psychological fiction

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You should have known

Marriage counselor Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the perfect life and writing a book called "You Should Have Known" that urges women to listen to their intuition about men. But when a young woman Grace knows is murdered, and Grace's husband goes missing, Grace is forced to rethink everything she has ever known and recreate her life.

Cherry

After serving in Iraq with the Army, a young man returns to America with severe PTSD and falls into drug addiction. This addiction leads him to rob multiple banks.

The photographer

Delta Dawn, a photographer no longer content just observing the perfect lives of NYC's elite citizens but wanting a piece of the pie for herself, is hired to photograph the eleventh birthday party of Natalie Straub. Using her connection to the family, Dawn becomes not only Natalie's photographer but also her nanny, befriends the mother, and ingratiates herself with the father. Slowly, Dawn finds in herself the frightening power to not only manipulate photos, but also the real world--but at a high cost.

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Palsip yi nyeon saeng Kim Jiyeong
Thirty-something "millennial everywoman" Kim Jiyoung leaves her white-collar desk job to fulfill the South Korean expectation that she will focus on being a mother to her newborn daughter, full-time. It isn't long before Jiyoung exhibits an alarming species of psychosis--she begins speaking in perfect impersonations of the voices of other women, living and dead. Her husband demands she goes to see a male psychologist, and there, in the male dominated world, Jiyoung lets out her grievances, from her childhood till now.

Mailman

a novel
2004
Albert Lippincott has spent the last thirty years working for the Nestor, New York, post office as a letter carrier, but when one of his customers dies and Albert discovers he was holding the letter that might have saved him, his precarious existence begins to crumble.

The forbidden door

Once a happily married top agent with the FBI, Jane Hawl is now a widow wanted by the agency she once worked in. Hunting her enemies comes with its own costs, and now those she seeks revenge against are prepared to fight back, using her five-year-old son as bait. But an increasing number of people are becoming afflicted with a mysterious brain-altering malady that drives them violently insane, leaving everyone's lives in danger.

The invisible man

2015
The tale of a scientist who discovers how to make his body become invisible, but, when he can't make himself visible again, becomes violently insane.

Alguien a quien conoces

A teen boy in upstate New York begins breaking into homes and hacking the owners' computers to learn their secrets; sometimes he even shares the secrets in prank emails. However, when a woman in the neighborhood is murdered, suspicion mounts. The neighbors will do anything to protect their secrets, to find out who the boy is and what he knows.

God help the child

a novel
Sweetness, a light-skinned African American, never gave her dark-skinned daughter, Bride, her full love because of the hue of her skin. As an adult, Bride is beautiful and successful, but she has never overcome that childhood rejection, something Sweetness is only now coming to understand.

A clergyman's daughter

2011
Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter, grows up with a tyrannical father, but when she blacks out one day, and ends up with amnesia, wandering the streets of Kent, and sleeping in Trafalgar Square, she loses more than just memory.

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