Fiction - Psychological

The death of Sharon Hobart launches Marco Navarro into an exploration of the recent past. Did she love him, or did she have an ulterior reason for befriending him? Was she connected to Allied Chemicals Corporation other than socially? Having emerged from that segment...

When Silas Marner is wrongly accused of crime and expelled from his community, he vows to turn his back upon the world. He moves to the village of Raveloe, where he remains an outsider and an object of suspicion until an extraordinary sequence of...

The author of The Eternal World seamlessly combines history, biotechnology, action, and adventure in this high-concept thriller in the spirit of James Rollins, Brad Thor, and Douglas Preston.John Smith possesses a special gift that seems more like a curse: he can access other people's...

A nineteen-year-old woman and her boyfriend's mother begin an illicit affair one summer on the Brittany coast in this intense, poetic novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop Respected Parisian behavioral biologist Claire has become increasingly desperate to...

Author: Kathy HaynesISBN-13: 9798886795929Publisher: Luminare PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/06/2024Pages: 310Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d

Author: Kerry WilkinsonISBN-10: 1836183267ISBN-13: 9781836183266Publisher: BookoutureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2024Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.93d

A propulsive literary debut, The Ends of Things is both a thought-provoking suspense and a meditation on female friendship and agency--perfect for fans of The White Lotus and authors like Catherine Steadman and Rachel Hawkins.She thought she had the perfect life ... until she...

A heart-stirring novel about a mother's love, in all its forms, as a woman searches for the daughter she gave up for adoption when she was a teenager growing up in the Caribbean, from the prize-winning author of Golden Child For much of her...

A singular, devastating debut novel, Dogs traces the fallout of one catastrophic night in the lives of five high school wrestlers, asking what can survive in the blast radius of latent trauma and violence. As night falls on the city of Carbon, Hal and...

After killing an intruder in self-defense, a wealthy London mother must unravel a terrifying mystery filled with twists and turns, from the author of the "deliciously twisted thriller" (People) The Other Mothers. Alice, a professional mother of one, is hosting a playdate with friends...

A thrill-seeking young woman joins a radical theater troupe in this taut, suspenseful novel of art, seduction, and the deadly limits of liberation. New York, 1972. A cloistered college student slips out of the dorms to attend a performance by a legendary experimental performance...

A failed TV news reporter with a talent for shark-fishing returns to her hometown just as bodies begin washing ashore in this nail-biting suspense novel from the author of The Stranger Upstairs. Minnow Greenwood, previously known for stealing her way into the hearts of...

It's the wedding of the year - for all the wrong reasons... I vow to make you pay for what you did. Twelve years ago, school friends Sofia, Ellie and Rose made a vow. They promised never to talk about that fateful night. Never...

A propulsive literary debut, The Ends of Things is both a thought-provoking suspense and a meditation on female friendship and agency--perfect for fans of The White Lotus and authors like Catherine Steadman and Rachel Hawkins.She thought she had the perfect life ... until she...

Author: Jeffrey Melvin HutchinsISBN-10: 1942016913ISBN-13: 9781942016915Publisher: Pisgah Press LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2024Pages: 294Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d

Collector's Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket A desperate young man walks the streets of St. Petersburg, convinced he can outsmart fate by committing the perfect crime. Raskolnikov believes he's above the law, but the moment he takes an axe in hand, his carefully constructed...

"...this book is a must-read for anyone whose life has been touched by mental illness." -Alfredo Botello, award-winning author of 180 Days"A harrowing, no-holds-barred exploration of modern medicine and what it does to one man's mind." -Liam Callanan, award-winning author of When in Rome,...

A collection of poems which the poet has written parallel to her metaphorical thoughts.Author: Maitreyee JoshiISBN-10: 1660538211ISBN-13: 9781660538218Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/14/2020Pages: 114Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.27d

From the exiled Bangladeshi poet and internationally acclaimed author of Shame comes a delicious tale about getting even. In modern Bangladesh, Jhumur marries for love and imagines life with her husband, Haroon, will continue just as it did when they were dating. But once...

Author: Johnny GeeISBN-13: 9798227810960Publisher: Golden Ember EditionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/14/2024Pages: 126Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.30d

Author: Chris WittISBN-10: 1966263015ISBN-13: 9781966263012Publisher: Cw Publishing LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/09/2024Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.33d

When silence speaks, won't you listen?Fiona Teuling suffers home confinement with a sickly twin and craves days beyond school lessons, imaginary adventures, and her sister's medical needs. Trapped in a prison with her mother as warden, Fiona longs for escape.When her father abandons the...

Orphaned at Birth, Nurtured by Nuns, and Defined by Schizophrenia: A New Yorker's Struggle with Mental Illness, Homelessness, and the Pursuit of Normalcy. Join His Unpredictable Life Journey!Immerse yourself in an extraordinary tale of resilience, hope, and the human spirit's ability to adapt and...

"Suspense and foreboding move alongside the chief players in this auspicious novelistic debut by a British writer. Franey deftly engages the reader's emotions as she spins this disturbing tale." Publishers Weekly "It is fortunate for those perpetrators of child abuse that a novelist has...

A psychological thriller from best-selling author Valerie Keogh you won't want to miss!!What if someone from your past tried to destroy your future?When Melanie Scott is promoted to junior partner, she thinks she has put her past behind her and while out celebrating her...

