Psychological

This is the day my life changes forever. It started so normally. The alarm went at 7am. My husband made bacon and pancakes for me and our seven-year-old daughter, the kitchen full of chatter and laughter. He gave me a quick kiss, told me he loved me, grabbed his wallet, and rushed off to work.

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.

‘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…

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

When Natasha meets Daniel, she knows her life is made. Rich, handsome and charming, Daniel will make the perfect husband. Even if she won’t make the perfect wife…

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

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 first glimpse of the sea on Marine Drive filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from the red shadow....

In The Storyteller, Sage Singer befriends Josef Weber, a beloved Little League coach and retired teacher. But then Josef asks Sage for a favor she never could have imagined....

When Freya Miller is struck by tragedy, losing her husband and her home within a short time, she is burdened with many worries....

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

Two Couples. Three Secrets. One Murder....

Tara Logan adores her perfect little family: husband, Noah, and two children, teenager Rosie and 11-year-old Spencer. But her happiness is shattered when she wakes in her neighbour Lee Jacobs' bed....

Set in the leafy northern suburbs of Sydney during the 1940s, The Watch Tower is a novel of relentless and acute psychological power....

When young shipping company heir Jill Fisher is found dead in her apartment, Detective Charlie Cooper and his partner Joe Quinn don't believe she was killed by a random intruder.

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.

Emma, Aiden and Gina stand on the brink of a new life. After the trauma of Aiden’s abduction and return, they are slowly healing and returning to a fragile normality....

In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat—in this extraordinarily sensual...

"[A] huge and sprawling tale of horror." —The New York Times Book Review Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of four centuries of witches—a family given to poetry and incest, murder and philosophy, a family that over...

The days of allowing my inner depravity to run wild are over. I've been sent to prison for good, something of a celebrity in this dark, dank hell-hole they call Alabaster Penitentiary....

What was my sister doing standing over Florence’s cot in the middle of the night? I trust my sister, Carrie, with my daughter’s life....

El extraño caso del Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde es un fascinante relato que explora la dualidad del bien y del mal en la naturaleza humana. El Dr. Henry Jekyll, un respetado científico, desarrolla una fórmula que le permite transformarse en Edward Hyde, una versión de sí mismo libre de toda moralidad y restricción social. A medida que Jekyll se sumerge más en su alter ego, la barrera entre sus dos identidades comienza a desvanecerse, desatando una lucha interna que amenaza con consumirlo.

La Métamorphose raconte la troublante transformation de Gregor Samsa en quelque chose de totalement inattendu : «un insecte monstrueux». Ce n’est pas seulement le récit d’un changement physique, mais aussi une réflexion profonde sur l’aliénation, la solitude et le rejet.

Sunny Zielinski is a beautiful and talented young woman with a promising future. A recent college graduate, Sunny has landed her dream job as a book editor and is soon to be married. Her close-knit family is her strength, particularly her fiercely loving grandparents—Holocaust survivors who helped to raise her. Following two major losses, Sunny finds herself becoming unhinged. When she experiences her first psychotic break, she is plunged into a place of profound fear and confusion. As her delusions and hallucinations take over, Sunny traverses a journey into the depths of madness.

For centuries the Wilde women have lived at Foxglove—a cabin hidden deep in the woods, promising to shield them from the horrors and expectations of the outside world. But in every generation, danger lurks. For every Wilde woman who chooses to call Foxglove home, they do so with a warning passed from mother to daughter like a sacred heirloom: Foxglove’s secrets must never be spoken about—especially to men.

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.

This camping trip is Chris’s last chance to repair his relationship with his daughters, Kayla and Emma. Nothing’s been the same since they lost their mom. But things go wrong as soon as they get to the mountains. When they make camp, nine-year-old Emma runs off into the woods. By the time they find her, there’s a snowstorm rolling in. And Emma’s leg is badly broken. They need to find shelter, fast. They think they’re safe when they come across an old farmstead. The woman inside welcomes them in from the howling blizzard and straps up Emma’s leg.

Former detective Harper Adams is only days into sobriety when she realizes her mother’s car accident wasn’t an accident at all. The faded skid marks on the bridge. The drugs in her tox screen. The packed suitcase in the trunk, for a trip her homebody mother never mentioned. Something sinister happened—and Harper is determined to uncover the truth.

When its librarian keeper mysteriously dies, two former classmates must race to locate a rare book from their college years that can foretell your future if you confess a secret from your past—but someone is intent on protecting what’s hidden inside. It can write the story of your future...

A fatal stabbing in a local park appears to be a mugging gone wrong – but Detective Charlie Cooper suspects there's more to this murder than meets the eye. The victim worked at a local pharmaceutical plant, where protesters against the company's manufacture of vaccines are becoming increasingly vocal.

When yoga teacher Amelia falls victim to an online scam, her colleague Paige really comes through for her. And with their daughters Marnie and Taryn becoming best friends, the two families grow even closer. But all is not as it seems. Paige has an agenda.

Early in life, Ruth survived a series of devastating events: Her little brother died from a childhood illness, her mother died of grief, and then her father was shot by the police right in front of their home. In the years following her father's murder, Ruth pushes her past underground. She changes her name and moves to Kentucky, marries a man named Myron, and together they raise a kid. It's been two decades, and she is, by outside measures, living a good life―but why doesn't it feel good?

Arden Rivers has rebuilt her life and her walls brick by fragile brick, determined not to be defined by the shadows of her past. But when roses appear at her door—perfect, blood-red, deliberate—so do the notes. Intimate. Intrusive. Written by someone who knows her too well.

