Browsing: Psychological Thrillers

“Doesn’t let you go until you’ve turned the final page” (Bustle): When a young woman shows up on Lily’s doorstep, it sets off a chain of events that dredges up all Lily has tried to keep hidden. “It’s got every thriller’s trifecta: love, marriage, and murder” (Parade).

“A thrilling tale of time travel” (Andy Weir): Technology has fine-tuned everything in Tom’s world — but after a heartbreak, he journeys to an imperfect alternate reality for a second chance. Featuring dialogue “reminiscent of Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” (Publishers Weekly).

“An addictive, sprawling epic; I wolfed it down” (Miranda July): Chosen as an NPR Best Book of 2017, this “roaringly funny… intellectually subtle, surprising, and enlightening” novel (The New York Review of Books) follows Selin as she makes her way to adulthood in the mid-’90s.

A classic comedy of manners for fans of Jane Austen: In 1950s England, a well-meaning spinster takes an active interest in her neighbors’ personal lives! “Reading Barbara Pym is… a wonderful experience, full of unduplicable perceptions, sensations, and soul-stirrings” (Newsweek).

A legal thriller hailed as “outstanding — starts with a bang and gets tenser and tenser” (Lee Child): Judge Scott Sampson faces the ultimate test when kidnappers take his young twins and demand he rule precisely as instructed. “Truly terrific” (Sue Grafton).

An NPR Best Book of 2017: When 15-year-old Cat moves to a rural town and befriends wild Marlena, they share a year that will affect Cat’s life for decades to come. A “generous, sensitive novel of true feeling” (The New York Times Book Review).

Annie Hansen, a young private eye living with schizophrenia, investigates the murders of the mayor and town doctor… with her own boyfriend as a suspect. A unique whodunit set in a Canadian island village.

DI Frank Farrell reluctantly returns to his tiny hometown to investigate a shocking murder. A priest has been killed — the same priest who ended Farrell’s own career in the church. And when two boys disappear, the case starts to feel eerily personal…

“Packed with smart twists and unforgettable characters” (Harlan Coben): Audra flees her abusive husband with her two kids in tow. But when she’s pulled over on an isolated stretch of road, she’ll realize her troubles have just begun… “An almost unbearably tense nail-biter of a novel” (Ruth Ware).

From the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians (the basis for the acclaimed major motion picture) and China…