Psychological thriller Books

One night in the woods A party gone wrong A body discovered at sunrise He murdered her at the folly on their wedding day, left her body for the crows. They say she haunts the woods now, a girl in a white dress …   Everyone in the small town of...

A Publishers Weekly BestsellerNamed one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2023When a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida, the lives of two women—a lonely writer obsessed with the unsolved murder of her mother’s best...

Named one of 2022’s best and most-anticipated thrillers by Goodreads, CrimeReads, Motherly, Westport Magazine, and more!A “propulsive thriller about secret organizations, hidden agendas, and the lengths one woman will go to reclaim her life” (Laura Dave,...

THE ISLES OF SCILLY MYSTERIES #5'An absolute master of pace, plotting and character' ELLY GRIFFITHSA MISSING CHILD St Martin’s is shrouded in bitterly cold fog when Jade Minear and her twin brother, Ethan, are attacked in a field, late at night...

‘Crazy, sexy, cool: Caroline Kepnes gets better – and Joe Goldberg gets worse – with every book’ ERIN KELLY'Caroline Kepnes writes with such malevolent energy, such dark grace and such ink-black humour. An utterly unique character and an utterly unique...

'Taut, clever, compelling and guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat…' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the TrainYou think you know her… But look a little closer   She is a stay-at-home mother of three with boundless reserves of...

Some secrets you try to hide. Others you don’t dare let out …   Twin Peaks meets The Dry in a deliciously dark and twisted tale that unravels a small Australian country town   Ambitious young journalist Marlowe ‘Lo’ Robertson would do...

The author of the bestselling novel The Party returns with a chilling domestic drama about two women whose deep friendship is threatened by dark, long-buried secrets.How well do you really know your friends?Frances Metcalfe is struggling...

THE ISLES OF SCILLY MYSTERIES # 1‘Gripping, clever and impossible to put down' ERIN KELLYDI Ben Kitto needs a second chance. After ten years working for the murder squad in London, a traumatic event has left him grief-stricken. He’s tried to resign...

'My feet are itching to walk to the shore, to leave the kids again, to sit with the birds and pretend none of this has happened.'In an isolated town on the North Norfolk coast, Fran's life is unravelling.As she fills her days...

IT'S WHAT YOU CAN'T SEE THAT MATTERS. . . Six strangers from across the globe all afflicted with Prosopagnosia - a disease that renders the sufferer unable to recognize faces-find themselves drawn to a secluded Vermont clinic specializing in their...

An ambitious reporter seeks a window into an obsessed killer's mind-and is forced to take a hard look in the mirror, in this dark psychological thriller.It starts when a Cornwall fisherman finds a body in the ocean. The blood of the victim has washed...

Your husband had an affair. What do you do when the woman who destroyed your marriage asks for your help? A new thriller from the "hugely engrossing" author (Catherine Ryan Howard, Edgar Award finalist).Lauren Wade hates Jem Carter, and Jem hates her...

How do you hunt a monster when you can't remember his face? The author of Her Dark Past returns with a new novel of trauma, terror and missing memories...Lisa walks in the woods on a regular basis. But this time when she emerges, she is badly injured...

From Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, Ross Jeffery, comes a new horror novel focused on a father's journey to find his missing daughter.Henry's daughter was fourteen when she went missing and he's been burying pieces of her ever since. Each totem...

Simon Kemper is on the up and up he' s out of rehab, and his band is gaining moderate success around Berlin. But out of the corner of his eye and over his shoulder, he' s always aware of her. The stalker. She' s at every show, no matter what city. She...

Magic stops. Men vanish. Worlds end. Life goes on.The stories in The Last Vanishing Man start with the end of the world, as a narrator seeks to imagine how the actions of an American terrorist ripple through his family. American violence and masculinity...

Maddie Wells' life spirals out of control after the murder of her wife Char, a transgender woman of color. Hunger for revenge drives Maddie to take a job at a wax museum near the murderer's hometown, where she studies revenge and plots how to strike back...

A secret binds them together, the truth will unravel them.Jenny Ocean's life is already on shaky ground when a violent attack sparks a chain of events that leaves her with a terrible secret that she can share with no one, and which clouds her every...

"With her debut novel,Till We Become Monsters, Amanda Headlee raises the genre to a chilling new level. I recommend reading this one with all the lights on."-Phil Giunta, author ofLike Mother, Like DaughtersMonsters existand Korin Perrin knew this as...

