Psychological

‘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…

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.

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....

Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside....

Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit....

At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends....

At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her....

For 18 years, Jude Farraday has put her children’s needs above her own, and it shows - her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright and happy teenagers....

Nina can never forgive Maggie for what she did. And she can never let her leave. They say every house has its secrets, and the house that Maggie and Nina have shared for so long is no different. Except that these secrets are not buried in the past....

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

Introducing Audible's Thriller of the Year: Silent Child by Sarah A. Denzil, performed by Joanne Froggatt....

Beth and Cath are leaving their husbands. This is a story about two very different women. One is wealthy and having an affair with a man who gives her the kind of love that her cold, detached husband does not....

"Your daughter is dead." When Kat Cavanaugh hears the words every mother dreads, her perfect world shatters. She takes in the beautiful long blonde hair, torn yellow dress, and chipped blue nail-varnish. It can’t be real....

College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person....

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.

Bestselling author of Regretting You, It Starts with Us, and It Ends with Us—whose writing is “emotionally wrenching and utterly original” (Sara Shepard, author of the Pretty Little Liars series)—delivers a novel about a troubled marriage and the one forgotten promise that might be able to save it.

While their son trembles on the edge of madness, Chris and Cathy await the climax to a horror that flowered in an attic long ago, a horror whose thorns are still wet with blood...

It was The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg) that confirmed Thomas Mann as a Nobel prizewinner for literature and rightly so, for it is undoubtedly one of the great novels of the 20th century....

Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a future together. But after the children leave home, they quietly drift apart....

My husband was not a monster. No matter what they say....

Hannah Parker is a woman who always gets what she wants. When her current husband discovers she has been lying to him – again - she knows it’s time to move on and find someone who can give her the life she desires… The life she knows she deserves.

Six teens murdered. A suspect behind bars. A desperate father. In a case this shadowy, the truth is easy to hide....

In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken....

A visionary young filmmaker hunted for sport across a vast Colorado ranch by the celebrated billionaire at the heart of a monstrous cabal....

Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s....

‘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.... On the first day I meet my new neighbour, we share a glass of wine and talk into the night. We swap numbers and I vow to get to know her better. But as I get closer to her, I discover something about her past that changes everything. She isn’t who I thought she was.

In a dorm room at her safety school, surrounded by corn-fed boys and contemptuous girls, Alice is losing her mind. Her first semester is spent clinging to middling grades between drunken hookups and roommate fights. The next brings sleepless nights, extreme weight loss, and effortless, compulsive energy, paused only by an unexpected summoning from the RA for evaluation.

Seit dem furchtbaren Anschlag, der das Schicksal so vieler Menschen in Oak Harbor verändert hat, läuft Rachels Leben auf Stand-by. Während andere Pläne für ihre Zukunft schmieden, kümmert Rachel sich um ihre schizophrene Mutter und verschiebt ihr eigenes Glück auf ein unbestimmtes Später. Erst der attraktive, warmherzige Coast-Guard-Offizier Mike bringt etwas in ihr zum Erwachen, das sie längst vergessen glaubte – das Verlangen, mehr zu sein als das Mädchen, das immer nur funktioniert.

Take a look at your bookshelves, or in your attics. How long has it been since you read/listened to something that stirred your imagination. That increased the fertility of your brain cells. Memories from your childhood. A flash of colors. A fragrance from yesterday. Unbroken happiness or maybe boundless unpleasantness. Limitless vexation, best left buried under layers of untruths, too perilous to disturb. To untangle the trudges of disillusionment. Brush off the dust, the copious layers of dirt. Listen to the echoes that are left hanging by one tired, worn-out capillary, about to expire.

When an eminent surgeon is arrested for murder, he knows he didn't do it. He knows what it's like to feel a person die on his operating table, but he didn't inflict the wounds that ended the life of the girl they say he killed. So, when the real perpetrator comes forward, and he is released, he feels vindicated. What nobody knows – not the officer who arrested him, nor the influencer who petitioned for his freedom, nor the girl who escaped a killer years before – is that while he was incarcerated, he was making a plan.

