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Fractured Minds & Memory Traps

Cracked mirror, journals, and confession tapes under warm lamplight in a dark room.

Some thrillers chase you down a hallway.

These ones seal the door behind you… and then calmly tell you the hallway never existed.

Welcome to Fractured Minds & Memory Traps — stories where reality isn’t a setting, it’s a negotiation. Where memory is edited like footage. Where the past doesn’t just haunt you… it’s reprogrammed.

This shelf is for readers who love the slow dread of being watched, the nausea of missing time, and the creeping suspicion that the truth isn’t hidden because it’s hard to find—
it’s hidden because someone is actively curating what you’re allowed to remember.

If you’ve ever finished a psychological thriller and stared at your ceiling like, Wait. What if the narrator was never the narrator…
Yes. That’s the energy here.

Psychological thrillers where reality is unstable, memory is a weapon, and someone is directing the scene.

Hidden in the Walls psychological thriller cover

Hidden in the Walls — Paige Brooks

A coastal estate hides passageways, missing memories, and evidence of manipulation. The house isn’t haunted—it’s involved.

Read → Hidden in the Walls (KU)

memory erasure · hidden rooms · gaslighting · psychological suspense

Confess psychological thriller cover

Confess — Skye Arden

A “healing” retreat with therapy sessions, surveillance, and videotaped confessions she doesn’t remember making.

Read → Confess (Amazon)

memory manipulation · videotapes · confession trap · surveillance

Prison of Woods psychological thriller cover

Prison of Woods — Roxi Bruno

A snowstorm detour becomes a night in a stranger’s home—then the woods close in and the locals feel dangerously wrong.

Read → Prison of Woods (Free)

isolated cabin · snowstorm trap · sinister locals · survival thriller

The Mind She Left Behind psychological thriller cover

The Mind She Left Behind — Reese Vale

Strapped in a psych ward with journals signed by someone else—she suspects she’s trapped inside a design she helped build.

Read → The Mind She Left Behind (Free)

psychiatric ward · false journals · identity fracture · unreliable reality

Thief of Echoes sci-fi thriller cover

Thief of Echoes — Sandra Boyle

In a city where memories are currency, a runner finds a forbidden shard that feels like her own—and becomes the hunted.

Read → Thief of Echoes (Free)

memory trade · sci-fi thriller · identity weaponized · conspiracy

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Stolen Relics — Terra Cross

A lodge reunion turns into a trap when artifacts and spirits surface—alongside a crime someone never paid for.

Read → Stolen Relics (Free)

trapped lodge · cursed artifacts · supernatural clues · group suspicion

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