Fiction - Psychological

Hidden behind the walls of Grangegorman Mental Hospital in 1941, four lives collide, all afflicted by the human cost of wars, betrayals and trauma.Gus, a shrewd attendant, is the keeper of everyone's secrets, especially his own. Two War of Independence veterans are reunited. One,...

From T.J. Martinson, author of The Reign of the Kingfisher, comes a poignant odyssey of aging, stardom, and memory explored through the literal eyes of Marilyn Monroe.Susan Jackson's serene life as a sixty-eight-year-old florist living in Indiana shatters following a groundbreaking eye transplant that...

Josef Dietrick lives with his self-absorbed mother, abusive step-father, and bullying step-brother, Marteen, in 1930s Berlin, Germany. When a brutal sexual attack at the hands of Marteen's friend, Tielo, sends Josef homeless into the streets, he is taken in by the kind-hearted Lucas and...

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...

He went into the woods...and never came out. In 1986, thirteen-year-old Jeb Kleber vanished during his small town's Fourth of July fireworks. His mysterious disappearance left his first love, Sammy Blake, grieving for years. Flash forward to present day. A now middle-aged Sam Blake...

What's done in the dark will always come to light... In 1996, Janet Moore is a senior in high school and wants to leave everything behind - her religious mother, the pressure of graduating, and her secrets.However, the city council's plan to demolish an...

When a promise kept means a life is broken...a haunting story of guilt, redemption and friendship that will have you turning pages well past bed-time. When a promise kept means a life is broken ... Tessa De Santis's child-free marriage in inner-city Sydney is...

The Breaking of the Shell weaves the teaching of ancient wisdoms into a modern context in classic story-telling style. Like the works of Paulo Coelho which deliver timeless truths, this book brings together the subtle energies of the awakening consciousness of the 21st Century...

In this hauntingly twisted tale, an author reconnects with an old boarding school friend, forcing her to reckon with their shared past and the imaginary creature she thought they left behind.Touch a line, you break your spine.Stacey is the dusty air, the cracked soil,...

The lives of three women dramatically collide during the French Revolution: Sofi, a wallpaper factory worker; her sister Lara, a lady's maid; and a young aristocrat, Hortense. At the factory, the sisters notice something eerie about the intricately illustrated wallpaper: the same mysterious woman...

When her mother dies, Christine Macdonald is left haunted by the half-told tales of a child her mother gave birth to during WW2. Through found journals and letters, she begins to piece together the story of her parents' lives. Christine also revisits her own...

Author: Lucas MangumISBN-10: 1963801032ISBN-13: 9781963801033Publisher: Ghoulish BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/29/2024Pages: 110Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.28d

MatheoGod, how could You lead me into this temptation? This obsession will be the death of me. She's been my undoing since the day I laid eyes on that picture-those sad eyes, that forced smile. They drew me in like a moth to a...

Author: Steve StredISBN-10: 1990260454ISBN-13: 9781990260452Publisher: Black Void PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/11/2024Pages: 154Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.33d

A darkly funny debut novel about two estranged sisters who are unknowingly thrown together by their problematic father's dying wish Mickey and Arlo are half sisters. But they've never spoken and never met. Arlo adored her father--but always lived in the shadow of his...

A searing examination of male friendship and the broader social implications of masculinity in an age of toxic lonelinessIn a small town in North America, two boys, or men, embark on a vaguely charted road trip through the northern wilderness with little more than...

So many secrets. So many lies.On a Bass Strait island, across Hobart, Sydney and Adelaide, a family drama unfolds. A decision must be made - to forgive or to nurture a grudge. A traveller obsessed with the ocean. A conflicted archaeologist. A girl who...

"A truly spectacular psychological thriller with a dazzling mystery at its core. Shell Games is the ultimate one-sitting read that has everything--incredible family dynamics, characters that burst off the page and a premise so deliciously enticing and surprising that the pages quite simply turn...

Darby Kane, author of the #1 international bestseller Pretty Little Wife, returns with another twisty domestic thriller about a wife wondering who tried to kill her husband twice before finally succeeding... because that was supposed to be her job. Dr. Richmond Dougherty is a...

A gripping tale of madness and mystery in 19th-century America, The Mystic Key or the Asylum Secret Unlocked follows a young woman named Edna as she uncovers the dark secrets of a mental institution in which she has been confined. Written by Elizabeth Parsons...

Author: Waldo NoestaISBN-10: 1959620088ISBN-13: 9781959620082Publisher: Booklocker.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/10/2024Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

Author: Rachel KushnerISBN-10: 1982116536ISBN-13: 9781982116538Publisher: Scribner Book CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2025Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 1.04d

Girls are taxes.Women are city limits. You are on the precipice of womanhood and have become obsessed with an ex-convict, Roman. She introduces you to the dangerous and honest side of life that no one else has been able to. As she unapologetically places...

"The Winds" is the poignant journey of Cade, a man haunted by the tragic loss of his girlfriend decades ago. Despite building a family with his wife and children, Cade finds himself unable to shake the shadows of his past. Desperate for healing, his...

Dr. David Chase is the senior cardiac surgeon at Emanuel Hospital in Portland, Oregon. To his colleagues and staff at the hospital, he is invincible. But David Chase is a broken man. His own heart is held together by ambition and fear. The only...

