Book Releases: Mystery/Thriller (January to June 2022)

It’s a new year and, since the number of book releases we know about per month is just tipping into unwieldy (June alone last year had 150 books to add to the post, not to mention the 50+ more we found later), we’ve decided to change up the way we’re doing releases posts. We started organising releases posts by genre around halfway through last year, so we’re sticking with that here. The major difference? Each genre gets its own post, which will eventually cover a period of 6 months. So, like with our various other releases posts (although those go up all at once, whereas here we’ll add each month), these are more easily edited and added to! Which means, even if we miss a book, we can better come back and add it to the post. A win for everyone!

In this post, you’ll find the collection of mystery and thriller books that we know about from January to June of 2022!

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JANUARY

🌈 Despite Chaos by Stacy Lynn Miller (f/f)
🌈 Real Easy by Marie Rutkoski (Black sapphic mc, lesbian li, gay side characters)
The Heretic by Liam McIlvanney (gay mc)
🌈 Survivor’s Guilt by Robyn Gigl (trans mc)
The Second Cut by Louise Welsh (gay mc)

🌈 Shadow Dancers by Suzie Clarke (bi mc, f/f)
🌈 Fadeout by Joseph Hansen (gay mc; reprint)
🌈 Death Claims by Joseph Hansen (gay mc; reprint)
🌈 Troublemaker by Joseph Hansen (gay mc; reprint)
The Girls on the Shore by Ann Cleeves (gay mc)

The Millionaire Murders by Rachel McLean (lesbian mc)
Daring Duplicity by Edale Lane (lesbian mc)

FEBRUARY

🌈 Murder of Crows by K. Ancrum (Cuban American bi mc, sapphic character, bi grandmother, gay side character)
Deadly Secrets by V. K. Powell (f/f relationship)
🌈 Perilous Obsession by Carsen Taite (f/f relationship)
Watching Over Her by Ronica Black (f/f relationship)
The Enemy Within by Adam Macqueen (gay mc)

🌈 The Lighthouse by Fran Dorricott (lesbian mcs, f/f relationship)
🌈 The Man Everybody Was Afraid of by Joseph Hansen (gay mc; reprint)
Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (m/m relationship; English translation)
🌈 Cold by Mariko Tamaki (sapphic mc, achillean mc)
🌈 Devil’s Chew Toy by Rob Osler (gay mc)

Ditched by Christopher H. Jansmann (gay mc)
🌈 The Chandler Legacies by Abdi Nazemian (Iranian gay mc)
Valse Triste by Marcello Fois, trans. by Richard Dixon (gay mc, m/m relationship)
🌈 Tripping Arcadia by Kit Mayquist (bi mc, f/f relationship)
Legacy in the Blood by Catherine Maiorisi (f/f relationship)

The Verifiers by Jane Pek (Chinese American lesbian mc, f/f relationship)
🌈 Two Knights Tango by Tagan Shepard (f/f relationship)
🌈 Silver-Lined Secrets by Aleksander Petit (gay mc, trans gay li, achillean character) tw blood, violence, death, kidnapping, transphobia, ableism, vomiting, panic attacks
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley (gay mc)

MARCH

Return to Blackwater House by Vikki Patis (lesbian character) – 1
🌈 Drew LeClair Gets a Clue by Katryn Bury (bi mc)
🌈 Whereabouts Unknown by Meredith Doench (f/f relationship)
🌈 Skinflick by Joseph Hansen (gay mc; reprint)
🌈 The Best Liars in Riverview by Lin Thompson (nonbinary mc)

The World Cannot Give by Tara Isabella Burton (sapphic mc)
Boy Fallen by Chris Gill (gay character)
Dig Two Graves by Gretchen McNeil (bi mc)
Message Not Found by Dante Medema (f/f parents)
🌈 As You Look by Veronica Gutierrez (f/f relationship)

Secret Identity by Alex Segura (lesbian mc)
Monarch by Candice Wuehle (sapphic mc)
Steadying the Ark by Rebecca K. Jones (f/f relationship)
🌈 Death by Misadventure by Thomas Kearnes (gay mc)
Heart of Glass by Heidi Lowe (f/f relationship)

