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…

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....

Casey's cabin in the wilderness is not built for a hurricane. Her roof shakes, the lights flicker, and the tree outside her front door sways ominously in the wind. But she's a lot more worried about the girl she discovers lurking outside her kitchen window.

The Lowells’ maid isn’t the only strange thing on our street. I’m sure I see a shadowy figure watching us. My husband leaves the house late at night. And when I meet a woman who lives across the way, her words chill me to the bone: Be careful of your neighbors....

While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door.

Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She's seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can't shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot.

Blake Porter is riding high, until he's not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone he shares with his fiancée, he's desperate to make ends meet. Enter Whitney....

Abby wants a baby more than anything. But after years of failed infertility treatments and adoptions that have fallen through, it seems like motherhood is not in her future. That is, until her personal assistant Monica makes a generous offer that will make all of Abby's dreams come true.

Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate....

Em has lived a quiet life with her complicated mother and is now looking for love and a potential escape from her small hometown. When a masked man kidnaps her in the dark of night, though, she is drawn into a terrifying world.

Michelina Bellsong is on a mission. She is following a missing family to the edge of America . . . to a place she never knew existed—a place of terror, wonder, and shattering revelation.

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.

Soon I'll be married to the man of my dreams. This should be the happiest day of my life. But someone out there doesn't want me to live long enough to say my vows.

Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are both high school seniors. When they disappear from a beach party one warm summer night, police launch a massive search....

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

Brought to you by Penguin. *Now a major TV series starring Sarah Snook* ONE MISSING BOY. Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognises. She...

Ten years after a teenage girl's disappearance, a bizarre confession breaks open the cold case in dangerous ways…and threatens to tear apart her small Wisconsin town all over again in the masterfully twisty new psychological suspense novel.

Saffy is waiting to go into an important meeting when she receives a missed call and then a text message from her best friend, Leona: Please help...come now. Of course, she races to her friend’s house. But when she arrives, she notices something strange....

Meet Noah - an A-honor-roll student, award-winning swimmer, and small-town star destined for greatness. There weren't any signs that something was wrong until the day he confesses to molesting little girls during swim-team practice....

‘Hi,’ she says, ‘I’m your new neighbour.’ Her smile is bright but her shoulders are tense as she stands on the leafy green Edinburgh street. She seems friendly. But soon I’ll discover her dangerous secret…

Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until the evening when two detectives show up at her front door. A high school girl has vanished from Erika's quiet suburban neighborhood. The police suspect the worst. And Erika's teenage son was the last person to see the girl alive....

Quinn Alexander has committed an unthinkable crime. To avoid spending her life in prison, Quinn makes a run for it. She leaves behind her home, her job, and her family. She grabs her passport and heads for the northern border before the police can discover what she's done.

The day after her ninth birthday, Lucie and Blake Sullivan agree, for the very first time, to let their daughter, Grace, make the four-minute walk back home alone from a friend’s house down the street. But she does not appear....

When Heather McKinley dreamed of becoming a doctor, she imagined curing sick kids and sporting pink stethoscopes. She never anticipated the sleepless nights, grueling exams, and endless labs. And she certainly never knew that her medical school earned the nickname Dead Med.

In this thrilling novel from bestselling author John Marrs, a young couple’s house hides terrible secrets—and not all of them are confined to the past....

My husband Matt and I are an ordinary married couple in every way but one. At the end of each day, we return to our own homes and our own spaces. But beyond the fairy lights I string at my window, darkness is pressing in. Two local women have gone missing, and I don't want to be alone. Sipping our coffees, looking out of my kitchen window, I soon notice how observant Brenda is. When she tells me that perhaps my husband isn't simply working late, something cold takes root.

Michelina Bellsong is on a mission. She is following a missing family to the edge of America . . . to a place she never knew existed—a place of terror, wonder, and shattering revelation. What awaits her there will change her life and the life of everyone she knows—if she can find the key to survival. At stake are a young girl of extraordinary goodness, a young boy with killers on his trail, and Micky’s own wounded soul. Ahead lie incredible peril, startling discoveries, and paths that lead through terrible darkness to unexpected light.

My husband has a son I never knew about. Now he’s in our home. And I don’t know if I’m safe. He's eighteen, claims to be my husband's son, and needs a place to stay. He’s family, and I have no choice but to let him in. The next day, a local girl is found dead in our community pool. And guess who’s the prime suspect?

In one of the most dazzling books of his celebrated career, Dean Koontz delivers a masterwork of page-turning suspense that surpasses even his own inimitable reputation as a chronicler of our worst fears—and best dreams. In The Taking he tells the story of a community cut off from a world under siege, and the terrifying battle for survival waged by a young couple and their neighbors as familiar streets become fog-shrouded death traps.

