Psychological Suspense

Claudia Shephard’s husband died in a fire. Everyone says it was tragic. Accidental. She doesn't remember much—just smoke, panic, the way her lungs burned as she ran. But three weeks after the funeral, a manuscript arrives on her doorstep. A book she didn’t write. A book that describes, in disturbingly intimate detail, her husband’s affair… and the precise steps she took to murder him. It’s written in her voice. With her quirks. Her phrases. Her secrets. And page by page, Claudia feels her grip on reality begin to unravel. As whispers swirl through their coastal town and friends ...

A frozen lake…Cold-Blooded Murder. A powerful man is found dead in his fish house on a frozen Minnesota lake, murdered, stabbed to death. His employees, family, and the local sheriff, all seem happy to have him gone - all except his personal assistant. With his death she is now forced to do something she thought she would never have to do, reveal secrets that will destroy the careers and lives of many - including a man set on being the next governor of the state. Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Agent Danny Carlisle has been given the assignment, her first as a lead agent, and ...

Four-year-old Malone Moulin is haunted by nightmares of being handed over to a complete stranger and begins claiming his mother is not his real mother. His teachers at school say that it is all in his imagination as his mother has a birth certificate, photos of him as a child, and even the pediatrician confirms Malone is her son. The school psychologist, Vasily, believes otherwise as the child vividly describes an exchange between two women. Convinced that Malone is telling the truth, Vasile approaches Police Commander Marianne Augresse with the case.

The dead need to stay dead Maribeth thought she'd found a safe haven, but evil has other plans. Living alone in a cabin in the woods, Maribeth hopes to heal from the loss of her family to a serial killer the hunted as a detective. Haunted by her memories, she lives broken and scarred, trying to find a peace in the darkness. When she finds a murdered woman left for her in the woods, she knows her simple life has changed forever. The woman looks like her dead daughter right down to the mark carved in her chest. The killer has returned. Maribeth must either fight for her life or give up and ...

There’s a dress in Daisy’s closet. Silver. Low-backed. Tiny spaghetti straps. She’ll wear it to prom on the arm of Harris Zandari, the most gorgeous senior at her school. How did quiet, barely-there Daisy, land Harris Zandari? She watched him. She watched him so closely, and for so long, that she saw things no one else did. She saw through his charm, his bright, smiling face, to the sad, broken person underneath just waiting for the perfect sad, broken girl to complete him. Daisy was that girl.

It’s 5 November, and a woman awakens to a nightmare. Bound and gagged, she lies trapped in the heart of a towering bonfire. As the smoke thickens, panic sets in–she’s moments away from being engulfed in flames. How did it come to this? Rewind eleven months: Margot, a faded TV star, and her long-suffering friend Anna watch as glamorous Liv and her flawless family move into their street. The three women soon fabricate the perfect pretence of friendship, but each harbours her own deadly secret–and newcomer Liv senses something is terribly wrong beneath the polished exteriors.

Emma Griffin is a famed FBI agent in her field. When she is called to a production set to investigate several missing actors and actresses, an oppressive, venomous tension greets her upon arrival. With multiple suspects and countless conflicts in play, both the film and the case have turned into a nonstop action-packed drama, laced with nuclear-level toxicity. While the independent director loses his marbles at every turn, the rest of the crew seems to have too many screws loose.

Two couples. A cold night in a cabin deep in the forest. Having a great time with their friends, two couples are drinking wine and laughing. It all turns on a dime when they realize they are not alone. The night turns into a nightmare. But that’s not the worst part. The fallout has friend turning on friend. Husband turning on wife. And everyone is lying to the sheriff. The investigation leads to an unlikely suspect. Read to the exciting conclusion. Can you figure out what really happened that fateful night in the cabin? A rollercoaster of a thriller from start to finish. Silver Lake ...

Beneath the inky black surface of Lake Ness lurks something too monstrous for this world... Gerry Lawson, a washed-up scientist slowly recovering from a life that got out of his control, finds himself saying yes when his cousin Marnie asks him to help her and her partner Jim with an outdoor survival program for disadvantaged kids. Not quite sure what he's let himself in for, he slowly adjusts to the isolated environment of Lake Ness and the challenges of living with a bunch of often erratic and unpredictable teenagers. However, it's not long before their best-laid plans start to unravel. ...

