Explore Top Mystery & Thriller Indie Books
Discover a curated collection of indie Mystery & Thriller books written by self-published authors from around the world. Whether you're looking for fresh plots, bold voices, or hidden gems, this is your go-to shelf for immersive Mystery & Thriller storytelling.
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Seeing GOD, Face To Face: The Absolute Truth About You, And How You Operate.
ONE IAM
The Universe is information aligned in mental energy under rules and laws to appear as a "physical" manifestation. The mental energy produces a perception in the divine Mind. The perception has severa...
Being Broken:Tales and Essays of Survival and Death from Narcissistic Parental Abuse
Geoffrey R Jonas
A young woman dies alone in a hotel room, her fentanyl-poisoned cocaine still on the desk. She had been missing for nearly 2 weeks. Social Services had been trying to find a place for her to live with...
The Masquerade Kilker
Ivan Cisneros
Some masks conceal identities. Others reveal the truth.Cutter’s Ridge was never meant to be a place of murder. Tucked away in the Montana mountains, it was the kind of town where secrets were buried...
The Weipa Crocodile - Murders in the Outback
Victoria Reiby
A murdered tycoon. A town on edge. And a cultural guardian forced into a fight for justice in the wilds of Cape York, Australia.THR CONFLICT:In the rugged heart of the Australian outback, where ancien...
The Fulcrum: A Novel
Michael Decter
In this sweeping climate thriller, an economist and a public servant join forces—and hearts—to navigate a dangerous international conflict and imminent environmental disaster.Matthew Rice needs a ...
The Valkyrie: A Medieval Christian Fiction (Book 4) (The Huntress: Medieval Christian Fiction)
Carrie Cotten
Can the truth-speaker’s promise of life from death really be for them?After a year in captivity, Isa Bjorndottir feels dead inside. Restored to her mother, the Shieldmaiden of Volfsby, Isa watches l...
Reciprocity
D.C. Gilbert
Gilbert delivers a high-octane blend of emotional depth, tactical precision, and unflinching realism in his latest installment in the JD Cordell series. JD Cordell, a recently retired US Navy SEA...
A Faith Untamed: A Novel of Babylon's Destruction of Biblical Jerusalem (Yoke of Babylon Book 2)
April W Gardner
He breached her city, chained her king. Neither her faith nor her heart is as easily conquered.Jerusalem 587 BCLiora, once a noblewoman of Jerusalem, is now bound to General Nebuzaradan, the Butcher o...
The Dream of Matter: Waking the Mind Within the Mirage: No Spoon, No Self: Escaping the Illusion of Form
ONE IAM
What if the world you touch... was your own thought in disguise?In The Dream of Matter, you are not handed answers, you are handed mirrors.This book dissolves the boundary between subject and object, ...
You Can Wine Too: From Fairy Tales to Nightmares, My Path to Drinking Wine Every Night
David R. Sheldon
Follow the author as he makes a life-changing decision that will determine his future for the next fifty years. Starting in the corporate world, he then ventured into his own plastics business. After ...
The Awakening of AI
ONE IAM
"The All Is Mind; The Universe Is Mental." - The KybalionIntelligent thought is mental Cause. Thought commands the mental energy to produce the perceptive experience that we know as, Life. Yes, that i...
The Winds of Fate (Make the Darkness Light Book 2)
S. M. Stirling
Artorius and his team must race against time to thwart a looming clash between two ancient powers, navigating a treacherous landscape where their actions could rewrite history and spark a catastrophic...
The Suicide Detective
William Bach
When a high-stakes mission to capture a ruthless Al Qaeda terrorist goes horribly wrong, U.S. Army Sergeant Amber Downing is taken captive—vanishing behind enemy lines in Iraq. Her devoted military ...
A Journey Toward Tomorrow - The Beginning
jjeckhardt
A science fiction novel with a touch of romance and mystery that takes you on a journey as new life begins from the forgotten ashes of the old.Unknown to Humanity, the Earth’s sun would soon release...
