On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year...
Psychological fiction
- Author:Flynn, GillianSummary:
- Author:Smiley, JaneSummary:
New Jersey realtor Joe Stratford is 40 years old, divorced, and ready for a fresh start. Enter Marcus Burns, a former IRS agent who believes the old rules are meant to be broken. Marcus is enthusiastic about his get-rich-quick plans,...
- Author:Ellison, J. T.Summary:
In a world where appearances are everything, no one questions the cruelties of the secret societies or the dubious behavior of the privileged young women who expect to get away with murder.
- Author:Best, LauraSummary:
It's 1960, and Elizabeth has a good life. A husband who takes care of her, two healthy children, a farm in the Forties Settlement. But Elizabeth is slowly coming apart, her reality splintering. She knows she will harm her children...
- Author:Freeman, BrianSummary:
Cat Mateo, a once-stray teenager, owes her rescue to Detective Stride. But Cat holds something else to her chest: a secret, the sheer power of which she could not possibly comprehend. A secret that, once out of the bag, will viciously...
- Author:Molloy, AimeeSummary:
A newly married woman finds her life turned upside down when her husband goes missing.
- Author:Drewe, RobertSummary:
Some relevant facts about Grace Malloy: apart from being named after a 100,000-year-old skeleton, she is twenty-nine and for much of the past three years she has been hiding from an erotomaniac." "Physically and emotionally...
- Author:Krauss, NicoleSummary:
A young novelist inherited the desk from a poet taken by Pinochet's police. Then the desk is stolen from her by the poet's supposed daughter. In its drawers, another man discovers a long-kept secret about his wife. And a Jerusalem...
- Author:Kang, Han.Summary:
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A dazzling novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the "visionary" ( New York Times Book Review ) author of the International Booker Prize winner The Vegetarian...
- Author:Tremblay, PaulSummary:
A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.A masterful anthology featuring nineteen...
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
William Shakespeare's The Tempest retold as Hag-Seed Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other...
- Author:Naipaul, V. S.Summary:
Half a Life is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding the call of Mahatma Gandhi, turned his back on his brahmin heritage and married a woman of low caste
- Author:Mainville, PaulSummary:
1980. Une guerre ethnique éclate en Europe de l’Est. Pour survivre, les artistes de la troupe du Cirque des montagnes Bleues sont forcés de divertir ceux qui les tiennent prisonniers dans un camp. Si cet art était pour eux à la fois une...
- Author:Ajvide Lindqvist, JohnSummary:
From the author of the international and New York Times bestseller Let the Right One In (Let Me In) comes this stunning and terrifying book which begins when a man's six-year-old daughter vanishes. One ordinary winter afternoon on...
- Author:Dodd, ChristinaSummary:
When Captain Kellen Adams receives a job offer that sounds too good to be true, she finds herself balanced between fascination and fear. All she has to do is break a code and find a long-lost fortune, or die trying.
- Author:White, KateSummary:
Ally Linden's boss seems surprised to see her, because she hasn't worked there in five years. When Ally learns that she's experienced a dissociative fugue state, she tries to think of triggers and remembers that she'...
- Author:Conrad, JosephSummary:
On board the British ship the NELLIE, Marlow told a group of men his story... He told them of his strange, eventful, yet horrific journey into Africa as an agent for the Company, which traded in ivory. He had witnessed the terrible...
- Author:Brown, SandraSummary:
For Paris Gibson, her popular late-night radio show is both an escape and her one real contact with the outside world. But when a listener who identifies himself as "Valentino" tells her that her on-air advice to the girl he...
- Author:Ellison, J. T.Summary:
Claire Hunter's wedding to Max Compton is the talk of the town. People would kill for an invite, literally. Claire has been receiving disturbing text messages with dire warnings that Max is not who she thinks he is.
- Author:Niffenegger, AudreySummary:
After their English aunt dies, listless American twins Julia and Valentina travel to London to live in their aunt's now empty flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery. There they become embroiled in the day-to-day sagas of their...