New Mysteries & Thrillers to Read in 2022

Molly Gray’s unique character, along with her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette, make her the ideal fit for her job as a maid at the Regency Grand Hotel. But Molly’s orderly life is upended the day she enters the suite of the wealthy Charles Black, only to find Mr. Black dead in his bed. Before she knows what’s happening, Molly finds herself the police’s lead suspect! A Clue-like, locked-room mystery and heartwarming journey of the spirit, The Maid is one of the most anticipated mysteries of the year.

The aunties are back, fiercer than ever and ready to handle any catastrophe—even the mafia—in this delightful and hilarious sequel by Jesse Q. Sutanto, author of Dial A for Aunties.

Introducing Claudia Lin: a sharp-witted amateur sleuth for the 21st century. This debut novel follows Claudia as she verifies people’s online lives, and lies, for a dating detective agency in New York City. Until a client with an unusual request goes missing…

When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are assigned to the case. They must sort through the lies and the secret lives of people whose superficial cooperation masks the damage they do to one another…

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel comes a chilling new novel about a true crime blogger who gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings. Is she making friends with a manipulative murderer, or are there other dangers lurking in the darkness?

Three generations of abused women must navigate their chilling new reality as a mysterious epidemic of violence sweeps the nation in this compelling novel of self-discovery, legacy, and hope.

Frankie Elkin has a knack for finding missing people. So when she reads about Timothy O’Day, a young man who disappeared in the wilderness of Wyoming, she joins the search team. But as they hike into the mountains, it becomes clear that there’s something dangerous at work in the woods…or someone who is willing to do anything to stop them from going any further…

Two American ex-pats obsessed with the Amanda Knox trial find themselves at the nexus of murder and celebrity in glittering late-aughts Berlin in this brilliant and twisting debut with a wicked sense of humor.

From the USA Today bestselling and Edgar-nominated author of Darling Rose Gold comes a dark, thrilling novel about two sisters—one trapped in the clutches of a cult, the other in a web of her own lies.

Love is a game of chance in this romantic suspense novel by author and American politician and activist Stacey Abrams, writing under her pen name, Selena Montgomery.

Two identical twin sisters and former child actors have grown apart—until one disappears, and the other is forced to confront the secrets they’ve kept from each other. This twisty suspense novel is packed with surprising revelations and sharp insights about the choices that define our families and our lives—and could just as easily destroy them.

Jason Bennett is driving his family home one night when a truck begins tailgating them. Suddenly, two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding his car. Later, the FBI tell them the carjackers were members of a dangerous drug-trafficking organization and must move into the witness protection program to keep them safe. Taken from all they know, the Bennetts begin to fall apart at the seams, and Jason must choose between law…and justice.

A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting historical thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant.

A high-stakes thriller set in the world of extreme-altitude mountaineering that takes a dark turn when a series of deaths can no longer be written off as accidents. Stranded on the mountain in one of the most remote regions of the world, they’ll need to battle more than the elements in a harrowing fight for survival against a killer who is picking them off one by one.

Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches…

The acclaimed author of The Hunger and The Deep turns her psychological and supernatural eye on the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps in World War II, crafting a terrifying story about the danger of demonization, a mysterious contagion, and the search to stop its spread before it’s too late. A sharp account of a too-recent history, it’s a deep excavation of how we decide who gets to be human when being human matters most.

Aboard the glittering RMS Queen Mary, a nightclub singer is on the run when she befriends an aristocratic family with secrets worth killing for. But when one member of the family ends up dead, the singer realizes that her greatest performance won’t be for an audience, but for her life.

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

Discover New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose’s brand-new series set in the sultry, crime-ridden 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.

A man who can not remember his own name wakes up in an apocalyptic landscape, injured and alone. While learning to survive by finding sources of water and foraging for food, he encounters a boy—and realizes that nothing is what he thought it was, neither the past for the present… This harrowing and heartfelt novel is about coming to grips with the worst that has befallen us and finding our way home again.

An ordinary man undergoes a startling transformation—and fears that all of humanity may be next—in the mindblowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion.