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....

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

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....

¿Qué daño puede llegar a hacer la envidia en el mundo editorial? Descúbrelo en esta intrigante novela de la autora superventas número 1 del New York Times R. F. Kuang....

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

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....

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

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

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....

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....

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 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....

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

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

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 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....

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…

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....

This magnificent novel is about the murder of a miserly, aged pawnbroker and her younger sister by a radical, destitute St. Petersburg student named Raskolnikov....

One suicide. Every year. Nobody wants to go to a school nicknamed Suicide Med. Heather McKinley has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. She doesn’t even care about her medical school’s grisly history of suicides—it can’t happen to her....

Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time....

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....

The narrator and central character of The Adolescent is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naive 19-year-old boy full of ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to win his love.

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.

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.

Social psychologist Ben Monroe has returned to Tokyo after a failed marriage, determined to seek out his former lover Kozue. His estranged teenage daughter Mazzy reluctantly flies from California to join him. On the flight she meets a young Japanese man, Koji, a cult survivor, who tells her the story of the luminous night princess Kaguya, a powerful tale of beauty and obsession. As Ben delves deeper into the underworld in search of Kozue, Mazzy and Koji are compelled to follow, and their four lives dangerously intersect as past and present collide.

“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.

Wenn die Liebe deines Lebens zur tödlichen Gefahr wird. Als Andreas nach fünfzehn Jahren glücklicher Ehe spurlos verschwindet, erkennt Nicole, dass sie ihren Mann gar nicht richtig kannte. Bei der Suche nach Andreas entdeckt sie Geheimnisse, die besser im Verborgenen geblieben wären. Dabei stolpert sie in Abgründe, die sie sich in ihren schlimmsten Albträumen nicht hätte vorstellen können. Bis eines Tages die Polizei vor ihrer Tür steht und sie um eine DNA-Probe bittet.

Luke, Connor, Thea, and Violet spend their first holiday together alone in their father's house in France. The boys don't really know him—he left their mother when she was still pregnant with Connor, getting together with the girls' mother soon afterwards—and they don't really know their half-sisters, either.

Detective Erin Crane is assigned to the investigation into sixteen-year-old Sophie Madson's murder along with her partner, detective Tom Radley. Over the years they've formed a close professional bond built on mutual trust and a shared contempt for the unscrupulous head of the anti-corruption team, Walker. This case will prove a bigger test of their relationship than either of them could ever have imagined.

Lou Manson is an outsider when she joins the final-year class at Highfield Manor, Dublin’s most exclusive private school. Beyond the granite pillars and the wrought-iron gates is a world of wealth, privilege and potential. But Highfield is also hiding a dark secret – and Lou is here to expose it. When Lou befriends the beautiful and talented Shauna Power, her plans are thrown into turmoil. Speaking out against the school would mean betraying Shauna, and Lou soon discovers that the Highfield elite will go to any lengths to protect their own reputation…even when the consequences are fatal.

When Georgia rents her country home for the month of August, it’s off to the relaxing Connecticut shore for her; her husband, Tom; and their young daughter. It’s just what they need to ease family tensions and reconnect. All that’s left to do is leave behind their house keys—to a stranger. For Anna, Georgia and Tom’s house in the cool woodlands is a dream break from the oppressive heat of a New York City summer—and from an increasingly ill-fated relationship with her lover. A month apart and Anna can clear her head and reassess her future. She’s found the perfect place to do it.