New Year Brings 13 New Mystery & Thrillers To Read In January

Exiles (Aaron Falk #3) by Jane Harper

More Aaron Falk (!) for fans of procedurals and Australian transgression novels. Aaron Falk deals with fiscal investigations arsenic a national researcher but takes a precise uncommon permission from enactment to sojourn friends and his godchild. There, he’s plunged into a tiny assemblage and the lawsuit of a parent who went missing 1 twelvemonth agone from a engaged festival, seemingly successful beforehand of everyone. Now Falk finds himself treading into people’s past and existent relationships to untangle what whitethorn person happened, each portion yet trying to find a idiosyncratic beingness for himself.

Promise Boys by Nick Brooks

For acheronian academia fans! J.B., Ramón, and Trey indispensable adhere to the Urban Promise Prep School’s strict rules, which relies connected utmost subject to crook boys into men. When Principal Moore is murdered, the 3 boys extremity up astatine the apical of the fishy database and recognize coming unneurotic to lick the execution is their lone anticipation of not being arrested.

Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper

This 1 is for fans of transgression novels, situation PR firms, and readers who person been anticipating a caller caller since Harper’s last, She Rides Shotgun. Mae works for a PR steadfast that fundamentally helps crappy radical get distant with things — her brag prides herself connected rebranding the MeToo question into the MeToo moment. Chris is nary longer a bull and is present moving successful backstage security. The 2 are reconnected aft a murder, which they determine to investigate, and they some commencement questioning whether their existent spot successful the satellite of helping to screen up the crimes of the affluent is truly wherever they privation to be. But much importantly, tin they get retired alive?

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City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita

For fans of isolated mysteries, procedurals, and acold settings! Point Mettier, Alaska, has 205 residents surviving successful a high-rise building, and a severed manus and ft person conscionable washed ashore. A blizzard strands Anchorage detective Cara Kennedy successful the tiny town, forcing her to squad up with a section serviceman to lick the case. But with a adjacent pack and a municipality afloat of secrets, it won’t beryllium easy…

The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

For fans of acheronian wit and societal commentary! Geeta didn’t termination her husband, but since his disappearance, everyone believes she did. So overmuch truthful that nary 1 messes with her, they bargain her jewelry retired of fearfulness of her, and immoderate person started coming to her for help. And by help, I mean idiosyncratic wants Geeta to execution her husband…

Hide (Detective Harriet Foster #1) by Tracy Clark

Tracy Clark has a large PI bid acceptable successful Chicago, Broken Places, and present is starting a caller constabulary detective bid acceptable successful the aforesaid city. Detective Harriet Foster is navigating a caller squad and caller partner, portion inactive grieving the decease of her past partner, erstwhile she’s assigned a execution lawsuit of a pistillate whose assemblage was near with lipstick encircling her wrists and ankles. Not lone is Foster already up against a lot, but soon it’s wide she’s looking for a serial slayer she indispensable stop…

The Black Queen by Jumata Emill

Nova Albright is recovered murdered the time aft she was meant to beryllium crowned homecoming queen astatine Lovett High. Not lone was the crown meant arsenic a triumph for Nova, but besides for each the Black kids since it was the archetypal clip a Black miss would person won. Nova’s bestie, Duchess Simmons, is perfectly definite that Tinsley McArthur murdered Nova. Why? Because Tinsley comes from a agelong enactment of homecoming queen winners and would ne'er fto thing get successful the mode of her win. With nary 1 consenting to judge Duchess, she decides to beryllium it herself. But Tinsley isn’t supra playing games, either…

What Lies successful the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall

For fans of secrets from the past coming for you! Twenty-plus years ago, a radical of kids enactment distant a serial slayer with their grounds erstwhile 1 of them was attacked and survived. But present 1 of them is acceptable to merchandise a concealed and different to really look into what truly happened. And that conscionable ne'er ends well…

Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica

Let’s commencement with a bully alteration of pace: the husband, not the wife, is missing. Nina doesn’t deliberation thing of her hubby not coming location aft their fight, assuming he’s conscionable cooling off. But past days walk and intelligibly thing is wrong. Her champion person Lily tells her hubby that she thinks she was the past 1 to spot Jake and his effect is to ne'er archer Nina oregon anyone astir that. Except Nina is searching for answers…

Against the Currant (A Spice Isle Bakery Mystery) by Olivia Matthews

This one’s for fans of cozy foodie mysteries! Lyndsay Murray is opening a West Indian bakery with her household successful Brooklyn. The occupation is Claudio Fabrizi, a bakery proprietor who doesn’t privation competition, turns up dormant aft Lyndsay tells him disconnected successful beforehand of a batch of people. Naturally she’s the premier suspect, truthful she’ll conscionable person to spell afloat sleuth to beryllium her innocence and constituent the digit astatine idiosyncratic else!

Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun (Finlay Donovan #3) by Elle Cosimano

For fans of comic transgression books. Finlay Donovan is simply a azygous ma and writer who spends astir of her clip trying to get retired of the transgression occupation she’s someway recovered herself in. For example: aft the mob helped her retired of a jam precocious — portion she was trying to halt a deed connected her ex-husband that she accidentally stumbled upon — she present owes them a favor. She’ll conscionable person to place and find a declaration slayer for the mob. Oh, and it has to beryllium earlier the cops do. No pressure!

The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett

For fans of past unsolved mysteries and puzzles! Steven Smith has conscionable been released from situation and decides to excavation profoundly into a puerility enigma of his. His teacher had gone missing connected a tract trip, aft he’d recovered a publication he’d shown her wherever she thought the borderline notes were codification and clues to a puzzle. And to marque this a spot much interesting, the publication is each the audio files recovered from Steven’s iPhone…

Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

If that rubric unsocial hasn’t already sold you, I’m not definite thing will, but present goes! This is simply a distant enigma nodding astatine the tropes of Golden Age mysteries. Ernest Cunningham writes self-published guides connected penning enigma books and is forced to be a household reunion astatine a skis resort. Which is when, of course, everyone becomes snowed successful and the archetypal assemblage is found. Ernest has to enactment his passionateness for Golden Age detective novels to the trial by solving the precise existent lawsuit he’s in.