The Best Mystery Thriller Books I Read in 2022
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- Опубликовано: 14 дек 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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Books Mentioned (all links are affiliated):
THE CUTTING SEASON by Attica Locke - amzn.to/3SOO2Ip
MARPLE by various authors - amzn.to/3yX061K
RAZORBLADE TEARS by SA Cosby - amzn.to/33G7TFs
SHIVER by Allie Reynolds - amzn.to/3nBaLdC
NEVER SAW ME COMING by Vera Kurlan - amzn.to/3oj58Bw
THE HAUNTING OF MADDY CLARE by Simone St James - amzn.to/3SOvl7S
PRETTY DEAD QUEENS by Alexa Donne - amzn.to/3tpqTRV
THE WOMAN IN THE LIBRARY by Sulari Gentill - amzn.to/3lgMYP8
NEVER COMING HOME by Kate Williams - amzn.to/3ryJBGl
MAGPIE MURDERS by Anthony Horowitz - amzn.to/3FYidqH
MOONFLOWER MURDERS by Anthony Horowitz - amzn.to/3MjMMus
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LET THE ISOLATED CLOSE CIRCLE MYSTERY PRAYER MEETING COMMENCE 🔥
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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.
Oh I didn't realize he'd done Poirot scripts! I did enjoy his Midsummer Murders episodes, and this series definitely has those vibes as well
The Marple cover is GORGEOUS
I listened to the audiobook of Razorblade Tears and it was amazing. The narrators voice added so much to an already great book.
YES that was how I read it too, and the production was wonderful!
Same. It was phenomenal.
@@bookslikewhoa I loved this book and the narrator was amazing!!
I also loved the audiobook
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.
YES it's so fun!!
Lists likes woah continues to be the most wonderful time of the year!
More to come!! ;)
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.
I do love a good macro plot in a series!
Loving these end of the year videos from you!! Hope you have a nice holiday season
thank you! you as well :)
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.
That's a great point about expanded representation - I keep reading because I don't find it to be overt or over the top, but I do think it's worth noting for folks who don't want to put up with it.
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!
I've got a growing pile of Japanese mysteries that I want to do as a vidoe at some point... so many good ones out there!
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!)
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!
My pleasure!
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!
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!
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.
Hope you have a great 2023! 👏🏽
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!
Yay, so glad you enjoyed it!!!
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.
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.
I have Shiver. Nice to hear you like it. I will read it this winter
Hope you enjoy it!
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 😁
I'm so glad you enjoyed them!!
I just bought Magpie Murders recently thanks to your suggestion. Excited to dig in. Might also have to check out Never saw me coming based on this video.
Hope you enjoy!!
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 😂
lol you'll have to see how you do with it!
Haunting of Maddy Clare is my favorite from Simone St James ❤📚
I loved the Marple book as well. I’m a real “dark and stormy night” kinda gal. Do you know any of those?
Wow glad Horowitz made your favorite's list. Five stars ! I remember your first reading of an earlier Horowitz book & it was not a good experience. I will unabashedly take some of the credit for you continuing with Horowitz because I commented that he had written (in my opinion) some of the better Midsomer Murder scripts. What a jerk I am ! Thinking one comment out of 37K would influence you. Ha ! 😸😹 Have a wonderful new year full of great books !
I really enjoyed Death in Heels by Kitty Murphy the first book in the Dublin Drag Mysteries
The Head on HBO Max is a great closed circle mystery.
What exactly were you referring to about author Horowitz? I'm trying to look it up but I don't kniw where to search.. I was planning to buy these two books after a friend raved about them when I cane upon your video..
‘Never Saw Me Coming’ is giving layered mystery. I would like to read it.
I am so confused how folks like magpie murders - I felt like book was so misjointed but y’all got me thinking I need to try moonflower murders
Hi hello! Just found your channel and had a question. Are those custom book covers on the books behind you? They look really cool
They are actually Penguin Clothbound Classics! I have a list of them in my Amazon storefront
You did Christie, how about doing van Gulik's Judge Dee books? They're really good mysteries.
Loving that I found this list just as my Christmas/Winter break from school is starting! Question: Do I need to read the original Agatha Christie "Marple" story(s) to get the most out of "Marple"? I enjoy stories from several of the authors that contributed and would definitely like to read more from them!
PS - Can you list your #11-20 choices so I have more to read later? LOL! :)
Hmmm... it's hard to say! I would think they would still be fun to read as whodunnits, but not sure I'd start there if you ever want to read the original
I am just finishing "Long, Bright River" by Liz Moore. 5 stars for me!!
I agree with you on the writing style of Magpie Murders, it really threw me off. I need to give it another shot.
I’m not a Christmas person but I want to finish ‘Hercule Poirot’s Christmas’ by Agatha Christie and ‘Silent Night’ by British Library Crime Classics.
Got so many great recs from this video ❤ can’t wait to get my hands on them!
