Psychological Publishing

Patricia Cardner is a psychology professor, licensed professional counselor and dedicated poker player. She interviewed a select group of professional poker players who share two key characteristics: ALL of them have been successful over many years and ALL of them have lifetime winnings of more than $1,000,000. Patricia analyzed the results to determine exactly what psychological skills, techniques, and strategies they use.

Olivia Hanson’s husband, Lucas, is her rock; charming and successful, he offers her safety, security and the life she always dreamed of. In return, Olivia is a picture-perfect housewife, smiling and supportive. Until she meets Lucas’s new colleague, Natalie, and sees the flash of hatred in her eyes. Olivia only wants to clear up the misunderstanding. But when she befriends Natalie, secrets come tumbling out that expose the ugly side of Olivia’s beautiful marriage and she realizes there is another young woman caught up in Lucas’s lies.

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, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the incident. In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which connects us all: the modern family and domestic life in the 21st century.

The Tableau Killer, known as Q, has escaped custody. Trained since childhood by an enigmatic group called Stargazer, Q is a remote viewer, able to see what is distant, what is hidden, in real time, anywhere in the world. Including the two men who caught him the first time, FBI agent Lukas Stark and fellow remote viewer Gilles Garnier. Q thirsts for revenge and will stop at nothing to expose the secret organization who made him the monster he is. Luring some of the other “original six” remote viewers to his cause, they kidnap a Stargazer researcher and his family.

Daniel Pecan Cambridge, 30, 35, 38 or 27, depending on how he feels that day, is a young man whose life is rich and full, provided he never leaves his Santa Monica apartment. After all, outside there are 8-inch-high curbs and there's always the horrible chance he might see a gas station attendant wearing a blue hat. So, except for the occasional trip to the Rite Aid to admire the California girl Zandy and to buy earplugs because they're on sale, he stays home a lot. And good thing, too.

A sniper opens fire on a crowded Californian schoolyard but is killed before any children are harmed. When the sniper’s identity is revealed, a media frenzy erupts – why would they want to take innocent lives? Psychologist Alex Delaware is brought in to help the kids cope with the ordeal but is quickly drawn into exploring the motives of the would-be assassin. Alex soon finds himself on a bloody and twisted trail into the world of political extremism from which there may be no way back…

Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do? Just how well can you ever know the person you love? These are the questions that Nick Dunne must ask himself on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they aren't his. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone.

THEY DISCOVERED THE ABANDONED ASYLUM THINKING THEY'D FOUND AN URBAN ADVENTURE. INSTEAD, THEY UNLOCKED DARK SECRETS THAT COULD DESTROY THEM. 

 When Grace and Kaitlin deicide to explore the crumbling remains of Blackwood Asylum, they expect a night of harmless thrills. What they discover instead is a terrifying link between the asylum's dark past and their own forgotten lives. As the girls uncover the asylum's grisly history, they are drawn into a web of secrets that spans centuries. Visions of the past begin to invade their reality, blurring the lines between who they are and who they ...

Paige always knew something was off about her mom. Now she knows the truth. Her mom wasn’t who she said she was. A truth Paige never wanted to admit, but knew deep in her heart. She knew because she covered her mom’s tracks to stay one step ahead of the authorities. As her truth unravels around her, Paige discovers her mom isn’t the only one who is hiding her true identity. When people from her mother’s past start showing up, Paige must discern who she can trust before it’s too late. Will Paige unveil the secrets before she suffers the same fate as her mother?

A debut thriller for fans of Lucy Foley and Liz Moore, Dark Things I Adore is a stunning Gone Girl-esque tale of atonement that proves that in the grasp of manipulative men, women may momentarily fall. But in the hands of fierce women, men will be brought to their knees.

Detective Elise Sutton is drawn to cold cases. Each crime is a puzzle to solve, pulled from the past. Elise looks for cracks in the surface and has become an expert on how murderers slip up and give themselves away. She has dedicated her life to creating a sense of order, at work with her ex-marine partner; at home with her husband and two young daughters; and within, battling her own demons. Elise has everything under control, until one afternoon, when she walks into a department store and is forced to make a terrible choice: to save one life, she will have to take another.

Finally, Cath has met someone: a man she loves, Robin, and who adores her in return. And after years of managing fine on her own, running a successful business, raising her son and caring for her elderly mother, she feels she deserves some happiness. She expected everyone to be delighted for her. But her friends and family are suspicious of Robin. And Rebecca, a desperate single mother whom Cath has hired as a live-in housekeeper, doesn’t trust him either.

Charles Cullen, a brilliant university professor and ruthless killer, makes a daring escape from a hospital for the criminally insane. Dr. Joseph Kallinger, the psychologist who examined Cullen, is called in to help find him with a burnt-out cop who thinks Kallinger’s diagnosis is to blame for the situation they’re in.

Only days ago, I had everything. A man I wanted to marry. A prestigious fellowship for graduate school. A perfect new apartment. I’m a psychology student. I should have known she was hiding something from the start… Now I’m shivering under a foil blanket wondering how my life became a nightmare. And when the paramedics check me over, it’s not concern I see on their faces. It’s fear. They think I did this. They think I killed her…

Roz Gilmour is a happy woman with two children, a loving husband, a successful career as a local radio presenter and a comfortable home in North London. Sometimes she can't believe just how fortunate she is. But a woman who has everything has everything to lose, and Roz's luck is about to change. Not everybody is as content as Roz Gilmour. There are people who dislike her—if only because of the apparent ease and success with which she lives her life. And one of them is insane.

On a hot August day, Abbie’s best friend is murdered, and her goddaughter, Sienna, disappears. Abbie is desperate to find and protect Sienna, but unanswered questions haunt her every move.

When criminology student Zoey Montgomery takes a summer job as a camp counselor at Camp Medley, she has one goal: to discover what happened to her aunt Heather, who vanished from the camp over thirty years earlier. But what begins as a quest for closure quickly spirals into something far more sinister… It’s not long until Zoey notices disturbing patterns in the camp’s history. She hears rumors of more missing girls, and strange accidents occur that leave her shaken and afraid.

Tied up, strangled, then discarded. Going undercover to solve a multitude of murders, will she make it out alive? Evelyn “Mac” McGregor is still grappling with taking a man’s life. Six months after the fatal confrontation, the promoted sergeant approaches her recent assignment on a special task force with cautious excitement. And her first order of business is a dead airman pulled out of the water – just like several others. Discovering strange wound patterns that link the corpses together, the sharp-minded investigator follows leads all over the area collecting info… until ...

Officer Remo Wolf is on the run. Can he prove his innocence before the assassins kill him? Remo Wolf is a Chicago Police Officer haunted by memories of his tour in Afghanistan. Alcohol and his partner, Bobby Lynch, help soothe the rough edges. When Bobby is killed in a late-night ambush, Remo’s troubles escalate. With drugs in Bobby’s system and alcohol in Remo’s, the Police department publicly denounces them, leaving Remo ostracized and the search for his partner’s murderer consigned to oblivion. When the police discover Bobby’s slaying is not an isolated incident, Remo is ...

When Grace’s husband, Adam, inherits an isolated North Yorkshire cottage, they leave the bustle of London behind to try a new life. A week later, Adam vanishes without a trace, leaving their baby daughter, Millie, in her stroller on the doorstep. The following year, Grace returns to the tiny village on the untamed heath. Everyone - the police, her parents, even her best friend and younger sister - is convinced that Adam left her. But Grace, unable to let go of her memories of their love and life together, cannot accept this explanation.