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....

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....

The people who call End of the Line need hope. They need reassurance that life is worth living. But some are unlucky enough to get through to Laura. Laura doesn’t want them to hope. She wants them to die....

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....

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

Boy Parts is the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, a pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious, fearlessly exploring the taboo regions of sexuality and gender roles in the 21st century....

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....

A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him....

YouTube baking sensation April Masterson knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies. Or how to make key lime squares that will melt in your mouth. But if you keep watching her offline, you may find out some other secrets about April; secrets she’d rather you didn’t know....

Holt Davidson, a Kansas firefighter, hasn’t been back to his hometown of Thompsonville, Colorado, for more than two decades, but when he learns that his estranged mother has taken her own life, he returns for the funeral, hoping to make peace with her memory....

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.

Every Halloween, Satan's Affair will come to you. We travel the country, offering terrifying haunted houses, thrilling rides, and the tastiest food. And with every passing town, I cleanse this world, one execution at a time....

Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing. Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge of a small village, she clings to the fragmented memories of her mother's love....

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....

Cassie thinks she has met the perfect man. Think again, Cassie....

In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym.....

One of the most beloved and best-selling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special 25th anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author....

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....

Two women. An office filled with secrets. One terrible crime that can't be taken back. Dawn Schiff is strange....

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....

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the story of a man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for eternal youth....

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....

From the bestselling author of The Party comes a deliciously twisted story of friendship, retribution, and betrayal following a homeless woman fleeing a dangerous past—and the wealthy society wife she saves....

From the author of the acclaimed In My Dreams I Hold a Knife comes a pitch-black thriller about a woman determined to destroy a powerful cult and avenge the deaths of the women taken in by it, no matter the cost....

Atlanta, Georgia. Present day. A young woman is brutally attacked and left for dead. The police investigate but the trail goes cold....

When someone tells you who you are, do you believe them? The first question the cops asked me was if anything out of the ordinary happened to me lately. When I woke up this morning in the room of a mental institution I couldn’t remember a thing – not my name nor how I got there. Not how I left or how I ended up in that interrogation room.

Sophie, Anfang fünfzig, entflieht dem Alltag im Haus der Tochter und zieht in ein luxuriöses Herrenhaus zu Gleichaltrigen, die einen einträglichen Begleitservice betreiben. Ihre anfängliche Euphorie bekommt bald einen Dämpfer. Die Arbeit mit den Kunden ist schwieriger als gedacht, ebenso das Zusammenleben in der Villa. Täglich muss sie erleben, wie ihre Mitbewohner sich mit kleinkarierten Intrigen und Gemeinheiten gegenseitig bekämpfen. Im Laufe der Zeit fühlt sie sich immer mehr beobachtet, bis eines Tages ihr Appartement durchwühlt wird.

Nur wenn sie sich erinnert, wird sie überleben. Ein eisiger Wintermorgen: Zoe schreckt aus einem Albtraum auf, am ganzen Körper mit Verletzungen übersät und ohne Erinnerung an die vergangenen beiden Tage. Ihr Mann David ist spurlos verschwunden. Kurz darauf wird sie von einer verzerrten Stimme am Telefon bedroht, die die Wahrheit über gestern Nacht wissen will. Geschockt legt Zoe auf - doch der unheimlichen Forderung des Anrufers kann sie nicht entkommen. Und die Wirklichkeit ist grausamer, als sie sich jemals hätte vorstellen können.

When Kate Summerlin was eleven years old, she climbed out her bedroom window on a spring night, looking for a taste of freedom in the small college town where she was living with her parents. But what she found as she wandered in the woods near her house was something else: the body of a beautiful young woman, the first of Merkury's victims. And before she could come to grips with what she was seeing, she heard a voice behind her—the killer's voice—saying: "Don't turn around."

Dieser Fall bringt Rita Voss an ihre Grenzen. Am 5. Juli erscheint der 38-Jährige Fred Keller in ihrem Büro und erklärt, im Urlaub sei ihm die Frau weggelaufen. Nun verdächtigt sein Schwager ihn, Kirsten getötet zu haben. Fred Keller beteuert, dass Kirsten nach der Ankunft auf dem Campingplatz ihr Joggingzeug anzog und loslief, zurück kam sie nicht mehr. Im April hat sie das schon mal gemacht, blieb drei Tage weg. Fred vermutet, dass sie eine Affäre hat.

