New Mysteries & Thrillers Publishing This March
As a whole, 2022 seems like it’s going to be an especially good year for mystery and thrillers. But March? March looks to be an especially good month if you’re an avid reader of thrillers, suspense, and mystery books. Here’s a look at fifteen mysteries and thrillers coming out in March that you won’t want to miss.
Dolly Parton and James Patterson’s highly anticipated mystery thriller is finally hitting shelves this March! Run Rose Run is the story of a young singer on the rise. She's also on the run, trying to leave behind a past that doesn’t seem to want to let her go.
Private investigator Kendra Michaels was blind before a revolutionary surgical procedure gave her sight. Now Kendra uses her razor-sharp senses to solve crimes, and in Killer View, she teams up with her friend Jessie Mercado to solve a baffling case. Owen Blake is an incarceration consultant, and he’s searching for his missing partner. But Owen and his partner deal with white-collar criminals and drug kingpins, and their suspect list are long.
Like A Sister is an exciting new thriller for fans of Megan Miranda and Jessica Knoll. When Black reality TV star Desiree Pierce is found dead in a playground in the Bronx, the police and the media are quick to declare the death an overdose. But Desiree’s estranged half-sister Lena Scott knows that can’t be the case. Despite the fact that Lena hasn’t spoken to her half-sister in years, she becomes determined to discover what really happened to her.
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In Harlan Coben’s The Match, Wilde is a man who knows next to nothing about his true identity or of his family. All he knows is that he was discovered as a small child, living feral in the Ramapo Mountains of New Jersey. But when Wilde starts to look into his family history through DNA websites, something strange happens. He soon gets caught up in a secret online community and a serial killer who wants them all dead.
Water’s Edge by Gregg Olsen is the second novel in the Detective Megan Carpenter series. When the body of Leann Truitt is found in a secluded cove in Mystery Bay, Detective Megan Carpenter notices an unusual clue: a symbol scratched into a rock next to the dead body. Soon, Megan discovers a chilling link between Leann’s death and the unsolved cases of two other murder victims. All three were redheads, all were killed in the same way, all had the same symbol carved at the scene of the crime, and all had been pregnant.
Josh Weiss’ Beat the Devils is a page-turner of a crime thriller set in an alternative version of the United States at the height of the red scare. When film director John Huston and journalist Walter Cronkite are found dead, LAPD detective Morris Baker is on the case. But much to his shock, Baker discovers a strange note clutched in the hand of one of the dead men. It says “beat the devils,” followed by a single name: Baker.
Renegade is the first book in a new series by Nancy Allen. Assistant DA Kate Stone has put all of her efforts into prosecuting Max James, a serial assaulter of women. It was a case she should have easily won, but all her efforts were dashed when a corrupt judge allowed the man to walk free. Kate is so furious that she confronts Max and punches him in the face, which gets her sent directly to anger management courses. When Kate attends her first meeting, she encounters a whole group of people who have all been failed by the justice system. Now their mission is to do whatever they can to right wrongs, even if it’s outside of the law.
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Emily Martin has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi. She’s a contributing editor at Book Riot and blogs/podcasts at Book Squad Goals.