2022’s Most Anticipated New Thrillers, Suspense and Mystery Books

Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
Out January 4, 2022

A gothic suspense thriller set on an isolated South Pacific island with a dark history. It’s about a couple who is hired to sail two women – whom she befriends on their off the beaten path adventure – to an island where they are surprised to meet another couple who have docked there.

The groups quickly merge and have a blast – until a mysterious stranger arrives on a boat and their secluded getaway unravels and becomes something more sinister.

For fans of: escapist thrillers that make good beach reads, “locked room” type mysteries a la The Guest List but set on a secluded island, books with Agatha Christie vibes, gothic suspense vibes

A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
Out January 11, 2022

Thriller fans in need of an absolutely chilling read that pulls you in and doesn’t let go, do not bypass this one!

It’s about a woman whose father was revealed to be a serial killer when she was 12 years old and, 20 years later, a teenage girl goes missing with chilling similarities to the crimes her father committed – prompting her to try to figure out if it is just paranoia from the past or there really ARE parallels to that summer.

For fans of: psychological thrillers that lean more on the psychological side, thrillers that bank on the slow unravel and not jam-packed action, character-driven thrillers, fans of Karin Slaughter

Real Easy by Marie Rutkoski
Out January 18, 2022

One of the best thrillers I’ve read in long time! A gritty and atmospheric thriller set in a strip club, in the 1990’s, centering around the murder and disappearance of two of the girls one night after leaving the club. Uses the multi-POV SO well as we see everything from the eyes of the strippers, patrons, police officers. 

For fans of: Long Bright River, Mare of Easttown, character-driven thrillers, gritty literary thrillers, Tana French

The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf
Out January 25, 2022

A perfectly chilly thriller for winter in a thriller set during a snowstorm! I am really quite enjoying that subset of thrillers – wintry thrillers??

A true crime writer, on a solo writing retreat, is snowed in at the isolated farmhouse writing about a crime that happened at the farmhouse twenty years later. As the storm is raging she discovers a little boy outside in the snow and she brings him in from the cold and tries to figure out where he came from but he’s not talking. It becomes clear, as time goes on, that the farmhouse isn’t as isolated as she thought it was.

For fans of: locked room-esque mystery thrillers, atmospheric thrillers, Ruth Ware or Lucy Foley’s books

The Accomplice by Lisa Lutz
Out January 25, 2022

This one is more slow burn suspense, that centers around a dysfunctional friendship, than zippy thriller!

Luna and Owen have been inseparable best friends since college – even after an unexplained death in their social circle. Years later, when Luna finds Owen’s wife murdered, she’s questioning everything about their shared history and hoping her own secrets that she’s kept from Owen don’t come to light.

For fans of: slow burn suspense thrillers, dual timelines, the author’s previous book The Passenger

February Releases

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
Out February 22, 2022

So excited for a new Lucy Foley!

It’s about a girl whose life is in shambles and decides to have a fresh start with her brother, who seems reluctant to the idea, in Paris to crash with him for a little bit. When she shows up to his ridiculously nice apartment, she finds her brother nowhere to be found. As he continues to be MIA, she meets some of his neighbors and finds that they just might know more about his disappearance than she realized.

For fans of: The Guest List by Lucy Foley, locked room mysteries, unreliable narrators,  the tv show Only Murders In The Building

Wish You Were Gone by Kieran Scott
Out February 22, 2022

This one is about a woman whose husband dies in a car crash right into their garage in the middle of the night – right before she plans to confront him about his alcoholism and violent behavior. It’s ruled an accident that happened due to being drunk. Things don’t quite add up for the woman and she begins to realize this wasn’t exactly the tragedy everyone believes it to be as secrets and cracks in their life emerge.

For fans of: Netflix’s Dead To Me, domestic thrillers, Liane Moriarty’s books 

March Releases

The Night Shift by Alex Finlay
Out March 1, 2022

This Y2K, New Years Eve set thriller is definitely one of my most anticipated thrillers for 2022.

New Year’s Eve in 1999 four teenagers, working in a small New Jersey town’s Blockbuster, are attacked and only one survives the night. Fifteen years later another group of teenage night shift workers at a local business are attacked and all are slain except one.

As everyone tries to figure out if the two crimes are related and who the murderer(s) are, lives intersect in the pursuit of the truth: the two survivors, a detective on the case and the brother of the original suspect who fled all those years ago.

