I love reading when I have free time, but I haven’t been able to read a lot lately. One of my New Years Resolutions for 2022 was to read more. I have read a lot of articles of books that are being released in 2022 and have narrowed it doen to eight books for my list so far. (A lot of these books are mystery books.)
The Other Family by Wendy Corsi Staub
Nora Howell, her husband, and her two daughters are seen as the picture-perfect family. Starting fresh in Brooklyn after leaving California they think they have found the perfect house. The home has a dark past with the previous owners being killed in a triple homicide. Strange things begin to happen in the new home and the eldest daughter becomes convinced that someone is watching them from afar.
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
Jess is down on her luck. She wants to start a new life so she decides to move to Paris and crash at her brother’s apartment. When Jess makes it to her destination she realizes that her brother isn’t there and he hasn’t shown up for a while. Jess decides to start doing some investigating of her own and what she finds leaves her fearing for her brother’s future.
Happy for You by Claire Stanford
Evelyn Kominsky Kumamoto is four years into writing her still-unfinished philosophy dissertation and anticipating a marriage proposal from her long-term boyfriend. Needing to go out of her comfort zone she takes a new job with an internet company, where her team is tasked with developing an app that will help users quantify and augment their happiness. Evelyn is confronting Silicon Valley’s social algorithms and mainly white culture, she struggles to find belonging. As a biracial person, as an Asian American, and as someone who doesn’t know how to perform social media’s vision of what womanhood should look like. Evelyn embarks on a journey toward authentic happiness all her own.
The Last to Vanish by Megan Miranda
Abigail Lovett has been managing The Passage Inn, a resort nestled in the North Carolina mountain town of Cutter’s Pass, for over ten years and she absolutely loves it. A resort best known for its outdoor offerings like rafting and hiking, with access to the Appalachian Trail by way of a gorgeous waterfall and its mysterious history. Abby has always felt like an outsider but Cuter’s Passage is her home. When a guest goes missing his family member comes to town looking for answers. Aby decides to help and what she finds shocks her about the town she thought she knew so much about.
A House Between Earth and the Moon by Rebecca Scherm
The residents of Parallaxis, a luxury space station developed by tech giant Sensus, try to build a home for billionaires to escape Earth’s increasing inhospitality. Alex, a researcher seeking to create carbon-guzzling algae is offered a job by the founders of Sensus. Once in space, Alex soon finds out that Parallaxis is not the lace that everyone was picturing. While Alex struggles to help build the place he was sold his family struggles on earth.
The Maid by Nita Prose
After Molly’s grandma’s die, she starts to see the world a bit differently. The only thing that can act as her saving grace is the simple social rules that Gran taught her. While working as a maid at a hotel she stumbles upon the dead body of Charles Black. Once the police arrive on the scene her suspicious behavior puts her on the suspect list. After Molly tells a lie it spirals into a web of lies and now she and her friends are on a mission to clear her name and find the real killer.
Impostor Syndrome by Kathy Wang
Julia Lerner is the COO of Tangerine, one of America’s most famous technology companies, and an agent at the largest intelligence agency in Russia. Alice Lu is a dedicated worker at Tangerine, she discovers some unusual activity with the privacy settings at work. Alice and Julia start to become close and Julia starts to question her loyalty.
True-crime writer, Wylie Lark is stuck in a remote farmhouse because of the snow, but that doesn’t bother her. Even though the house was the site of a double murder decades ago she is not worried about its past. That is until a small child appears out in the snow. After Wylie brings the child inside, her troubles begin. It quickly becomes clear the history of the house may be coming back to haunt her after all.