Top 10 New Mystery Audiobooks 2022

This is a round-up of the ten best new crime and mystery audiobooks coming out in 2022. Including popular mystery series and top crime authors.

Ranging from cozy mysteries to gritty true-crime based thrillers.

For more top new mystery audiobook releases in 2022 plus popular best-selling detective book series listed in order, see my posts listed below.

Best Mystery Audiobooks 2022

This top ten list includes a range of mystery and thriller themes ranging from cozy mysteries, popular crime book series and gritty thrillers.

1. The Bullet That Missed (The Thursday Murder Club Book 3)

Author: Richard Osman | Releases: 15 September 2022.

Plot: It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers. Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill… or be killed.

As the cold case turns white hot, Elizabeth wrestles with her conscience (and a gun), while Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim chase down clues with help from old friends and new. But can the gang solve the mystery and save Elizabeth before the murderer strikes again? [Source: Amazon]

This is the 3rd installment in the top cozy mystery audiobook series by Richard Osman. For all the other books: Thursday Murder Club Series in Order.

*Get Top British Mystery Audiobook Thursday Murder Club Book 3 free download from UK Audible with 30 day trial or monthly subscription.

2. The Ink Black Heart

Author: Robert Galbraith | Releases: 30 August 2022.

This is the 6th installment in the popular Cormoran Strike private investigator series by Robert Galbraith (the pen name for J.K. Rowling).

The Cormoran Strike books in order are:

1. The Cuckoo’s Calling (2013)
2. The Silkworm (2014)
3. Career of Evil (2015)
4. Lethal White (2018)
5. Troubled Blood (2020)
6. The Ink Black Heart (2022) – Review

*Get Top British Mystery Audiobook The Ink Black Heart free to download from UK Audible with 30 day trial or monthly subscription.

3. Murder Before Evensong: A Canon Clement Mystery

Author: Reverend Richard Coles | Releases: 9 June 2022.

Plot: Canon Daniel Clement is rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the rectory alongside his widowed mother – opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey – and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda.

When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided: as lines are drawn in the community, long-buried secrets come dangerously close to destroying the apparent calm of Champton. And then Anthony Bowness – cousin to Bernard de Floures, patron of Champton – is found dead at the back of the church, stabbed in the neck with a pair of secateurs. As the police move in and the bodies start piling up, Daniel Clement is the only one who can try and keep his fractured community together… and catch a killer. [Source: Amazon]

*Get New British Mystery Audiobook Murder Before Evensong download free from UK Audible with 30 day trial or monthly subscription.

4. Meantime

Author: Frankie Boyle | Releases: 21 July 2022.

Plot: The exhilarating, hilarious and gripping crime debut novel from Frankie Boyle. Glasgow, in the aftermath of the Independence referendum, is a strange place. Marina Katos’ body is found in a park, and the police don’t seem to know or care who committed the crime. In a haze of tranquilisers, hallucinogenics and Valium, Felix McAveety decides to solve the murder of Marina, his best friend. But to break through his drug-induced fog and get closer to the truth Felix enlists the help of a dying crime novelist, Jane Pickford, and his crisis-ridden friend Scott.

Their quest takes them into the dark heart of Scottish politics, the orbit of drug dealers and the matrix of AI, encountering Independence activists, the intelligence services and stalkers as they seek justice for Marina. Meantime is a wild ride through Glasgow’s multicultural present and examines its colonial past. It’s dazzingly funny, grappling with big ideas and is heartbreakingly tinged with personal and political loss. [Source: Amazon]

*Get New British Mystery Audiobook Meantime free from UK Audible with 30 day trial or monthly subscription.

5. No Plan B (Jack Reacher Book 27)

Authors: Lee Child and Andrew Child | Releases: 25 October 2022.

Plot: The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the number one best-selling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child. Gerrardsville, Colorado. One tragic event. Two witnesses. Two conflicting accounts. One witness sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus – clearly suicide. The other witness is Jack Reacher. And he sees what really happened – a man in grey hoodie and jeans, swift and silent as a shadow, pushed the victim to her death, before grabbing her bag and sauntering away.

Reacher follows the killer on foot, not knowing that this was no random act of violence. It is part of something much bigger… a sinister, secret conspiracy, with powerful people on the take, enmeshed in an elaborate plot that leaves no room for error. If any step is compromised, the threat will have to be quickly and permanently removed. But when the threat is Reacher, there is no plan B… [Source: Amazon]

*Get Top British Mystery Audiobook No Plan B free from UK Audible with 30 day trial or monthly subscription.