For fans of: Every Last Fear, Scream-esque books & movies, crime fiction with thriller vibes

The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Out March 8, 2022

I always know when I read a new Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen that I’m going to be in for a fun ride!

This one is about a therapist who has lost her license because of her controversial methods (but boasts that she can fix you in 10 sessions or less) and the “perfect couple” who is trying to overcome an infidelity in the marriage. But each session unfurls more secrets and cracks in this seemingly perfect couple.

For fans of: this writing duo’s previous works (very on par with their backlist), psychological thrillers with some domestic suspense

Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett
Out March 8, 2022

A disgraced Black reality TV star is found dead in the Bronx and the police automatically rule it as an overdose. Her estranged half-sister refuses the police’s conclusion and sets out on her own dangerous search for the truth.

For fans of: amateur sleuthing, suspense with a dash of family drama, thrillers with memorable characters

The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
Out March 15, 2022

One of my most anticipated books of the year – period!

An aspiring true crime blogger meets a woman acquitted (but still suspected) of two cold cases murders in the 70’s by chance and the woman agrees to let her interview for her website at her isolated mansion. As she gets closer to the woman through these interviews and spends more time at the mansion she starts to question if this woman is indeed the Lady Killer or if something really off is happening at this mansion.

For fans of: The Sun Down Motel, eerie & atmospheric mysteries, cold cases & serial killers

The Lying Club by Annie Ward
Out March 22, 2022

Set in an ultra elite and fancy private school, it’s about the secrets and web of lies of various families and faculty that leads to two bodies being found in the gymnasium. Who did it? With the tangled web of Infidelities, jealousy, lies and rivalries – the suspects are many!

For fans of: Big Little Lies-esque books, books set in ultra rich communities and private schools, psychological thrillers with a dash of Desperate Housewives

The Club by Ellery Lloyd
Out April 5, 2022

I had so much fun reading Lloyd’s People Like Us last year and this one looks just as fun!

This one is a murder mystery set in the secretive world of exclusive celebrity clubs, where the A-list members and the staff who serve them all have something to hide, and that all culminates at the A-list weekend launch for a super exclusive new club that turns sinister when the body count starts adding up.

For fans of: Rich People Behaving Badly thrillers, The Guest List, White Lotus (except way more elite rich people)

Insomnia by Sarah Pinborough
Out April 12, 2022

A psychological thriller about a woman who is experiencing extreme insomnia as she approaches her 40th birthday – a birthday marred for her as it marks around the time a horrific incident with their once loving mother sent she and her sister off to foster care.

As the insomnia persists, along with other symptoms her mother had shown, she starts to get worried that she’s headed to the same fate as her mother and starts to lose a grip on things. Is the past repeating itself or is something else going on?

For fans of: Behind Her Eyes the most out of Sarah’s books, unreliable narrators, thrillers that feel a bit bonkers

Watch Out For Her by Samantha M. Bailey
Out April 19, 2022

This psychological thriller is about a woman who moves across the country after a shocking incident with the young nanny, who became like family to them, upends the relationship and has her wanting to put miles between them and her for the safety of her family.

The family settles into her new home in her tight-knit suburban neighborhood and suddenly events unfold that make her think the old nanny and their past may not be behind them. Or is it someone entirely different behind it?

For fans of: dark and creepy psychological thrillers, books that explore motherhood, domestic drama/thrillers, books by Shari Lapena

One of Us Is Dead by Jeneva Rose
Out April 26, 2022

If you loved Desperate Housewives, check this entertaining thriller out. It centers around a group of rich women in the ultra-wealthy neighborhood of Buckhead (plus owner of the most popular salon in town) when the unofficial Queen of Buckhead falls from grace when her politician husband dumps her for a younger woman – an act that has her plotting out revenge.

The other women we meet are: the younger woman, a woman who has been waiting in the wings to be queen and will do whatever it takes to get to the top and the salon owner who knows everybody’s secrets.

Who will be lucky enough to survive??

For fans of: Desperate Housewives, addictive popcorn thrillers, Rich People Behaving Badly thrillers, Big Little Lies

Breathless by Amy McCulloch
Out May 3, 2022

When a journalist and novice climber is asked to report on and climb with one of the most acclaimed mountaineers in the world on his record-breaking summit, she could never have imagined the nightmare that would await her as part of his climbing party. Climbers start being picked off and she realizes it’s not just the elements and the dangerous climb she will have to survive.

