Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Psychological

It's the summer of 1971, and Andy Hanson, a junior high student, lives a quiet, uneventful life in the New York City borough of Staten Island. Now, however, he must confront what was once a simple assumption: who is his friend? A chance encounter with a student--a young man Andy once wrote off as 'a waste of life'--provokes the youngster onto a tumultuous journey.

As if the turmoil confronting Andy regarding who he believed were his friends and the social implications that this student has thrust upon him were not enough, a serial killer of young boys lurks in the shadows, waiting for his...

"Irrespective of one's politics, Phoenix Concept exposes us to the reality of the emotional trauma that is associated with the voluntary termination of a pregnancy. Skeen spins a tale where fiction evolves in an intriguing and plausible concept for those of us that have been there and done that." -Victoria Taft Driven by circumstances from his failed marriage, Dr. Garrison Timbers blends deceipt with compassion to justify his unethical and covert brand of medicine. If exposed, the only thing he has to lose is his medical license, career...and deepening sense of guilt. "Phoenix Concept takes...

A graduate school student at Berkeley in 1971 finds a class project from a 1959 Criminology seminar detailing an assignment to commit the perfect murder. He investigates and finds more than he wants about this strange class assignment.

Although "CRIM 279" is listed as fiction; the author claims it is a true account that he promised would not be published until 45 years after the crime You will be drawn into the atmosphere of the University of California and immersed in the drama of the class of CRIM 279 as they intellectually and philosophically discuss the details of their plan and...

Susan Kelsey has an ideal life. She has a career with an electronics development firm in a big city, a nice home and a new car. Coming from a small town, Susan finds herself uneasy with the city's crime rate. Being a pacifist she is stunned to discover she is being stalked by a thief and the police are unable to identify him. When the thief turns out to be a mass murderer who is targeting the highly classified "S-2 Project" her salvation comes in the form of an agent for Homeland Security. Their worlds and their ideas on law enforcement are totally opposite but even Susan realizes he is her...

Blaine Rutledge, director of the Mercy Family Planning Center, has a secret. In the basement, his mistress Marie Constantine, involved in a secret love affair of her own, is performing in vitro fertilizations on young women kidnapped from their homes by a person referred to as the "medical student."

Sara Dupont, a beautiful, young obstetrics resident inadvertently discovers the scheme while searching for a new admission's old records.

Meanwhile, a local preacher, Boyd Preston, and his son Prescott lead around-the-clock anti-abortion protests against the center. Suspecting foul play when...

He is a lieutenant of detectives in charge of homicide. He is haunted by a terrible and debilitating secret. A secret that could cost him his career as a police officer or even cost him his life. Now he is forced to confront this secret as he hunts for a serial killer who has descended on his City. A cold and calculating killer who is attacking and slaughtering the homeless of the City.

Unaware that as he hunts down the killer his secret is known. Known by the very killer he seeks.

Paul Clouse believes his worries may finally be over. Though the past two years of his life have been horrific, he hopes things are going to change.

His first wife was murdered, his son abducted, and his best friend killed by unknown assailants, but each time he has managed to survive.

This Halloween the rules have changed, and the killer seems to stay one step ahead of everyone.Clouse finds himself losing more friends to the killer's grasp, and wonders exactly how he can stop a madman who seems to know more about the West Baden Springs Hotel and his life than anyone else around him.As...

Mara's design for a happy queer family looks bleak. Her lingering relationship blues and the mounting tension between housemates, Joe and Adam, may shatter her plans for pregnancy.

But these things are about to become the least of her worries. For someone has designs on Mara that transcend even her worst nightmares...

What would you do if someone offered you the option to have three people murdered? Allan Eberhard gets that chance. In the midst of his dull, passionless life, controlled by his domineering wife, comes this astonishing opportunity. The runaway boredom of his life is changed by a wealthy Sheik's offer--and by a woman who introduces him to true love. Allan can't bring himself to commission the killings, but can't reject his option for murder either. But after the mysterious murder of two people--his lover and her husband--his life will never be the same.

Memories Never Fade...

Jason Simons (Sims) can't seem to understand his constant mental quagmire over the belief that he is no longer in love with his girlfriend, Kelly. In a last ditch effort to understand himself, he decides to take up his best friend's offer to leave Baltimore and drive back to their hometown, Morehead City, North Carolina, to attend their ten-year high school reunion. However, Sims has other plans in store that could possibly determine his fate along with that of many others. Lingering memories of his high school sweetheart, Sonya, could stir up more than just old...

