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Adult Fiction - Psychological Suspense
Updated May 19, 2023
Milwaukee County Federated Library System
Oak Creek Public Library
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Gone girl : a novel
Flynn, Gillian
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The "mercilessly entertaining" (Vanity Fair) instant classic "about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships" (Lev Grossman, Time "One of the Best Books of the...
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The girl on the train
Hawkins, Paula
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Book of the Year, now a major motion picture starring Emily Blunt. The debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives, from the author of Into...
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Shutter Island
Lehane, Dennis.
Paper Book
The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. The New York Times calls Shutter...
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Broken river : a novel
Lennon, J. Robert
Paper Book
The most inventive and entertaining novel to date from "a master of the dark arts" (Kelly Link) A modest house in upstate New York. One in the morning. Three people--a couple and their child--hurry out the door, but it's too late for them. As the virtuosic and terrifying opening...
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The killer next door
Marwood, Alex
Paper Book
"The Killer Next Door is even better [than The Wicked Girls]. Scary as hell. Great characters." --Stephen King Winner of the Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel and nominated for the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original Everyone who...
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The infatuations
Marías, Javier
Paper Book
From the award-winning Spanish writer Javier Marías comes an extraordinary new book that has been a literary sensation around the world: an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder that we come to understand--or do we?--through one woman's ever-unfurling imagination and...
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Three graves full
Mason, Jamie.
Paper Book
A Library Journal Best Book of 2013! A Booklist Best Crime Novel of 2013! There is very little peace for a man with a body buried in his backyard. But it could always be worse... More than a year ago, mild-mannered Jason Getty killed a man he...
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Satin Island : a novel
McCarthy, Tom
Paper Book
Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize From the author of Remainder and C (short-listed for the Man Booker Prize), and a winner of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, comes Satin Island, an unnerving novel that promises to give us the first and last word...
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Carousel court : a novel
McGinniss, Joe
Paper Book
Following the breakout success of his "searing" debut novel The Delivery Man, Joe McGinniss Jr. returns with Carousel Court: a bold, original, and exhilarating novel of marriage as blood sport that reads like Revolutionary Road for the era of The Unwinding. ...
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House. Tree. Person : a novel of suspense
McPherson, Catriona
Paper Book
"An unnerving and suspenseful novel, House. Tree. Person.is McPherson's best yet."--Karin Slaughter, New York Timesand international bestselling author The body found in a muddy grave across the street is just the latest horror threatening to tear Ali McGovern's life apart seam by seam....
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Elmet : a novel
Mozley, Fiona
Paper Book
FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE Don't miss Fiona Mozley's new novel, Hot Stew, which is available now! The family thought the little house they had made themselves in Elmet, a corner of Yorkshire, was theirs, that their...
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Chance : a novel
Nunn, Kem.
Paper Book
In an intense tale of psychological suspense, a San Francisco psychiatrist becomes sexually involved with a female patient who suffers from multiple personality disorder, and whose pathological ex-husband is an Oakland homicide detective--from a Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author.
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The hole : a novel
P'y?n, Hye-y?ng
Paper Book
Winner of the 2017 Shirley Jackson Award Named One of the Top 10 Thrillers to Read This Summer by Time Magazine. In this tense, gripping novel by a rising star of Korean literature, Oghi has woken from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his...
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Listen to me
Pittard, Hannah
Paper Book
A modern gothic about a marriage and road trip gone hauntingly awry Mark and Maggie's annual drive east to visit family has gotten off to a rocky start. By the time they're on the road, it's late, a storm is brewing, and they are no longer speaking to one...
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Ash falls : a novel
Read, Warren
Paper Book
A routine prisoner transfer on a rural highway ends with the bus upside-down in a ravine, the driver dead of a heart attack, and convicted murderer Ernie Luntz on the loose, his eyes fixed on the mountain range in the distance, over which lies his hometown of Ash Falls. Set in a moss-draped, Pacific...
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Bad monkeys
Ruff, Matt.
Paper Book
“Bad Monkeys has wit and imagination by the bucketload. . . . Buy it, read it, memorize then destroy it. There are eyes everywhere.” --Chris Moore, bestselling author of A Dirty Job and Lamb Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. She tells police that she is a...
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Keep you close : [a novel]
Whitehouse, Lucie
Paper Book
When the artist Marianne Glass falls to her death, everyone insists it was a tragic accident. Yet Rowan Winter, once her closest friend, suspects there is more to the story. Ever since she was young, Marianne had paralyzing vertigo. She would never have gone so close to the roof's edge.
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The Bellwether revivals
Wood, Benjamin
Paper Book
A sophisticated debut novel about the hypnotic influence of love, the beguiling allure of money and the haunting power of music Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has escaped the squalid urban neighborhood where he was raised and made a new life for himself amid the colleges and spires of...
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Black chalk
Yates, Christopher J.
Paper Book
"This is the smart summer thriller you've been waiting for."--NPR's All Things Considered NAMED A MUST READ BY THE BOSTON GLOBE, BBC.COM, AND NEW YORK POST NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR A compulsively readable...
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