For fans of: high octane thrillers, snowy-set survival thrillers, The Sanatorium, The Hunting Party, Ruth Ware’s One by One,  locked room thrillers but set on a dangerous & isolated mountain

My Wife Is Missing by D.J. Palmer
Out May 10, 2022

A husband and wife, whose marriage is on the rocks, decides to get away to New York City for a much needed vacation with their two kids and with the hope it will help his wife’s insomnia that has made her struggle lately. When dad goes to pick up pizza for the family, he returns to their hotel room to discover that his wife, kids and all of their belongings are gone.

Thinking they’ve been kidnapped, he goes to the police only to see the footage they have shows her leaving on her free will. Where did she go and why did she leave? Told in alternating perspectives and weaving through the past and present, all secrets will be revealed as to why she left.

For fans of: Cat-and-mouse thrillers, psychological thrillers, Gone Girl-esque reads (who is the unreliable one??)

My Summer Darlings by May Cobb
Out May 17, 2022

The friendship of three life-long friends, bored with their East Texas town and lives, is threatened one summer when a sexy & mysterious new stranger becomes their neighbor and they each become obsessed with him in their own way. Just who is this stranger who flirts and snakes his way into the women’s lives and will they figure it out before he ruins their friendship?

For fans of: soapy thrillers, domestic thrillers,  Desperate Housewives

The Island by Adrian McKinty
Out May 17, 2022

“You should not have come to the island

You should not have been speeding

You should not have tried to hide the body

You should not have told your children that you could keep them safe

No one can run forever.”

That is the super vague summary and I could not want this more – definitely a most anticipated thriller despite all that vagueness. Vacation gone wrong?? Thriller meets horror meets survival type stuff? I have no idea.

For fans of: no clue – will report back.

The Favor by Nora Murphy
Out May 31, 2022

Two women have never met yet lead very similar lives when it comes to the trapped feeling they have in their lives and marriage with controlling abusive husbands but the facade that everything is perfect.. During a chance encounter at a local liquor store, one becomes obsessed with the other.

When she follows the other woman home and witnesses something through the window that makes her realize they might be in similar situations, she decides to keep an eye on her from afar. But one night she sees something that makes her intervene which changes their lives forever.

* just a heads up, domestic abuse is what this book centers around

For fans of: domestic suspense thrillers, Strangers on a Train, Girl on the Train, Ruth Ware, B.A. Paris’s Behind Closed Doors, vigilante justice plots

Her Dying Day by Mindy Carlson
Out June 7, 2022

An aspiring filmmaker makes her first documentary about the disappearance of a young but famed mystery writer who was just gone without a trace 20 years ago. Everyone in the author’s life has a theory, she finds out as she interviews them, and as she digs deeper into the story things become darker surrounding the disappearance – especially when she’s given a suitcase full of the author’s most personal writings that just may have the answer to what happened. However, somebody knows that those pages would reveal their darkest secrets which they simply cannot let happen.

For fans of: Shari Lapena, whodunit mysteries

And There He Kept Her by Joshua Moehling
Out June 14, 2022

Two teens break into an old man’s home, who they think is an easy target, to steal his prescription pills at his remote lakeside home – only to end up imprisoned and realizing it’s not the first time someone has been kept in this basement.

On the case of the missing teens is the new acting sheriff, with a personal connection, who will end up having to reveal his own secrets when the leads run dry and dig further into the new place he calls home.

For fans of: looking for a new thriller series (this is the start of a new one featuring this sheriff), Lisa Gardiner, Karin Slaughter, crime thrillers

The House Across The Lake by Riley Sager
Out June 21, 2022

I always look forward to Riley Sager’s new books even when I’ve only mildly liked some of the because the ones I loved I have LOVED so I’m willing to take a chance. So he’s an a definitely add to my list of new thriller books to read in 2022.

This one is about a recently widowed actress who has retreated to her family’s lake house still reeling from her loss and wanting to get out of the public eye. She starts to pass some of her time out there watching and spying on the glamorous family across the way. Suddenly the wife goes missing and she’s desperate to find out what happened to her only to reveal darker layers to this perfect couple than she ever could have imagined.

For fans of: psychological suspense books, books with non-linear storytelling, atmospheric settings

The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark
Out June 21, 2022

One of my most anticipated thrillers for 2022!