6. Rotten to the Core: A Lady Hardcastle Mystery (Book 8)

Author: TE Kinsey | Releases: 07 June 2022.

Plot: Summer 1911. A scorching heatwave engulfs the quiet town of Littleton Cotterell and brings about an unusually early harvest. The villagers are thrilled, but events quickly turn sour when one of them turns up dead in an apple orchard, stabbed through the heart. Amateur sleuth Lady Hardcastle and her trusty lady’s maid, Flo, suddenly have a juicy case on their hands. Might the mysterious stranger they recently met in the village be to blame? … [Source: Amazon]

For more details: T E Kinsey Lady Hardcastle Books in Order including New Audiobook Releases.

*Download Lady Hardcastle Mystery Book 8 from UK Audible with 30 day trial or monthly subscription.

7. The Murder Book (Tom Thorne Book 18)

Author: Mark Billingham | Releases: 09 June 2022.

Plot: Tom Thorne has it all… In Nicola Tanner and Phil Hendricks, Thorne has good friends by his side. He finally has a love life worth a damn and is happy in the job to which he has devoted his life…

He has everything to lose. Hunting the woman responsible for a series of grisly murders, Thorne has no way of knowing that he will be plunged into a nightmare from which he may never wake. And he’ll do anything to keep it.

Finally, Thorne’s past has caught up with him and a ruinous secret is about to be revealed. If he wants to save himself and his friends, he must do the unthinkable. [Source: Amazon]

*Get Top British Mystery Audiobook The Murder Book (Tom Thorne Book 18) free to download from UK Audible with 30 day trial or monthly subscription.

8. The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne and Horowitz Book 4)

Author: Anthony Horowitz | Releases: 18 August 2022.

Plot: ‘I’ve written three books and our deal is over.’ That’s what reluctant author Anthony Horowitz tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne in an awkward meeting. The truth is that Anthony has got other things on his mind. His new play, a thriller called Mindgame, is about to open at the famous Vaudeville theatre in Shoreditch. Not surprisingly, Hawthorne declines a ticket to the opening night… [Source: Amazon]

For more details: Hawthorne & Horowitz Mysteries including New Books.

*Download Top new British crime Audiobook, Hawthorne and Horowitz Book 4 free to download from UK Audible with 30 day trial or monthly subscription.

9. Girl, Forgotten

Author: Karin Slaughter | Releases: 23 June 2022.

Plot: The stunning new standalone thriller from international number one best seller Karin Slaughter.

Prom Night, Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn dresses carefully for what’s supposed to be the highlight of any high school career. But Emily has a secret. And by the end of the night, because of that secret, she will be dead. Nearly 40 years later, Andrea Oliver, newly qualified as a US Marshal, receives her first assignment: to go to Longbill Beach to protect a judge receiving death threats. But Andrea’s real focus isn’t the judge – it’s Emily Vaughn. Ever since she first heard Emily’s name a year ago, she’s been haunted by her brutal death.

Nobody was ever convicted – her friends closed ranks, her family shut themselves off in their grief, the town moved on – so the killer is still out there. But now Andrea has a chance to find out what really happened… [Source: Amazon]

*Get Top New Mystery Audiobook Girl, Forgotten download from UK Audible with 30 day trial or monthly subscription.

10. The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery – Book 14)

Released: February 2022 | UK Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5 | Author: Elly Griffiths.

Plot: Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson are on the hunt for a murderer when COVID rears its ugly head. But can they find the killer despite lockdown? [Source: Amazon]

For more details of this and other books in this best-selling cozy mystery series: Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries in Order including New Books.

*The Locked Room free mystery audiobook available from UK Amazon with 30 day Audible trial.

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More Top Mystery Audiobooks UK 2022

More top mystery audiobooks and new installments in top popular crime and thriller book series, releasing on Audible UK in 2022:
Marple: Twelve New Mysteries Short Story Collection.
Radio 4 Bill Nighy Charles Paris Mystery Dramatisations Free Download.
The Rising Tide (New Vera Book #10) by Ann Cleeves.

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Top New Crime Dramas on BritBox

For the best of the new crime dramas and mysteries on BritBox, you might like:
Shakespeare and Hathaway Season 4 on BritBox.
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? New on BritBox (April 2022).
New on BritBox February 2022: Sister Boniface Mysteries.
Murder on the Blackpool Express Series & How to Watch Online in US.
Murder in Provence – BritBox Original, Episode List and How to Watch Free Online.
McDonald and Dodds on BritBox.
Magpie Murders on Britbox.
Midsomer Murders Series 22 on Britbox.
Agatha Raisin on Acorn (not on Britbox).

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