The Best Mystery Thriller Books I Read in 2022

It was so hard to narrow down, but this is my top 10 favorite reads in mystery, thriller, suspense, & horror in 2022!

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[PokhrajRoy.]

LET THE ISOLATED CLOSE CIRCLE MYSTERY PRAYER MEETING COMMENCE 🔥

[HRJafael]

Fun fact: Anthony Horowitz wrote several scripts for the Poirot tv series with David Suchet (he adapted Dead Man's Mirror, Hickory Dickory Dock, Murder on the Links, Lord Edgware Dies, and Evil Under the Sun among others).

It's interesting to see where his influence from Agatha Christie came from.

[marnielewis]

I listened to the audiobook of Razorblade Tears and it was amazing. The narrators voice added so much to an already great book.

[meettherodgers]

I literally just finished reading g Pretty Dead Queens this morning and loved it. So fast paced and kept me second guessing everything I thought.

[LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Lists likes woah continues to be the most wonderful time of the year!

[danszu]

I’m also an isolated closed circle mystery stan, especially of Japanese mystery fiction. I feel like you would like Death Among the Undead by Masahiro Imamura, translated by Ho-Ling Wong. It’s about a group of college students who become trapped at a lakeside villa because of a legitimate zombie attack. But then murders start happening within the villa. I loved it! The sequel, Death Within the Evil Eye, has also just been translated. That one has everyone stuck in a building on a mountain due to a burnt down bridge. Instead of zombies, an actual psychic has predicted that four people there will die. Both novels are really fun and refreshing fairplay murder mysteries!

[julielyons]

Succinct synopses of characters and plot 5 stars. Vocabulary 5 stars. Finally, a literary content creator who describes books with other descriptions than “gives cozy vibes” or “gives noir vibes.” Thank you for giving me a real detailed book list! Can’t wait to start reading!

[robgst]

Excited to dive into some of these ! Love your taste in mystery/thrillers - I tend to like the same kind of tropes.
Best mysteries I read all year were the first four books of Nicci French’s Frieda Klein series. They’re so moody, slow burn, and character driven, but with huge payoffs and a satisfying macro plot. Really love them.

[hannahangelina]

Loving these end of the year videos from you!! Hope you have a nice holiday season

[andrewf]

I picked up Magpie Murders due to your recommendation earlier this year and also read Moonflower Murders. I 100% agree with your opinion. Moonflower Murders is the only mystery/thriller i gave 5 stars thus year. It's such an intelligent and satisfying mystery. Regarding the homophobia, I just viewed it as the author of Atticus Pund being a very unlikable person who happens to be gay. As someone who identifies as gay, I'm not offended by having problematic gay characters in novels. But I can understand why others would feel uncomfortable. I feel like queer representation has exploded in books in recent years that there is plenty of positive representation out there to find. I don't think every book needs to have likeable queer characters.

[kaortega]

A Great List, Maura - As Always - I have added many of these titles to keep in mind for 2023. Thanks again for all the work that goes into all these videos - Love 'Em!

[bradonlong]

LOVED Magpie Murders, reading Moonflower now. So glad you loved the Marple! I'm on a multi-year trek of reading every Christie, but have LOVED the fun I've found along the way with new authors to try! (Ware, Horowitz now, and more!)

[CherylanneFarley]

Read to relax and be entertained so this year hanging with the classic super skilled dudes. Enjoyed Robert Crais Joe&Elvis and Michal Connelly the Wilde Series. Impressed with second Wilde book had very grown up Romance with two peeps maybe 60s++ who STILL had to learn about boundaries and forgiveness stuff in new relationships. Good year!

[EP-hmue]

My favorite was The Sundown Motel by Simone St. James. It was my first book I read from her and so throughly enjoyed it, that I also read The Broken Girls and Silence for the Dead which were also good.

[a.l.reedsbooks]

I love your perspective on thrillers and think the same! If I'm having a fun time, I love it! Added a few to my tbr.

[natasagajic]

My favorite mysteries of the year are probably the Blackthorn & Grim trilogy by Juliet Marillier - the mystery plots in the first two books were specially interesting to me (and here I thought that I am not a fan of speculative mysteries! 😮) And I also prefer for my mysteries to have a strong romantic subplot, so I second that opinion fully! 😁
Oh, also, I picked up The Agathas and The Murder of Mr Wickham on your recommendation and both of them were such fun and quick reads - I pretty much read each of them in one sitting 😁

[tawnyachristensen]

I took your recommendation on the Horowitz novels and loved them! I hope there will be more of them as well. Maddy Clare was good too, and I look forward to finishing her backlist. Cutest Christmas sweater!

[christinelagueux]

I have Shiver. Nice to hear you like it. I will read it this winter

[becky]

As a huge Agatha Christie fan, I loved Never Coming Home as well. Heard about it through your channel so thank you for one of my favorite reads of the year.

[Jillybeanzxo]

I just started Never Saw Me Coming per your recommendation and loving it! 🙌 I’m adding the the rest of your rec’s to the tbr! I’m especially interested in Shiver as i just saw Megwithbooks list it on her Worst of 2022 😂