YAY I hope you enjoy!!
I loved Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders and I agree, give us more! I wasn't thrilled with The Woman in the Library, it felt gimmicky so a little contrived ( I know I used an odd adjective for a fictional book). My favourite thriller of 2022 was Armadale by Wilkie Collins, I could not put it down ( and I ended up buying several more titles by the same author which are now on my TBR for 2023).
I also like the romantic elements in all my thrillers! But I find it hard to find to find in thrillers … I wish there’s more author writes this
I loved Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney this year!
I started reading Shiver right after reading Ruth Ware's One By One, and it was so similar in plot and setting that I dnf'd it.
Definitely very similar vibes... I just happen to love that vibe :D
I really enjoyed Razorblade Tears. Its a hiding the veggies in the meat sauce book to me. I could see myself gifting it to the Lee Child/Tom Clancy lovers in my life knowing they will really enjoy the characters and the thriller aspect. While maybe learning a bit about toxic masculinity. I think the villains ended up a bit cartoonish probably because there were so many of them. But overall a strong 4 star.
Also really loved The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett. I thought she made an insane choice in how she formatted the book but I was hooked and I loved the protag. A strong 4.5.
My mystery of the year was new to me but was published ten years ago. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. Just beautiful lyrical writing. A bit of Rebecca, a bit of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a bit of Josephine Tey. And it did something I normally really hate and pulled it off. I felt like it recharged something in my brain. 5 stars
A book within a book--gets me every time.
Would The Magpie Murders work for someone who is not a mystery queen? I'm relatively new to mysteries (I've read two Agatha Christie novels).
If you like the idea of a book within a book, I say go for it! It's very fun and you get 2 stories for the price of one :)
Looking forward to picking up the woman in the library!
Great list! as usual I love meta in mystery too. The Woman In The Library will definitely go up on my list. Never saw me coming and Pretty dead queen also sounds appealing! Regarding to Horowitz, as someone indentified as gay I don't think Magpie Murder series has much problem. I didn't feel uncomfortable at the time I was reading it , but then I continued to read Hawthorne series, and that seris also involves a similar representation of gay community(rich and selfish and irresponsible) , and a main character who is definitely homophbic, that striked me as a little weird…………
I think my favorite thriller of this year was definitely No Exit by Taylor Adams, which everybody else has already read ages ago
lol I read that this year too! almost made the list
What s your most sarcastic book pls?
Hadn't heard about Never Saw Me Coming. It sounds really good. I like a serial killer story too. The Woman in the Library was good. I threatened to read Never Coming Home, but YA is just a hard sell for me. Anthony Horowitz has become a favorite. This series does have a Christie flavor to me. I am going to be reading his backlist. Loved The Moonflower Murders. I don't care about the "scuttle butt nonsense ". Unapologetic Gen X'er here (rub a little dirt on it and keep moving) I really enjoyed Richard Osman's 3 books in his murder club series too. He's another on my mystery favorites list.
I struggle with Lucy foley myself, the guest list was a great isolated mystery but I didn’t enjoy the others
Not trying to be a know-it-all here, but psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder are different things. (I work with people committed for treatment by the state as 'sexually violent predators' as a therapist and social worker.) A psychopath is someone who scores highly on Hare's PCL-R (Psychopathy Checklist - Revised), which measures someone's ability to (basically) see other people/animals as having their own emotions, wants, needs, experiences rather than a means to get some need or want meant on their end. Antisocial Personality Disorder, on the other hand, is a personality disorder (like Borderline Personality Disorder, etc) that can make someone more likely to have a higher PCL-R score, but not necessarily so. Antisocial Personality Disorder is more about not understanding society's inherent rules, or not caring/having a pattern of typically disregarding those rules. I have worked with probably 100ish clients with Antisocial Personality Disorder, but only around 10 had high psychopathy. 😃 Hope that explanation makes sense!
I find myself reading less and less YA of late but both Pretty Dead Queens and Never Coming home were great. And Then There Were none is probably my favorite Christie. I had really been enjoying the Hawthorne and Horowitz books. In so many ways, they really tick off my boxes for a mystery. Unfortunately, the underlying feeling that the author is homophobic finally just ruined it for me. I am not saying he is but it runs strong and unchecked in the books.
Yay, I'm glad you enjoyed those 2! They are both great versions of what YA mystery can do well
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first of all: what a great name! 😂
if i may chime in on the h&h series? i recently read the first 2 (excellent audio books as well, by the way) and really liked them. in my understanding horowitz (both the author and character in the books) always strongly reprimands hawthorne for his homophobia and it is beginning to change the latter one‘s attitude a bit.
additionally i find it more plausible that gay characters can be just as judgmental/criminal/flawed as hetero characters.
this is just my personal opinion as an avid mystery reader and meant to inform nobody but my own reading choices.
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Unfortuntaly domestic thrillers are often about domestic violence. Eg The last Mrs Parish and I let you go.