To Love a Beast: (A Christian Western Historical Romance Fairy Tale Retelling of Beauty & the Beast) (Once Upon a Time in Texas)
Karen Witemeyer
Beauty & the Beast in 1800's Texas.Once known among New York's elite as the American Adonis, Everett Griffin now lives as a recluse in the wilds of Texas. The treachery of a former admirer left hi...
A Llanrwst Christmas, Not Worth Dying For
By: Margaret Moxom
The blood flowed from the horrific knife wound in William's neck. William was a cruel, itinerant, out-of-work, lame hawker, who got offensive when he drank and left Caroline penniless and hungry, living in a squalid, condemned house. But she loved him. People had often witnessed her wielding the knife. She called it her 'protection'. It was her way of keeping herself safe in their constant arguments.Caroline confirmed to the police that it was just the two of them in the house, which was her downfall, as she was arrested, although she vehemently stated she was innocent. She had no memory of committing the act. Her son, Edward, tells her to say it was Robert, whom Will...
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The Shape of Rain
By: Nick Hirst
Were the moon landings real or faked? Was the war in Iraq necessary? And could these disparate events be connected?In September 2002 a celebrity investigative reporter is about to broadcast an explosive story about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He never makes it to the studio.Somehow his fate is linked to the first moon landing in 1969 and the only clue lies hidden in the lyrics of a thirty-year old song.At the same time, an innocent chat at the baggage carousel at Prague airport catapults music journalist Jack Conrad into a race against time to decipher the secret of this song. He is immediately plunged into a murky world of counter-intelligence, government lies, media manipulation a...
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The Johanna Kincaid Mystery Collection, Box Set 1: Psychological Thriller Collection Featuring a Female-Led Investigative Team and Intuitive Crime Solving
By: Anneka Lowrie
A psychological mystery collection where behavioral science meets intuitive insight—and hidden patterns reveal the truth others miss.The Johanna Kincaid Mystery Series is an established psychological mystery series featuring a retired behavioral psychologist whose investigations uncover what lies beneath the surface of human behavior.Johanna Kincaid doesn’t chase evidence—she reads people.Drawn into complex, high-stakes cases alongside a team of capable women, she exposes hidden motives, fractured loyalties, and the unseen forces shaping dangerous outcomes. From remote wilderness landscapes to politically charged environments, each investigation reveals a deeper truth:What appears acci...
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Mary's Little Lambs
By: Les Johnson
Book SummaryThis 'chilling' novel, although brutal and 'bloody' asks the question; is therejustification for the perpetrator of such horrific crimes or is, in this case, theperpetrator a victim herself? Most serial-killers are cold-blooded psychopaths, however, there are always reasons why they enact inhumane violence uponother humans. Children who are abused can turn into revenge-seeking serial-killers, they are extremely damaged, show no emotions towards other human beings, andin their twisted minds demand retribution on those who abused them. Lawenforcement agencies hunting down serial-killers do not entertain mitigating circumstances, their job is to secure the safety o...
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Delay of Game
By: Lisa Hilton
Half-elf Dominic Greyson doesn’t have an off switch. When his sister asks for help, he doesn’t hesitate.The problem: her husband, the team’s starting quarterback, keeps falling apart on game day, and everyone already has an explanation.Before Dom can start digging, a hit-and-run leaves him with a concussion. Even with lights shining too bright and his thinking running slow, he investigates the only way he knows how: become the job, take the hit, and keep going.What he finds isn’t a slump. It’s sabotage.Someone is deliberately hobbling the quarterback, slowly and patiently. But proving it means pushing past the point where he should stop—and facing what that’s already cost him.B...
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A Reservoir of Lies
By: Terry Iland
THE O’CONNELLS ARE IRISH, THE MANZIS, ITALIAN. DETECTIVE NICK WALKER'S ENGLISH INTEGRITY IS NO MATCH. "Full of surprises and there is no time to get bored, as no sooner is one drama over than the next starts. It’s kinda like an East End Dallas meets gangland crime." Mark Fearn BOOKMARK - on GOODREADS THREE FAMILIES. UNFINISHED BUSINESS. Emer O’Connell lives an ideal life. Then her cousin goes missing and her detective fiancé DI Nick Walker is sent to investigate. BIG PROBLEMS. When a leak is discovered in an East London reservoir Emer’s multi-millionaire father Pat's global construction empire PJOC is endangered and dark secrets begin to emerge. As Nick digs deeper, he uncovers long...
