Fiction - Psychological

In the town of Saint Laurent, up-and-coming painter Gabriel Core attends pretentious art shows, seduces women in bathroom stalls, and fixates on a television show about Vincent Face, a postmodern Don Juan whose blasé sexual conquests provide a mysterious strength to Gabriel's shaky sense...

After another disastrous relationship, single-mum Samantha just wants a fresh start - for her and her teenage daughter and best friend, Lily.Samantha accepts a post as matron in an exclusive residential home on the outskirts of a quiet village in the Peak District.But nothing...

The Book of Blue DaggersA Modern Tale of Occult Horror Desperate to cheat death, a young thief turns to the occult and a sentient book, only for her to awaken its cryptic malevolence. Diagnosed with a rare, lethal disease, Sophie believes the enigmatic Book...

With its six trenchant tales of perverse love, Diaboliques proved so scandalous on its original appearance in 1874 that it was declared a danger to public morality and seized on the grounds of blasphemy and obscenity. More shocking in our day is how little...

Very few people get the opportunity to stay here. And some don't get to leave ... Zoey doesn't remember anything about last night. But she knows something went badly wrong. For she is no longer in New York. She's woken up in the desert,...

In this haunting, richly woven novel of modern life in Japan, the author of the acclaimed debut One for Sorrow explores the ties that bind humanity across the deepest divides. Here is a Murakamiesque jewel box of intertwined narratives in which the lives of...

Ups and Downs follows two best friends, Miguel and Gracie, through an emotional roller coaster of a day. Although their experience is filled with smiles, wiggles, and giggles, they are faced with multiple feelings throughout their time together. Celebrate with Miguel and Gracie as...

THE LAST TESTAMENT OF CRIGHTON SMYTHE is the shocking and gruesome novella by Scottish horror scribe Gavin Gardiner, author of the bestselling psychological nightmare, FOR RYE.Crighton Smythe could see how everyone was going to die - except himself. A social outcast who relied on...

Who can you trust, if you can't trust yourself?Alice Hunter, grieving and troubled after a breakdown, stumbles on the body of her friend and trustee, Harry Rook. The police determine he has been ritually murdered and suspicion falls on the vulnerable Alice, who inherited...

This psychological thriller with a masterly, pulse-quickening plot revolves around two seemingly very different men, who ultimately have much more in common than they realize. Thomas Clarin is a divorce lawyer whose profession has fostered a profound and abiding distrust of marriage. Rejecting the...

Blackmail, murder, revenge...twists and turns that will have you screaming at and with the characters. Sarah Rosenthal is a Senator's daughter. Despite the high profile lifestyle that comes with her father's career, she has managed to avoid most of the chaos.On the surface, things...

Both novellas in one paperback book. Follow the odyssey of an 8-year-old girl named Becky, who, in book 1, writes in her diary about incest and the foster care system that let her down. Catch up with Becky as an adult in book 2.Author:...

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...

Author: Constance McKeeISBN-10: 1941165877ISBN-13: 9781941165874Publisher: Constance McKeeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/25/2015Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d

Fiction. An elderly man retires and watches his wife slowly die from cancer. WHAT IT TAKES chronicles his grief. Sometimes he tries his best to surmount his grief; sometimes he wearies and coaxes his own end along. He tries to fathom who his grown...

Author: Bobbie J. a. PfeiferISBN-10: 1893652688ISBN-13: 9781893652682Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/1999Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 8.54h x 5.55w x 0.73d

A New York Times Notable Book The renowned New Yorker writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist delivers a hilarious, poignant, and profoundly moving tale of living, loving, and aging in America today At Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, doctors have noticed a marked uptick in Alzheimer's...

Author: Robert MulshineISBN-10: 1410722260ISBN-13: 9781410722263Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/08/2003Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.08h x 6.12w x 1.02d

Author: Joel BartowISBN-10: 1403357803ISBN-13: 9781403357809Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2002Pages: 256Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

On the eve of the Occupy Wall Street protests, C is flat broke. Once a renowned textile artist, she's now the sole proprietor of an arts supply store in Lower Manhattan. Divorced, alone, at loose ends, C is stuck with a struggling business, a...

A mother's unthinkable crime and an investigator's forgotten past collide in a shocking novel of suspense by Anne Frasier, the New York Times bestselling author of The Body Reader.Private detective Olivia Welles hasn't been to her hometown since her childhood, not since the night...

From Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark, a thriller "that grabs you with the first paragraph and never let's go" (USA TODAY) about a woman desperate to uncover the truth behind her beloved stepmother's death. At a party in Manhattan, Maggie Holloway--one of the...

Introducing "Beautifully Damned" by Jane Wolf, a poignant and captivating collection of poems and short stories that explore the depths of the human experience. Drawing from personal struggles and connections with those around them, Jane Wolf offers a unique perspective on the beauty and...

Dreams are but our brains reflecting what they have seen, experienced, and imagined. These images can be distorted, reversed, warped, and deformed into something terrifying. Delve into stories born from nightmares and contorted into journeys dark and fearsome, the corrupt dreams of a darkened...

