Psychological True

Rechtsmediziner Dr. Fred Abel ist zurück - in einer nervenzerreißenden Mischung aus True Crime, klassischer Ermittlung und hartem Thrill. Dr. Fred Abel muss vor Gericht in einem besonders schweren Fall von Misshandlung aussagen. Bei dem Opfer, einem kleinen Mädchen, handelt es sich ausgerechnet um die Nichte seiner langjährigen Kollegin Sabine Yao. Das Verhältnis zwischen den beiden Rechtsmedizinern ist dadurch äußerst angespannt. Währenddessen findet Privatermittler Lars Moewig, Fred Abels alter Freund, in seinem Kickboxclub eine grausam zugerichtete Leiche in einem Boxsack.

Her only way to survive is to start believing in herself. “I know it’s scary and I’m trying to explain to you, that when you’re scared, this is how you need to move. You need to look at the object and advance, you can’t stand still. Those who stand still get killed, and you can’t stop. Understand? They get killed. They kill them: he stops – he’s killed, he stops – he’s killed. You can’t stop, even if it’s terrifying, even if it’s really, really scary. It’s a very good practice in war and in life. You can’t let fear make you freeze, you need to walk, go straight...

Another blockbuster thriller hot on the heels of Atima Srivastava’s other bestsellers; It Takes a Girl, and Dark Waters. Part of The Killer Women Series. Shivani Srivastava has designs on the eminent Dr Shree. She doesn’t realise that, though separated from his wife, he is still married. So, when the glamorous Mala Sinha returns and starts getting in the way of her plans, Shivani accidentally runs her over in a pique of jealous rage. At first panicked, Shivani's horror soon turns to high spirits as she realises it’s easy to get away with it. All she has to do is control the narrative....

1979. Sixteen-year-old Carolyn Russell grows increasingly infatuated with her school mathematics teacher who is also giving her private lessons. Then she disappears. 2014. Struggling journalist Stephanie Brett creates a true-crime podcast focused on the disappearance of Carolyn Russell. By digging deep into this mysterious cold case, her confidence and flagging career are boosted. But after she confronts the suspects—and talks to a potential witness—the leads dry up. Nevertheless, she refuses to let the story rest.

Mira’s body lies lifeless in her designer recliner, an empty pill bottle on the floor beside her. Her frozen eyes are no longer able to see the Seattle city lights sparkling below, and her lungs no longer able to breathe the fresh Puget Sound air. Joined by the spirit of Jakob, who departed his body lying dead on the bloody battlefield of Lexington, Massachusetts on April 19, 1775, their spirits hover together near the ceiling of her downtown high-rise.

After Billy Jay Cader is arrested, charged, and convicted for two cold-blooded murders of law enforcement officers, Amy Jo Whitenhour decides to interview the killer in order to tell his story of how he became Florida's most notorious criminal. This is the true story through Billy Jay's words from accounts from childhood and up. They are told from his perspective through the looking glass of Amy Jo's eyes. Harsh realities from his abusive past. This book ushers in and readies the listener to continue on to book six, The Call Home.

Two decades ago, Amber Glass's life changed forever. No-one had even known she was pregnant - including Joe, her date. Afterwards, she left town for good - and hasn't seen Joe since. But she knows he hasn't left, that he's working for his father's real estate company, married to a cosmetic surgeon. Child free. Now Amber is back, and as the two of them tentatively start to renew their once unlikely relationship, will their secrets and motivations finally destroy everyone around them?

Die eisige Kälte des Bösen: Zwei Freunde, 27 und 25 Jahre alt, beide verheiratet, beide Familienväter, begehen zwischen 1995 und 2001 eine Reihe kaltblütiger Morde an Unschuldigen, die das Pech hatten, zur falschen Zeit am falschen Ort zu sein. Die beiden Täter agieren ohne erkennbare Skrupel oder Gewissensbisse, teils sogar vor Zeugen. Die Polizei braucht lange, um dem Duo auf die Spur zu kommen, zu lange.

In 1994, 14-year-old Stefanie Hinrichs dreamed of owning a horse, leaving school and marrying Keanu Reeves. But God had other plans for the teenager. Her family belonged to a controversial Doomsday cult led by self-proclaimed Messiah William Kamm, also known as the 'Little Pebble', who was building a new promised land for his followers deep in the Australian bush. Stefanie was forced to become the false prophet's child bride - one of 84 mystical spouses chosen by the Lord to bear 27 children for his new heavenly dynasty.

