Mystery, Thriller, & Suspense Books to Read | April 2022
Don’t miss out on these exciting new mystery, thriller, and suspense books that are perfect to add to your reading list this winter! Check out these new books by bestselling authors Blair Denholm, Vella Munn, Anne Hillerman, Lisa Regan, Amanda M. Lee, and Karen McQuestion. Enjoy your new mystery, thriller, and suspense books!
Shot to the Heart (The Fighting Detective Book 4)
by Blair Denholm
Release Date: March 29, 2022
After a 5-year absence from London, Detective Jack Lisbon is reunited with his daughter. Just three days into his holiday, the child is kidnapped. With the clock ticking, Lisbon assembles a team to find the kidnappers. Checking off a long list of suspects, they must race across the length and breadth of England and Scotland before it’s too late.
Buy on AmazonPunish (Primal Justice Book 1)
by Vella Munn
Release Date: January 14, 2022
Were the killings justice or murder? By whom—or what? Comprehension threatens to shatter him when animal control officer Nate Chee spots three massive grey dogs near the savaged bodies of a couple of animal abusers. For the dogs, life is simple. They do what primal instinct demands. And they’ve just begun.
Buy on AmazonThe Sacred Bridge (A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel Book 7)
by Anne Hillerman
Release Date: April 12, 2022
An ancient mystery resurfaces with ramifications for the present day in this gripping chapter in the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series from New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman.
Buy on AmazonWatch Her Disappear (Detective Josie Quinn Book 14)
by Lisa Regan
Release Date: April 12, 2022
When a call comes in about a young girl found dead at a high school prom—her life drained away from a fatal stab wound—Detective Josie Quinn drops everything to attend the scene. Taking in the girl’s neatly braided hair, Josie feels a flicker of recognition. But no one comes forward to identify this innocent child, murdered on what should have been the happiest night of her life.
Buy on AmazonGrease the Wheel (A Two Broomsticks Gas & Grill Witch Cozy Mystery Book 5)
by Amanda M. Lee
Release Date: April 12, 2022
Stormy Morgan is a witch with too much attitude, an old love fueling new fires in her soul, and a talking cat who keeps threatening to give her an ulcer. She’s got a full plate. Things get even busier in her life when a body drops outside her boyfriend Hunter Ryan’s house … and the death looks like more than a standard murder.
Buy on Amazon214 Palmer Street
by Karen McQuestion
Release Date: April 6, 2022
When Maggie sees the beautiful Venetian blinds moving in the Caldwells’ front window, she freezes. Her favorite neighbors Cady and Josh are away, so who is in their house? The pretty young woman who answers the door tells a convincing story. She’s Sarah. The house-sitter. Just here for a month. An old friend of Cady’s who needed a place to stay. She’s pleasant and warm, and Maggie wanders back to her house thinking she might have made a new friend. Yet she can’t help but wonder why Cady never mentioned Sarah.
What Maggie doesn’t know is that on the other side of the door, Sarah is starting to panic. No one was meant to see her at 214 Palmer Street…