This one is about the friendship between a con artist and the journalist who has been waiting to expose her for 10 years as she believes she is responsible for wrecking her life 10 years earlier. As the two become closer in their friendship, they both realize  not everything as it seems.

For fans of: cat-and-mouse domestic thrillers, thrillers with strong & complicated women

Reputation by Sarah Vaughan
Out July 5, 2022

Sarah Vaughan’s latest is about a woman, a politician and a divorced mom of a teenager who is no stranger to harassment in her public role, whose less-than-perfect personal life gets thrust into the spotlight when a body is discovered in her home — a body of someone who could very well have ruined the reputation of her family.

For fans of: high stakes psychological suspense novels that also explore thought-provoking social issues , courtroom dramas and political thrillers

First Born by Will Dean
Out July 5, 2022

A truly unique psychological thriller about a woman’s search for answers when her twin sister ends up dead, across the ocean in New York, and the dark secrets unearthed as she tries to uncover what happened to her sister.

For fans of: psychological thrillers (with a murder mystery whodunnit vibe in the beginning), thrillers with a twin trope (but looking for something that will stand out within the trope!)

The It Girl by Ruth Ware
Out July 12, 2022

A new Ruth Ware! This suspenseful mystery is about a woman who, when presented with new evidence about her friend’s murder a decade ago, starts digging into the past and realizes that her college friend group has more to hide than she could have realized and that the man who was convicted of murder might just have been innocent.

For fans of: suspenseful mysteries that are slower burn, dark academia, murder mysteries

The Disinvited Guest by Carol Goodman
Out July 12, 2022

This atmospheric mystery is about a group of friends head to a remote island together to ride out a new and possibly deadlier second wave of a virus (post 2020 world) to be truly safe. The island has been in one of the character’s family for many, many generation and has quite a history through the years — the latest being some family members perished there in 2020.

As strange things start to happen, it’s clear that there is more to survive on the island — is it the ghosts of the dark history and secrets of the island or is someone among the living out to get them?

For fans of: locked door mysteries (but on an island!), gothic chills a la Rebecca and other Daphne DuMurier novels, Shari Lapena’s books

The Perfect Neighborhood by Liz Alterman
Out July 12, 2022

A young boy goes missing in this seemingly close-knit idyllic, wealthy suburb and everybody is a suspect and there is no shortage of gossip, speculation and distrust — especially when another child goes missing.

Told from the POVs of the mother (who blames herself for having to work and letting him walk home), the babysitter who showed up late that day to meet him and a famous actress from the neighborhood who has been stoking the rumor mill herself lately.

Trying to figure out who did it will keep you on the edge of your seat as you suss out the many potential suspects! Big Little Lies meets a Lisa Jewell novel!

For fans of: domestic suspense/thrillers, Lisa Jewell, books featuring neighborhood drama/the “dark side” of seemingly perfect places/families

Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier
Out July 19, 2022

A dark psychological suspense thriller that will keep you turning the pages with its tightly plotted secrets and tension as it weaves together different POVs and time periods.

This one is about a woman named Paris who wakes up to find that her much older, celebrity husband is dead and she’s holding a potential murder weapon.

She doesn’t just worry about being a suspect in his murder but that the media coverage of it all will dredge up the past she’s carefully put behind her if someone from that life recognizes her.

Someone like Ruby Reyes, convicted of a similar murder 25 years ago, who threatens who Paris really is along with all her secrets now that she’s been released from prison.

For fans of: Character-driven psychological thriller type books

Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
Out July 19, 2022

Do not go into this dark gothic-feeling thriller reading too many reviews about it! Just go in with very little knowledge for the best experience.

Just know it’s about a woman who goes back to her childhood home after her estranged mother asks her to — a childhood home built by her serial killer father, a childhood home where he buried their bodies.

Upon arriving home she finds her mother isn’t alone and a nosy, parasitic artist has been paying to stay their guest house and won’t stop peppering her with questions about her father, her childhood and the house. And then notes in her father’s handwriting appear among other strange things.

For fans of: The Haunting Of Hill House, chilling/creepy thrillers with horror vibes

The Retreat by Sarah Pearse
Out July 19, 2022

Detective Elin Warner is back and this time she’s setting out to uncover the truth behind some suspicious deaths at an eco-wellness retreat on an island off the coast of England.