We never see our friends crying because they never share when they actually get hurt in friendship. We make our space to move on and leave them. Rudra and Ayaan were best friends before they got separated five years back, but now their lives are entirely changed with assumptions and new circumstances. Two Friends in a Boat is the soul-stirring voyage of two most bosom friends that leaves the preeminent definition and understanding from best-friendship to loyal friendship in the 21st century.

From the author of The Lace Reader comes an emotionally resonant novel of tragedy, secrets, identity, and love. Zee Finch has a career as a respected psychotherapist and she’s about to get married, but the shocking death of Zee’s most troubled patient brings to the surface secrets in Zee’s own life. Zee is finally forced to confront the truth behind her mother’s death and the unfinished story she left behind.

Tina's struggle continues in The Terrorist Maker. Surrounded by murderers her only chance to survive is to start using her gift. His gaze is stony, his eyelids at half-mast. And I can’t look at him at all, which is why I’m lying with my eyes closed. I’m afraid to see something frightening in these eyes. But I feel that I need to look. Otherwise, this ‘frightening thing’ inside him will suffocate me. I realize, that if I don’t do this, I’ll be left to die exactly like that man, about whom they later simply forgot. Therefore, however frightening and difficult it might be, I’m ...

In the first installment of the Bowman Case Files, bored and entitled university student Julia Strauss meets a captivating man during a random encounter at a cafe. She is instantly attracted to the handsome stranger and pursues him obsessively. What she doesn’t know is that behind all the charm, he has a secret agenda of his own. Can Julia see beyond the haze of her infatuation before it’s too late?

"The Masquerade of Death": Targar Negary entombs his only surviving child in a sarcophagus, possibly thinking her to be a victim of the Black Plague that is sweeping Europe. Poor Talis must endure agonizing and seemingly-endless hours of torture within her tomb, wondering who emplaced her there and why, if it was her father, seeking some sort of punishment. With Talis' air running out, she does not believe that she can survive this entombment and find out the reason for it.

My father was Mr Bones - the notorious serial killer of 25 years ago. As a child I witnessed his crimes. Everything is different now. I have a new identity. I’m a mother. I am finally free. Until that podcast. I should never have listened. They’re linking a recent kidnapping to the crimes of the past. They know who I am. They’re calling me Little Bones again. They say I’m a villain, but I’m not. I’m a victim. You believe me, don’t you?

When well-known true crime YouTuber Natalie Baker, host of For Crime's Sake, is found dead, her sister Rebecca has a lot of questions for the local Sheriff. Questions he doesn't want to answer. Did she get too close to her cold case? The Sheriff insists her sister died in a double suicide, but why was it no one had ever seen her with the man she was supposed to love? At least not until their bodies were found on the floor of her home.

For fans of Karin Slaughter, Psychological Horror, and Suspense Thrillers Addison knows exactly who she is, it's just no one else does. Now, she's a NYC Detective, hiding from who she used to be except somehow, finding cases that match her brutal history. Victims that are more like her than she can admit too. Except now, her history is tired of waiting and wants to break through. She's just not entirely sure she can survive it all over again Page Up and Order Now

Cathartic and emotionally relevant for listeners who have recently suffered a loss. Orr relates, in straightforward prose, the ways in which her grief propels her into past-life recall and alters her perception of her own spiritual path and life purpose. listeners might find this book useful as a companion piece to more traditional texts on coping with death, such as Kubler-Ross's seminal On Grief and Grieving... Kirkus Reviews

The story of Adam and Eve updated as an elderly couple coping with Alzheimer's disease, alcoholism and poverty. Ever since they were expelled from the garden, they've been condemned to living their mistakes and variations of their lives over and over without end.

It was a victimless crime.... Estate Agent Clara is struggling to make a sale. With her abusive ex-husband on the brink of finding where she's hiding, she needs to make a commission soon or lose her chance to escape. Boleskine House on the shores of Loch Ness has remained unsold for years, and Clara is sure that an 'innocent' fire will force the price down. But the perfect crime soon turns into the perfect nightmare: there was a witness, a stranger in the village, and he's not going to let Clara get away with it that easily....