Your Top Reads for 2022

In 2022 the City of Canada Bay was seeking the thrill of murder, mystery and suspense with many of our most borrowed titles spanning the crime and thriller genres. Take a look at the year's page turners and reserve your next summer read below!
  • 1. The Mother by Jane Caro

    From the Walkley Award winning journalist, social commentator and author comes a gripping domestic thriller with a moral dilemma at its core.

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  • 2. The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan

    First Rule: Make them like you. Second Rule: Make them need you. Third Rule: Make them pay. They think I'm a young, idealistic law student, that I'm passionate about reforming a corrupt and brutal system. They think I'm working hard to impress them. They think I'm here to save an innocent man on death row. They're wrong. I'm going to bury him.

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  • 3. Wake by Shelley Burr

    What really happened to young Evie McCreery? A searing debut crime novel where the grief and guilt surrounding an unsolved disappearance still haunt a small farming community... and will ultimately lead to a reckoning.

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  • 4. The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly

    A brazen and methodical killer strikes on New Year's Eve and LAPD Detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch must join forces to find justice for the victim in a city scarred by fear and social unrest, in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.

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  • 5. Better Off Dead by Lee Child

    Jack Reacher is back in the new, page-turning thriller from acclaimed #1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child. Reacher isn’t one to back down from a fight. And when a shadowy crew raises the stakes, he won’t hesitate to teach them a lesson.

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  • 6. The Match by Harlan Coben

    In this gripping new thriller from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author and creator of The Stranger, Wilde follows a tip that he hopes will finally solve the mystery of his abandonment, but instead sends him straight into the arms of a serial killer.

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  • 7. The No Show by Beth O'Leary

    Three women who seemingly have nothing in common find that they're involved with the same man in this smart new rom-com by Beth O'Leary, bestselling author of The Flatshare.

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  • 8. The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci

    A cryptic murder pulls a former soldier turned financial analyst deep into the corruption and menace that prowl beneath the opulent world of finance in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from David Baldacci.

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  • 9. The Way it is Now by Garry Disher

    Twenty years ago Charlie Deravin’s mother went missing near the family beach shack — believed murdered; body never found. His father has lived under a cloud of suspicion ever since.

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  • 10. Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

    From Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, comes Apples Never Fall, a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest.

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