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…

Debbie Mullen is losing it. For years, she has compiled all of her best advice into her column, Dear Debbie, where the wives of New England come for sympathy and neighborly advice.

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....

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....

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.

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.

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....

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....

Tess Strebel can’t recognize her own face. She can’t recognize her home. Her bedroom is unfamiliar. And she can’t remember the handsome stranger lying next to her in bed. A stranger who claims he’s her husband....

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.

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.

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.

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.

I've been waiting years for this moment. When Vivienne Campbell needs a housesitter, I make sure I'm the perfect candidate. Warm, friendly, highly recommended. Everything she's looking for.

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....

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....

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

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....

Crimebusting duo DI Jackman and DS Evans are back, solving another crime that will make your skin crawl....

Victoria Barnett has it all: a great career as a nurse practitioner, a handsome and loving husband, a beautiful home in the suburbs, and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect—or so it seems.

In this twisty thriller from New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, a frustrated author looks for her muse in a remote hideaway, but what she finds defies all expectations…and reality.

The husband of a prominent and infamously ruthless barrister is found in horrific condition after a robbery and brutal assault. Now in a coma, a major investigation is launched using the newly formed, experimental Metropolitan Police Serious Crime Analysis Unit.

On the night when Caitlin and Olivia's parents leave them to go to a dinner party both girls are full of excitement about being old enough to stay home alone. What they don't see is the figure watching them through the open window....

A stranger has infiltrated your family…and now he’s taking over....

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.

After suffering a brutal and random attack, Daniel Henderson is left fighting for his life. As he embarks on the long road to recovery, he begins experiencing disturbing visions. Fleeting and half-glanced, they are visions of women being murdered, women who are victims of the Tallyman, the notorious serial killer whose reign of terror began forty years ago. As Daniel’s family start to put back together the pieces of their life, Daniel dismisses his visions as traumatic hallucinations. But as they become more vivid, he finds himself haunted by details that only the killer could know.

A brutal triple murder. An abandoned psychiatric hospital. And a dark family secret. Fatal Return is the bloody opening to the Fatal psychological thriller series by Alex Hansen - an Audible Original. When her father suffers a heart attack, forensic psychologist Gillian moves back from New York to Rochester - much to the annoyance of her pubescent daughter Christina. The moving boxes are not even unpacked when the expert is already called to a crime scene: Sergeant Ryan Moore needs her support to solve a brutal triple murder in the woods of Devil's Bathtub.

‘My baby’s been taken,’ I sob into the phone. Blood is everywhere. My fiancé, Alex, is slumped beside the birthing pool, his head gashed open. The baby? Gone. I cradle my empty stomach, my empty arms. And then Alex looks at me — not with love, but with blame. This wasn’t how it was supposed to go. The move. The fresh start. The antenatal classes. The new friends. But nothing about this feels right. And as the sirens wail closer, I realize something terrible — someone planned this. Someone in our new life wanted our baby.

My name’s Kimberley. I’m twenty-five. I have epilepsy, a seizure alert dog named Muffin, and a job I love as a senior housekeeper in one of London’s top hotels. I’m used to being invisible. Overlooked. Safe. But that was before Jennifer Clifton checked in. She’s rich, powerful, terrifyingly calm — and she asks for me by name. She offers me my dream job, working in her exclusive hotel in the Scottish Highlands. It’s more money than I ever imagined.

An absolutely gripping new thriller from the No.1 bestselling Queen of Gangland Crime! Don’t get mad, get even… 1999, Essex. Sharon, Jolene, and Evie have one thing in common – they’ve all been burned by one of the Bonds. Sharon’s seeking retribution after her husband’s affair...

Every day I walk up the driveway to this gorgeous house and through the window I see the picture-perfect family: a husband and wife playing with their two adorable children. They think I’m just the delivery driver–a woman who is only here to drop the expensive packages that Sadie Hunt orders. They have no idea who I really am… Sadie pretends to be the perfect wife and mother, but the truth is that her life is spiralling out of control. I notice the cold stares she gives her husband and the way he always tries to make her smile.

