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Mysteries - Psychological A psychological mystery is a story which emphasizes the psychology of its characters and their unstable emotional states. They may have a distorted sense of reality, moral ambiguity, or there may be complex and tortured relationships between obsessive and pathological characters. Click on the link in each series to find the titles in publication order.
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Mysteries - Psychological
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Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Find Hinsdale materials here.
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Slider is a police inspector with Shepherd's Bush CID in London. He and his team cover the streets, investigating crime and often turning up dark secrets. These are taut psychological thrillers.
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Reginald Hill Find Hinsdale materials here.
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There is a great contrast between the large, gruff, uncouth Andy Dalziel, an old-school detective, and his colleague, the suave, smooth, highly educated Peter Pascoe. Set in Yorkshire, the pair solve cases assisted by able colleagues in these subtly psychological and suspenseful novels.
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Susan Hill Find Hinsdale materials here.
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In this series of gripping psychological thrillers, Detective Chief Inspector Serrailler and his team tackle tough issues and crime in the fictional cathedral city of Lafferton. Simon is a handsome, enigmatic man who can be charming, but at times, also distant and cold.
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Jonathan Kellerman Find Hinsdale materials here.
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Alex is a forensic psychologist and sleuth, but some of the earlier novels in the series have him honing his craft as a child psychologist. He goes about his work by interacting sympathetically with the people he meets and by quiet, professional observation. Appearing in every novel is his friend, Milo Sturgis, of the LAPD, who helps out with his investigations.
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Laura Lippman Find Hinsdale materials here.
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Set in Baltimore, Tess is a former-reporter-turned-private-investigator. An athletic woman with flawed characteristics and a dysfunctional family, she strives to do the ethical thing in all her cases.
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Val McDermid Find Hinsdale materials here.
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This series pairs British clinical psychologist Hill, a brilliant criminal profiler, and his long-term work partner and sometimes lover, Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan. The novels are tense thrillers dealing with serial killers and other dangerous criminals and often depict violence and torture. The novels were made into the Wire in the Blood TV series.
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Karin Slaughter Find Hinsdale materials here.
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Trent is a Special Agent with the Criminal Apprehensive Team of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. When local police cannot solve the crime, he is brought in to help with the case. Often teamed with detective Faith Mitchell, these are gritty, psychological novels that will keep you in suspense.
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Frank Tallis Find Hinsdale materials here.
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Set in turn-of-the-century Vienna, this series not only provides a glimpse of Austrian politics, society, music, literature, and customs at the time, but also gives a keen insight into the early development of Freudian psychoanalysis. Max Lieberman is a psychoanalytic detective who is assisted in his investigations by his friend, Detective Oskar Rheinhardt.
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Charles Todd (mother/son writing team) Find Hinsdale materials here.
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Still suffering from shell shock and the ravages of his service in the Great War, Scotland Yard Inspector Rutledge's thoughts are haunted by the ghost of a soldier, Hamish MacLeod, who taunts him as he works on his cases. These are good psychological suspense novels.
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Jacqueline Winspear Find Hinsdale materials here.
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Maisie is a psychologist/investigator in post-World War I London. Her beginnings are working class, but good fortune brings her into contact with the upper class, where she consequently receives an education. She serves as a nurse during the war and then returns to London to work with her mentor, accomplished detective Dr. Maurice Blanche. When Blanche retires, Maisie opens up her own detective agency.
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