To the shock of his family and community, George Woodbury, an affable teacher and beloved husband and father, is arrested for sexual assault at a prestigious prep school in Connecticut. While he awaits his trial in jail, his family is...
Psychological fiction
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Author:Whittall, ZoeSummary: - Author:Moore, SusannaSummary:
A crime of unfathomable horror has a ripple-like effect on four profoundly different souls. Helen, a troubled inmate at Sloatsburg women's prison, is serving a life sentence for the murder of her children. Dr. Louise Forrest, the...
- Author:James, StevenSummary:
FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers' cutting-edge skills are pushed to the limit when a woman is found brutally murdered near Washington, D.C. While her killers continue a spree of perfect crimes, Bowers struggles to discover a pattern and...
- Author:Sorokin, VladimirSummary:
In this short, surreal twist on the classic Russian novel, a doctor travels to a distant village to save its citizens from an epidemic, but a metaphysical snowstorm gets in his way. 2015.
- Author:Oates, Joyce CarolSummary:
Presents Mysteries of Winterthurn, Part Three.
- Author:Banville, JohnSummary:
Oliver Otway Orme, a semi-famous artist and petty thief, despairing of limits in his talents, flees when his latest theft is discovered and sequesters himself in his childhood home, where he struggles to understand how he reached his...
- Author:Robinson, OliviaSummary:
Ingrid and Norah have an unconventional upbringing -- growing up in a motel, raised by their mother and her partner. The girls' grandmother, Ada, who owns the Blue Moth, has always kept them at a distance. But when she buys a piano for...
- Author:DeLillo, DonSummary:
Lauren Hardke, body artist, is having breakfast with her thrice-married husband, Rey. Rey says he's taking a drive and he does -- all the way to the Manhattan apartment of his first wife, where he shoots himself. An unsentimental novel...
- Author:Preston, Douglas J.Summary:
The New York Museum of Natural History receives their pilfered gem collection back ... ground down to dust. Diogenes, the psychotic killer who stole them in Dance of Death, is throwing down the gauntlet to both the city and to his...
- Author:Swanson, CynthiaSummary:
Denver, 1962. Kitty Miller has come to terms with her unconventional single life. She loves the bookshop she runs and enjoys complete control over her day-to-day existence. Then the dreams begin. Soon she must reconcile her reality with...
- Author:Johnston, AnnaSummary:
"A funny, heartfelt story about found family and seeing the silver lining in life. Fans of A Man Called Ove and Remarkably Bright Creatures will especially enjoy this new novel." —Library Journal. A zany case of mistaken...
- Author:Paris, B. A.Summary:
Named One of the Most Anticipated Thriller Novels of 2017 by Bustle!The new chilling, propulsive audiobook from the author of the instant New York Times and USA Today bestselling Behind Closed Doors. If you can't trust yourself,...
- Author:Brockmeier, KevinSummary:
All residents of the City have recently died, and they will remain in the City only as long as someone still living on Earth remembers them. On Earth, however, the population has been devastated by terrible pandemic. Laura Byrd,...
- Author:Peck, FrancesSummary:
Vancouver. A day like any other. Kyle, a successful cosmetic surgeon, is punishing himself with a sprint up a mountain. Charlotte, wife of a tech tycoon, is combing the farm belt for local cheese and a sense of purpose. Back in the city...
- Author:Freeman, BrianSummary:
When a rich doctor's baby is kidnapped, Lieutenant Jonathan Stride and his partner, Serena, end up on opposite sides of the case, with Stride pursuing evidence that incriminates the doctor and Serena trying to prove the baby was...
- Author:Staub, Wendy CorsiSummary:
Investigative genealogist Amelia Crenshaw solves clients' genetic puzzles, while hers remain shrouded in mystery. Now she suspects that the key to her birth parents' identities lies in an unexpected connection to a stranger...
- Author:Tremblay, PaulSummary:
"A tremendous book--thought-provoking and terrifying, with tension that winds up like a chain. The Cabin at the End of the World is Tremblay's personal best. It's that good."--Stephen King. The Bram Stoker Award-...
- Author:Hood, HughSummary:
Rose LeClair has everything she ever wanted: a successful career as a box office starlet, a handsome, successful Hollywood husband, more fans and money than she could have hoped for, her face on the cover of every check-out magazine....
- Author:Ackroyd, PeterSummary:
As Victor Frankenstein begins conducting anatomical experiments to reanimate the dead, he at first uses corpses supplied by the coroner. But these specimens prove imperfect for Victor's purposes. Moving his makeshift laboratory to...
- Author:Kafka, FranzSummary:
The story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home, seems to depict like a dream from the deepest recesses of consciousness, an inexplicable truth about...
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