Fiction - Psychological

How did everything go so wrong...?A much-needed getaway for agent Ava James takes an unexpected and gruesome turn, as a friendly encounter leads to a fatal end. A week at a cabin on willow lake. A relaxing and picturesque getaway to escape from all...

I thought I'd found the one... But then I found him dead. The last time I saw Harry, he was smiling at me over a candlelit table. It felt like I'd known him forever. I sipped my wine, and let myself hope for a...

Holden Hosenheim is a Division 4 Agent, working under the Shio Branch. His job is to protect the Great Society of the Aarde Union and the Connected City, Shio, from the Revivalists, a narco-funded rebel group that produces and sells a memory enhancing drugs...

"Enthralling. . . . A story that burns with intensity and daring." --Iain Reid A propulsive novel about the power and paradoxes of desire, from the acclaimed author of The Amateurs. As small children, Francine and her twin Philip shared a seemingly unbreakable bond--but...

In this epic, original novel in which Hawaii's fierce, sweeping past springs to life, Kiana Davenport, author of the acclaimed Shark Dialogues, draws upon the remarkable stories of her people to create a timeless, passionate tale of love and survival, tragedy and triumph, survival...

During the height of Freaknik in the early '90s, the city of Atlanta was thriving as a black cultural mecca, attracting college students from around the world for the annual spring break event. Crystal, a college student who moved to Atlanta to attend an...

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you're not alone This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy. You mustn't do that to yourself Shy. You...

Mick has never fully recovered from his service in Vietnam, and he has hit rock bottom. His fondest memories are of his late teens and early 20's, and the fabulously talented band that he led in those years as a gifted guitar player and...

He broke his vows. He broke her heart. Now she is going to break him. Alison is happily married to Graham, or at least she is until she discovers that he has been cheating on her. Her husband has broken the vows that he...

A NAIL-BITING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER WITH ONE OF THE BIGGEST TWISTS YOU'LL READ THIS YEAR.After choir practice for midnight mass, college sophomore Rose Grandon takes a short-cut through Harbor Park. Grabbed from behind, she is violently assaulted, beaten and left for dead.The last thing she...

". . . Will have you chewing your fingernails down to the quick."-The Haphazardoushippo.Blogspot.com A few of the things Natalie Scott's stalker knows about her: She likes foreign films, cinnamon gum, and strawberry yogurt. She goes jogging along Chicago's lakefront every Monday, Wednesday, and...

In this sequel to "Live to Tell," is there such a thing as a perfect murder? On a cold December night, a single bullet rips through the marriage of Charles and Jillian Morgan, leaving one of them six feet under and the other under...

"A mesmerizing storyteller who seems almost unnaturally able to enter the tormented inner lives of her characters."--Denver PostBlack Dahlia & White Rose is a brilliant collection of short fiction from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, one...

When he was a boy, Stuart Mullond's mother held him down while his urologist Dr. Ferguson performed a medical procedure on him that was so traumatizing and humiliating that its painful memory stayed with him for decades. For his entire life, his nightmares have...

Donnerville librarian Jane Kerry receives an envelope containing a 50-dollar bill and a note instructing her to "look homeward, angel" and signed "MOG (Master of Games)." So begins The Game--pushing Jane into crazy, immoral, and criminal actions. When she tries to quit, MOG has...

A gripping novel of romance, suspense, and the supernatural, The Orphan of the Rhine follows young Julie de Rubine as she unravels the haunting secrets of her past. Making a fateful promise to her dying mother, Julie resigns herself to marrying a Catholic man....

He's back and wants her son. Needs her son and will stop at nothing to get him. It had always been just Keira and her little boy, Daniel. There was no choice; the father deserted them, and her parents disowned her for being pregnant...

We had a plan, my husband and I.Settle down in Black Mountain.Raise two boys.Send them to Black Mountain Academy, the same school their father went to, the elite school that defined futures.We were going to give them the best possible life.Until our beautiful life...

From bestselling author Danielle Girard! Winner of the Barry Award!A widow and ex-FBI agent of hard-earned courage, Cody O'Brien is finally enjoying the quiet life, providing a good home for herself and her eight-year-old son, Ryan.Then Ryan is kidnapped in broad daylight.And Cody knows...

Written in a tone of suppressed eroticism and infused with surprising revelations of false identities, Find Courtney is a psychological thriller that keeps the reader guessing up to its startling climax.Author: Melissa ClarkISBN-10: 1882593901ISBN-13: 9781882593903Publisher: Bridge Works Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/22/2004Pages: 221Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize:...

A young philosophy professor finds himself in the middle of a drug-running operation after his personal life derails in this taut, white-knuckle debut for fans of Breaking BadOscar Boatwright, a disenchanted philosophy professor, receives terrible news. His mother, on her way home from Hawaii...

Written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845, Poor Folk is a novel inspired by the works of Gogol, Pushkin, and Karamzin, as well as English and French authors and is written in the form of letters between the two main...

In an age before psychology was a modern scientific field, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881) was a Russian writer of realist fiction and essays that explored the depths of the human psyche. Known for acclaimed novels Crime and Punishment, The...

Tybee II: The Abduction is a suspense-filled novel in which its main characters, Ted and Patricia Montgomery go undercover with the FBI in an effort to rescue children who have been kidnapped, including their own grandson. In typical Edward Vaughn fashion, the story takes...