To the countless forgotten souls who suffered within the walls of Blackwood Asylum, their voices silenced, their stories untold for far too long. Their pain, their resilience, their quiet dignity in the face of unimaginable cruelty—these are the echoes that reverberate through this audiobook. It is to them, the nameless and the faceless, that this work is humbly offered as a testament to their enduring spirits and a plea for their belated remembrance.

Aaron Umber fällt es schwer, Nähe zuzulassen. Ein traumatisches Erlebnis in seiner Kindheit steht noch immer zwischen ihm und den Dingen, die er sich am sehnlichsten wünscht: Vertrauen, Liebe, Zärtlichkeit. Auf einer gemeinsamen Flugreise, zehntausend Meter über der Erde, erkennt er, dass sein Hang zur Einsamkeit auf seinen Sohn Emmett abzufärben droht. Schließlich fasst er sich ein Herz und spricht über das, was ihm widerfahren ist. Denn in der Enge des Flugzeugs gibt es kein Entkommen vor den Geistern seiner Vergangenheit.

The Brothers Karamazov Redux presents Dostoevsky’s towering masterpiece in a newly ignited form, amplifying the emotional, philosophical, and spiritual power of the original while sharpening its raw immediacy for a modern listener.

Jane Ashcroft swore she was done with the life that once defined her—heists, forgeries, the rush of stealing priceless art. In Santa Fe, she finally tastes something like peace: quiet mornings walking dogs, evenings with her trusted dog Fable and her ally R, and the illusion of an ordinary future. Then her old friend, Margot, lures her back. The job is irresistible: a single painting worth tens of millions, and the dangerous thrill Jane thought she’d left behind.

Miko aiuta le persone a rimettere ordine nelle loro case. Una stanza dopo l'altra, un armadio dopo l'altro, uno scaffale dopo l'altro, insieme alle case Miko mette in ordine anche le vite dei suoi clienti, esistenze che a un certo punto si sono inceppate o hanno deragliato e di cui il disordine casalingo è l'immagine. Nessuno però sa che Miko è in grado di sentire gli oggetti parlare e raccontare i loro segreti, le loro storie, le loro versioni degli eventi.

"My name is Alicia... but you already know that by now. I am... not normal, but am I truly a psychopath as I have always believed?"Josslyn and I used to be enemies, then friends, then sisters, and now... I finally know the truth about who she really is. But it is not about us anymore. It is about putting an end to an evilness that I know is there, and which is far too close for comfort. I cannot accomplish this mission alone... everyone was against me, but now I have allies.

El 8 de junio de 2019, los bomberos encontraron el cuerpo calcinado de un hombre en su casa, en Vilanova i la Geltrú. Un caso que parecía resuelto, el mismo día de los hechos, da un giro inesperado para el cuerpo policial al descubrir la posible implicación de una tercera persona que habría inducido a Ismael a cometer el crimen. Enemiga íntima recoge de manera novelada lo que vivió Ismael durante un año a través de su testimonio personal, de los datos extraídos del sumario, de las pruebas que no se incluyeron en la instrucción y de entrevistas a gente de su entorno más cercano.

Als Chirurgin an einer Londoner Klinik rettet Freya täglich Leben. Die Spezialistin für Hauttransplantationen hilft Brandopfern, engagiert sich für Nachwuchsmediziner und genießt ihren gesellschaftlichen Status. Doch hinter der Fassade der erfolgreichen Einzelgängerin schwelt eine düstere Vergangenheit. Tag für Tag fürchtet Freya, entdeckt zu werden. Denn seit sie als Kind einem üblen Streich zweier Spielkameraden zum Opfer gefallen ist, führt sie einen Rachefeldzug gegen die Unschuld.

At school they called her Porky on account of the pigs her family kept outside their bungalow near Heathrow. But she felt no different – not until she realised she was losing her innocence in a way that none of her friends could possibly imagine. Only a child robbed of her childhood can know too late what it means to be loved too little and loved too much.

L'éveil de la jalousie chez un garçon de douze ans, qui, en villégiature, a innocemment rapproché sa mère d'un comte oisif dont l'amitié l'emplissait de fierté. La découverte pour cet adolescent privilégié de la vie réelle, d'autres réalités que celles de son milieu d'origine. La puissance du secret.

An einem ruhigen Novembertag beschließt Nils Vik, dass dies der letzte Tag seines Lebens sein wird. Er trinkt einen Kaffee, schließt sein Haus ab und begibt sich ein letztes Mal zu seiner Fähre, mit der er sein Leben lang Menschen über den Fjord gefahren hat. Doch nun führt eine Brücke über das Wasser, sein Boot hat seine Aufgabe erfüllt. Und auch Nils Vik hat die Aufgaben seines Lebens erfüllt. Auf dieser letzten Fahrt durchstreifen noch einmal die Menschen, die seinen Weg kreuzten, seine Gedanken und verweilen für eine Weile an seiner Seite, auch seine große Liebe Marta.

This is a raw, intimate journey into the psychology of emotional manipulation, forbidden desire, and the silent battles we fight inside our relationships. This novel follows David, a man who steps into a world where passion feels like destiny, lies feel like truth, and love becomes the most dangerous form of power. When he meets Rose — mysterious, magnetic, and hiding a double life — he is pulled into a fire that warms and destroys at the same time.

Mateo, el protagonista de esta vibrante y conmovedora novela de Diego Ameixeiras, intenta salir adelante vendiendo cocaína y dejándose llevar por los extraños negocios que le ofrece Silvio, su mejor cliente y viejo amigo con el que se siente en deuda. Al mismo tiempo, mientras se esfuerza en superar la muerte de sus padres en un accidente de tráfico, se ocupa de atender a Eulalia, una maestra jubilada que ya no puede llevarle flores a su hermano muerto.