APRIL

Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li (Chinese American lesbian mc, Chinese American sapphic mc)
🌈 Gravedigger by Joseph Hansen (gay mc; reprint)
🌈 Secret Agent by Michelle Larkin (f/f relationship)
🌈 Delafield by Katherine V. Forrest (f/f relationship)
🌈 Pride by Mark Howells (gay mc)

🌈 The Answers You Seek by Shannon Yarbrough (gay mc)
The Fossil Beach Murders by Rachel McLean (lesbian mc)
🌈 Father Complex by Gregory Ashe (gay mcs, m/m relationship)

MAY

🌈 Dead End Girls by Wendy Heard (lesbian mc, nonbinary sapphic mc, f/f relationship) cw child abuse, death, lesbophobia
🌈 With a Minor in Murder by Karis Walsh (f/f relationship)
🌈 The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor (nonbinary pan ace autistic mc)
🌈 Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado (Afro-Latina lesbian mc, f/f relationship)
🌈 Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies by Misha Popp (bi mc)

🌈 Cold Reckoning by Russ Thomas (gay mc)
Something Is Always Happening Somewhere by Kelly McClure (f/f relationship)
Twelfth by Janet Key (f/nb relationship)
🌈 Magnetic North by Marie Bassette (f/f relationship)
In the Trap by Jessica Cranberry (bi mc)

Night and Day by Georgia C. Williams (bi mc, gay mc, m/m relationship)
The Manager by A. K. Wilson (sapphic mc, f/f relationship)
🌈 Writer’s Block by Ali Vali (f/f relationship)
Summer’s Edge by Dana Mele (bi mc, lesbian mc, f/f relationship)
🌈 Renovated to Death by Frank Anthony Polito (gay mcs, m/m relationship)

Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor (lesbian mc, Syrian Australian bi li, gay mc)
🌈 Going to Beautiful by Anthony Bidulka (gay mc, Indian Canadian Hindu trans character)
Three by Valérie Perrin, trans. by Hildegarde Serie (trans mc)
🌈 Dead Tide by Jane Marks (bi mc, lesbian mc, f/f relationship)
Welcome to Dorley Hall by Alyson Greaves (trans mc)

🌈 Building 46 by Massoud Hayoun (gay Jewish Arab American mc)

JUNE

Trial and Error by Carsen Taite (f/f relationship)
Like & Subscribe for Murder by Elle Kleos (nonbinary mc)
🌈 Last Call at the Nightingale by Katharine Schellman (sapphic mc)
🌈 The Gravity of Missing Things by Marisa Urgo (bi mc, f/m relationship)
The Companion by Lesley Thomson (lesbian mc)

And There He Kept Her by Joshua Moehling (gay mc)
By the Book by G. B. Gordon (m/m relationship)
The Girl Whose Luck Run Out by Gayleen Froese (m/m relationship)
🌈 Lament at Loon Landing by Josh Lanyon (m/m relationship)
Mammoth Drop by R. J. Corgan (lesbian mc)

Can I Trust Her? by Frances Lucas (f/f relationship)
🌈 Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love by Carlos Allende (m/m relationship)
Vera Kelly: Lost and Found by Rosalie Knecht (f/f relationship)
The Apartment Upstairs by Lesley Kara (f/f relationship)
He’s Back by Alex Clare (trans mc)

🌈 Bad Things Happen Here by Rebecca Barrow (biracial Black lesbian mc with anxiety & depression, biracial Filipino American sapphic li, f/f relationship)
Harlem Sunset by Nekesa Afia (Black lesbian mc, Latina lesbian li, f/f relationship, Latino gay side character)
Love Burns Bright by Rien Gray (bi mc, nonbinary li, f/nb relationship)
Dead Draw by Layla Reyne (m/m relationship)
Hot Pursuit by Eli Easton (m/m relationship)

🌈 Murder Before Evensong by Richard Coles (gay characters)
Perilous Passages by Edale Lane (lesbian mc)
Pomeranian Puzzle by Molly Maple (bi mc)

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