Finalist for the Foreword INDIES Best Horror Novel of 2016 Like millions of children, Samuel Bradbury comes from a broken home. Yet he still enjoys the everyday activities of being a kid: playing basketball, shooting his air rifle, and hanging out...

Susan Lentigo's daughter was murdered twenty years ago - now, at long last, she will witness the killer's execution.But on her journey she discovers shocking new evidence that suggests the condemned man is innocent - and the real killer is still out...

A Suspense Magazine Best of 2020 for Thriller/SuspenseThe Best Thriller Books 2021 Action Thriller of the YearFeathered Quill Book Awards 2021 FinalistNPR Featured Author on Bob Kustra's Reader's Corner "Sensational-new, fresh, suspenseful, and lead...

In this newest Awol hiking thriller, Karl Bergman, whose trail name is Awol, begins to thru-hike the 3,100-mile-long Continental Divide Trail at the Mexican border. By the time Awol and his dog, Blazer, reach the Colorado Rockies, he has uncovered...

"With refreshing insight, Margolis conveys the intensity and the crass materialism that are the hallmarks of a certain breed of young professionals." -PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY"A good yarn populated with well-drawn characters. A credible portrait of the Fire...

When retail tycoon George Samson appears in detective Joe DiGregorio's office asking for help in faking his own death, the wary private eye knows enough to refuse. Joe D. has been having second thoughts about his move from the Long Island police force,...

"Sizzling...Original...Hypnotic...A page-turner." -ORLANDO SENTINEL"Thoroughly chilling and engrossing...a breathtaking psychological thriller." -LIBRARY JOURNALBack at college in the '70s, they called themselves "The Madison Seven"-a close circle of...

In his atmospheric, complex and suspenseful psychological thriller, Seth Margolis delivers the story of a woman fleeing an abusive relationship, only to find herself with a man whose dangerous past is obscured by his seductive charm-and who may be...

A Kildevil Cove Murder Mystery They say trouble comes in threes. Detective Danny Quirke is already mourning his wife and mired in an internal investigation that will likely spell the end of his career. Now he must return to the Newfoundland fishing...

A Kildevil Cove Murder MysteryYou never know what trouble will rise from the bog.When the body of an unidentified woman is found in a Newfoundland bog, Inspector Danny Quirke must scramble his team of investigators to find her killer. But what initially...

2022 PEN Translation Award FINALISTIn this masterful novel, author Juli Zeh skillfully shifts away from the conventional tale of a middle-aged, middle-class father out for a New Year's Day bike ride to an unexpectedly dark, psychological family drama...

A butcher kept awake by the irritating hum of a wind turbine, a veterinarian obsessed by flickering shadows, a village driven into ruin.Seasons come and go in provincial Blaashoek, where the town's superficial harmony is upended by the arrival of a wind...

-The Trail, by Ray Anderson is the first thriller set entirely on the Appalachian Trail. At least three million people hike at least a portion of the trail each year, and the author is increasingly tapped into that hiker market by blogging, guest...

"An unsettling experience. [C]onfounding, touching and well-written." -THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWAustin Fletcher, a disturbed young Vietnam War vet, is willed a small house deep in the woods of northern Maine. He comes to own it by the generosity of...

A searing erotic thriller perfect for those tantalized by A.R. Torre's Deanna Madden series...Anything you can imagine. Everything you crave. For the members of The Raven Room, it's every fantasy fulfilled. But for some, that desire is a matter of life...

Both a haunting coming-of-age story set in North Texas against the backdrop of a deadly tornado, and a character-driven, deeply-affecting supernatural thriller.In 1979, a massive tornado devastates the city of Wichita Falls, Texas, leaving scores dead,...

God's Kettledrum is an adventure into the world of avant-garde theater performance, and the lives of its players. The narrator is the director of the theater group. Two of the main characters are identical red head twin sisters Ada and Blain. Ada is a...

ONE OFBOOK RIOT'S "20 MUST-READ HORROR BOOKS YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF"Simon and Marie can't seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where things will certainly be better. But the town is gloomy, even hostile -- things haven't...

"Destined to have readers squirming in their seats. Terrifying from beginning to end." -Willow Rose, international bestselling author of the Emma Frost series, onThe ClinicAbi Ansel is not the most confident woman in the world; in fact, she might be the...

An original novel in which the 15th and 20th centuries meet with uncanny results, due to the invocation of Pan. This work is of special interest to students of magic and the Western Mystery Tradition.

compelling and surreal, Orwellian mystery by one of Japan's greatest writers. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers. 'Beautiful.....