Psychological

Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own....

Simon and Vicky couldn’t seem more normal: a wealthy Chicago couple, he a respected law professor, she an advocate for domestic violence victims. A stable, if unexciting marriage. But one thing’s for sure: absolutely nothing is what it seems.

The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably....

Was denkst du gerade, Amy? Das habe ich sie oft gefragt. Was denkst du? Wie geht es dir? Wer bist du? Wie gut kennt man eigentlich den Menschen...

Mead House was once our childhood home. Despite my fears, I always knew we would have to return to face the demons of our past....

My husband is a doctor. He’s smart and charming, and everybody trusts him. Except me. On the surface, it looks like I have it all–the perfect marriage, the perfect husband, the perfect life. But it’s far from the truth....

I loved my husband, Doctor Drew Devlin, but he betrayed me. And now he’s dead....

Daisey Garrett wakes up in a hospital bed. She remembers her boyfriend has left her for another woman, but she doesn’t remember what happened to her the night she was attacked in her own home....

On a warm spring evening, guests gather in a perfectly manicured garden to celebrate Maggie and Len’s twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. But as the joyful party atmosphere disappears into the night, close by, the lifeless body of a young woman is pulled from a river....

My best friend warned me that it was too soon to marry Edward, a widower with an adorable but troubled little boy. She said we were moving too fast. But all I could see was a kind, loving man, struggling with grief, who needed my help....

Ulysses is regarded by many as the single most important novel of the 20th century....

When happily married Grace comes home early one night and catches her husband, Dominic, with another woman in the cabin at the bottom of their garden, she is shocked, angry, and most of all, hell-bent on revenge....

Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel is a brilliant crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons—atheist intellectual Ivan, hot-blooded Dmitry, and saintly novice Alyosha—are all at some level involved....

Natasha, Riya, Anjali, and Katherine were best friends in college - each different from the other yet inseparable - until that night. It was the night that began with a bottle of whisky and a game of Ouija but ended with the death of Sania, their unlikeable hostel mate....

It’s hard to find an employer who doesn’t ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen....

Darby Thorne is a college student stranded by a blizzard at a highway rest stop in the middle of nowhere. She’ll have to spend the night in the rest stop with four complete strangers....

A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation. She thought this would be a break. A week of hiking and hot tubs with two other couple friends. Then Claire’s minivan breaks down on a lonely dirt road....

Cat panics when she sees a photofit of a murder suspect flash up on the news. It looks exactly like her, and to make matters worse, the victim is her childhood best friend, Charlie....

Eve has a good life. She wakes up each day, kisses her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except… Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher affair, with one student, Addie, at its center....

Lane McCord wakes up in a hospital having survived a near-fatal fall at a North Carolina beach cottage. Her boyfriend, Kyle, wasn’t so lucky. A senseless tragedy on their first romantic getaway. All Lane remembers is lying at the bottom of the stairs in Kyle’s pooling blood....

There are three rules Brooke Sullivan must follow as a new nurse practitioner at a men’s maximum-security prison: 1) Treat all prisoners with respect. 2) Never reveal any personal information. 3) Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates....

O que você procura? Essa é a pergunta que a enigmática Sayuri Komachi faz a quem visita a biblioteca do Centro Comunitário de Tóquio em busca de ajuda....

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende der achtziger Jahre in Ost-Berlin, zufällig, und...

All he has to go on is his own intuitive suspicions. Was he becoming cynical and untrusting or was this one of the most ingenious crimes he had ever tackled?....

Kit Darling is a maid with a snooping problem. She’s the “invisible girl,” compelled to poke into her wealthy clients’ closely guarded lives. It’s a harmless hobby until Kit sees something she can’t unsee in the home of her brand-new clients....

Helena will ein letztes Mal ihren Vater besuchen und findet in Netes Hotel mehr als nur eine neue Aufgabe. Gedske droht durch den Verlust ihrer Tochter auseinanderzufallen und entdeckt auf einer Reise eine ungeahnte Kraft. Therese befreit gegenüber einer Pfarrerin ihre Liebe zu Aron, und Caroline erkämpft sich nach dem Unfall ihres Manns die zu sich selbst... In diesen Erzählungen überfällt die Klarheit die Figuren mitunter oder reißt Gewissheiten ein, aber sie öffnet stets neue Wege.

Kleijnes debuut Klaverblad won de Schaduwprijs voor beste debuutthriller en hij werd als enige debutant genomineerd voor de Gouden Strop. Detective Roelant Onderwater heeft het criminele circuit voorgoed vaarwel gezegd. Vanaf nu neemt hij alleen nog koosjere zaken aan, zo heeft hij zijn partner Zorah beloofd. Maar dat voornemen blijkt lastiger vol te houden dan verwacht. Als hij een telefoontje ont­vangt van Ko, een drugshandelaar bij wie Roelant in het krijt staat, kan hij onmogelijk nee zeggen.

All Things Seen and Unseen follows Alex Nguyen, an isolated, chronically ill university student in her early 20s. After a suicide attempt and subsequent lengthy hospitalization, she finds herself without a job, kicked out of campus housing, unable to afford school, and still struggling in the aftermath of a relationship’s dissolution. Hope comes in the form of a rich high school friend who offers Alex a job housesitting at her family’s empty summer mansion on a gulf island.