For fans of: locked room murder mysteries (but on an island), crime fiction featuring female detectives, atmospheric settings in your mystery/thriller book

The Last To Vanish by Megan Miranda
Out July 26, 2022

This eerie & thrilling mystery is about an outdoorsy resort town called Cutter’s Pass — a town that has a long history of people going missing and now the disappearance of a journalist who was investigating that string of unsolved vanishings.

Abby, 10 year resident & manager of a local inn but still an outsider in town, ends up looking into the disappearances after the journalist’s brother arrives into town looking for answers. What she finds makes her realize just how little she knows about the town and the people in it.

For fans of: atmospheric & eerie mysteries, small-town mysteries & thrillers featuring unsolved mysteries, endings that will make you need to talk to someone afterwards, Gillian Flynn

August Thriller Releases – Summer 2022

The Lost Kings by Tyrell Johnson
Out August 2, 2022

Part psychological thriller and part family drama, this one is about a woman forced to confront the darkest moment in her childhood, the disappearance of her twin brother and father, in order to move on from her past and heal when a childhood friend reemerges with information about her family.

For fans of: character-driven mystery/thrillers, thrillers that really defy genre (part family story, part coming of age in addition to being a thriller/mystery)

The Devil Takes you Home by Gabino Iglesias
Out August 2, 2022

Southern noir meets a bit of supernatural horror. (Seriously, think Razorblade Tears meets Mexican Gothic). I think it’s a perfect one for your fall reading list!

This one is about a man who falls into being a hitman to help save his marriage and help pay for his daughter’s huge medical expenses. When he decides to take one last job with an enormous payout to solve all his problems, he embarks on a road trip that goes terribly and violently wrong.

For fans of: authors S. A. Cosby & Stephen Graham Jones, Mexican Gothic, books more on the literary side, books that weave social issues in them effortlessly, genre-busting books, Walter White’s character journey in Breaking Bad

Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
Out August 2, 2022

If you are looking for something different and ambitious, check this thriller out!

It’s about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man while she’s waiting up for him. She goes to bed frightened her son’s life is over, after he’s taken in by police, and full of questions about why he did it and who the man is — only to wake up the next morning and it’s the prior day and none of it has happened.

She seizes on this strange reset that happens every time she goes to sleep, that takes her back a day earlier each time, and tries to find out all the answers to who the man is and prevent the murder from happening.

For fans of: unconventional thrillers, Groundhog’s Day-esque plots, thrillers with a side of family drama

Alias Emma by Ava Glass
Out August 2, 2022

Looking for a fast-paced spy thriller with a James Bond-esque female heroine?

Check out this race-against-the clock about a newly minted secret agent who has to covertly deliver her asset across London in 12 hours without being caught by the assassins who have hacked every camera in the city.

For fans of: spy thrillers, action thrillers, strong female heroines

Stay Awake by Megan Goldin
Out August 9, 2022

Two years ago Liv Reese starting loosing her memory every time she fell asleep stemming from a traumatic event. When she wakes up one night in a taxi and has no idea why she is there or why STAY AWAKE (among other messages) is written in black ink on her hands or why two strangers are living in her apartment with no signs of her belongings or her best friend.

Or why there is a bloody knife in her possession.

She catches a news story showing a crime scene where the killer scrawled a message with the victim’s blood, that feels eerily similar to her hands, and wonders just what she did last night and attempts to put the pieces together from that night as more and more evidence points to her as the murderer.

Is she the murderer? Can she figure out what happened before she is pegged as the killer by the detectives hot on the case?

For fans of: unreliable narrators, fast-paced thrillers, psychological thrillers (with a police procedural/detective side POV), the film Memento (which I loved!!)

You’re Invited by Amanda Jayatissa
Out August 9, 2022

Crazy Rich Asians meets Lucy Foley’s The Guest List! Would make a great beach read!

This thriller is set in the midst of a lavish Sri Lankan wedding — a wedding that Amaya, the main character, is invited to after not hearing from her former best friend for quite some time. The even bigger surprise? She’s marry Amaya’s ex boyfriend.

Amaya decides she will go with the sole mission of stopping this wedding. But when the bride goes missing hours before she’s supposed to go down the aisle, Amaya is an easy suspect as the jealous ex with rumors already swirling about her when the weekend kicked off.

Could it be Amaya (I mean, she did wake up with blood under her knuckles)? Or is there another wedding guest with something to hide?

