15 Best New Thriller & Mystery Books for Summer 2022

This is actually my current read! It’s great for readers of YA mysteries where many girls have been going missing, or been murdered, over time along with delving into mental illness and grief. Luca lives on an island town and is dealing with a lot including a new family moving into her dead best friend’s home. Now, after a night out, her sister has not returned and the police show up saying they think they’ve found her body. After years of believing a curse keeps killing girls, Luca decides to find out once and for all who is behind the killings…

(The author kindly provides TWs at the opening of the book.)

Easily one of my favorite books this year! First, if you listen to audiobooks, absolutely 100% go pick up that format—parts of this are interviews and a podcast and it is so good that I actually would forget this was a novel and not a podcast.

You get a mystery and a family drama in one! Famous magician Violet Volk disappeared a decade ago causing all kinds of speculation. Now for the ten year anniversary of the disappearance, a podcast is focusing on interviewing everyone who knew her, looking at the news reports, and digging into all the fan theories. But Violet’s sister, Sasha, doesn’t want anything to do with the podcast—no matter how much she’s hounded—or any of the theories, especially since she’s always been part of some of the theories. Between Sasha’s current life and the podcast transcripts, we get to know both sisters in a collision course of who they were and possibly what may have happened.

(TW mentions past teacher physical abuse of child/ brief recount gropping assault/ brief mention domestic abuse case/ brief mention past suicide attempt, detail/ past mother with terminal illness, not graphic)