'Keogh is the queen of compelling narratives and twisty plots' Jenny O'BrienThe brilliant new psychological thriller from bestseller Valerie Keogh.'A wonderful book, I can't rate this one highly enough. If only there were ten stars, it's that good. Valerie Keogh is a master story-teller,...

Martin Andrews is in a rut. Tired of the daily grind of life as a police officer and with a heavily pregnant wife, he is disillusioned, desperate to give his unborn child a chance in a world in which he has lost all faith....

*** Panic Room meets Lord of the Flies in this chilling claustrophobic thriller **** "From the award winning author of Portico, comes another thriller novel that will knock you over and leave you gasping for air." What if the staircase you are walking down...

A psychological thriller set in Southern France. Brunet has followed on from the success of "the Summer of Reckoning" with this magnificent portrait of a woman and a mother.A beautiful and often poetic tale that is unflinching about social and personal violence. Set in...

The police have just surrounded the hereditary mansion of Gladwynne Biddleton. He has just shot and wounded his security chief, Dominic Kittredge, and killed Dominic's wife, Theresa. As he watches the siege unfold on TV, historical visions besiege Gladwynne's mind. By turns he is...

A timely investigation into the heart of a despotic government, TITLE 13 is a darkly comic cautionary tale of mental illness and unconventional love. The novel deftly blends satirical comedy aimed at the hot-button issues of modern society with the gut-wrenching reality of an...

Winner of the Académie française Grand Prix Award, Nagasaki tells the story of a man who lives quietly on his own on a suburban street - or so he believes.'Speaks directly to the heart' Le MondeIn a house on a suburban street in Nagasaki,...

The A26 tells the grisly story of a dying man with murderous intent, from the 'slyly funny' [Sunday Times] Pascal Garnier.'Ultimately a very dark novel, but a very impressive one' The Complete Review Bernard lives with his sister Yolande who hasn't left the house...

"Kettenbach provides answers that are either darkly humorous or melancholically tragic, depending on how black the reader's heart proves to be."--Booklist"Black Ice is a devilish dive into an obsessed mind by a prolific German writer."--Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewThe cover cites Simenon and Highsmith in...

There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much...

An alcoholic on awakening is much like a newborn baby--fragile and without any defense against a very sober world. September Remember begins with a terrifying--and darkly funny blackout--the sort of a blackout that pulls you right into the mind of a drunk on the...

"The music of Mary Caponegro's stories is to the mouth what wine is. Readers will find themselves lost among answers, intoxicated, knowing only that these are stories unlike any others before or since, which is, for this reader at least, a relief, a challenge,...

When Halland is found murdered almost right outside his door, his widow, Bess, is of course the prime suspect. She isn't worried about that, though, but about the daughter she abandoned years ago. As the police investigate, the slightly cantankerous Bess instead follows a...

Ana and her son, Philippe, are grieving the loss of Philippe's father when Ana's hairstylist Kimi dies in an apparent suicide. Driven by a force she doesn't understand, Ana starts digging into Kimi's past in Guyana in 1978, which leads to nested tales of...

"Hughes is a very good writer, if 'good writing' has to do with precision, eloquence, beauty, and passionately held belief."--Times Literary Supplement Welcome to Crooked River, population 2,851 and falling. Eli has lived in Crooked River his whole life, ever since he was born...

Mother and daughter Caroline and Erica are best of friends and worst of enemies. Set in the American mid- and south-west, their story unfolds over more than 50 years against a backdrop of sweeping social change. Feisty and argumentative, they roll with the punches,...

A novel that charts the violent events in an imaginary African nation, as told by the colonel and leader of the country--from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series."What a rich, surprising,...

Here They Come is the lyrical, startling and poignant third novel from Yannick Murphy, a National Endowment for the Arts award winner and one of the freshest voices in American fiction today. Splitting time between a ramshackle apartment and a lonely hot dog vendor,...

In a riveting psychological thriller, Mary Higgins Clark takes the reader deep into the mysteries of the human mind, where memories may be the most dangerous things of all. Kay Lansing, who has grown up in Englewood, New Jersey, is the daughter of the...

"Michael Kimball is a hero of contemporary fiction." --Sam LipsyteA husband wakes up to find his wife has had a seizure during the night. His wife is rushed to a hospital where she lies in a coma. By day, the husband sits beside his...

Julian Brown, still devastated by the untimely death of his wife, travels to England with his high school students for a fun-filled summer of theater. What begins as an innocent journey to Wessex becomes a nightmare as Julian finds himself caught in the middle...

Lucidity-The state of being lucid, seeing clearly. Awaken to a new way of thinking as you explore the Isle of Aphtharsia and learn the secrets it has guarded since ancient times. The logic that emerges supreme is not the logic of the primal mind...

"[A] provocative page-turner." --People "In Parkhurst's deft treatment, Harmony becomes a story of our time. . . Parkhurst cements herself as a writer capable of astonishing humanity and exquisite prose." --Washington Post "Gorgeously written and patently original." --Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author...

'Stunning' - Marian Keyes 'Chilling' - Val McDermid Fragile is a modern Gothic psychological thriller with a contemporary twist on the classic novel Rebecca, from award-winning and critically acclaimed writer Sarah Hilary. Everything she touches breaks . . . Nell Ballard is a runaway....

How did I never get caught? All I know is that I wanted to kill just one person. I wanted to see the life drain out of them. This was something I dreamt about, thought about, and was going to make happen. It was...