Most Anticipated Mysteries & Thrillers of Summer 2022

Point Break meets And Then There Were None in a pulse-pounding beach read that explores the dangerous ties between a group of elite surfers who are determined to find the perfect waves at any cost…even murder. An adrenaline-fueled thriller packed with twists and turns, exploring the dangerous edge between passion and obsession.

When Jeanie is twelve years old, she is woken up by her father who is covered in blood. The next day, both he and her twin brother Jamie have disappeared without a trace. Twenty years later, Jeanie drowns out her emotions with booze and destructive behavior. But when she gets a lead on where her father is, she must confront the past to uncover the truth.

In this propulsive novel from the author of Convince Me, a successful therapist’s world is upended when her patients are targeted by a campaign of twisted psychological harassment. All she knows for sure? It’s someone with access to her records. Someone who wants to destroy her stellar reputation, shatter her newfound success, and even, perhaps, end her life.

Rizzoli & Isles are back! From Tess Gerritsen comes this “shocking and fast-paced” (Karin Slaughter) thriller has Jane and Maura investigating a brutal murder with dire implications, and this time, with Jane’s intrepid mother, Angela, looking into a mystery of her own.

Detective Elise King investigates a man’s disappearance in a seaside town where the locals and weekenders are at odds in this rich and captivating new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan goes all in with this sexy romantic thriller set among the dangers—both man-made and natural—of Nevada’s breathtaking landscape.

Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake. But the longer Casey watches, it becomes clear that Katherine and Tom’s marriage isn’t as perfect as it appears. When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey immediately suspects Tom of foul play. But there is more to the story than meets the eye—and shocking secrets can lurk beneath the most placid of surfaces.

London, 1936. Struggling actress and nightclub singer, Lena Aldridge is feeling utterly hopeless until a stranger offers her the chance of a lifetime: a starring role on Broadway and a first-class ticket on the Queen Mary bound for New York. But death follows her onboard when an obscenely wealthy family draws her into their fold just as one among them is killed. As Lena navigates the Abernathy’s increasingly bizarre family dynamic, she realizes that her greatest performance won’t be for an audience, but for her life.

Simon and Vicky couldn’t seem more normal: a wealthy Chicago couple, he a respected law professor, she an advocate for domestic violence victims. A stable, if unexciting marriage. But one thing’s for sure…absolutely nothing is what it seems. The pair are far from normal, and one of them just may be a killer. Both Vicky and Simon are liars, but just who exactly is conning who? Part Gone Girl, part Strangers on a Train, Look Closer is a wild rollercoaster of a read that will have you questioning everything you think you know.

Some women would do anything for their children. Cutting straight to the dark heart of modern motherhood, this provocative novel skewers the lengths we’ll go to get ahead. Taut, complex, and compulsively readable, Such a Good Mother is a razor-sharp take on the myth of having it all.

In his first collection of novellas, law is a common thread, but America’s favorite storyteller has several surprises in store. By turns suspenseful, hilarious, powerful, and moving, these are three of the greatest stories John Grisham has ever told.

On a beautiful spring day, six college students with nothing in common besides a desperate inability to pay for school gather to compete for the prestigious Hyde Fellowship. The six of them must surrender their devices when they enter Hyde House, an aging Victorian structure that sits in a secluded part of campus. But when one of the six finalists drops dead, the other students fear they’re being picked off one by one, and with no way to escape, the survivors viciously turn on each other. The Finalists is a chilling and profound look at the lengths both students and colleges will go to survive in a resource-starved academic world.

One minute Kelly’s a free-spirited artist in Chicago going to her best friend’s art show. The next, she opens a door and mysteriously emerges in her Michigan hometown. Suddenly her life is unrecognizable: She’s got twelve years of the wrong memories in her head and she’s married to Eric, a man she barely knew in high school. Racing to get back to her old life, Kelly’s search leads only to more questions and the closer Kelly gets to putting the pieces together, the more her reality seems to shift. The Other Me is an inventive page-turner about the choices we make and the ones made for us.

At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if anything’s different. He just feels a little…sharper. Better able to concentrate. Reading a bit faster, memorizing better, needing less sleep. But before long, he can’t deny it: Something’s happening to his brain. To his body. The truth is, Logan’s genome has been hacked. Worse still, what’s happening to him is just the first step in a much larger plan, one that will inflict the same changes on humanity at large—at a terrifying cost. Intimate in scale yet epic in scope, Upgrade is an intricately plotted, lightning-fast tale that charts one man’s thrilling transformation, even as it asks us to ponder the limits of our humanity—and our boundless potential.

A cinematic, speculative debut about a woman who undergoes cryogenic preservation at the time of her death and wakes up a century later in a world where her very life is a crime. The Awoken is a gripping, action-packed story full of plot twists and high emotion. It’s a look at prejudice, complicity, the fears that tear us apart, and the hope that can bring us together.

Ricki’s dream comes true when she joins the quirky staff of Bon Vee Culinary House Museum, the spectacular former Garden District home of late bon vivant Genevieve “Vee” Charbonnet, the city’s legendary restauranteur. Ricki is excited about turning her avocation – collecting vintage cookbooks – into a vocation by launching the museum’s gift shop. Then she discovers that a box of donated vintage cookbooks contains the body of a cantankerous Bon Vee employee who was fired after being exposed as a book thief. Now both her business and Bon Vee could wind up as deadstock.

A sharp and stylish debut from the editor-in-chief of CrimeReads in which an unwitting private eye gets caught up in a crime of obsession between a reclusive literary superstar and her bookseller husband, paying homage to the noir genre just as smartly as it reinvents it.

After a shocking death at a luxurious Italian resort, two very different women must question everything—and everyone—they love in order to untangle truth from lies in this twisty, captivating read.

Discover New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose’s brand-new series in the sultry city of New Orleans and featuring a tough team of high-end private investigators who are after justice—no matter what they have to do to get it.

In this breakneck, race-against-the-clock thriller, a British spy has twelve hours to deliver her asset across London after Russia hacks the city’s security cameras. Can she make it without being spotted…or killed?

A man wakes up in an unknown landscape, injured and alone, trying to navigate his surroundings. Then he encounters an old man, a crow, and a boy—and realizes that nothing is what he thought it was, neither the past nor the present. Harrowing and haunting but also humorous in the face of the unfathomable, David Yoon’s City of Orange is a novel about reassembling the things that make us who we are, and finding the way home again.

From the co-creator of Deadpool and author of Suburban Dicks comes a diabolically funny murder mystery that features two unlikely sleuths investigating a murder that reveals the dark underbelly of suburban marriage.

A riveting Harlem Renaissance Mystery featuring Louise Lloyd, a young Black woman working in a hot new speakeasy when she gets caught up in a murder that hits too close to home…

Two cousins who start a food stall at their local night market get a serving of murder when one of their customers turns up dead. Though the two cousins are polar opposites in every way, they must work together to find out what really happened to the victim or the only thing they’ll be serving is time, in this delicious new cozy mystery series.