Psychological Horror Thriller

"Hard as nails detective novel, satisfyingly twisted story, and the writing is sharp as the devil." -- Stephen King Critically acclaimed author Saul Black returns with a heart-racing thriller in which a brutal murder forces one woman to reckon with her own past—and her future. On a hot summer...

Two horrifying psychological thrillers from the Queen of Scream, all-star best-selling author Willow Rose. Mommy Dearest: When Crystal meets her future mother-in-law for the first time, she is excited. She knows it might be a challenge to have her live with them for an entire month, but still. It’s an old woman we’re talking about here. How much trouble can she cause? Chain Letter: They received a letter. They dismissed it as a prank, but as they soon will learn you never...ever ignore a chain letter.

If the mission fails, it's World War III. Any questions? Owen Taylor is about to be betrayed on his final covert mission. It will take everything he has to make it home alive, and to save the woman he loves. BookShots LIGHTNING-FAST STORIES BY JAMES PATTERSON Novels you can devour in a few hours...

Mandy Holloway never expected to return to her crumbling childhood home on Stillwater Lane, a place haunted by painful memories of neglect, betrayal, and long-buried secrets. But with her family on the brink of financial collapse, she finds herself with no other options. Now, back in the decaying house she once swore to leave behind, Amanda confronts the specters of her past, and something far darker that lurks within the shadows.

When an introverted groundskeeper finds an unusual item at an estate sale, he accidentally unleashes an all consuming evil hellbent on death and destruction. The Haunting of Luke Schumer is a grotesque tale of demonic possession, mental manipulation and deceit. No one is safe.

In this nail-biting thriller, a horror-themed birthday party turns deadly when guests start disappearing—and the birthday girl realizes that she must face a long-buried secret to make it out alive. Tippi is ready for a fresh start. After breaking off her engagement to an increasingly demanding...

Wayward Pines, Idaho, eine idyllische Kleinstadt mitten im Nichts. Hier soll Secret-Service-Agent Ethan Burke zwei Vermisste aufspüren. Doch als er nach einem Verkehrsunfall im Krankenhaus des Ortes wieder zu sich kommt, ist seine eigentliche Mission sein geringstes Problem: All seine Sachen sind verschwunden, die Menschen um ihn herum verhalten sich äußerst merkwürdig, auf seine Fragen bekommt er nur ausweichende Antworten. Und als Ethan dann versucht, Wayward Pines zu verlassen, stößt er auf einen unüberwindbaren Zaun - und ein grauenvolles Geheimnis.

There is more going on at Hanging Hill Lane than simple mass killings. Daphne Locke, eighteen and alone, is back in her old childhood house as a sequence of brutal killings moves closer. Powerless policemen break down and cry, tortured by the most horrific crimes they have ever seen. Murders are not the only darkness on the street. Creepy neighbours act impossibly. Dogged Jehovah’s Witnesses prophesy and stalk. Daphne wonders if she’s going mad, or if there truly is something real and insidious at play. Perhaps the fresh grief of her mother’s death is testing her sanity.

An online identity, simply know as Frut-of-Her-Loins, makes a living by selling fruit (or other food) that has been inserted into her vagina for one full day. Needless to say, her website business is more profitable than one would imagine. A grieving housewife finds out that her husband has been a customer of Frut-of-Her-Loins. She gathers a group of angry wives and hunts down the woman behind the acts that they consider vile.

Zło czai się bliżej, niż myślisz. Pierwsze powojenne miesiące. Do Olsztynka na Mazurach przybywa Stefan Malewski służący w Milicji Obywatelskiej. Rzeczywistość, jaką zastaje, to bandy, Werwolf, panoszący się wszędzie Sowieci. A jakby i tego było mało, to jeszcze... makabrycznie okaleczone zwłoki, porzucone w lesie w pobliżu miasteczka. Można by je uznać za dzieło dzikich zwierząt, gdyby nie to, że po miesiącu zostają znalezione następne, identycznie pokiereszowane.

From the bestselling author of Look Closer comes a new domestic thriller about betrayal and murder inside one twisted family Siblings Allison and Luke have been through a lot together. They’ve always stood by each other. They’d do anything for each other. When Allison’s husband, Finley...

New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight delivers a tour de force of character-driven suspense: the story of two women whose secrets and desires entrap them in a deadly love triangle. You had to rely on the power of love. That he loved you enough not to do the thing that would break...

In the summer of 1987, a mysterious carnival appears overnight on the outskirts of a small town—its glowing lights and haunting music promising dreams fulfilled. But for Jake, Riley, Amber, Dare, and Jimmy, the carnival offers only fear, twisted reflections of their worst nightmares, and a sinister game they never asked to play. When Jimmy disappears inside the carnival, the friends must venture deeper into its surreal horrors to rescue him.

As snow falls, a shadowy figure murders psychiatrist David Reynolds. But when Reynolds approaches the light, he suddenly finds himself seeing through the eyes of his killer, his essence imprisoned in his killer’s body. David realizes he must be in this position for a reason. First he must solve the mystery of why he was killed, then figure out a way to prevent his killer from killing again. His host is a man on a mission, trained to push aside any emotions. Learning more about him, David discovers shocking secrets about his past, and the reason why he took David's life.

In this thrilling novel by Van Allen, a young couple hopes to rekindle their flailing relationship in a remote mountain cabin. Their get-away from the city quickly turns into a desperate fight for survival when they run into a vicious killing machine, a natural predator.

A boy looked in a window, to see a naughty show. Through the pane of pain, the master clown did blow. The circus is a holy tent, the keeper of my rhyme. Where I forged my chains, creating this pantomime. Pretending to be normal, I wait until after dark. Then I paint the frown on, get a whore from the park. At the bottom of that bed was a darling in a chest. She watched with big eyes, horror hooking her from rest.

The last time the dream came, Sam was seven years old, and that was the night her parents were to die. Twenty-five years later, Sam's nightmares are starting to come true once more. Now a successful TV commercials producer, juggling her roles of career woman, wife and mother, she attempts to shut them out.

Harms' Way takes us into the chilling world of a supermax detention facility where America's most psychotic killers are kept in solitary confinement. Yet as we get to know Ethan and explore this world through his wry humor and tragic sense of destiny, we find ourselves uncomfortably at home.

In November 2014 Arla Macleod bludgeoned her mother, father and sister to death with a hammer. Now incarcerated at a medium-security mental-health institution, Arla will speak to no one but Scott King, an investigative journalist, whose Six Stories podcasts have become an internet sensation. King finds himself immersed in an increasingly complex case, interviewing five witnesses and Arla herself as he questions whether Arla's responsibility for the massacre was a diminished as her legal team made out.

Five years ago Susannah Harper's son, Joel, went missing without trace. Bereft of her son and then of her husband, Susannah has rebuilt her life around helping others. But then, on the last night of Hull Fair, a fortune-teller makes an eerie prediction. She tells her that this Christmas Eve, Joel will finally come back to her. As her carefully constructed life begins to unravel, Susannah is forced to confront the buried truths of her family's past.