We're starting the year off strong with dozens of fantastic mysteries & thrillers geared toward young readers. From the lies that bind friendships to mysterious plots in decadent lands, these books represent some of the best to come this year. Grab your cozy socks and delve into your new favorite young adult crime fiction. [bowker-title isbn="9780593568545" summary="%3Cp%3ENova%20Albright%2C%20the%20first%20Black%20homecoming%20queen%20at%20Lovett%20High%2C%20is%20dead.%20Murdered%20the%20night%20of%20her%20coronation%2C%20her%20body%20found%20the%20next%20morning%20in%20the%20old%20slave ..read more

End of the year roundups are making their way across the internet. One of our favorite parts of the year is seeing most anticipated books and finding out what stellar crime fiction is hitting everyone's charts. We enjoyed a great number of crime fiction books in 2022, but these ten are the ones that blew us away, up-rooted our expectations, and left us wanting more.   [bowker-title isbn="9781250252715" summary="%3Cp%3EIke%20Randolph%20has%20been%20out%20of%20jail%20for%20fifteen%20years%2C%20with%20not%20so%20much%20as%20a%20speeding%20ticket%20in%20all%20that%20time.%20But%20a%20Black ..read more

[caption id="attachment_1262871" width="1200"] Photo Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures[/caption] Don't Worry, Darling is a psychological thriller where a happy young couple finds themselves in a company town in the midst of mysterious friends and a mysterious company. Utopian life isn't all it's cracked up to be and slowly these characters find themselves in a community—and company—they don't recognize. If you're excited about this new thriller, we've got five thrillers you'll enjoy before its release day on September 23.   [hbg-title isbn="9780316267977" summary="%3Cp%3EA%20mother%20and%20h ..read more

1 The pubs were opening again, and this time without the need to sign in and order from your table. Standing at a bar seemed a novelty, though you were aware of the bottle of hand sanitiser on the corner or over by the door, and the track-and-trace QR code or the old-fashioned clipboard on which you scrawled a name–any name, and contact number–any number. Rebus still hadn’t a clue how the QR code worked. Now and again a savvier customer or one of the bar staff would try showing him, but the information was like a stone skimming across the surface of his brain, soon sinking, never to be retrie ..read more

These corporate thrillers, mystery, suspense, and horror books will have you on the edge of your seat as easily as they'll make you question technology and corporations and their role in our lives. Whether you’re into espionage thrillers or haunted house stories, these corporate thrillers will have you on the edge of your seat.   [hbg-title isbn="9781538732960" summary="%3Cp%20class%3D%22p1%22%3EQualityLand%20is%20the%20best%20country%20on%20Earth%2C%20a%20place%20where%20a%20universal%20ranking%20system%20determines%20all%20of%20your%20job%20opportunities%20and%20social%20advantages.%20 ..read more

AudioFile’s Editors know the fun of finding the perfect mystery audiobook for summertime listening, whether it’s a new thriller from a favorite author like David Baldacci, or a funny tale of a surprising sleuth as in Jane Pek’s debut. Read on to find your next mysterious companion to bring along to the beach, on your summertime stroll, or as you settle in your backyard lounge chair.   THE 6:20 MAN by David Baldacci| Read by Zachary Webber, Christine Lakin, Mela Lee AudioFile Earphones Awards [Hachette Audio | 11.75 hrs.] Listeners are treated to a young Jack Reacher-like ex-Army Ranger n ..read more

2 “Oregon is beautiful, Mom.” Andrea ignored the confused look the Uber driver shot her as they crossed over the Chesapeake Bay. She turned her head, indicating this was a private phone call. “I think I’m going to like it here.” “Well, that’s something,” Laura said. Water shushed into the sink. She was making dinner for Gordon back on Belle Isle. “It’s been so long since I was there. I remember the trees.” “The Douglas fir is the state tree. The state flower is the Oregon grape. But it’s not like grape-grapes. The fruit is more like a berry.” Andrea’s thumb scrolled through the Oregon Wikiped ..read more

1. One of my flaws is that I’m a great one for asking questions, but I’m mediocre to poor at answers. Which isn’t the best trait for a detective. Though it may be why, of late, I’ve become an armchair Buddhist. In Buddhism, you’re meant to question everything, including the idea of questioning everything. And really there are no answers, anyway. But that’s in Nirvana. Which is where you get to go when you become enlightened. I hear it’s very peaceful there. But in this messy realm—the realm of women and men and all their myriad problems—there are some answers to some questions. You can figure ..read more

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Dear Reader, Black Wolf is my first spy thriller, and a novel I’ve wanted to write for many years.  It’s a story I feel uniquely qualified to undertake as it’s based, in part, on my own experiences as a Department of Defense contractor assigned to the Former Soviet Union in the early 1990’s. When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, the Soviet Union had over ten thousand nuclear weapons, and an unknown amount of fissionable material—a tempting target for countries such as Iran and Pakistan. As a Special Project Manager with one of the first companies commissioned by the Senate Nunn-Lugar C ..read more