Psychological category: 8170 books

In the fast-paced psychological thriller traditions of Gillian Flynn, Jessica Knoll, and Liane Moriarty, Edgar Award nominated-author Kathryn Haines Miller (The Girl Is Murder) spins an engrossing tale of what might be the worst birthday ever. Helen’s life is simple. She has a job. She has...

Juliana flies to Paris in an effort to say a final goodbye to her husband who died on a top-secret mission—or that’s what she was told because a body was never found. When she bumps into a man who looks like her husband but has no memories, she starts on a journey to find the truth. A journey...

A collection of twenty pieces of short fiction, including five award-winning stories, Chasing Dreams ventures into — and beyond — the darkness. A disgraced priest seeks salvation amongst the remains of a drowned village … A strange and fragile young boy grasps for true love … A condemned...

What if you were able to see, touch and feel a loved one that has passed? That one more time if you had the chance or the should’ve, would’ve, could’ve that we all think about. If once a year you had the opportunity to envelop in your loved one’s presence, seal and dismiss hurt and regrets,...

Agnete Friis’s lyrical, evocative work of psychological suspense weaves together two periods in one man’s life to explore obsession, toxic masculinity, and the tricks we play on our own memory. Jacob, a middle-aged architect living in Copenhagen, is in the alcohol-soaked throes of a bitter...

The price of freedom is getting high. A bored and restless 15-year-old named Floyd Wolf foolishly ingests a powerful psychoactive drug called Blue Horse, but he isn't prepared for the ensuing mental chaos that permanently alters his perceptions. When the coincidental death of his mother further burdens...

A collection of novellas sure to keep you up at night. Village Americana While taking a class trip to South America, sixteen friends are ambushed, captured and taken to a nearby village run by a mad man. It becomes clear that this is no ordinary village. It is a village of slaves, psychological...

John Franklin Bardin's most acclaimed work plays a virtuoso performance on music and madness in this unforgettable thriller.In 1946 New York, Ellen, a world-renowned musician, is suffering from the effects of her latest mental breakdown. Amongst other challenges, a chance meeting with a folk singer from...

An interesting short story, written around the time hypnotic aversion therapy was popular. Criminals, who have a psychological twist that compels them to commit their crimes are given an aversion to their crime and turned loose again.

A spectacular and erotically charged psychological novel from the acclaimed author of Being There and The Painted Bird. George Levanter is an idea man, a small investor, an international playboy, and a ruthless dealmaker whose life is delivered in a series of scorching encounters, each more...

A “marvelous” novel about a woman’s psychological battle with the realities of midlife (The New York Times Book Review). Witty and endearingly neurotic, Kate Armstrong has hit a certain age—and the crisis that goes along with it. She has a career as a successful journalist, specializing...

Gennero Giantonio is a powerful man who is accustomed to being in control of every situation. But life is not treating him with the respect he is accustomed to, and its throwing him into a spin at the pinnacle of his very successful career. Upset and questioning whether the unexpected death of his...

“An amazing novel” that plunges into the all-too-gray area between the public and private in contemporary American life (Los Angeles Times Book Review).   Michael Tolkin’s acclaimed second novel, Among the Dead, is an arresting examination of public and private grief in the wake of unspeakable...

Nathan doesn't believe in monsters. But people keep dying. If the ghouls aren't responsible, then who is? Nathan Custer was a primary school teacher until the day his life changed forever. He survived the car crash that should have killed him, but it left him with plenty of scars. Not all of...