Psychological category: 8170 books

When Serena Skye applies to work with abused and troubled horses in the round pen at an isolated Nevada guest ranch, she instantly notices that her prospective boss, Julian Rose, is drop-dead gorgeous. After he hires her, Serena begins to work her magic with the horsesall while secretly pining for...

Set amidst the physical and psychological landscapes of New Zealand's southern hills and grasslands, Beneath Pale Water is a social realist and expressionistic novel that follows a triangle of three damaged individuals - a sculptor, a vagrant and a model - who have grown calcified shells against the...

Postcards from Pinsk is the story of a middle-aged Beacon Hill shrink coming to grips with himself. The “postcard” is the catalyst for crisis—his wife of long standing is divorcing him. It appears she has good reason, yet as Orrin Summers wrestles with solitude, self-deception, and a general...

"Mandy And The Missing: Ascent Of The Absent" (by L.R. Buxton) is the first in a series of novels, where psychological thriller meets fantasy (with a touch of the paranormal). The story is about a teen (half-Scottish, half-English) moving away from her Mum for the first time, to go...

Night Butterfly, a love story of undergraduates embroiled in the anti-colonial struggle of Singapore's early days. The filial Lim Poh Seng is torn between his responsibilities to his family and his love for the vivacious and enigmatic Wong Su Chin. They lead us through the murky underworld...

England, 1932. The nation had just begun to recover from the wounds of the First World War when economic catastrophe struck with the Great Depression. It is against this background that Vernon Dexter arrives at the old manor house at Greystones, home of the notorious philanderer Sir Keith Petersley...

A film company is making a movie about Daphne Moore, a famous actress of the 1920s, but to proceed they must secure the permission of Norman Hartleigh, a former diplomat once deeply involved with the star. So far, the reclusive Hartleigh has ignored all communications, so scriptwriter David Brent...

A three year old boy disappears from his home in England. After weeks of searching with no clues and no demands for money, the police have to give up and the case remains unresolved. Sixteen years later, Florence, the boy’s French mother, is convinced that she has seen her son in the Latin Quarter...

A life sentence signifies the end of one road for Jed, a convicted violent criminal, yet the start of a whole new existence. Desperate to escape the shackles of his past , he opens his psyche to the people he meets in the prison system and delves into his psychological and spiritual heritage. To be released...

"We, the Enslaved is the story of a university professor who uncovers, by accident, disunity amongst African and African American students in his class. Rather than view it as a problem that pertains only to his students, he sees it as a problem that may be facing Africans all over the world and decides...

A dark, psychological story of 1700 words. Janie is a troubled young woman who struggles with her own past and future when she discovers that her mother has terminal cancer. But what is it that Janie’s so scared of? And can Nan’s red rug save her?

When sixty-two-year-old Malachi Walmsley learns that his mother has died, he travels from his residence in Flagstaff , Arizona, to his boyhood home in Covington, Louisiana, to settle her estateand its a large one. Estranged from his mother for forty years, Malachi wonders how authorities even knew...

A novel about obsession that makes for obsessive reading. All Owen Patterson wants is an normal life, a happy marriage, and a stable family. But following the brutal and random murder of his brother-in-law, that dream is shattered. A year later, his wife is still in mourning and his in-laws...

In this intense psychological suspense sf short story, paramilitary fireman Jim Schofield and his men have been tasked with destroying a rebel headquarters. The insertion and the job itself go smoothly enough. The extraction? Not so much.