Is Tessie Gold chasing ghosts... or running from them?When Tessie Gold's former reality show co-host contacts her with an idea for one last (live!) reunion episode featuring a unique "haunted" house, she's hesitant to agree. Her bad-tempered mother is dying, and Tessie is struggling...

From international bestselling master of suspense Nicci French comes a chilling new psychological thriller about a woman determined to get justice for a murder no one else believes happened.Nancy North is ready to put her life back together. After suffering a psychotic break that...

In the vein of The Bad Seed comes a twisty, atmospheric psychological suspense about a meddlesome elderly guest at a decadent luxury hotel who believes she has left her problematic past behind, until she decides to interfere in the lives of a young mother...

From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, comes a fierce, visionary and darkly comic story collection.A woman welcomes a parasite into her body.A teenager longs for perfect skin. A scientist...

Before We Were Yours meets Water for Elephants in New York Times bestselling author Ellen Marie Wiseman's vivid, daring, emotional novel about the devastating power of family secrets--beginning in the poignant, lurid world of a Depression-era traveling circus and coming full circle in the...

Delve into the depths of psychological terror and uncover the chilling secrets shrouding Sarah's tormented existence in "Shadows" by Joan De La Haye. This haunting horror novel will captivate your soul, leaving you questioning reality and your sanity until the bone-chilling revelation that awaits...

Published in two volumes in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author, Harriet Beecher Stowe. It achieved wide popularity among the white readers in the North, by vividly dramatizing the experience of slavery. Uncle Tom's...

If it comes down to the story or you, I will choose the story. Every damn time.She couldn't have been more clear. But that organ in his chest? The one that quickened when a certain smart-mouthed, pain-in-the-ass tabloid writer entered the room. It had...

Discover a novelist that Neil Gaiman describes as 'an astonishingly smart writer'. When a chance meeting with a stranger leads to an offer of a room in exchange for telling her stories, Molly jumps at the chance. Slowly she builds a new, eccentric family...

An old asylum, a hidden diary and a secret that casts long shadowsWhen Meg returns to London, she knows she'll be facing ghosts from her own troubled past.She doesn't expect to be so unsettled by the place where she's staying......even if is a former...

When the lil' Bastard was born, he killed his own mother through design. Having listened to her moaning for the last nine months, there was no way in hell he was going to spend the next 18 years with the bitch so, he ensured...

East Berlin, 1961. Kirstin Beck is determined to escape to the West. She watches from her townhouse window as the border with West Berlin is closed, and a barbed wire fence strung through the cemetery behind her house. With a grandmother in West Berlin...

'I really enjoyed this book, fast, funny and judgemental. A glimpse at lives we rarely get to read about.' Sean Lock Teach Her is a fast moving, darkly humorous novel. A who did what to who and why. A teacher is in for the...

Five college friends meet for a reunion in an isolated cottage in the lake area. Caught off-balance by an unexpected snow-storm, they settle in to make the best of their time together. Along with Will, Jennifer's cousin who is also storm bound, they begin...

Skipper, an ex-World War II naval Lieutenant and the narrator of Second Skin, interweaves past and present--what he refers to as his "naked history"--in a series of episodes that tell the story of a volatile life marked by pitiful losses, as well as a...

Yan Lianke is one of the most acclaimed writers of contemporary China--twice a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, as well as the winner of the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize--and he has been lauded for his imaginative satire and perceptive cultural critique. The...

Here is one of those rare and remarkable debuts that herald the appearance of a major new talent on the literary scene. Inspired by real events, Lay That Trumpet In Our Hands is a wise and luminous story about a northern family, a southern...

WINNER OF THE MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD Jenny Milchman's Cover of Snow is a remarkable debut, a gripping tale of suspense in the tradition of Gillian Flynn, Chris Bohjalian, and Nancy Pickard.Waking up one wintry morning in her old farmhouse nestled in the Adirondack...

On a trip to the tropical paradise where her fianc?e died, a young woman begins to suspect the death was no accident--and the killer's still on the island--in this twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Reese's Book Club pick We...

I've spent my entire life trying to make up for what happened that day. I was barely fifteen when I killed my mom.Twenty years later.I've turned my life around. I have a handsome, wealthy husband; two daughters who are everything to me; a stunning...

How can someone live outside of their own body? For Casey it's lonely. He has a friend, loving parents, yet Casey feels that it may scare them all away. So to keep his grasp on his best and only friend Casey does the only...

A propulsive novel of rupture and repair in the digital age, delving into a hidden world deep under the ocean--from the New York Times bestselling author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin "Everything gets fixed, and we all stay broken." Anthony Fennell,...

DISCOVER A BREATHLESSLY TWISTY NEW THRILLER, FROM A BESTSELLING AUTHOR.The truth can be a bitter pill . . .Michelle will never get tired of the view from her office window. Jagged mountains - and the wintry streets of Reykjavik, Iceland. It's a perk of...

Immerse yourself in the intricate tapestry of 17th-century London, a city teeming with sinister secrets and an insatiable desire for eternal youth. On the eve of her twentieth birthday, Genevieve is taken aback by a shocking revelation: her parents have arranged a marriage for...

"The Metamorphosis" (original German title: Die Verwandlung) is a short novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the...