Psychological category: 8170 books

She's a good nurse disturbed by dark recurring dreams. Then a new patient asks for her by name . . . Shona does her utmost to placate her charge. From professional necessity nurses must be neutral, but Shona’s patient Carmen has entwined her inside a cage of emotions. Carmen wants...

“An elegantly constructed and often funny story about a man, a woman and . . . ‘the greatest modern English architect never to have built a building’” (The New York Times Book Review). Geoff Nicholson’s novel tells the story of Christopher Howell, a cult architect who allegedly built...

What if you were her? What would you have done? Would it be the same choice as Julia, or would you choose a different path? This psychological thriller will invite the reader to go deep within the sick and demented mind of a young girl. In her quest to make reason out of a life plagued with horrific...

Caitlin Shaughnessy, a Canadian journalist, discovers that Inez, a traumatized young Mayan woman originally from Guatemala, has killed Caitlin's psychoanalyst partner, Dr. Jerry Simpson. Simpson brought the girl, who may be autistic, back to Canada as an act of mercy and to attempt to treat her obvious...

"Through the splinters of glass, I see his face, the one who has this hold on me, on my soul and I know he holds the key to something I have yet to learn." A woman desperately wishes for a better world, a better life... Plummeting off the side of the mountain wasn’t the escape...

Why, Pavlos wonders, must he be hypnotised by his father ? Why the nausea, that pit of obedience ... the next 'Greek lesson' ? What 'family' could it be, when his father digs for relatives he knows were all incinerate****d during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974? Raymond Nickford has...

From the bestselling author of the "Vivian Amberville" series, comes the surreal novella that will have you question the very foundation of your reality. Under the influence of the powerful new psychedelic drug “Rhapsody”, Mario Fantoccio discovers the existence of an invisible...

Like tendrils of smoke that twist and coil, these are seven stories of psychological suspense, weaving their way to the unexpected: In the mansion of a wealthy criminal lawyer, a woman plots the perfect revenge, based on a proven defence; In a picturesque country valley, the forensic...

What happens when your fear takes over? Donna Black wants to leave, and she wants to leave now. She's sure her mother-in-law is up to no good. Twenty-eight years of hell. And that damn clown doll, a subtle jab at her sanity. Her husband Walter won't defend her. Hell, he doesn't even...

Broken by his street-hardened London students, reduced to paranoia, can Amy's teacher stop himself losing she, alone, he might have trusted, might have loved ? Mister Kreasey's Demon Visiting his apartment to bring her teacher a long overdue essay, Kreasey noticed : "Amy stood...

A riveting psychological drama that challenges the way we understand others—and our own sense of self Mia is a schoolteacher in Denmark. Her husband, Frederik, is the charismatic headmaster of a local private school. During a vacation on Majorca, they discover that a brain tumor has started...

When you have 10 seconds to live, Execution Is Everything. Dr. Jon Kaine has flown into New York to commit a crime, but that’s not the problem. The problem is the late-night bar he hides out in, the gang that runs it, and the beautiful woman who follows him in. Kaine is a psychologist...

Many police use humour to deflect the reality of the horrorsthey face daily. It is a defence mechanism.When overheard by outsiders, this black humour often tendsto portray police as hard and callous...Without feeling. Uncaring. Lacking Empathy. .. and inhuman.Before you judge, pull on that...

He stole her childhood. She'll take his future What would you do if you accidentally encountered the man who once abused you? And how would you get away with it? Bridget's life is small and safe: she loves her husband and her son, and she works hard to keep her own business afloat....