Normalerweise ist das Café Marble montags geschlossen. An jedem ersten Montag im Monat findet hier jedoch eine Teeverkostung der besonderen Art statt. Alle Gäste des Cafés sind an einem Punkt in ihrem Leben, an dem sie Halt und Trost brauchen. Und so wird das Café zu einem Ort unerwarteter Begegnungen – und zu einem Ausgangspunkt für Neubeginn und zweite Chancen.

“Mom, meet my fiancé.” I look at the man standing next to my daughter and my heart starts pounding. I know him. He is the only person who knows all my secrets. I play nervously with the white tablecloth in the restaurant my daughter Lise picked out. I want to make a good first impression on her fiancé. I watch as the door opens and a man in a crisp white shirt enters holding my daughter’s hand. The moment I see his face my blood runs cold. Why has he found me?

Leah was raised in a home ruled by silence, fear, and expectations. As a child, she learned to stay small, quiet, and obedient—never questioning, never resisting. But when she became a mother, she knew something had to change. In Voices: Respectful but Unafraid, Leah reflects on her journey of raising three children—Mateo, Lila, and Maya—with intention, love, and a commitment to break the generational cycles she grew up in. Through moments of tenderness, conflict, vulnerability, and growth, Leah learns how to give her children what she never had: the freedom to speak, to feel, and to become.

Wie kann man die eigene Familie schützen und sich gleichzeitig vor ihr bewahren? In Blinde Geister erzählt Lina Schwenk eine berührende Familiengeschichte von den 1950er-Jahren bis in die Gegenwart. Olivia, die Tochter von Rita und Karl, kennt seit jeher die Angst der Erwachsenen vor einem erneuten Krieg, obwohl seit Jahren Frieden herrscht in Deutschland. Beharrlich überprüft Karl die Speisekammer auf Vorräte, und immer wieder sucht die Familie gemeinsam Zuflucht im Keller, wenn der Vater den Einfall der Russen fürchtet.

They were once rising stars. A decade later, three swimmers again face the challenge of qualifying for the Games in the midst of a brutal economic recession and geopolitical turmoil. As Olympic Trials approach, the dream remains the same—but the stakes have changed.

Молодая талантливая программистка Хан Совон в детстве пережила трагедию, в которой продолжает себя винить. У нее проблемы с общением: она мечтает найти хотя бы одного друга. Для того чтобы с кем-нибудь подружиться, она разрабатывает приложение, исполняющее любые самые тайные и заветные желания. Так Совон пытается поддержать тех, кто считает свои мечты мелкими и незначительными, тех, кто стремится добиться отмщения или справедливости, тех, кто одинок или несчастен. Нужно только прийти на интервью в ее офис, и она настроит приложение индивидуально под каждого клиента.

The Storm is a chilling tale of survival and horror as an ancient, otherworldly infection begins to spread across the Appalachian wilderness, turning its victims into ravenous creatures driven by a dark, insatiable hunger. Daniel Graves, a man seeking solitude, stumbles upon a decaying cabin where a horrifying encounter triggers a terrifying transformation within him.

Johnson Vasquez has not been the same since the day he left the Cincinnati Police Department. Already damaged by the death of his brother, he found himself hanging by a thread seven years later because of a lapse in justice.

„Was haben mein Instagram-Account und eine Frau in den Wechseljahren gemeinsam? Richtig, sie sind beide unsichtbar.“ Bei Lisa Schonbald, 52 Jahre alt, befinden sich Stimmung, Östrogenspiegel und Gebärmutter gleichermaßen im Sinkflug. Außerdem hat sie den Verdacht, dass sich die Pharma- und Werbeindustrie nur deshalb dem Thema Menopause erbarmt, um den Männern das Leben zu erleichtern. Denn die typische Problemzone einer Frau ist ihr Körper. Und die typische Problemzone eines Mannes ist seine Frau.

Marleen kämpft mit den Schatten ihrer Vergangenheit, die sie tief vergraben hat. Als sie an ihrer neuen Schule als Aushilfslehrkraft beginnt, begegnet sie Kiara – einem Mädchen, das ihr nicht mehr aus dem Kopf geht. Kilian, Kiaras Vater, erkennt die Zeichen seiner Tochter und fühlt sich hilflos. Während sich die Situation um Kiara zuspitzt, stehen Marleen und Kilian vor der Herausforderung, nicht nur das Mädchen zu retten, sondern auch ihre eigenen Wunden zu heilen.

