Shaw's the doting mother, showering her children with gifts from the heart and the pocketbook. The Shaws have survived divorce and death, but something,...

Revealing your secrets...can be deadly.Gemma goes to Dr. Ann Wilcox for therapy. What she uncovers will lead her on a journey through her long-forgotten nightmares.A dedicated and caring therapist, Ann wants to see her patients achieve the lives they deserve, but with Gemma, it...

Everyone has something to hide 
 Alexandra Mallory's recent killings have left her exposed. She's forced to conceal her identity from the detectives investigating the murders, trusting a stranger to keep her secret. At work, Steve Montgomery is increasingly curious about what she's hiding,...

A picture speaks a thousand words. Sometimes, one of those words means someone deserves to die. Alexandra loves her glamorous San Francisco apartment, but nothing is going as she'd dreamed. Her job is in jeopardy as Tess abandons mentoring Alex in favor of her...

Despite the notion of female solidarity, almost every office has its feud--usually between two women. In The Feud, a work friendship goes bad. Very bad. During the mid-nineties, the Internet was new and cell phones were rare. Nikki and Roberta employ these emerging technologies...

"[Kramer's body of work is] precise and sumptuous . . . a song of emotion, but with a great lucidity about the humanity of simple people."--Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Swiss Grand Prize for Literature citation "You need to read Pascale Kramer's books because...

"LaSalle's stories] transcend their particulars to show people with dreams, dilemmas, and disappointments that will move any reader." --Jhumpa Lahiri, Harvard Review "Haunting and evocative. . . . LaSalle's prose is lyrical, at times rhapsodic, and his characters memorable." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The...

Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction WinnerNational Reading Group Month "Great Group Reads" selection "A deft exploration of the heart and mind that offers the pathos of a Sam Shepard play nested within the unreliable storytelling of Christopher Nolan's Memento." --Kirkus Reviews Martin, an...

I am very glad that "The Story of the Seven Who Were Hanged" will be read in English. The misfortune of us all is that we know so little, even nothing, about one another-neither about the soul, nor the life, the sufferings, the habits,...

By popular demand, the author of the infamous Black Cover books brings his twisted imagination to the short story in this, the first collection of White Cover books. Each story packing a punch, telling a f*cked-up story to haunt your thoughts for days afterwards....

Father Dante grew up the dutiful son of a religious mother who cast her own set of aspirations on him. Unable to escape his own inclinations, he finds himself immersed in a duplicitious life of clandestine affairs.Author: Jen Ferguson, J. R. PerrottaISBN-10: 1517076528ISBN-13: 9781517076528Publisher:...

Autumn Chase is painfully aware grief is a beast that won't be chased off before it's ready to leave. When an icy road and a dark night leave her a young widow, she's forced to trade in her perfectly planned future for the unknown....

The Finest family in Sweet Water, The Forresters are known for their gatherings, and Mrs. Forrester, to be an enchanting hostess. Neil Herbert, finds himself at the Forester estate playing with friends, and he falls in love with Mrs. Forrester, and what she represents....

Professor Godfrey St. Peter doesn't like the new direction that his life has taken. When he and his wife move into their new house, he decides to keep his study at the old house so that he will not have to let go of...

An ordinary life searching and dealing with the plight and challenges of "unanswerable" questions. The characters represent influences, dynamics of human behavior and outcomes in a quasi-comical context that makes this book easy to read. Though it plays with the ideas of of ignorance...

The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synonymous with hack literature; by Gissing's time, Grub Street itself no longer existed, though hack-writing certainly did....

"Whirlpools " from Henryk Sienkiewicz. Polish journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist (1846-1916).Author: The Perfect Library, Henryk SienkiewiczISBN-10: 1512148571ISBN-13: 9781512148572Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/11/2015Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.52d

Torva Messor is a man who claims to be Death in the flesh. Currently trapped in a mental facility for the elderly insane he is telling his story to whoever will listen. Immortality has been rampant for over three years and death is extinct....

Author: Dennis N. GriffinISBN-10: 1585000345ISBN-13: 9781585000340Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/1996Pages: 376Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.22h x 5.08w x 0.94d