Denmark Wheeler survived a rough childhood on the streets of Cleveland to prosper as an adult. Then one day a DVD turns up on his front doorstep, revealing an explicit sexual encounter between his wife and a man whose face is concealed. Consumed by rage, he searches for the other man.

Ethan Dove’s family has moved to a new home in a safe community, and it’s exactly the fresh start they need. Not only is his marriage to Emma hanging by a thread, but his son, Dylan, and twelve-year-old daughter, Rose, deserve to have a happy childhood. After Rose is bullied by the boys across the road, Ethan is relieved when the woman who lives next door steps in. Fiona Smith has come into their lives at just the right moment, and when she offers to look after Rose during the school holidays, Ethan and Emma can’t believe their luck.

Three dead. Shot point-blank. A hot summer day just got hotter. Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Agent Doc Hunter had a golf game scheduled. Doc was a good golfer. Very good. Thinking about going pro. But now all of that had been put on hold because three people on a farm got themselves shot and Hunter's boss had decided he needed to be the one to investigate. Doc wasn't happy about the assignment, and was even less happy when he finds there is a cover-up and a suspect list that only seems to keep growing. On top of that, he has a killer who has a lot more killing to do. As the body count ...

Trece historias, es una colección de relatos independientes de Paul Pen. Tras sus novelas El aviso (2011) y El brillo de las luciérnagas (2013), Paul Pen sigue experimentado con el género del misterio, el suspense, el drama, e incluso la ciencia ficción, ampliando su universo con trece cuentos en los que ha podido trabajar muchos de sus temas favoritos: los viajes en el tiempo, la venganza, la obsesión, los experimentos anatómicos, la soledad, los freak shows...

Graduate student Wendy Zemansky was hoping for a normal semester at an isolated university in upstate New York. Since coming off disability and starting medication for bipolar disorder, Wendy longs to feel like a “real” functioning adult, a respected colleague in her writing program. But when her roommate goes missing, Wendy plunges into an investigation that is roadblocked by vainglorious professors, specious doctors, and dubious friends.

In Haunted Shadows, the first installment in the Haunted Truth series, former journalist Mara Winters launches an investigation that catapults her from fringe ghost hunter to viral sensation. But what begins as a search for supernatural evidence spirals into something far more insidious when a series of encrypted messages leads her back to her sister’s suspicious death—and to a shadowy system that never stopped watching. This series follows a complex and troubled protagonist as she navigates unraveling realities, buried trauma, and a growing sense that what’s haunting her isn’t a ...

What would you do if your dead sister sent you postcards? I've struggled to get my life back on track after a lifetime of despair, addiction, and loss. I finally have it all. A bustling business, a home, my health, and time with my beloved daughter Sophie. But that tenuous balance is tipped when my twin Jane's postcard arrives in the mail. My family thinks she's dead. They want to put it all behind them. But how can I agree when the evidence is right in front of me? When my nagging little sister provokes my rebellious teenager to run away, I am forced to confront the past I've wanted to ...

When Dahli vanishes, secrets unravel. Can she be saved before the truth destroys everyone close to her? On a tranquil morning in the South Carolina Lowcountry, Dahli Reed’s life is anything but peaceful. Her marriage teeters on the brink of collapse, and she is about to make a life-altering decision. When Dahli mysteriously disappears amidst the salt marshes, buried tensions and obsessions within her circle come to light. Detective Miriam Ballard, haunted by a case that ruptured her life and nearly ended her career a decade prior, leads the investigation with dogged determination to find ...

A vulnerable girl determined to get what she wants out of life, if she could just figure out what that was. Beautiful but damaged Addie McCormick is used to getting what she wants. Until her party life is upended when her childhood friend drags her home from graduation to a mother on her deathbed. Faced with an uncertain future and haunted by demons from her past, Addie believes she’s found the solution to her problems when she meets handsome young lawyer, Marco Russo. To land him, she must keep her wild and unstable past hidden, but doing so, proves to be harder than she expected. Driven...

Assassin, Kurt Harm, travels to Bangkok to pursue a notorious opium kingpin. His target is elusive and heavily insulated. Not everything is what it seems in Thailand. The odds are heavily against Harm but that's nothing new.

It’s been eleven years since high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam, against the charge of murdering his mistress. Sarah has long since moved on, starting a family with her new husband, Bob Miller, and changing careers. Her life is back to being exactly how she always wanted … or is it?