The handy-dandy website Stop, You’re Killing Me has come out with its choices for Best First Mysteries of 2022. I’ve read four of them and two are among my favorites — THE MAID and BLOOD SUGAR. I also liked THE BANGALORE DETECTIVES CLUB and it nearly made my “best” list.

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Favorite Debut Novels 2022

DEEP WATER, Emma Bamford
A KILLING IN COSTUMES, Zac Bissonette
THE GATEKEEPER, James Byrne (not a debut. The author is Conrad Haynes, a veteran mystery and thriller writer, using a pseudonymn)
HOT TIME, W. H. Flint
THE APPEAL, Janice Hallett
DEATH AND THE CONJUROR, Tom Mead
THE BANGALORE DETECTIVES CLUB, Harini Nagendra
DEVIL’S CHEW TOY, Rob Osler
THE VERIFIERS, Jane Pek
THE MAID, Nita Prose
BLOOD SUGAR, Sascha Rothchild
REAL EASY, Marie Rutkoski
GEIGER, Gustaf Skördeman