*** 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...

When journalist Adam Chapman returns to the village of Little Bassington after inheriting his great aunt's estate, what he finds at first glance is an English idyll, untouched and unspoiled. The fields are as green as he remembers, the WI still gossip in the...

Addie is a normal guy trying his best to transform from an average and unlucky creature to a powerful and conquering superman. His transformation begins on a trek up Mount Bedlam, where he encounters beasts and demons, as well as people of different virtues,...

After the death of her abusive ex-husband in a car accident, Sonja Kent leaves Jacksonville to start a new life in Atlanta. Drawing strength from her Aunt Grace and friend Sandy, Sonja tries to put the past behind her. She is swept off her...

In the New York Times bestselling Jones Cooper series by Lisa Unger, falling in love should be a dream but sometimes it's a living nightmare in this "haunting, compulsive tale that will have you under its spell long after you've closed the book" (Tess...

Back to Florida. Back to work. -- DianeWith stars in her eyes! -- AnnieAuthor: Diane Williams DoyleISBN-10: 8223298597ISBN-13: 9798223298595Publisher: Diane Williams DoyleLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2023Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d

Well, you know how Book 13 ended. That question hanging in the air! This book starts the next morning, April 12th. Steve has to report back to the Army base in Georgia April 27th. That leaves Steve about 2 weeks in Berkinsville. Listening while...

Now that Janet and John are engaged it's time to focus our story of the beautiful model and the handsome soldier. But we'll keep up on the dynamic duo also. With Ward's nightly tutoring, the pressure of weekly challenge tests, and their duties at...

She's been told time and again to stay out of the woods and away from the old mine, but eleven-year-old Tessie Rowe has an imagination bigger than her mother's back yard. Since she was old enough to read, she's done nothing but absorb information...

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...

With raw, lyrical ferocity, All the Comfort Sin Can Provide delves into the beguiling salve that sin can promise-tracing those hidden places most of us are afraid to acknowledge. In this collection of brutally unsentimental short stories, Grant Faulkner chronicles dreamers, addicts, and lost...

"Have you heard from Eviana?" Simon's voice is shaky. "She went for a walk this afternoon and she never came back." My heart seizes in my chest, an invisible fist clenching it tight.Five days ago, my sister told me she was going to die....

A killer stalks the night and two detectives are hoping to find them before they strike again. Author: A. a. MercerISBN-10: 8223312832ISBN-13: 9798223312833Publisher: A.A. MercerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/03/2023Pages: 154Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.36d

At the age of nine, Gabriel "Gabe" Guzman (a.k.a. George Garrison) must move in with his grandparents after a tragedy leaves him parentless. His grandparents live in the countryside of South Florida, in a little area he nicknames World's End. There, he meets the...

It takes a guilty bastard to make a justified bitch. When a severed finger shows up on her doorstep in a seedy section of Las Vegas, Helen Taylor does not freak out. She's already crazy, as evidenced by her junk-stuffed house and its ever-growing...

In the small Nebraskan retirement town of Drewly, evil hides. As the folks go about their day-to-day business without a care in the world, evil grows. The locals know about the malevolence that dwells just beneath the surface. It has been there for centuries,...

In the novel The Benefits of Insanity, a doctor with a traumatic childhood recounts his experiences with the mental health system through his friendships. At the age of nine, Gabriel "Gabe" Guzman (a.k.a. George Garrison) must move in with his grandparents after a tragedy...

With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is a daring literary caper that is quick on its feet and delightfully surprising. Meet Henri and Louise. Two strangers, traveling alone, on the train from Belgrade to Istanbul. Except...

A psychologically authentic quest into a complex history of love and grief." -Kirkus ReviewsIn When the Smoke Clears, a raw and atmospheric novel, Kat Edwards examines the layers of grief and generational trauma with a touch so deft it's almost restorative."-IndieReader"Graced with insight on...

Lillian Reynolds faces the darkness of mankind daily as a licensed mental health counselor specializing in trauma. Her interest in psychology began during childhood. While exploring her grandparent's northern Michigan lakefront property, she realized something was different about her family tree.Now living in the...

"A serious, frequently brilliant novel with a sustained intensity that is rare in fiction. It's the most promising first novel that I've encountered this year." ―Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "[A] searching, emotionally resonant first novel . . . [Nobody Is Ever Missing]...

Cracked Surface is the sequel to Surface Tension and continues exploring my personal struggle with the desire to lead a "normal" life through the eyes of David Mathew. In Surface Tension, David is sixteen years old, represents the USA, and wins the gold medal...

Long blonde hair. Sparkling dark eyes. Perfect pearly-white teeth. I've never met her before but I know exactly who she is as I spot her through the crowds of the terminal. Because our new guest is the spitting image of the daughter we lost....

Footloose and broke, the unnamed narrator of Gone Tomorrow hops on a plane without asking questions when his director friend offers him a role in an art film set in Colombia. But from the moment he arrives at the airport in Bogot , only...

From the bestselling author of The Best of Friends comes a fast-paced thriller about how one woman's murder unravels the tangled web of lies and deceit connecting a group of Hollywood elite.When Kiersten McCann, president of the West Hollywood Moms' Club, turns up dead...

Mary Christina Barnes is an ordinary small-city Midwestern girl except for one thing: she was born with the uncanny power to feel the emotions of others and hear their thoughts. Her deeply religious mother sees her psychic gift as a sinister force. Haunted by...