Psychological Crime Thrillers

Claire Fontaine is convinced that her ex-husband killed their teenage daughter all those years back and believes he’s capable of killing again. When she sees him move in with another woman, to play stepfather for a girl the same age as the one she lost, Claire tries desperately to warn the new bride of the danger her family is in. But when the woman dismisses her admonishments, she feels she must take matters into her own hands and stop the crime she failed to stop before.

DCI Whitney Walker’s in trouble. She’s threatened with demotion if she screws up another case. So, when a killer starts murdering female students, it’s a chance to redeem herself. Forensic psychologist, Dr. Georgina Cavendish, has spent her life inside the university walls, but when one of her students is murdered, she steps out from behind the text books and puts her skills to the test.

1959 - Greensboro, North Carolina - White family in a well-to-do part of town hire a young black woman to be their maid – cleaning, cooking and washing etc. Over a few months, the maid realizes the man of the house is a Pedophile. But it’s 1959, he is wealthy with friends in high places. She’s a poor black woman. No one believes her. She goes on a quest to expose him.

Drew Danner, a crime novelist with a house off L.A.'s storied Mulholland Drive, awakens in a hospital bed with a scar on his head and no memory of being found convulsing over his ex-fiancee's body the previous night. He was discovered holding a knife, her blood beneath his nails. He himself doesn't know whether he's guilty or innocent. To reconstruct the story, the writer must now become the protagonist, searching the corridors of his life and the city he loves.

Eva Kavinsky wakes in a dark cellar, with no memory of how she got here. Imprisoned with her, seemingly at random, are four men. The only way out is the trapdoor in the ceiling – and it's locked. The single clue about what brings them all here is a cryptic message sprayed onto one wall. Connect the dots. Repent. A camera fixed high above reach is livestreaming this whole nightmare to the world. What confessions are they meant to make to their unseen audience?

When a simple mix-up leaves their father Joe’s estate to Eden, their long-absent mother, Clare and Aaron decide it’s finally time to track Eden down. But it’s been over thirty years since she left their remote outback mining town, and they’ve never heard from her again. Aaron is dealing with a new marriage that’s currently trapped in immigration limbo, and his teenage daughter Cady is clearly going through a personal crisis of her own.

Susan Eastridge just wanted a normal night out. She met a man at a bar and went home with him believing she was safe. What happened in that house changed everything. When Samantha Leary receives a late-night call from her cousin saying she was assaulted, Samantha leaves the life she has built in Pleasant Falls and returns to Jewel Heights—a place she hasn’t been in over twenty years, since her father’s murder tore her family apart. Now she has to find out exactly what happened to Susan that night. The detective on the case is the same man who once investigated her father’s murder. ...

Samantha Leary Volume — Three cases. Three fractures no one walks away from. Nothing here resolves cleanly. Nothing returns to what it was. These are not just investigations. They are the moments where something breaks—and stays broken. The truth doesn’t arrive all at once. It settles in, reshaping everything until there is no clear line between what happened and what was allowed to happen. Three cases. No distance. Only consequence. Maid of Horror Samantha Leary steps into something that doesn’t announce itself as violence. A wedding should have marked a beginning. Instead, it ...

Sheriff Sadie Mills navigates the challenges of single motherhood while solving crimes in the rural community of Possum Gap, Kentucky. The recent trailer shootings in her jurisdiction have her on edge, and the new coroner, a Yankee transplant from the east coast, is still adjusting to life in the wilderness when all hell breaks loose. Cases stemming from an out-of-control hillbilly clan, sex trafficking, and a murder in the nearby Amish community collide, and Sheriff Mills finds herself in a race to stop a serial killer before they strike again.

I know all about being afraid of the dark. Like my uncle, in my thirties I found my way into my own dark forest, face-to-face with the big bad wolf. He was so close to me the whole time, I could taste the blood on his breath. Meeting him felt like a fairytale. I fact, I met him at a bar called the Wolf's Lair. A sensational trial for an historic serial murder. A missing woman with a trail of secrets. A top lawyer famous for defending notorious criminals. A retired homicide cop hunting for the truth.

