Liza Ward's spellbinding first novel is told from the very different points of view of three narrators mysteriously linked by a shocking crime and their efforts to heal the past. Based on the Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann...
Psychological fiction
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Author:Ward, LizaSummary: - Author:Haddad, HubertSummary:
Somewhere in the West Bank, an Israeli patrol is attacked by Palestinian commandos. One soldier is killed and another kidnapped. Wounded, in a state of shock, the hostage loses hold of reality and forgets everything, even his own name....
- Author:Heaberlin, JuliaSummary:
"A gripping thriller about a man who may or may not have dementia--and who may or may not be a serial killer--from a master of twists and turns, in the tradition of Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn An obsessive young woman has been...
- Author:Fortier, DominiqueSummary:
A whimsical and misanthropic imagining of Emily Dickinson's life. Paper Towns is a novelized account of Emily Dickinson's life, focusing on her childhood, the homes she lived in throughout her life, her family relationships,...
- Author:Hill, Laurie RaySummary:
From the moment she holds her baby niece, Rose is on a mission. Terrified that her baby niece will fall victim to the sexual abuse rampant in the family, Rose tells us in her own warm, funny, down-to-earth voice, how she reluctantly...
- Author:St-Yves, YanicksSummary:
Le curé nous a dit : « Jusqu'à ce que la mort vous sépare. » Ça, je le refuse. De retour d'un voyage d'affaires, Thomas retrouve sa femme Catherine qui, pendant son absence, s'est métamorphosée. Femme aimante...
- Author:Larsen, NellaSummary:
First published in 1929, Passing is a remarkable exploration of the shifting racial and sexual boundaries in America. Larsen, a premier writer of the Harlem Renaissance, captures the rewards and dangers faced by two negro women who pass...
- Author:Benison, C. C.Summary:
Under the sway of a charismatic stranger, five friends at an isolated lakeside cottage find their idyll unravelling, leaving two of them -- Lydia Eadon and Dorian Grant -- trapped in an explosion of violence that shatters their young...
- Author:Keevil, TylerSummary:
Deux frères se rendent en forêt pour finir le tournage d'un film amateur en l'honneur de leur ami disparu ; un sauveteur part à la recherche d'un planchiste la veille de Noël ; un travailleur forestier solitaire prend un autostoppeur...
- Author:Hannah, SophieSummary:
The New York Times bestselling author of The Monogram Murders and Woman with a Secret returns with a sharp, captivating, and expertly plotted tale of psychological suspense. All Beth has to do is drive her son to his soccer game, watch...
- Author:Wilson, KevinSummary:
When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, she's just about out of options. She recently graduated from high school and is pregnant with her art teacher's baby. Her mother is dead and her father is a drunk. The art teacher...
- Author:Picoult, JodiSummary:
District Attorney Nina Frost and her husband, Caleb, face a nightmare when they discover that their young son Nathaniel has been molested, a trauma that has left him mute, terrified, and unable to reveal the identity of his attacker....
- Author:Browne, Christene A.Summary:
Born in the Caribbean, Philomena Jones is abandoned by her mother and left to the mercy of her grandmother, who, after raising eight children and grandchildren, is not capable of dedicating herself to another child. Love-starved,...
- Author:Michaud, MaudeSummary:
"J'avais les pieds enfoncés dans le sable pis les cheveux dans la face quand les barres de mon test de grossesse se sont pointées comme deux invités que personne n'a le goût de voir. Leurs petites bouches roses me...
- Author:Golding, WilliamSummary:
The sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer is miraculously cast up on a huge, barren rock in mid-Atlantic. Pitted against him are the sea, the sun, the night cold, and the terror of his isolation. At the core of this raging tale of...
- Author:Calder, HannahSummary:
Piranesi's Figures is a romp through the magnificent psychological ruins of at least two marriages and one attempt at child rearing, and a gleefully reckless contortion of novelistic conventions, sexual practices, and family dynamics....
- Author:Cook, Thomas H.Summary:
In 1937 a woman appears in Port Alma, a small sea village nestled on the chilly coast of Maine. Before a year goes by, she will flee Port Alma on the same bus that brought her there. But before she goes, she will irrevocably alter the...
- Author:Rummel, ErikaSummary:
Liz is waiting for her big break in Hollywood, when a different offer comes her way. The wealthy Naomi Baum, a best-selling author, asks Liz to impersonate her on the Ted Hillman Show. The reclusive Naomi cannot bear public appearances...
- Author:Delaney, Jp.Summary:
What if you found out that your family isn't yours at all? How far would you go to protect them? A gripping new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of The Girl Before . . . . "[JP] Delaney takes domestic...
- Author:Pheby, AlexSummary:
Alex Pheby's 'Playthings' is a visceral and darkly comic portrait of severe mental illness based on the true story of nineteenth-century German judge and patient of Freud, Daniel Paul Schreber. While deftly exploring the ideas of...
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