For Beth and Vince, on the brink of a break-up, their island getaway was a last-ditch attempt to save their crumbling marriage. Instead, it’s left them with a haunting memory: the discovery of a young woman’s body on the beach, and Vince’s arrest by suspicious local police. Now back in London after an alibi freed him, they’re desperate to move on—until a familiar face from that terrible night reappears on their street. One they hoped never to see again.

Simon Noone is a serial killer…but he doesn’t know it. Pulled from a river in Guatemala in 1982 with nothing—not even his memories—he returns to America five years later, looking for answers. He finds work at an NYC meatpacking plant and meets rebel ex-cop turned private investigator Nomi Pace. But she has problems all her own. Nomi agrees to help Simon, if he lends his mysterious talents to solving a child kidnapping case. The two team up and make headway on both investigations, growing closer with every step.

From the critically acclaimed author of No Exit and The Last Word comes a story of two friends who embark on an ill-fated caving expedition—and the dark truth of what happens deep underground. After years of excuses, Tess has finally agreed to go caving with her best friend Allie. Their lives...

Elizabeths neunjährige Tochter Hollie geht zu einer Halloween-Party in ihrer Schule – und verschwindet spurlos. Elizabeths verzweifelte Suche ist erfolglos, und sie ahnt: Hollie wurde entführt. Von jemandem, der Elizabeths dunkles Geheimnis kennt. Ihr Albtraum wird wahr, als sie ein Foto geschickt bekommt, auf dem Hollie gefesselt und geknebelt ist. Der Entführer fordert sie auf, sich öffentlich zu ihrer Schuld zu bekennen, sonst wird ihre Tochter leiden. Doch Elizabeth darf sich nicht der Polizei stellen.

Casey Fletcher è un’attrice da poco rimasta vedova. Nel tentativo di sfuggire ai gossip su di lei, si è ritirata nella pace della tranquilla casa di famiglia su un lago nel Vermont. Armata di binocolo e diverse bottiglie di bourbon, passa il tempo osservando Tom e Katherine Royce, l’affascinante coppia che vive nella casa oltre il lago. Insieme sono uno spettacolo: Tom è un innovatore tecnologico di successo, mentre Katherine, un’ex modella, è una donna bellissima. Un giorno, Casey salva Katherine dall’annegamento e così le due stringono un’amicizia.

Ten years after her daughter, Melanie, was murdered, Bree Winter is finally moving on with a new love, a new home, and a new beginning. Then a deathbed confession from the convicted killer throws Bree’s life into a tailspin all over again. He readily confesses to murdering four girls. But not Melanie. At first, Bree and her ex-husband don’t buy a word of it. Until inconsistencies about the crime emerge.

From the international bestselling author of The Drowning Woman, a psychological thriller about a couple rocked by infidelity who moves to a villa in Spain’s Costa Brava to rebuild their relationship, only to welcome a pair of visitors who have no intention of leaving. Sydney Lowe’s life in...

Je suis Daphne Wood, la libraire de Castle Combe. Ma vie était paisible jusqu'à ce que l'auteur à succès Jill Holland emménage dans le village. Il a acheté la maison voisine de la mienne, celle de feu Bettie, et est devenu mon nouveau voisin. Les filles du club de lecture envient ma chance. Au début, j'ai moi aussi pensé que j'avais de la chance, mais rapidement, j'ai commencé à voir des choses très troublantes. Elles ne connaissaient pas Jill Holland comme moi.

Alexandra, Lucy, Bridget, River e Natalie: cinque amici londinesi che preferirebbero non essersi mai incontrati. Perché l'unica cosa che hanno in comune è la cosa peggiore della loro vita: sono tutti perseguitati da uno stalker. Quando Natalie viene uccisa pochi giorni dopo l'uscita di prigione del suo ex fidanzato, il tempo si ferma per tutti. Sanno che le loro vite potrebbero finire in modo altrettanto brutale da un momento all'altro. Il giorno del funerale, attoniti, gli amici ricevono una corona funebre contenente una minaccia anonima: tra dieci giorni uno di loro morirà.

Chloe Tomson wants a quiet life. A new home, a new street, and no more drama - she's had more than her share. But the moment she steps in to help her elderly neighbour during a violent altercation, the peace she craves begins to crumble. The street seems friendly at first. Until the questions start. Who exactly is Chloe? Why did she move here? And what really happened in the house she lives in before she arrived? As some neighbours become friends and others become enemies, it isn't always certain which is which.