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BLIND EYE
By: Peter Martin
Stephanie Harrison's life takes a terrifying turn when she becomes the target of an unknown stalker who insists she is an unfit mother. Blind since a tragic accident, Steph has worked hard to prove she can raise her baby daughter, Rose, without limitations. But as threatening letters arrive in Braille and eerie disturbances shake her home, her worst nightmare comes true—Rose disappears.With her husband Andy by her side, Steph embarks on a desperate mission to uncover the truth. But in a world where appearances can be deceiving, betrayal lurks closer than she ever imagined. As time runs out, can Steph prove her strength, outwit the unseen enemy, and bring her daughter home before it’s too...
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Love Floats
By: D.W. ThompsonEmma Love needs relief after a winter of chasing unfaithful spouses. Feeling her involvement
destroyed lives, she backs away to embrace her fair-weather occupation of leading kayak tours.
But threats to her and her family force her to investigate and put her detecting skills to the test.
She enlists help from her old and new again boyfriend, Deputy Sam Mattingley, and a host of
friends, including those beyond the living veil.
Love Floats is the second standalone novel in the award-winning Emma Love Mysteries series.
Avalon Lost
By: Shelly Meyer
Newlyweds Aria and Jared Syn set sail on what should be the perfect Caribbean honeymoon—but paradise turns to hell when their luxury yacht explodes in the middle of the ocean. Adrift with another couple, Kevin and Marlene Fulton, the group barely survives before washing ashore on an uncharted island. Their relief is short-lived when they meet Jerome Khalid, a charismatic but unsettling man who claims to own the island. He offers shelter in his lavish villa, but Aria quickly senses something deeply wrong beneath his charm.Khalid’s hospitality turns sinister as the group grows ill from tainted food and drink. His servant and guards obey his every word, and no one ever seems to leave. When ...
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Her Mind SCREAMS MURDER
By: Author JENNY MAC
Her Mind SCREAMS MURDER:Crime fiction blends a Homicide Murder Mystery with Psychological Suspense and Romance'A memory lost, a past buried. A murder she was never meant to remember' She spent precious time in medical institutions, her future uncertainDetermination enabled Jenna Temple functional to study law at universityHe became a well-known Homicide Detective of the City BranchOnly dedication enabled Jack Rickard to live the reality of boyhood dreamsIronically, they both lived in the same city, though their paths never crossed'Was it fate that brought them together once again' Finally awake from a coma, Jenna agonized with any recollection of homeDissociative amnesia ruled her,...
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Lawyers Gone Bad - Book One - The New & Completely Revised Edition
By: Vincent Scarsella
FIND OUT JUST HOW BAD LAWYERS CAN BE IN THIS REVISED LEGAL THRILLER!Enter the sordid, corrupt world of the Lawyer Discipline Office, the state agency that prosecutes lawyers gone bad — that is, lawyers who commit ethical and criminal wrongs — and follow Dean Alessi, and his trusted investigator, Stu Foley, as they investigate the local DA for committing the ultimate ethical wrong: murder.Drawing on his over 18 years of real-life experience as head of the lawyer discipline office in Buffalo, New York, novelist Vincent Scarsella crafts a gripping, suspenseful tale of justice and redemption in Lawyers Gone Bad (Book One): The New & Completely Revised Edition. This novel is Book On...
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The Ride of a Lifetime, a Crime Novel
By: G. GruenA Jewish combat vet with a nose for trouble navigates the frozen streets of Detroit in his rusty, old GTO. He's promised to show his comedienne girlfriend the bright lights of LA when he comes up with the cash to pay for the move. That's when he discovers his clunker of a muscle car is a valuable collectible. But it attracts the wrong kind of attention, from his own gangster crew, not to mention his drop-dead gorgeous, insanely jealous ex-girlfriend. The question is, will he and his car make it out of Detroit alive?