Morris Magellan wakes one morning to find himself stuck in a corporate job and living the suburban dream with a wife and two children, except this dream feels like a nightmare. Out of his depth and starting to drift from reality, we meet Morris...

Fear is an illusion banished by courage.Two months after escaping an underground prison, Abby is determined to redefine her limits by testing the boundaries defining her existence.Practicing law fulfills her need for order and consistency, but chaos soon decimates her neat and structured life....

Gripping, insightful, and deft, The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives, from the award-winning author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait. On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man...

Flash Fiction writing legend Tommy Dean called this debut collection "wickedly fun, deeply cutting, and as creepy as a funhouse mirror." Meet award-winning author M. M. De Voe in a collection of dark, challenging stories that represent some of her best writing in short...

A thought-provoking mystery about the intersection of faith and rationality. Walker, an emotionally frigid scientist, is propelled by the mysterious murder of his sister into an exploration of a world of alternative spiritual viewpoints-mingled with the grim reality of a brutal murder. In the...

What if your deepest, darkest fears were inked on your skin for the world to see?Famous plastic surgeon Derek Hollinger has it all: money, success, luxury cars, and an L.A. penthouse near the beach. Who cares if he has no friends or lovers? He...

Asle is an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the west coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbor, ﾅsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bj rgvin, lives another Asle, also a...

Selected by Evelyn Waugh as the best first novel of 1953, and phenomenally praised by critics on first publication, Hugo Charteris' A Share of the World is one of the great lost novels. This is the first republication in a concerted programme of bringing...

'Fatally addictive!' real reader reviewThe Forrester Detective Agency is going from strength to strength: they've expanded their office space and even hired a new office manager - a qualified and astute woman named Carol.What starts as a simple burglary case soon turns into something...

When a fortune turns into a nightmare, trust becomes the ultimate currency.Lynn Miller is having one of the happiest days of her life: she has just won a life-changing lottery! Now her dreams and goals seem within reach. But the glittering prize becomes a...

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families at war.Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in...

As Micah drives his family home from a much needed vacation, the unthinkable occurs; a flat tire with no spare. Hours pass by without help, extinguishing hope and darkening the fond memories of the trip, but finally, their savior arrives. A grizzled mountain man...

A farcical detective story and a profoundly refractive tale about a Russian émigré living in prewar Berlin who commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer even greater indiginities in the afterlife. - A wonderfully layered exploration of the vicissitudes...

Twenty years ago, someone murdered my best friend the night she was crowned prom queen. Now I'm finally going to prove it...After Bailey died, I fled our small lakeside hometown and never returned. But now I'm forced back here and I can't avoid the...

For a brilliant forensic linguist, crimes of the past hold clues to new series of murders in a twisting novel of suspense by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of A Familiar Sight.The double murder of a married couple in a small Washington town...

Dance Moms meets Little Fires Everywhere in award winning author Tammy Greenwood's addictive new novel set in the hyper cutthroat world of ballet girls and their mothers as they compete for a prestigious prize... AN INDIE NEXT PICK "The Still Point is a must-read...

At thirty-two, a man's life is brought to a close by a concoction of fentanyl-laced Percocet.As his life ends, an extraordinary spiritual voyage begins - sparked by a burning quest to unravel the circumstances of his untimely end.Samuel's spirit is welcomed into the ethereal...

Traded to a brothel owner as payment for a gambling debt, Dolly Stroud's Arizona life is forever changed.Forced into a world of exhibition and danger, Dolly is left to fend for herself - until well-meaning neighbor Trace Anderson interferes and presents the opportunity for...

This book contains graphic sex and violence, and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.When successful author Sherri Lambert moves back to her hometown after 40 years, she doesn't expect to run into high school heartthrob Dylan Roberts - or to...

A haunted house horror attraction. Twelve people. $100,000 for the survivor.After fellow students torment a teen girl for years, she goes to therapy ... and comes up with an idea.Years later, they are all working comfortably. But everyone needs more money, one way or...

A drowned man. A sinister circus. And murder... murder... murder.Nod Blake, the cynical, wise-cracking private eye, is back. He's an aging throwback to a bygone era of detecting on the mean streets; a dinosaur of a private eye who never got the memo that...

In the midst of World War I, the son of a British aristocrat and daughter of an English colonel are roped into a treasonous plot. They must navigate secret agents and spies who are convinced of their guilt. A chance meeting between Catherine Abbeway...

Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work--and seeks out Philip Slate, a sex addict whom he failed to help some twenty years earlier. Yet Philip claims to be cured--miraculously...

Has somebody at any point exploited you for their advantage? Has somebody you cherished entered your life quick and afterward left without to such an extent as a clarification after they took all that they could from you? You may have been a survivor...

A spellbinding book about a missing child, and about the life of a writer. Bold, suspenseful, and impossible to put down. This one will stay with me for a long time. -- Samantha Downing, #1 internationally bestselling author of My Lovely WifeThe acclaimed author...

In this dystopian novel set in the 2030s, a man suffering from a gunshot wound is trying to remember what happened to him in the years since Trump got elected.Fimple is an alcoholic psychological counselor suffering from post-traumatic amnesia. As he recovers in the...