Twisted Psychological Thriller

A city built on secrets. Vanished names scattered like whispers in the dark. Power hides behind glass, and shadows hold every answer. Investigative journalist Reeva Maddox tracks a trail of disappearances the police can’t—or won’t—explain. Anonymous threats arrive like clockwork, pulling her closer to the snake pit of urban corruption. Every step is a high-wire act, with eyes watching from the depths. The city’s elite play their games; Reeva just raised the stakes. As the truth unravels, the lines between hunter and hunted blur. Her past breaks through the cracks, twisting the ...

One sunny August afternoon, the residents of Cedar Close throw their annual summer barbecue. Children play in the cherry-tree lined street, tables are laden with food, and the wine is flowing. For Laurie Mills, it’s her first time meeting the neighbours. And it’s the first time she discovers her husband, Robert, is having an affair. Cedar Close has always been a nice place to live - a quiet suburban street where everyone looks out for one another and bad things don’t happen. Until late one evening, when Robert Mills is found dead in his bedroom.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU LIED? The first lie: MONSTERS DON’T EXIST. When the body of a man is discovered in the Boston Common, Martina finds herself entering a horrific nightmare. She discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of ancient methods of persecution being carried out by a Puritan-indoctrinated serial killer who believes the devil walks among us. The second lie: YOU WOULD KNOW A MONSTER IF YOU SAW ONE. After the first victim is dismissed as gang-related, Martina fears there is more to the murder than meets the eye. Her instincts are soon proven correct when another...

You don't chase the spiral. You survive it long enough, and it starts chasing something inside you. Detective Addison Carrow is used to blood. She's cataloged it, crawled through it, bathed in the aftermath of its patterns. But the man who taught her the language of violence—the one who stitched murder into shape like poetry—is gone. Vale has vanished. Or dissolved. Or maybe he was never real to begin with. Except the bodies haven’t stopped. Now they’re quieter. Meaner. Someone is killing with intention, with ritual, with a fluency that only one person should possess. Addison knows ...

How well do you know your husband? Harry and Amelia start their idyllic marriage in the same way all newlyweds aspire to: unapologetically in love and tremendously excited to begin their lives together. Amelia is besotted with Harry. After years of being alone and almost giving up on love and marriage, Harry steps into her life and gives her the one thing she truly needs above all else: hope. After their perfect wedding, the couple move to Manchester to set down roots, but life has other plans. When they struggle to conceive a child, Amelia is terrified that Harry might leave her, but Harry...

When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn't think it's love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her.

My first patient was 10 years old when she started writing letters... to a serial killer. She never stopped. Dr. Lauren Beckinsale is a successful and well-loved psychologist in upstate New York. After an acrimonious divorce from her adulterous ex-husband, she’s rebuilding her life by treating wealthy wives of the upstate New York elite. But things take a turn when she discovers that a handsome man she was flirting with in a trendy Saratoga Springs bar has disappeared. Soon after, she starts treating a new patient and realizes he was there that same night. He’s nothing like her other ...

We had it all: I made sure of it. Money was no object, and we could fulfil every irrational financial whim we had without a moment’s hesitation. Our typically lavish holiday to Tenerife was indicative of that. Yet, instead of savouring every second I had there and focusing on what was truly important, I still found something to whine about. After the horrific events that my wife Charlotte and I endured, we had a family of our own. I freely admit that I took them for granted and should have cherished every fleeting moment I had with them, but hindsight is a beautifully cruel thing. Why the...

A celebrated therapist. A patient with secrets sharp as knives. Trust slips. Sanity cracks. The game turns deadly. Elara Voss runs a practice built on trust and boundaries. She meets a client with charm as polished as his lies. Shadows flicker behind every smile, every word. The past claws at her, memories bleeding into every session. Every closed door hides more than she bargained for. Lines cross. Obsession blooms. Control unravels fast. Therapists are meant to diagnose, not disappear. Behind closed minds, monsters wear many faces. In Elara’s office, the final session may be hers.