Mother, Mother is a psychological thriller with a twist that plays on the time old tale of “Are you my mother?”, perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Kiersten Modglin, and Lucinda Berry. Iris Blackwood always knew her mother didn’t love her. It’s why she left six years ago and never...

Blutüberströmt wird Laura Winters mitten in London auf der Straße gefunden. Schnell stellt sich heraus, dass das Blut nicht ihres ist – und dass Laura keinerlei Erinnerung daran hat, was passiert ist. Die Trauma-Expertin Emma Best wird mit dem mysteriösen Fall beauftragt. Laura erzählt freimütig von ihrem wunderbaren Freund, der in ihrer Darstellung allerdings zu gut erscheint, um wahr zu sein. Denn der Mann, den ihre Patientin als ihren Freund beschreibt, hat eine unheimliche Ähnlichkeit mit Emmas Ehemann.

Nina Swann trauert noch um ihren verstorbenen Mann, als plötzlich ein alter Freund aus dessen Vergangenheit auftaucht: Nick Radcliffe. Zur gleichen Zeit kämpft die junge Floristin Martha mit den ständigen Abwesenheiten ihres Mannes Al. Drei Frauen, verbunden durch ein Netz aus Lügen, Manipulation und tödlichen Geheimnissen. Je näher sie dem Mann kommen, der ihr Leben verführt und vergiftet, desto klarer wird: Die größte Gefahr steht schon längst mitten in ihrem Haus.

Stephanie cradles her coffee and gazes out to the little house at the end of her garden. The family who just moved in seem perfectly nice, if a little odd. And it’s only now that Stephanie realises: if she can see them, they can see everything inside her house, too… Single mother Stephanie is more than happy to welcome the Kemps to her property. Tragically, they have just lost everything in a fire. The rent money means Stephanie can keep her children in this beautiful, rambling home – so expensive to run, since the divorce – all while helping the Kemps get back on their feet.

As the last of my children leave home, I've persuaded my husband we should move house. Clearing out thirty-odd years of rubbish is overwhelming, but nothing prepares me for what I find in my attic. It's a hint at a hidden horror. Someone in my home has removed it. Which means someone I love thinks I know their secret. A secret so dark, I refuse to contemplate it. Until I am forced to. I need to find that box and take a better look. I need to protect myself because if I'm right… My life is in peril.

When Rose discovers her troubled past splashed across the pages of a bestselling book, she knows her carefully constructed life is about to unravel. The author, Emily Harper, claims the story is fiction, but Rose knows better. Desperate to find out how Emily discovered her deepest secrets, Rose ingratiates herself into the author's life, posing as an eager assistant and adoring fan.

Cat is young, and pretty, and shy. At work, she blushes almost every time I talk to her. She reminds me sometimes of how I used to be–before marriage, before children. Before I was afraid. So when she tells me, nervously, that she’s considering dating again, and asks if I have any friends who might suit her… I know exactly what I’m going to do. I’m going to set her up with my husband. I think I’m being so clever. No one would do what I’m doing, so neither of them will suspect a thing. Least of all him.

Debbie Mullen está furiosa. Há anos ela oferece seus melhores conselhos na coluna Querida Debbie, para a qual mulheres escrevem em busca de soluções para problemas do dia a dia. Em seu trabalho, Debbie ouve inúmeras esposas que são ignoradas, menosprezadas e até mesmo agredidas pelo marido. E sempre faz o possível para lhes apontar um caminho. Mas ultimamente sua própria vida está saindo do controle. As duas filhas adolescentes estão se comportando de forma estranha. Ela acabou de ser demitida.

Lucy und Savvy waren nicht nur beste Freundinnen, sondern auch die It-Girls ihrer texanischen Kleinstadt: hübsch, smart und von allen beneidet. Bis zu jener verhängnisvollen Nacht, in der Savvy brutal ermordet wird und man Lucy wenig später auf der Landstraße findet – von Kopf bis Fuß mit dem Blut ihrer besten Freundin beschmutzt und ohne jegliche Erinnerung an die vergangenen Stunden. Die Tat bleibt ungeklärt, und niemand weiß, was in jener Nacht tatsächlich geschehen ist.