For fans of: juicy drama-filled thrillers, multi POVs, slower burn thrillers

All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers
Out August 16, 2022

From the host of the podcast Crime Junkie, this one is about a journalist who, upon returning home to care for a family member, finds herself obsessed with an unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor from 20 years ago when another little girl disappears.

As she tries to investigate both crimes, she starts to uncover her small hometown’s dark secrets (and their resistance to her digging around) and finds a lot of people in the town just might have something to hide.

For fans of: true crime books & podcasts, cold case thriller/mysteries, books that feature small towns with big secrets

The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead
Out August 16, 2022

I read this one earlier in the year and it definitely made my list of best books of 2022 so far! Couldn’t put this one down and nearly read all of it on a flight (while trying not to be obnoxious and gasp and talk to myself about all the banana things going on this book).

This one is about a woman who heads back to the past (and the magnetic man with dangerous views) she escaped years ago to avenge her friends when another one of them is found dead.

With the help of an old friend and true crime podcast host, she digs to find out what happened to her friend and find those people from her past but uncovers a dangerous cult of men that makes her realize that years ago was only the tip of the iceberg.

Content warning: violence/assault towards women, rape, and misogyny abounds!

For fans of: cult stories (loosely based on a real one), thrillers that are a bit on the dark and disturbing side, revenge-y thrillers that give a big middle finger to the patriarchy, book with dark academia vibes, true crime podcasts, , Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter,

The Blame Game by Sandie Jones
Out August 16, 2022

Naomi, a psychologist specializing in domestic abuse, would do anything to help her clients. When she helps a client named Joseph leave his abusive wife, she wonders if she’s crossed a line too far.

And then he disappears. Along with any files she had on him.

Naomi becomes the number one suspect as all the evidence points to her.

For fans of: read-in-one sitting thrillers of the domestic suspense/psychological thriller type

Please Join Us by Catherine McKenzie
Out August 23, 2022

Everything seems to be going wrong lately for Nicole Muller, including her law career starting to fall apart, so when she receives a an invitation from an exclusive & secretive women’s networking group she jumps at the chance to reclaim her life and career.

She jumps right in to the club’s retreat and is quickly impressed by her fellow members who are incredibly successful women and is even more impressed when the club’s influence quickly solves some of her most pressing problems in exchange for her own seemingly innocent favors.

Until one night the favor turns sinister and she realizes the cost of having all the things she wants might come at a heftier price than she’s willing to pay with this group the deeper she’s gotten into it.

For fans of: quick & fast-paced thrillers a la Sarah Pekkanen and Greer Hendricks, cult-ish/secret society thrillers

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeny
Out August 30, 2022

An estranged family, all harboring their own secrets, come together for a family reunion for Nana’s 80th birthday at her crumbling gothic house on a tidal island. Cut off from the rest of the world when the tide comes in, the first body is found. Then the next. The family must reconcile their secrets as well as try to figure out who is trying to pick them off one by one.

For fans of: And Then There Were None, locked room mysteries, atmospheric mystery/thrillers, dysfunctional family dramas

Wake by Shelley Burr
Out August 30, 2022

Looking for a good crime novel?

Set in a tiny, dying Australian outback town notorious for the unsolved disappearance of a young girl two decades before, the sister of the missing girl has remained in the town while the case still buzzes with public obsession after a hefty reward was offered by the mother of the girls.

Most of the amateur sleuths yield nothing until about her sister’s disappearances until a young private investigator with unconventional methods, who earns her trust, gives her some hope for answers.

But the man obsessed with finding those answers has his own secrets and motivations for doing so.

For fans of: crime fiction, The Dry by Jane Harper, Aussie noir/crime fiction, cold cases

September Thriller Releases – Fall 2022

Back to the Garden by Laurie R. King
Out September 6, 2022

A fifty-year-old cold case involving California royalty comes back to life, with Detective Raquel Laing, when a body is discovered under a statue on the grounds of a beautiful mansion outside San Fransisco that has possible ties to a serial killer in the 1970’s.

For fans of: police procedurals, standalone detective books

Killers Of A Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
Out September 6, 2022

A group of women have spent the last 40 years as friends and deadly assassins together in an international elite assassin network but are now facing retirement as they are seen as too old school.

They are sent on a retirement vacation, paid by the company, only to figure out that they are the next targets — an order than could only be handed down from the top.