Twin sisters Ellie and Tia were torn apart the day their parents died. Ellie was given the picture-perfect life—marriage, a home, security. Tia was cast aside, growing up in the shadows, unwanted, unloved, and never quite belonging. Now, after years apart, fate brings them together again. Ellie is desperate to believe this is a chance to rebuild their bond. To finally have the sister she always longed for. But Tia hasn’t come back to play happy families. She knows the secret Ellie is hiding— a secret that could shatter her perfect marriage and destroy everything she’s built.

Michael Brady is back. The Edge of Truth is the fifth book in the series. And there’s a ghost from Brady’s past....

Vorrei poterla stringere forte. Sentire se indossa ancora lo stesso profumo di sempre. Ma mia figlia mi incolpa per la morte di suo padre. Non vuole nemmeno parlarmi… So solo che non è davvero al sicuro con il suo fidanzato, Garth. Starò a distanza e la osserverò. Per ora. Ma tremo di paura quando la polizia bussa alla sua porta. Garth è scomparso. E mia figlia è accusata del suo omicidio. Non ci sono prove che io abbia mai fatto del male a qualcuno… o sì? La polizia sa del mio passato – e di cosa ho fatto veramente? Solo una cosa è certa. La mia bellissima bambina è in grave pericolo.

Tutti vogliono vivere in Hogarth Street con il suo bel viale alberato e le case bianche. La famiglia West è la quintessenza della perfezione: Katherine e Josh sembrano la coppia perfetta, i loro splendidi gemelli riempiono di allegria il verde prato di casa. Ma qualcosa non quadra. Perché non invitano nessuno ad entrare, rifiutano le offerte di babysitting e i bambini non si sono ancora visti? La curiosità degli abitanti di Hogarth Street aumenta e, nel giorno più torrido dell'anno, una tragedia scuote le loro vite tranquille.

Dopo aver subito una terribile perdita, la psichiatra newyorkese Meredith McCall sente che la sua vita sta andando pericolosamente alla deriva. Finché non incontra Gabriel Wright. Basta poco a far nascere in lei una malsana ossessione. Ma quando Gabriel entra nel suo studio come paziente, apparentemente ignaro della sua identità, Meredith sa che non è possibile curarlo senza oltrepassare tutti i limiti etici e morali. Tuttavia non riesce a respingerlo, e si lascia coinvolgere sempre di più.

Natalie’s best friend leaves the dance club with a handsome stranger and is found unconscious at a bus stop the next morning. What happened that night? Only Natalie’s friend knows—except she’s in the hospital, in a coma… When Natalie sees a handsome man on the cover of a financial magazine, she recognizes the “Man of the Year”—the stranger her friend left the club with. He is a millionaire. He is famous. He is untouchable. And—Natalie suspects—dangerous. Desperate for answers, she takes a job as a housekeeper at his mansion.

Une jeune femme, Laura Turrel, se présente un matin au commissariat de Versailles pour s'accuser du meurtre de Bruno Delaunay, un homme qui aurait tenté de la violer. Deguire et Pigeon comprennent que l'affaire est beaucoup plus complexe qu'elle n'en avait l'air au départ.

As private investigators go, Callie Munro is tougher than most. She’s had to be. Abandoned as a baby and raised by a succession of strangers, she knows a thing or two about surviving… …but she never expected to find herself hunting a serial killer. After uncovering a string of missing women—women no one seems to care about—Callie refuses to look away. With police ignoring the evidence, her only ally is an organised crime boss with his own agenda.

Cuando Sofía decide mudarse con su hijo a un nuevo domicilio tras su separación, no puede creerse su buena suerte: acaba de encontrar un precioso piso restaurado en pleno centro de la ciudad, decorado con exquisito gusto y muy asequible. Sin embargo, poco a poco sus rutinas en su nuevo hogar parecen enturbiarse: pronto su hijo se independiza y ella se queda sola con la única compañía, omnipresente, de Germán, su único vecino, que vive en el piso de arriba del antiguo edificio.

Hay mensajes que llegan demasiado tarde. O eso creemos. Bruno acaba de perder a Sara, su compañera de vida. El mundo ha dejado de tener sentido, las rutinas se convierten en escombros, y el silencio pesa como una losa en cada rincón de la casa. Mientras sus amigos intentan animarlo con consejos que no ha pedido ¿haz deporte, distrae la mente, pasa página?, Bruno solo quiere una cosa: sobrevivir al vacío. Pero entonces ocurre lo inexplicable. Un mensaje de WhatsApp de Sara. ¿Un error? ¿Una broma macabra? ¿O algo más? Mientras la lógica se desmorona, Bruno inicia un viaje inesperado.

Tre persone. Un matrimonio. Un omicidio. Qualcuno è un bugiardo. Qualcuno è in pericolo. Qualcuno è un assassino. Potresti pensare di sapere cosa sta succedendo nel mio matrimonio, ma ti sbaglieresti.