Rayne is increasingly distracted from working on his book about community theatre. The haunting face of a girl he knew disturbs his nights and days. She was an aspiring actor who never performed on a stage. She's been dead for five years. As his publisher's deadline looms, beyond his control, he is producing pages of what seems to be the story of the dead girl's final night on Earth. The urgency of her presence in Rayne's nightmares catapults him into a rudderless obsession. What does this tortured ghost want from him?

Vor dem fünfzehnjährigen Simon liegt die große weite Welt, selbst wenn sie nur von Berlin bis zur Ostsee reicht. Doch dann kippt zu Hause die Stimmung. Seine Eltern streiten oder schweigen und Simon hat keine andere Alternative, als deren Platz einzunehmen. So gut er kann, kümmert er sich um seine Geschwister, allen voran die Babyzwillinge. Alles geht gut, bis etwas passiert, was nie hätte passieren dürfen.

Sixteen-year-old Annie Montague has another chance at living a normal life after a tragic car accident paralyzed her and killed her best friend. A new, never before done in the U.S., operation involves graphing her head on another woman’s body. Annie is willing to try anything to leave the mundane confides of her hospital room where she either stares at the ceiling, the hallway, or the floor tiles. She doesn’t feel anything from the neck down, but her memories remind her of everything she’s left behind.

All Quiet on the Western Front stands as one of the greatest condemnations of war of all time. Follow a firsthand account of German enlisted man, Paul Baumer as he recounts details mundane and profound. His account moves and tears at our hearts with the horrors of war and the stark realities of humanity. All while somehow skirting around the question: Why?

Zwei junge Frauen werden mit einem Brandzeichen auf dem Hals schwer verletzt vor ihrer Haustür gefunden. Schnell stellt sich heraus, dass dies ein Fall für die erst vor Kurzem gegründete Special Sexual Offences Unit der Staatsanwaltschaft Seattle ist. Als die Leiche einer weiteren gebrandmarkten jungen Frau mit ähnlichen Verletzungen auftaucht, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse.

When Sophie is cleaved from her family, her home, and the secure and happy life she has ever known, her world falls into chaos. She clings to her mother for love and reassurance, but her mother has become a stranger to her, and Sophie’s young mind is overwhelmed by emotions that are beyond her endurance.

In the heart of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Charles Langley is a man adrift—haunted by a past stained with guilt and a present teetering on the edge of collapse. When his estranged father suffers a heart attack, Charles is thrust into a night of chaos at Ascension Saint John’s emergency room, where the sterile walls and blaring monitors mirror his unraveling mind. Seeking refuge in routine—push-ups to failure, a factory job, and fleeting connections with childhood friend Abigail—he struggles to ground himself in a world that feels increasingly unreal.

You think you know what abusive relationships look like, until you see it for yourself. When Lucy and Meg’s mother is assaulted by her husband, stepfather Greg, his arrest seems to mark the end of a nightmare. But when their mother chooses to stay with him, the sisters are thrust into a disturbing moral dilemma. Desperate to protect her, they take a drastic step: secretly install hidden cameras to capture the truth for themselves—and the rest of the world. What unfolds isn’t what Lucy expected.

Simão, the protagonist of A Spiral of a Dream, is a young university student who enrolls at the University of Évora with aspirations of becoming a writer, only to find himself plunging into an existential spiral as he transitions into adulthood. In the first part of this trilogy, The Medium, we encounter a myriad of characters who reflect and embody a generation on the brink. Their personalities are so relatable that we will find echoes from our own lives.

Chuck has been mistreated his whole life all because he isn't the best looking. Well that might be an understatement with his disfigured large frame. Just muddling through life all he really enjoys is food and he takes solace in it as a chef. But his life completely turned upside down when he finds himself in a world that is like an older earth without technology. There the concept of beauty is swapped. Once the most ugly man Chuck finds himself the most attractive one in town. As he deals with his low self esteem he is bombarded by large ugly women that want his attention.