Some dates you never forget. This one… you may not survive. Jack Bennett has it all—a loving wife, three beautiful kids, a successful engineering career, and a home in the suburbs. But everything changes the day he finds a strange card in his mailbox. Save the Date No sender. No stamp. No return address. Just a single line of text: April 21st. Jack brushes it off as a mistake—until another card appears. Then another. And with each arrival, the cracks in his perfect life begin to widen. What begins as a curiosity soon spirals into obsession. The cards keep coming. Mistakes pile up at ...

#1 Bestseller in Kindle Store for Women Sleuths!When a young Native American woman is murdered, a shock wave rips through the peaceful town of Garnerville, Oregon. Police Chief Sidney Becker, a highly skilled detective, won’t rest until the killer is in custody. She learns from tribal members that the victim had been releasing animals trapped by poachers. A poacher who caught her destroying his traps threatened to skin her alive. Sidney believes nine-year-old Tegan knows the killer’s identity. Blinded by lightning when he was six, Tegan has a heightened sense of smell and hearing. He ...

A man… A lie… A secret… And something he cannot control! Robert and Emma are your quintessential couple. Robert’s genius affords them an enviable lifestyle. He designs highly advanced robots and his creative work is even installed in his home. Robert names the system GINA. She is a major part of their family. The family has an interactive home and are the envy of their friends. They seem to have everything. Then something devastating! A family outing turns tragic! Robert is forced to use his brilliance to do the unthinkable. An act that is unfathomable and must be kept secret. He ...

She was supposed to get married. Instead, she vanished. On the morning of her wedding, Olivia Lakewell stood outside a picturesque California chapel, ready to say “I do.” She never made it inside. Vanished without a trace, Olivia became the subject of local legend—a tragic love story with no ending. Her fiancé was shattered. Her daughter left without a mother. And after years of searching, the town finally let her memory fade. Until now. Ten years later, Olivia returns. But nothing is how she left it. Her home is gone. Her husband has moved on. And the people she loved have spent a ...

Forensic psychologist and rookie FBI agent Alexis Forrest returns to her hometown of Broken Hill to investigate the disappearance of a missing teenage girl. Returning to this snowy New England town is the last thing Alexis wants to do. She has a strained relationship with her divorced parents whose relationship did not survive the disappearance and murder of Alexis’ older sister, or her dad’s prison sentence. The circumstances of this girl’s disappearance are surprisingly similar to her sister’s yet the local police aren’t exactly welcoming to an inexperienced FBI agent sent to ...

Uncovering her husband’s family secrets could cost her everything… Ally’s perfect marriage to Tim Hawthorne is crumbling under the weight of one trial after another. Forced to visit Tim’s mother on her secluded island off the coast of Maine, Ally uncovers a sinister secret: years ago, a member of the family was the prime suspect in a young woman’s disappearance from the same island. Now, history is repeating itself. Another woman has vanished without a trace. Ally digs into all the dark secrets of the Hawthorne family’s past, but what she discovers may cost her more than her ...

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 ...

Olivia thought she had finally escaped the torment of her past, pouring her pain into a raw and unflinching memoir that took the literary world by storm. But success has a price, and the shadows of her old life refuse to stay buried. When a shocking act of violence thrusts Olivia back into chaos, she’s forced to confront a dark truth: the game isn’t over. Someone—twisted, brilliant, and merciless—is pulling the strings, and every clue leads her deeper into a labyrinth of mind games and terror. As past sins collide with present horrors, Olivia must navigate a deadly web of betrayal, ...

For fans of tightly written suspense with unexpected twists, welcome to The Domino Effect, the third book in the Riley Scott detective series. The Domino Effect will have you up late at night with the lights on, checking under the beds and behind doors, turning pages, trying to figure out what is coming on the next page. The FBI estimates there are at least 25 serial killers active in the United States at any given time, committing roughly 150 murders a year. The chances of a random detective becoming involved in one of those investigations is slim to none, but Riley Scott has been through ...

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.

You break into the wrong house. You find a woman locked in a box. You die nine days later. When Jimmy Magwood breaks into a house, he's shocked to find a young woman locked in a metal box. A few days later, after he's arrested for burglary, he decides to tell Detective David Hudson about the woman. However, he's poisoned before he can tell the detective the kidnapper's name and address. Hudson has no doubt that Magwood's murder was arranged by the kidnapper. A search of missing persons reports reveals that the woman in the box is Michelle Garnett, who disappeared a month and a half before. ...