Four close friends, each with very different professional careers, enjoy their collective time together, reconnecting after Martin's recovery from a recent illness. Within 48 hours, two are dead, one is unconscious in the hospital, and the fourth is charged with double murder and attempted murder.

À Genève, Alexandre Hoffmann est devenu millionnaire grâce à « l'indice de la peur », un algorithme qu'il a créé et qui détecte sur internet l'inquiétude autour de certains sujets. Ce qui lui permet d'exploiter avec brio les marchés financiers et de placer des fonds d'une manière aussi automatisée que fructueuse. Mais ce 6 mai 2010, tout tourne au vinaigre. Et alors que son algorithme est sur le point de créer un krach boursier, Alex est pris au piège. Pourra-t-il se libérer de sa création omnipotente ?

Sara y Mateo deben catalogar la herencia de un matrimonio fallecido en accidente de tráfico tres años antes. Al entrar en su casa harán un insólito descubrimiento: el cadáver momificado de un hombre que parece haber muerto sin más, sentado allí, esperando quién sabe qué. Antes de notificar el hallazgo deciden investigar la casa y sus secretos; la vida de sus acomodados propietarios, la identidad del cadáver y, sobre todo, hasta qué punto puede tener relación con este el heredero de la fortuna y las obras de arte que contiene la casa.

'You walk and the harvest moon casts the clearest of shadows. You are nervous. With a moon like that, it is not a night for escaping. It is a night made better for hunting runaway girls.' Himalayas: Unknown Year 'Ten thousand strands of trouble', says Bird's father, watching as Bird's sister braids her hair. On the eve of her 14th year, that trouble finds Bird. Fleeing her home to escape an arranged marriage, she attempts to vanish into a crowd of pilgrims – not knowing that violence is circling, and that it already has its eyes on her.

UNA PICCOLA CITTÀ NASCONDE UN GRANDE SEGRETO. CHI HA UCCISO EMILY VAUGHN? "Adoro i personaggi di Karin Slaughter. Ti prendono per mano e ti conducono attraverso l'oscurità del Male." Sandrone Dazieri Una ragazza con un segreto… Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn si prepara per il ballo di fine anno. Per una ragazza come lei, intelligente, brillante e popolare, quell'evento dovrebbe essere la degna conclusione e il coronamento della sua carriera scolastica. Ma Emily ha un segreto. E per questo entro la fine della serata verrà messa a tacere per sempre. Un omicidio mai risolto...

Ten years ago, Adrian Ellis vowed to hunt me down and claim me like a prize, but I haven't heard a word since. Now I'm thriving in New York City—with a blossoming art career, a fearless roommate-turned-best-friend intent on pushing me out of my comfort zone, and a true golden boy who has no idea how deep my darkness runs. But just as I'm ready to move on, Adrian reappears in my city and my life. He swears he isn't here for me, but as the seams of my carefully stitched world begin to fray, all signs point back to him, and I suspect he's been pulling the strings longer than I've known.

FBI agent Blake Wilder has spent her life fighting the many monsters of this world. Now she and her team are called to investigate a bizarre case. One that has already claimed five victims. Each linked by a unique signature. While trying to catch the monster behind the twisted murders, Blake and her team must also grapple with Sonny’s case. Who would attack him? And why?

Ava Green ha un lavoro di successo, due splendidi bambini e un marito che fa arrossire le altre donne. Ma ora che sto lavorando nella sua casa impeccabile, so che non tutto è così perfetto… Sento le discussioni sussurrate a tarda notte. Finn riceve telefonate a orari strani – e quando parlo con i bambini, è chiaro che il loro papà sta mantenendo dei segreti. Ora che so cosa si nasconde in questa casa, sono solo felice che Ava non abbia controllato troppo accuratamente le mie referenze. Perché Ava pensa di aver scelto me. Ma sono stata io a scegliere lei.

Every Halloween, the building unlocks the door, and this time, it was my turn for an invite. I would have turned it down, but I wasn't given a choice. And when the doors opened, I met a man waiting in the dark. Pastor Cole. A killer who preached salvation and killed you with a smile. I’ve heard a lot of confessions from the dying, but his was different. He didn’t want forgiveness. He wanted witnesses. He said the thirteenth floor was his church—that the voices behind the walls were his congregation. He said the Matron still keeps his sermons running.

Madeline Geiger is a cybersecurity expert used to keeping threats at bay. But when a ransomware attack crashes her system, she discovers it's not just her files under siege—her life and mind are too. Meanwhile, a promising online date with Vincent, a neurobiologist, turns strange. His work? Manipulating rodent behavior with lights and code. His interest in Madeline? Something beyond sex, love, and even marriage.