Fiction - Psychological

Now a major motion picture starring Amanda Seyfried and Finn Wittrock.Compared to seminal feminist works such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, A Mouthful of Air is a powerful, tragic statement on motherhood, family, and survival.A Mouthful...

From award-winning author Rebecca Hanover comes an emotional thrill ride about two women whose lives take a dangerous turn in the high-stakes arena of private school admissions.Audrey Singer revels in her position as the admissions director of an exclusive Manhattan private school. Parents cater...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A tense, stunningly well-observed novel of a young American on the run, from Lawrence Osborne, "an heir to Graham Greene" (The New York Times Book Review) "Bangkok is the star...

One woman's reappearance throws her family into turmoil, exposing dark secrets and the hidden, often devastating truth of family relationships.Kate Bennett vanished from a parking lot eleven years ago, leaving behind her husband and young daughter. When she shows up at a Montana gas...

Pre-order the gripping new thriller from bestselling author L.H. Stacey! It will keep you up all night!'Dark and dramatic, with an explosive ending' Diane Saxon'The plot twists kept me guessing right until the end' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️That Lake. This house. His friends. They all know what...

Motherly love can drive her to the absolute edge...For nine years, Drew Baker has been running from her brutal husband and the dark deeds of the night she left him. Focused on protecting her ten-year-old son, Drew reluctantly settles into a small town, eager...

There are places that hold evil, houses so vile, so tainted, that people refuse to live in them. Farnham House is one of those places. Once an inn, this majestic old New England manor house is back on the market, and the price is...

The arctic night is endless. The fear is numbing. Screams freeze in the throat. Death arrives in shades of white. And cold-blooded murder seems right at home.Conducting a strange and urgent experiment on the Arctic icefield, a team of scientists has planted sixty powerful...

A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of a counterculture classic, and the inspiration for the new Netflix original series Ratched, with a foreword by Chuck PalahniukOne of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's 1962...

*** THIS SUMMER'S MUST-READ PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER ***Esther lost her husband, Julian, and her children, Harriet and Dexter, in a car accident and is struggling with her grief.Spurred on by her own loneliness and a need to make amends for not being able to save...

Two women wrenched apart by a family member's disappearance must find a way back to each other in this haunting page-turner by the author of A Crooked Tree.Nessa Garvey's sister Deena vanished without a trace in Philadelphia in 2004. In all that time, Nessa...

I am a victim of my own lies, and the doctors didn't stop me. I'm not the only one. I've seen my peers face suicide, overdose, transition, and live their social lives on screens. Gen Z suffers disintegration of the nuclear family, hypersexualization, and...

In this twisty, fast-paced thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Take Your Breath Away, a man desperately tries to track down his father--who was taken into witness protection years ago--before his enemies can get to him.Your dad's...

I am a victim of my own lies, and the doctors didn't stop me. I'm not the only one. I've seen my peers face suicide, overdose, transition, and live their social lives on screens. Gen Z suffers disintegration of the nuclear family, hypersexualization, and...

In a small Appalachian town, an amateur detective unearths a dark conspiracy and his own haunted past, in a chilling novel about sacrifice, art, and revenge.Med school dropout Harlan Winter returns to his impoverished West Virginia hometown, where the law is scarce, arsonists are...

A terminally ill man finds new purpose in life when he meets a young woman named Jenny. Amidst the chaos of a zombie outbreak that has taken over America, they embark on a dangerous journey, fighting vigilante violence and hordes of flesh-eating zombies.As the...

Stanley, a man of old Values, opposes everything about the modern world where the concept of Honor is foreign and anything can be justified. With his Angelic daughter, he dreams of a simple, contained life, like that of one in a Snow Globe. Instead,...

An ex-member of a bloodthirsty cult must pair up with a police officer to take down the group's murderous leader in this dark, wrenching thriller about personal conviction, retribution, and survival. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Jamie Foxx, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maika...

Best-selling author Britney King returns with an adrenaline-fueled thriller about an unlikely array of characters and their heart-pounding plunge into the dizzying depths of madness.March 2020: Stranded on a remote cruise ship as the pandemic ravages the world, 753 desperate passengers find themselves in...

Is life worth living? This is the question a small-town boy suffering from post-traumatic stress seeks to answer as he matures. Scarred by the people around him and forced into hopeless situations, he withdraws into his mind and finds peace only in the privacy...

Killing the Taxman is a thrilling sequel to 'Dead Girl Found' and 'I Know It Was You, ' continuing the interlinked stories of DCI Grace Swan and Chloe Macbeth.Grace now faces a new threat: a ruthless serial killer who also has Grace in his...

The startling novel from Booker Prize-winning author Paul Lynch, a brilliant Irish novelist on the rise who "has a sensational gift for a sentence" (Colum McCann on Red Sky in Morning). In Donegal in the spring of 1945, a farmhand runs into a burning...

Mariana, now a web design graduate, looks forward to the day when she can start up a business, and work independently, and let the budding relationship between her and Carl blossom. When a mysterious package arrives in the mail with disturbing contents and the...

May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (24 August 1863 - 14 November 1946), a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry. She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League....

Immortality is something sought after. For generations, perhaps longer... the search is the one thing that never dies. if it were to ever be obtained, what then? Death is to be inevitable. But it doesn't correlate with oblivion. We'll live on in memory.Author: Asia...