Sheriff Tracey Lavore handles the case of her life. She is a small town Sheriff in Upstate New York trying to enjoy a simple life, but some things are not meant to be.

Sheriff Lavore enforces the law and ensures the safety of the Town residents, but when someone enters the forbidden zone in the Woods she is not allowed to investigate. She is given a direct order from the Town Hall to back off.

She begins to expect foul play and enters the Woods to solve a murder, but what she finds is more horrifying than anything that she has ever encountered.

She now must become the "Savior of the...

New D.A. Katie O'Brien (heroine of Saigon Landing) has a real problem. A possible serial killer is terrorizing her Alabama community, and she and veteran homicide investigator, Bobby Franks, are struggling to decipher taunting "clues" left at the scenes of the ritualistic killings. Although she's a veteran trial lawyer with a background in psychology, Katie's unable to zero in on the arrogant but clever killer. With the help of longtime friend, Avery May, Katie eventually determines that the clues are coded to successive sections of an eighty-odd-year-old poem. But this realization only...

Suddenly, milliseconds after Clarice heard Robert scream, an almost invisible form emerged from the center of Jessie's stomach. Clarice spoke to what appeared to be Robert's face, though its translucent nature made it impossible to make out the eyes, mouth, or nose ... "It is time to go to a better place."

Robert wasn't sure what to do. He looked at Clarice then back down upon the scene of his murder, which had become extremely bloody, as Dr. Diller and his nurse practitioner extracted Robert's lifeless remains from Jessie's womb. For a moment Robert considered taking the hand, which was...

Local papers have reported several accounts of the disappearances of children throughout the county. Oddly enough the town of Paradise has been spared this trauma. Police are investigating, but there are few clues... Newly minted teacher, Debbi Gyl, is excited to be heading to her first teaching position. The salary and benefits were so enticing, she just couldn't refuse. Her excitement will soon fade once she discovers that Paradise is hardly that. There are secrets here that could affect her life forever, but only if she survives...

Justine was still bewildered by the bizarre events that caused her desperate flight from the love and comfort of her childhood home on the coast of Maine to this lonely house. Though it seemed much longer, Justine had lived in the land's end mansion called Sea Watch for just one week. Sea Watch clung to soaring cliffs above the confluence of the Brigand River and the Pacific. She looked through the dusty windows toward the beach. The tall man with dark hair and dark clothing was there again. This is the third evening she watched him walking on the beach at sunset. She knew nothing about him...

Lara, who is in her early 30's and suffering from amnesia caused by trauma to her head, awakes to find herself all alone in an old farmhouse. The man who lives there arrives to find her and feels resentful that she has intruded in his life. Becoming accustomed to having her there, he tries in his crude way to help her. She meets a waitress who becomes her close friend and, with some influential friends, Lara discovers who she is and the reason for her amnesia. A surprising ending to this story.

A brutal serial killer stalks the million-acre Ottawa National Forest in Michigan's western Upper Peninsula, a man who can vanish into the vast woodlands without leaving a trace. The fragile local economy is paralyzed while authorities search for him.

Will the elusive fugitive be brought to ground before he kills again? Is the killer a man with human motivations as they are now understood, however warped as they might be, or is he something else, a throwback to past times, times not seen for hundreds of years? The contradictions confound his pursuers.

Jed Caplan, a lawyer who has written a stack of unpublished novels, is unnerved when he encounters one of his fictional characters in the flesh. Then his most fascinating creation, a brilliant and seductive thrill-killer, takes a romantic interest in him. Intoxicated by their kinky sex, Jed stops caring whether she is a figment of his imagination or a living psychopath. Then she vanishes along with all evidence that she ever existed. Have the pressures of divorce, fatherhood, and his cutthroat law practice driven Jed crazy? Or is he the target of a vengeful conspiracy? He runs from one false...

"Make Mother Proud," the second Adam Graham adventure, takes us into the mind of a cunning, diabolical serial killer.

Adam, a local school superintendent, is drawn into police efforts to stop this killer. His background in education, intelligence and anger over the death of several young female teachers drives him in his efforts to find the psychopath responsible.

A stunning tale of murder and romance, rich with the local color of the American Southwest, this is a story as mysterious, varied and opulent as the desert in which it is set.