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A woman opens her door and finds the truth waiting for her. Hilary never meant for anyone to get hurt. What started as a single reckless night—a robbery gone wrong—was supposed to disappear into memory. Instead, it arrives at her doorstep in the form of letters, photographs, says her name, and refuses to leave. Someone knows what she did. As the messages escalate, Hilary is forced to confront not just the crime she buried, but the life that ended because of it—and the family left behind. The harassment stays just inside the law. No threats. No fingerprints. Only precision. Control. ...

FBI agent Sarah Cole is stunned to receive an invitation to the “Game of Nines,” the most secretive and longest-running murder puzzle in history. Thrust into a mystery that has confounded law enforcement for decades, she proves to be an unexpectedly formidable "player"—and might finally end the deadly game once and for all.

On her way to the school bus, eight-year-old Emily vanishes. One moment she’s there, the next, she’s gone—snatched from sight by a predator operating within a system that preys on the vulnerable. Samantha Leary, drawn into the investigation, comes face-to-face with the man suspected of Emily’s abduction. The encounter turns violent, leaving Samantha wounded and shaken—but determined to hold on to the fragile thread of hope that remains. 🔻 EDITORIAL REVIEWS / PRAISE Praise for the Samantha Leary Psychological Thrillers “Quietly unsettling. The tension doesn’t explode—it ...

On the run and with danger tailing him, Beckett races against time to save his niece, Amber, from vicious kidnappers. With deadly threats closing in, he comes to the startling revelation he can trust no one…not even his closest allies. The streets of London become a battlefield as Beckett struggles to stay one step ahead of his enemies and protect Amber—all the while confronting the dark truth about The Consortium, a shadowy organization that will stop at nothing to maintain its grip on power.

The Samantha Leary Psychological Thrillers: Murder House, The House on Teller Hill, and The Midnight Visitors Step into the world of Samantha Leary, where control is never what it seems, and every house hides its own dark secrets. In Murder House, a young woman’s death appears simple—but Samantha knows the details are too precise, the violence too personal. The house itself holds a presence she can’t name, and following the clues drags her into a web of manipulation and deceit. The House on Teller Hill brings Samantha to a home with a hidden history of domination and cruelty. When a ...

It's a blindingly hot summer. International visitors surge into Sydney's Darling Harbour. Two-year-old Tommy is sailing his toy boat in the park there with his mother Phoebe. Tommy vanishes into thin air. The following winter, taunting notes written as nursery rhymes begin arriving at his parents' home. Little Boy Blue, where did you go? Who led you away? Only I know.

When college professor Ellie McKay walks into the Maverick Bar in Farmington, New Mexico, late one evening, she plans to get drunk, not engaged. But within 30 minutes, she’s met cowboy Al Robison, he’s proposed to her, and she’s accepted. Al only knows that Ellie is attractive, vulnerable, and single; he doesn’t know that she has been on the run for weeks from a sociopath who killed her surgeon boyfriend in Pennsylvania and raped and tortured her.

Three separate cases. Three psychological investigations. One woman pulling the truth out of the dark. In this Samantha Leary Psychological Thriller collection, Samantha is drawn into three distinct and escalating investigations—each beginning with a death, a disappearance, or a hidden act of control, and each revealing how far people will go to protect what they’ve built. In My Darling Wife, the murder of Catherine Whitmore exposes a dangerous web of missing manuscripts, political influence, and powerful figures who operate far beyond public scrutiny. As Samantha traces connections ...

She trusted her. That was her first mistake. FBI Agent Alexis Forrest is supposed to be done with killers. Desk duty in Broken Hill, Maine. A baby on the way. A quiet life she's finally learning to want. Then her new friend's husband turns up dead. The local ME rules it a cardiac event. Natural causes. Nothing to investigate. But Alexis knows what a staged crime scene looks like. She knows what it means when a woman controls her husband's medication, asks his doctors all the right questions, and somehow knows details about the body that were never made public. She knows what this is. What ...