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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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...

My Way on the Camino Portuguese

John Seegers
What happens when the road demands more than your body can give—but your spirit refuses to quit?In My Way on the Camino Portuguese, John Seegers shares the honest, humorous, and deeply personal stor...

Terminal Love

Audible Publishers
In a world of ticking clocks and hospital beds, Terminal Love is a story about what it truly means to live—told through the raw, beautiful chaos of two people who weren’t supposed to fall in love....

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Fascinating Facts for Curious Kids: 1050 Wonders: Packed with Fun Facts and Trivia from Amazing Animals to Astronomy and Marine Life to Monuments! (Awesome Facts for Ages 8-12)

Kristine Collins
🚀 GET 1050 JAW-DROPPING FACTS ACROSS TONS OF TOPICS AND THEMES!🤩 Help A Kid Put Down The Phone And Pick Up An Amazing Book Instead! 📚😍 IDEAL FOR KIDS to Spark Curiosity, Build Confidence, ...

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 ...

Where Sunflowers Stand

KJ Backford
Alex Curtner, the CIA’s Chief of Station for Russia and Ukraine, is in dire straits. His most critical operation is on the verge of collapse. Russian counterintelligence is closing in on a spy – A...

Living The Dream: Law Of Attraction Secrets

ONE IAM
Living the Dream is not another book about accumulating great material wealth and living a luxurious life by using knowledge of the fundamental law of attraction (simply put, you attract what you focu...

Awakening Within: A Guide To Self Knowledge For Conscious Community Influencers

ONE IAM

A practical guide to spiritually awakening and providing God level leadership to those under your influence.

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, ...

Funny Fairy Tales - 5: Alice in Wonderland - Jack & the Beanstalk - Princess & the Pea - Little Mermaid

Reut Barak
Funny Twists on your favorite Fairy Tales that will make you laugh out loud! Age 16+Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there lived a woman who was allergic to dust. Her name was Cinderella.In the sa...

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 Blood of the Jellyfish

By: Oriano Galvanini
Book CardTitle: The Blood of the Jellyfish Author: Oriano Galvanini  Year of Publication: 2025   Format: Paperback, Ebook,Self-published via Amazon KDP   Pages: 342   ISBN: 9798301493089   Available from Amazon.comGenre: Thriller, Mystery, Action Novel, International Intrigue, NoirMain Themes:- Justice and Revenge- Corruption and International Organized Crime- Conflict Between Law and Morality- Espionage and Terrorism- The Battle Between Good and Evil, with Shades of Gray Summary:The novel follows the adventures of Bruno Fonda, a private investigator and former Navy officer, who becomes embroiled in an intricate international conspiracy involving mafia, int...
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The Amsterdam Deception

By: Tony Ollivier
A NIGHT ON THE TOWN IN AMSTERDAM TURNS INTO A DEADLY GAME OF DECEPTION"International intrigue at the highest level, and with grave stakes...Wildly entertaining." - Robert Dugoni, #1 Bestselling Author of THE LAST AGENTAwarded 2023 Readers Favorite Bronze Medal - Thriller/EspionageAwarded 2022 Canadian Book Club awards best Mystery/Thriller On his first European tour, ballet dancer David Knight is abducted and dragged to a secret Amsterdam clinic run by billionaire Richard Reynolds.Reynolds has a problem: a prototype vital to his tech empire has vanished. The aging spy that knew the location is dead. Desperate, Reynolds uses David in a radical experiment to host the spy’s dying memorie...
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Moving is Murder

By: Joan Havelange
How well do you know your neighbours?Small towns can be deadly. Linda Burton is house-sitting for her aunt's friend in the pretty little town of Glenhaven. Linda, who has spent her career in the city, has fallen in love with the pleasant little country village. Everyone she has met is so friendly. However,  when strolling down the alley one evening searching for Gertrude the cat. Linda overhears a voice complaining about burying a body. Linda decides to emulate her amateur sleuths heroes and try her hand at detecting.The trouble is, Linda puts her trust in the wrong person. Now a charismatic killer holds Linda captive. Will her Aunt Violet figure out the clues Linda has left? Even ...
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Overture to Murder

By: Erica Miner
The curtain comes down on murder in the third novel of the Julia Kogan Opera Mystery series. Gifted young violinist and amateur sleuth Julia is under inordinate amounts of pressure as she fills in for the ailing San Francisco Opera concertmaster, Ben, who has suffered serious injuries in a hit and run accident—which Julia suspects might not have been accidental. Then a prominent company member becomes the victim of a grisly murder and, as in her previous sleuthing at the Metropolitan Opera and Santa Fe Opera, Julia cannot resist becoming involved in the investigation. Julia again discovers that fiery artistic temperaments and offstage conflicts conspire with the danger lurking in the dark ...
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Killing The Royals, A Pickleball Murder Mystery