An unputdownable psychological thriller with a breathtaking twist.Verity's widowed mother has a new boyfriend. But is he really all he seems? Verity finds out her mother is secretly dating a man she met online. After five long years of widowhood, Eleanor is finally happy...

In 1912, a young girl is found dead. In present day, young Jeremy's parents are involved in a murder-suicide. Soon after, he is committed to an insane asylum.Years later, Jeremy turns eighteen and is released. After he returns home to live with his uncle,...

To marry is madness.To escape is impossible.'The Darlings of the Asylum by Noel O'Reilly grips like a vice' Nicola CornickIn 1886, a respectable young woman must acquire a husband. But Violet Pring longs to be a professional artist and live on her own terms.When...

When Carl awakens from a coma after being attacked on a subway train, life around him feels unfamiliar, even strange. He arrives at his best friend's house without remembering how he got there; he seems to be having an affair with his secretary, which...

I watched her from afar ever since she was born. I knew from the moment my eyes spied her that she was the one: the one I needed, the one I had searched for so very long. My careful planning and sacrifices would all...

Welcome to the Paris Correctional Facility. Walk to your room. Follow the instructions. Do your time. Change your attitude. Meet Shakeem, a jaded prisoner. Follow Ally, a loyal investigator Observe Bernie, a rude genious. Study Dr. Amir, the man behind it all. Don't look...

Author: Peter KestertonISBN-10: 1504083296ISBN-13: 9781504083294Publisher: Bloodhound BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/22/2023Pages: 374Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.83d

Caspar Hauser oder Die Tr gheit des Herzens ist ein historischer Roman von Jakob Wassermann, erschienen 1908. Der Roman handelt von den letzten sechs Lebensjahren Caspar Hausers in N rnberg und Ansbach."Die N rnberger, ein neugieriges Volk", erz hlen sich "in den ersten Sommertagen...

A truly eclectic, psychological horror story collection, in which the true monsters are those that skulk about the darkest wrinkles and fissures of the human brain... Decades ago, the sciences of the brain were in their infancy. One such science was phrenology. Phrenology concerned...

Author: Paula HillmanISBN-10: 1504083318ISBN-13: 9781504083317Publisher: Bloodhound BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/10/2023Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.68d

IndieReader Best Books - June 2018Featured in the New York Review of BooksAspiring engineer Hank Galloway wants two things in life: to snag a coveted position working for NASA and to get an accurate diagnosis of his mental illness.Hank doesn't realize how serious his...

A scandalous accusation sends a woman fleeing to the countryside, where she meets an enigmatic man who also has something to hide . . . After a teenage boy makes allegations of inappropriate behaviour, Evie Cooper goes back to her hometown. There, her old...

It was a summer of love, and a summer of secrets. She has built the semblance of a good life: a husband who adores her, a daughter she is fiercely proud of, and a home with warmth and love at its heart. However, the...

*2024 Books of Horror Indie Brawl Contender*Chandler Hendricks hates his life. Socially awkward and a near shut-in, Chandler spends his time caring for his ailing mother and watching the neighbors from his window.His favorite person to watch is his next-door neighbor Samantha. Young and...

Nothing in the air Saturday evening in May of 1950 predicts that from Naomi Hollister's kitchen at the Tysen Hotel to the pulpit of the First Baptist Church, few will be left unscarred in body or spirit by the conflict that erupts at Tysen's...

In a collage of small-town stories, three strangers return home, dealing with hardships that divide family, beggar faith, and test their sanity. Allison loses her favorite uncle, Brent confronts humanity's self-destruction, and Kevin trades his future for his addiction. It goes from bad to...

The bestselling author of the "clever spine-tingler" The Secretary returns with an unputdownable thriller following a woman in a desperate search for answers after she's institutionalized against her will.The year is 1962, and every night Grace lays her head on her pillow at the...

Best-selling author Britney King returns with a page-turning thriller that will take you on a rollercoaster ride of suspense and intrigue. Join six friends as they confront a fateful decision that spirals into a dark and twisted journey.During a night of drunken revelry, three...

The first in a new series of Therapeutic Tales from the School of LifeAnna is a kind and thoughtful person, in her mid-twenties. But lately, life has been hard. Her job is extremely stressful, her relationship is lacking balance and support, she has a...

Catching a killer is dangerous--especially if he lives next doorFrom the hugely talented author of The Kind Worth Killing comes an exquisitely chilling tale of a young suburban wife with a history of psychological instability whose fears about her new neighbor could lead them...

WINNER OF THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEShortlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeIncluded in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023 For readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, a haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young...

Includes an exclusive 35 page bonus novella! We're ready to die for the sins of our fathers, but is she? They told us we were the cure. That we were special. That we were pure.It was all a lie. We were just like all...

A young woman's carefully constructed fantasy world implodes in this brilliantly conceived novel that blurs distinctions between right and wrong, comedy and tragedy, imagination and reality: "Surreal . . . filled with technicolor lies and terrible truths" (Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling...

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Girl Who Lied and Sister Sister... Someone knows she is lying about her past. Who can be trusted? Who is the target? Who is closing in? Helen has had to leave everything she's ever known behind...

What do invisible rats, aspiring rapists, axe-wielding gorillas, coffee shop ninjas and clown-faced kidnappers all have in common? They're just some of the shady miscreants and dubious heroes who populate the pages of the twisted tales making up Dave Lauby's rollicking short fiction collection...