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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I Was Adopted by a Sorceress, Book One

Albert
When life begins to confront you, you can give up, get angry, or stay true to yourself, fighting for your happiness and the place you are looking for under the sun, even if it is not your own luminary...

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...

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...

The Regression Strain

Kevin Hwang
Nobody’s safe when the inner beast awakens...Dr. Peter Palma joins the medical team of the Paradise to treat passengers for minor ailments as the cruise ship sails across the Atlantic. But something...

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 ...

Mako Bay

Stephanie Ruth
 MAKO BAY Otago Waters Book 1.  Maybe friends really do make the best lovers? ​Shal Hoffner’s back in Dunedin after eight years of self-imposed exile. Setting up a new fas...

The Reborn Prince (Mages in the Mundane Book 1)

Julianne Munich
He was a prince, forced into a new life as a pauper.Luc, a poor but vain young man in 1775 Paris, is confused by his dreams of gilded ballrooms and unknown people in lace and jewels. What's more, ever...

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...

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 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...

Husro & Shirin

Maryam Tabibzadeh
a fascinating historical saga of the love affair between the king of the Persian empire and the princess of Armenia,  based on true story which is set  in the 6th century.  Husro a...

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 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...

SuperPower: The Ability to Fly or to Become Invisible: The Deal of the Art (Book #1)

Roger E Pedersen
Today, I invite you to explore these extraordinary possibilities within the pages of a groundbreaking new book series, SuperPower: The Ability to Fly or to Become Invisible, written by none other than...

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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Uncommon Destiny

By: Dan Shatzer

In Uncommon Destiny (my most popular novel), the protagonists thwart the efforts of an ultra-nationalist group, the Benefactors, who had a stated goal of strengthening the U.S. using shocking methods. Having backed ISIS, the Benefactor's first plot was widely successful, utilizing the group’s degenerate logic. Fortunately, one member of what would eventually become Mason Grant's team, our heroine, was able to block their last attempt in Argentina. Now, as a team secretly funded by our nation's National Security Advisor, they throw out all the rules to stop the Benefactors cold.

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A HOLY DEVIL

By: Roman Horňák
Holiness and madness are separated by a thin line. And he crossed it...A Holy Devil is a chilling thriller that touches on questions of humanity’s moral decay, guilt, and the measure of redemption.Into a town where truth no longer means anything and indifference has risen above humanity comes a mysterious man.His mission is so terrifying, it seems divine.In whose hands is he a tool? In the hands of God, or the devil? His satisfaction is the screams of victims who have succumbed to their own corruption.Detectives from the serious crimes unit face a brutal fanatic who has begun a bloody path of cleansing.And time is running out...Where does punishment end?Where does salvation begin?Seven sin...
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Yamada’s Treasure

By: Anton Peeters
Siam, 1628With the death of King Songtham, a chaotic period in Siamese history starts. After a Machiavellian power struggle and the deaths of several young contenders to the throne, a self-proclaimed king, Prasat Thong, finally takes the throne himself.One of the other key players, Yamada Nagamasa, the powerful Japanese samurai of Ayutthaya, is seen as a significant threat. To maneuver him out of the way, he is sent to Ligor to suppress a rebellion.Close to 400 years later…Stumbled upon by accident while looking for antiques in the Thai countryside, the last remaining clue to a treasure buried in the last weeks of Yamada’s life sends Peter Prins and his long-time friend Somrak Noonsuk, a...
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