Catalog Search Results
21) The blame game
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of the Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Club pick The Other Woman, Sandie Jones's heart-pounding new novel The Blame Game will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Games can be dangerous. But blame can be deadly. As a psychologist specializing in domestic abuse, Naomi has found it hard to avoid becoming overly invested in her clients' lives. But after helping Jacob make the decision to leave his wife, Naomi worries that she's...
22) Nightmare alley
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society. Del Toro co-wrote the enthralling film with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel." --
Author
Language
English
Description
"What starts out as a fake wedding date turns into something these childhood enemies never expected in The Plus One, a sparkling romantic comedy by Mazey Eddings. She's not looking to fix him. She's looking to love him, if he'll let her in. Some facts are indisputable. The sun rises in the east, sets in the west. Gravity exits. Indira doesn't like Jude. Jude doesn't like Indira. But what happens when these childhood enemies find the only thing they...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
This debut thriller about an explosive relationship between an ER physician and a psychiatrist who treats violent sociopaths combines the gripping forensic detail of Patricia Cornwell and the spare, haunting prose of Michael Connelly.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Susan Shader, a noted psychiatrist and criminal profiler for the Chicago Police Department, joins forces with Detective David Gold to track a deranged serial killer, known as the Undertaker, who preys on beautiful young women.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A young woman in Dublin is raped and murdered by a limousine driver. The killer obtains a good lawyer and when the mother, a psychiatrist specializing in the criminally insane, realizes justice will not be done, she takes the law in her hands. A first novel.
Author
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Caroline Strange is certain she knows what's best for her patients, her family, and pretty much everyone else, but that all changes when a troubled young man arrives for his appointment and makes a pair of alarming confessions: I am going to kill someone, and I know who you really are. Dr. Caroline is accustomed to hearing her patients' deepest, darkest secrets, but it seems Nelson Schack may be one step ahead when detectives...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When she encounters a man with whom she has a tragic connection, New York City psychiatrist Meredith McCall becomes obsessed with Gabriel Wright who becomes her patient, and crossing all ethical and moral bounds to treat him, she finds herself spiraling dangerously out of control.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
An urban environmentalist goes on a killing spree against developers spoiling New York City with ugly projects. When he is captured and hospitalized a nurse helps him escape, for which she is fired. So he adds her director to his hit list. As the toll mounts, the FBI asks the nurse's help to capture him, placing her in a quandary. By the author of Nightmare Logic.
Author
Publisher
ROC
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"2035: Robotic technology has evolved into the realm of self-aware, sentient mechanical entities. The future of the human race is to be inevitably linked with its most brilliant creation. But there are some who do not want the future to arrive.... Intelligent and driven, Dr. Susan Calvin is beginning her residency in psychiatry at Manhattan Hasbro teaching hospital, where a select group of patients is receiving the latest in diagnostic advancements--nanotechnology...
Author
Publisher
Summit Books
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
Attractive, prosperous and happily remarried, Stanley Duke leads a life that is positively enviable--that is, until it becomes apparent that his teenage son, Steve, is going mad. It isn't that Steve suddenly tears up a copy of Bellow's Herzog, or cranks his stereo to ear-shattering levels...that's normal. It's his pursuit by cosmic forces that concerns his father. Stanley's confrontation with his son's madness give Amis the opportunity to pull off...
Author
Publisher
Villard
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A tale of drug smuggling on the Mexican border featuring Dr. Sylvia Strange, a psychologist who is asked to treat a girl struck dumb by a car accident in New Mexico. Instead, she spends most of her time protecting her because the girl knows too much and a drug lord is trying to kill her. By the author of Dangerous Attachments.
39) The good lie
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Psychiatrist Dr. Gwen Moore is an expert on killers. She's spent a decade treating California's most depraved predators and unlocking their motives--predators much like the notorious Bloody Heart serial killer, whose latest teenage victim escaped and then identified local high school teacher Randall Thompson as his captor. The case against Thompson as the Bloody Heart Killer is damning--and closed, as far as Gwen and the media are concerned. If not...
Author
Publisher
Oceano
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Child psychiatrist Kate Wolfe's world comes crashing down when one of her young patients commits suicide, so when a troubled girl is left at the hospital ward, she doubts her ability to help. But the girl knows things about Kate's past, things she shouldn't know, forcing Kate to face the murky evidence surrounding her own sister's murder 16 years before, bringing Kate face to face with her deepest fear." --
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request