By: Gary Resnikoff
Devastated by the loss of his wife to cancer, Al is looking for a way to deal with his grief. Once an advanced-level pickleball player, he hopes moving to a new town and returning to the game he loves will help him recover. With his loyal dog, Butch, along for the ride, Al heads to Rio Viejo, a small town on the Mexican border with a growing pickleball community.All is well in Al’s new life until players start dropping dead all around him. The local sheriff and his cohort, a retired homicide detective, are stymied by the sudden crime wave and quickly set their sights on the newest resident.As he tries to reclaim his life and his love for pickleball, Al must discover who is killing his new ...
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The Honorable Knight

By: Jason Donahoe
The Honorable Knight is the first book in the series The Fellowship of the Ancient Covenant. In the year 1099 AD, four young adults, Ian, Jacques, Serena, and Desiree, enter into an ancient covenant to protect mankind from evil forces for a millennium. Ian leaves a hard scrabble farm in Eire on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Ian meets Jacques, a wealthy young knight, in France, and they join the First Crusade. They meet Serena, the blacksmith’s daughter, and Desiree, a nurse serving in the H’ospital of St. John, in Jerusalem. In the present day, Ian is a Navy Seal, Jacques is a mercenary, Serena is a Mossad agent, and Desiree is an agent for the Center for Disease Control. The four heroes mu...
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Hot Potato a novel

By: Marty Katz
One Potato, Two Potato, Hot Potato. The Berlin Wall comes down, and the world believes it is heading for peace. A secret sect within the Russian government created this illusion. America and the world are caught asleep at the wheel. Various plots crisscross with a common goal—the destruction of the United States. While not everyone is convinced, the plans are in place. An everyday police officer on patrol, Mark Schaffer, stumbles into the deep end of the Russian plot pool. He responds to a call on a ship in Port Everglades, and the floodgates are open to what is underneath the plot’s surface. Sally Anderson, a government worker, has unwillingly been put in the role of the hinge pin to th...
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This Guy Walks Into a Bar

By: William J. Goyette
She made him an offer he should have refused.Joe Campbell’s an average guy. Average job. Average looks. Even his name’s average. Just a regular old Average Joe. Until the fateful night he walks into a seedy bar and meets a mysterious woman with a tempting offer—ghostwrite a novel depicting her life as the mistress of one of the most notorious Mafia kingpins in recent history.After initially refusing the offer, curiosity and a longing to escape the trappings of his ordinary life get the better of Joe. As his story-in-the-making begins to take shape, things take a sinister turn, and Joe finds himself sinking deeper into a hole he may never get out of alive. First his wife vanishes. Then ...
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A Cold Day in Hell

By: Susan Horsnell

Sometimes a killer is hiding in plain sight.

Someone is killing school teachers.

Picking them off like ducks in a shooting gallery.

Detective Trent Carmichael, known for his razor-sharp instincts, is thrust into a chilling investigation that tests the limits of his resolve.

As Carmichael delves deeper, threads of the murderer's past begin to unravel, but who will be the victor in this game of cat and mouse?

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THE DEVIL'S BANKER

By: Gary Van Haas
"THE DEVIL'S BANKER" thriller-- On June 17, 1982 the body of a well dressed man is found hanging under London’s Blackfriars Bridge with no identification, however in his pockets are a brick and $15,000 in various currencies. Murder? Suicide? Inspector ‘Serge Porter’ is called in to investigate the case when it is discovered the hanged man is none other than Roberto Calvi, the Vatican banker and Director of Banco Ambrosiano.Click to see it online:https://www.garyvanhaas.com/bookstore #DetectiveThrillers #MurderMysteries #BestFiction2025 #BestSellers2025 #BestBooks2025 #TrueStories #2025 #NewNovels2025 #2025 #Bookstagram #Books #Reading #BookLover #BookAddict&nbs...
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Deadly Encounters

By: Thomas zegray

A lot of unhappy people during the pandemic lockdown with a psychotic rebel running around. The book takes place in a small northeast resort town in South Carolina.

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The Decedent

By: Roderick Edwards
In a remote estate shrouded in secrecy, five diverse couples—each bound by love, secrets, and simmering tensions—arrive for a high-stakes "film project" that twists Survivor into something far deadlier. Lured by a cryptic ad and hefty entry fee, they're thrust into a game of alliances, betrayals, and brutal choices: vote to name the Decedent, the one who must die. But is it all scripted illusion, or will hidden traumas and moral fractures turn fiction into fatal reality?From Sharon's fragile faith and Alex's buried demons, to Pammy's artistic detachment and Reggie's performative charm, Reese and Lou's chaotic codependency, Rebeka and Doniol's power plays, and Deshun and Wenting's cultura...
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