Literary Fiction Psychological

This bundle includes three audiobooks: What Goes Around, Hidden Within, and Fatal Words.

Katie Connelly has lived in San Francisco all her life. Her late father made his career as an ironworker on the Golden Gate Bridge, and the many stories of him trying to save jumpers still haunt her. When she's asked to write a history about the bridge, her research uncovers a secret journal hidden in her father's desk, pages of familiar advice penned by the hand of a stranger. The scribbled words tell of a promise ring and a distant love, clues that Katie hopes may answer her own unresolved sorrow.

Sometimes the road home runs through everything you tried to forget. After a failed relationship and an unsettled teaching career, Sara Barlow returns to her childhood home in Arlington, Virginia, hoping for a fresh start. But when she applies for a job at her old high school, a chance glimpse into the gymnasium shakes her to the core—she spots the man she suspects was involved in a classmate’s violent death a decade earlier.

Drei Jahre allein. Donnerstags Kickboxtraining mit Max. Mehr braucht Jonas nicht. Sagt er sich. Dann geht die Glastür der Trainingshalle auf. Clara tritt ein. Aufrecht. Ruhig. Als würde sie den Raum abmessen, bevor sie einen Platz darin einnimmt. Aus einem Donnerstagabend wird mehr. Eine Zahnbürste neben ihrer. Ein Schlüssel in seiner Tasche. Ein Haken für seine Jacke. Später ziehen sie aufs Land. Ein Haus. Felder hinter dem Zaun. Ihre gemeinsame Tochter Mia kommt zur Welt. Eine Weile glaubt Jonas, angekommen zu sein.

When Thea sees her old family home is up for sale - a beautiful old rectory in the small town where she and her childhood sweetheart, now husband, Drew, grew up - she knows she has to have it. Her parents moved her away suddenly when she was 11, but her childhood there was filled with happy memories. Drew seems less sure, but Thea is certain it’s the perfect place to raise their two children. But as the last boxes are unpacked, Thea can’t seem to settle. She thought the move would bring her family closer together, but Drew is getting more distant by the day.

A casual remark on the telephone leads Eleanor Hamilton to an appalling and deeply disturbing discovery: John, her husband of 20 years, has been leading a life of duplicity and betrayal. Shock, jealousy, and anger drive Eleanor to extraordinary limits in her desire for revenge. But then fate intervenes in the shape of a terrible accident.

Three hospital beds. Three unconscious men. And one son standing at the edge of a truth he was never meant to uncover. When Zachery Walton is called to the hospital after a catastrophic accident, he expects to find only his father fighting for his life. Instead, he is confronted with something impossible—two other men, identical in age, bearing the same last name, brought in alongside him. Men his father once claimed were long dead.

A psychological mystery filled with droll humour, brilliant language and unforgettable characters. Twenty-five-year-old Clemency James has moved from Sydney to a chilly bedsit on the other side of the world. During the day she studies for the bar by correspondence; in the evenings she gives French lessons to earn a meagre wage. When she meets Christian, a charismatic would-be actor, she can see he's trouble - not least because he's involved with an older woman who has children.

In the Blink of an Eye is award-winning author Jesse Blackadder’s deeply emotional drama that explores a family’s path to forgiveness and redemption in the aftermath of a tragedy. The Brennans — parents, Finn and Bridget, and their sons, Jarrah and Toby — have made a sea change, from...

Five immersive recordings from Japan’s most celebrated and controversial author, plus exclusive bonus content about his life and work Listen now to a remarkable collection from Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, and film director Yukio Mishima. Considered one of the most important...

A haunting portrait of love, ambition, obsession, and regret. In My Mortal Enemy, Willa Cather crafts a powerful psychological novel that explores the hidden costs of desire and the complexities of human relationships. Through the life of Myra Henshawe—a woman whose choices have shaped both...

When Shea Walker, a sunny, easygoing mom, is found dead in a bathtub with a stomach full of booze and pills, the shocking discovery shatters the complacency of her comfortable suburban community. Kat Burrows, Shea's longtime friend and former neighbor, is hit hardest. How could a woman she thought she knew so well come to such a sordid end? What could lead happy, well-adjusted, responsible Shea to accidentally overdose on alcohol and narcotics? Or, worse, drive her to suicide?

Tina Thornton's twin sister Meg died in a childhood accident, but for almost 40 years Tina has secretly blamed herself for her sister's death. During a visit to her Uncle Edward and his sister Lucia, Tina makes a discovery that forces her to finally question her memories of the day her sister died. As Tina finds the courage to face the past, she unravels the tangled family mysteries of her estranged parents, her beautiful French Aunt Simone, the fading, compassionate Uncle Edward, and above all, the cold, bitter Aunt Lucia, whose spectral presence casts a long shadow over them all.

An exploration of relationships, marriage, passion, beauty and the price of love. Zoë Howard is 17 when her brother, Russell, introduces her to Stephen Quayle. Aloof and harsh, Stephen is unlike anyone she has ever met, 'a weird, irascible character out of some dense Russian novel'. His sister, Anna, is shy and thoughtful, 'a little orphan'. Zoe and Russell, Stephen and Anna: they may come from different social worlds, but all four will spend their lives moving in and out of each other's shadow.

Kat and Scott Hamilton are dealing with the hardest of losses: the death of their only child. While Scott throws himself back into his law practice in Los Angeles, Kat is hesitant to rejoin the workplace and instead spends her days shell-shocked and confused, unable to focus. When an unwelcome face from Kat's past in England emerges - the beautiful and imposing Sarah Cherrington - Kat's marriage is thrown into a tailspin. Now wealthy beyond anything she could have imagined as a girl, Sarah appears to have everything she could need or want.

Motels dot the highways of America, providing a range of services and prices. We use them. Thousands of us use them for a place to rest, for meetings and assignations, and even, at times, to act out life's dramas. They are soulless places, almost perfect for the tragic endings that sometimes seem to take on their own power and strength, playing out no matter what we truly want.