One of Jon Fosse’s most acclaimed novels, Boathouse is told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator leading a largely hermit-like existence until he unexpectedly encounters a long-lost childhood friend and his wife. Told partially in a stream-of-consciousness style and with an atmosphere reminiscent of a gripping crime novel, Boathouse slowly unravels the story of a love triangle leading to jealousy, betrayal, and eventually death.

Our protagonist comes to in a basement, tied to a chair, with a man looming over her. But someone has a knife. We follow her as she emerges from captivity into an unnamed, nightmarish city, seeking some meaning to her new reality. As figures emerge from the night, some offering sanctuary, and others judgement, she keeps moving, making her way through this fever dream of a narrative. SUPPLICATION is a haunting, embodied tale of alienation, fear, and the quest for respite.

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.

Grausame Morde und eine Reihe unerklärlicher Unfälle erschüttern Gullton, die Stadt, neben der Sin City wirkt wie eine Klosterschule. Detective Deckard stößt bei den Ermittlungen auf immer neue Ungereimtheiten und Geheimnisse, und alles deutet darauf hin, dass Unterweltkönig Nero Roberts in die Sache verwickelt ist. Seine Schwester Melissa sucht nach einer Ausreißerin, während ein junger Krankenpfleger einer Frau begegnet, die sein Leben unwiederbringlich verändert.

Ein Toter in einer Berliner Vorstadtvilla. Nichts Besonderes für einen Fallanalytiker. Aber warum ist das Opfer nackt? Und was hat es mit dem merkwürdigen Raum auf sich, in dem der Junge gefunden wird? Die Nachforschungen haben einen größeren Einfluss auf die Zukunft der Ermittler als zunächst angenommen. Ólafur Davídsson sieht sich im­mer wieder mit seiner eigenen Jugend konfrontiert, die alles andere als perfekt war. Plötzlich steht die Welt auf dem Kopf und eine zweite Jugend ist für ihn scheinbar zum Greifen nahe.

Only days ago, I had everything. A man I wanted to marry. A prestigious fellowship for graduate school. A perfect new apartment. I’m a psychology student. I should have known she was hiding something from the start… Now I’m shivering under a foil blanket wondering how my life became a nightmare. And when the paramedics check me over, it’s not concern I see on their faces. It’s fear. They think I did this. They think I killed her…

“As far as I know, you can only die once…” But when Aetna Simmons disappears from her lonely Bermuda cottage, she leaves behind not one but ten suicide notes. Ten different suicide notes. And no other trace to speak of, not even a corpse, as if she’d never existed. Drafts of a Suicide Note is the darkly enigmatic love letter of Kenji Okada-Caines, a petty criminal who once exposited on English literary classics and now, marooned on his native isle, nurtures an obsession with Aetna’s writing.

Bystander is a pitiless, bold work of intense psychological realism narrated by a professionally successful but socially bankrupt anti-hero who expects global connection and local anonymity. It excoriates the contingency of contemporary morality, and, at a time of growing isolation, forces the listener to examine what it means to be a good neighbor.

In Die Frauen von Capri – Das Lied vergangener Sommer erzählt SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Antonia Riepp von vier Frauen, einer unerwarteten Erbschaft und einem alten Verbrechen. Weite Himmel, türkisfarbene Wellen und steile Felsen – die Trauminsel Capri hat auch ihre Abgründe. Und in diesem 2. Band von Antonia Riepps Capri-Reihe wird Italiens schönste Insel zur farbenprächtigen Kulisse für einen packenden Urlaubsschmöker. Herrschaftlich, strahlend weiß und wunderschön – von der Villa des Sängers Carlo Romano, hoch oben auf den steilen Felsen Capris, kann man bis dorthin sehen, wo türkisfarbenes Meer und blauer Himmel eins werden

Kivousavé, on n'en parle qu'à mots couverts, à l'heure du thé. Kivousavé, c'est la mère de la narratrice, disparue quand elle avait deux ans. Depuis, l'enfant vit entre son père, trop faible, et sa grand-mère, qu'elle déteste. À 12 ans, elle découvre que sa mère n'est pas morte comme on le lui avait fait croire. Que cachent ces mensonges ? Pourquoi sa mère est-elle partie ? Qu'est-elle devenue ? La narratrice est sûre d'une chose : elle va la retrouver.