Lou è una giovane donna felicemente sposata, madre della piccola Nova. Ma Lou è anche un clone della precedente Lou, uccisa pochi mesi prima da un serial killer, arrestato per l’omicidio di altre quattro donne, e riportata in vita, insieme alle altre vittime, da un programma governativo di clonazione. Le cinque donne si conoscono, si incontrano, si sostengono. Finché Lou deciderà di andare a fondo alla sua storia e provare a capire quali motivazioni hanno spinto il suo assassino a scegliere proprio lei, trovandosi di fronte a una verità insospettata.

Mark Lausson has everything he thought he wanted: a coveted job at elite Sawyer College in Ohio. But at the start of his second year, stuck in a small town with deadlines piling up and paychecks falling short, Mark can already feel the fantasy crumbling. And then, a few weeks in, sophomore Tyler Cunningham shows up in class. In Tyler—confident, mysterious, and popular—Mark glimpses another way of being in the world. He finds Tyler’s self-possession both compelling and unsettling. Caught in the rush of sex and secrets, Mark ignores the increasing evidence that Tyler can’t be trusted.

Grace was one paycheck from becoming a single mother-to-be on the streets, until she's offered the job of a lifetime: live-in maid for millionaires Naomi and Jack Hamilton. Grace doesn't belong in the Hamiltons' luxurious world of privilege, wealth, and power, but she willingly cleans the messes they make.

Set in Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Bombay, India, Mr. Monroe's journey into authenticity results in a series of failed relationships that reveal the dark, enigmatic recesses of his complex personality and eventually land him in a hellhole prison in Bombay. His tragedy unfolds into an ending that no one, especially Monroe, could have possibly predicted or imagined.

On the run and with danger tailing him, Beckett races against time to save his niece, Amber, from vicious kidnappers. With deadly threats closing in, he comes to the startling revelation he can trust no one…not even his closest allies. The streets of London become a battlefield as Beckett struggles to stay one step ahead of his enemies and protect Amber—all the while confronting the dark truth about The Consortium, a shadowy organization that will stop at nothing to maintain its grip on power.

Five years ago, Tessa Chamberlain was the lone survivor of a beach house massacre that left three of her friends dead—and Tessa with an inescapable, unending dread. Now she’s going back to face her fears. Renting the same beach house where she almost died, Tessa returns to lonely Cassadaga Island off the coast of Maine long after the tourists and summer residents have departed for the winter. But as the fog rolls in and the nights grow longer, she wonders if she made a terrible mistake. There are footsteps on the porch, creaks from the second floor, and an unsettling feeling of being watched.

As kids, Amelia and Kylee were found unharmed in their upstairs bedroom the night their teenage cousin Grace, who was babysitting them, vanished from the farmhouse in Beaumont, Missouri, leaving blood all over the kitchen. Scrappy and driven, Grace, the first in their family to go to college instead of getting married and working at the meatpacking plant, had been on the verge of escaping their dead-end town. Her disappearance is a warning to any local girl who dared hope for better.

Este relato nos cuenta la historia de Mr. Duffy, un hombre que vive una existencia solitaria y metódica en los suburbios de Dublín. Su vida, marcada por la rutina y el aislamiento, experimenta un cambio significativo cuando entabla amistad con Mrs. Sinico, una mujer casada que encuentra en él un alma gemela. A medida que su relación se profundiza, Mrs. Sinico desarrolla sentimientos románticos hacia Mr. Duffy, quien, atemorizado por la intensidad de estos sentimientos y su potencial impacto en su vida ordenada, decide terminar abruptamente la amistad.

Ulysses und Evelyn begegnen sich in einem italienischen Weinkeller und sprechen über Kunst und das Leben, zu einem Zeitpunkt, an dem die Schönheit in der Welt nicht leicht zu finden ist. Diese Begegnung knüpft zwischen ihnen ein lebenslanges Band der Freundschaft. Er ist ein junger britischer Soldat, sie ist eine sechzigjährige Kunsthistorikerin, die ihre geliebten Gemälde vor den Bomben des Zweiten Weltkriegs bewahren will.

An artist creates paintings that create emotions. Staring at the painting for too long, people become mesmerized, acting out what they witnessed on the canvas.

Mumu is the psychological story of Ivan Turgenev about the deaf-mute janitor Gerasim, who, due to the whim of his lady, was forced to part with his beloved and drown his only friend - a dog. The author sympathizes with the simple and kind Gerasim, and his mistress portrays tough, cynical and capricious. Other famous works, such as "Asya", "Fathers and Sons", "Noble's Nest", "Biryuk", "Fire at Sea", "Inn", "Clock, belong to the author", "Three portraits", "Strange story", " Date", etc.

Un nuovo anno sta per concludersi e Asle, un anziano pittore rimasto vedovo, ripensa alla sua storia. L'uomo vive da solo sulla costa norvegese, i suoi unici amici sono il suo vicino, Åsleik, un contadino-pescatore scapolo, e Beyer, un gallerista che vive in città, a un paio d'ore di auto. Lì vive anche un altro Asle, artista anch'egli, solitario e consumato dall'alcool. Asle e Asle sono due versioni della stessa persona, due racconti della stessa vita, che si interrogano sull'esistenza, la morte, l'ombra e la luce, la fede e la disperazione. Dall’autore Premio Nobel per la Letteratura 2023.