To survive the hit from one of their own, they must rely on their years on the job and each other.

For fans of: books with humor, Ocean’s Eight, cat and mouse thrillers

The Guest House by Robin Morgan-Bentley
Out September 13, 2022

First time expectant parents Jamie and Victoria head to small country guesthouse for a weekend getaway before the baby comes.

Upon waking the next morning, the discover that their phones, keys and the owners of the place have disappeared and the doors are locked. Even worse, contractions have started and they have no way out.

For fans of: psychological thrillers and domestic suspense, Ruth Ware, Lucy Foley, thrilling page-turners

The Vicious Circle by Katherine St. John
Out September 27, 2022

A young model inherits her estranged uncle’s wellness retreat, where he was the spiritual leader and owner, in the jungle of Mexico after his sudden death. When she goes to claim her inheritance, she meets his devotees and his wife who is fiercely trying to keep her grip on the retreat and contest the will. What looks like a secluded utopia quickly turns sinister when she starts to uncover its secrets.

For fans of: escapist thrillers, cult fiction, bingeable thrillers you’ll devour in one sitting

A Familiar Stranger by A.R. Torre
Out September 27, 2022

A woman, in a life rut and suspicious that her husband is cheating, decides to pretend to be someone else when she meets a handsome stranger in a coffee shop. She starts an affair only to end up in a tangled web of lies that gets exposed and finds out she isn’t the only one playing a game.

For fans of: twisty domestic thrillers

October Thriller & Mystery Releases – Fall 2022

Jackal by Erin E. Adams
Out October 4, 2022

Liz rarely tries to come home to her small, mostly white Rust Belt town but she comes back for her best friend’s wedding. When her goddaughter goes missing in the woods during the wedding, it feels nightmarishly reminiscent to something that happened in her childhood when another Black girl was found brutally murdered in the woods.

Liz decides to stay to help with the search, despite the fact it may plunge her back into her own darkness, and starts digging into the town’s history only to uncover a most shocking secret.

For fans of: books that mismash the horror and thriller genres, social thrillers/horror novels, Get Out

Pretty Dead Queens by Alexa Donne
Out October 4, 2022

A YA thriller about a decades-old mystery, a copycat killing of the homecoming queen, and a teen who is determined to unravel the mystery at any cost — even if it means digging up secrets about the new town she lives in with her grandmother.

For fans of: 90’s slasher flicks, A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder, YA thrillers

Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen
Out October 4, 2022

“Knives Out meets Carol.” I know, right? Intriguing!

It’s 1952 and police officer Andy Mills has just been fired from his job after being caught up in a rad while sitting at a gay club. He’s contemplating ending things when he’s approached by a woman who believes her foul play in the recent death of her wife despite the coroner ruling it an accidental fall.

Believing it someone living in their home, he becomes immersed in the found family (full of fellow queer people trying to pass as straight in the world) who has taken up residence in this safe haven.

For fans of: murder mysteries with a noir feel, Knives Out (but make it queer!), hard-boiled detectives, found family

Keep It In The Family by John Marrs
Out October 18, 2022

A couple buys an old house and are working hard to turn into the house of their dreams when they find out they are expecting. Soon they discover a disturbing message, in what looks like a child’s handwriting, carved into the baseboard that leads them to find out that their house was once a site of horrible, monstrous crimes up in the attic — a discovery that will change their life forever.

For fans of: darker and disturbing thrillers, atmospheric thrillers, dysfunctional families

The Cabin in the Woods by Sarah Alderson
Out October 18, 2022

This one is about a young New York socialite who fled from her life under mysterious circumstances to an upstate, off-the-grid cabin to hide out and starts to feel she is being watched. From the past to the present, the story unfolds in layers as we find out why she got to where she is right now and who she is afraid is watching her.

For fans of: bingeworthy & fast-paced thrillers, psychological thrillers with a domestic suspense edge

Any Where You Run by Wanda M. Morris
Out October 25, 2022

In Jim Crow-era Mississippi, two Black sisters end up on the run to different parts of the country for different reasons — one after the murder of the white man who raped her and the other when she finds herself pregnant and unmarried and also at the end of police questioning related to the murder. Unfortunately there is someone else they both should be running from — someone with hidden motives and their own agenda for trying to find the sisters.

For fans of: historical thrillers/suspense novels, books that tackle race and social issues, cat-and-mouse thrillers,