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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.

The Death Wizard Chronicles: Volume 1

Jim Melvin

Enter a world where death is not final—it's a magical fuel.In the desert kingdom of Triken, sorcery is feared, power is brutal, and one man defies the laws of life itself. Torg, a Death Wizard, draw...

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 ...

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...

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 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 LAST NEANDERTHAL CLAN

Charlie BORING

Enjoy historical fiction? You will love these adventures into prehistoric times, forty thousand years ago, when the last Neanderthals struggled for survival. The robust Neanderthals ruled the terrain ...

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...

All For A Buck

Doris Anne Beaulieu

Brotherhood Beyond the Battlefield Haunted by combat and betrayed by their own country, the veterans return-not as heroes. As paranoia grips the town. All For A buck transforms into grippi...

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...

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...

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 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 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...

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...

Curse Me Once, Winkle Me Twice

By: Petra Shaw

A centuries-old curse. A shape-shifting demon. And a psychic librarian racing the clock.Kerilee Oberon didn’t expect demon-hunting to be part of her library job in Molenhaven. But when local honey maker Adrienna begs for help saving her boyfriend, Roger van Winkle, from a deadly sleeping curse, Kerilee dives headfirst into a maze of folklore, family secrets, and nightmares.With her psychic gift, a cryptic clue from a mysterious stranger, and her razor-sharp talking cat Mysty at her side, Kerilee uncovers unsettling truths. Why has diner owner Karyn Molen delayed breaking the curse tied to Roger’s uncle? And why do town bullies Lester and Cobb Dimwitty keep sabotaging her efforts?As the f...

unFriendly Persuasion

By: Tom Fugate

What begins as an attempted robbery of a Big Box store quickly becomes more than the thieves bargained for when one is killed and the other three taken into custody. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Lee Thomas does not look for trouble, but it seems to find him and Lee faces trouble head on and full tilt. Someone has to do it, and he has the will and the skill set. Going after an experienced member of a clandestine agency is not a smart move. Involving his family is a very bad thing if you are a member of that gang. When you go after a man with the ability to bring the full force of the US government down on you it will not end well. From the open...

The Gallery of Lies

By: Amy Stanbra

The Gallery of Lies is a haunting psychological crime thriller that explores the dark side of identity, obsession, and the illusions we create to survive.When a string of murders surfaces in South Yorkshire — each more brutal and stylized than the last — Detective Mara Vandelyn is drawn into a world once obsessed with beauty and control: a long-defunct modeling agency where masks weren’t just worn, they were crafted.As the case deepens, Mara must confront the ghosts of the past — and the face of a killer who sees every victim as a canvas.A missing girl. A shattered legacy. And a killer building toward one final masterpiece. SynopsisSouth Yorkshire is no stranger to darkness — ...

The XVII-th: Letters to the One Who Will Come — by Benedict Adurosakin

By: Benedict Adurosakin

The XVII-th: Letters to the One Who Will Come is a 166-page philosophical letter-series, written by a vanished voice to the one fated to rise.

It is not a guide. It is a mirror. It is a journey through silence, power, betrayal, and the burden of knowing too much, wrapped in metaphor and mystery.

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Storm Bodies

By: Steve Orme

A grisly discovery by binmen on their round. A woman leaves her place of work but fails to arrive home. Is there a serial killer on the loose? Detective Inspector Miles Davies and his team need to find out.But with the Chief Constable urging Davies to come up with a way to get bored youngsters off the streets and the media eager for headline news, time is running out.Does a local basketball club hold the key? And how many more lives will be lost before Davies can make an arrest? The answers will leave you on the edge of your seat."Miles Davies is a terrific creation and the sense of place (as well as the grinding pressures of local journalism which I recognised from my dad's experiences) is ...

Beneath the Poison Tree

By: @bgwriter.bsky.social

Dawn, a woman unfulfilled and living her life vicariously through her sister, invests all her energy into maintaining the close family ties.

When faced with betrayal, threatening to derail all she holds precious, Dawn commits an unspeakable act - one that comes back to haunt her.

A family drama, steeped in suspense, that delves into the mind of a woman obsessed and the lengths she will go to when her life starts to unravel.

Spring Fever

By: LC Garnet

Rookie detective Julie Bradford discovers that a murder scene evokes personal struggles that she must tackle to avoid interference in her sleuthing. Adrenaline is high in the race to unmask the elusive perpetrator before the trail goes cold. Though the scene provides some evidence, she relies on her new-found instincts to guide her.

For the Love of Murder: A Miscarriage of Justice

By: Alan C Bruce

For the Love of Murder: A Miscarriage of Justiceby Alan C. BruceEdinburgh, 1955. Two dead girls. One haunted detective. And a justice system with blood on its hands.Detective Tom Richards thought he’d put a killer behind bars — and into the hangman’s noose. A decade ago, his testimony helped convict a man for a string of brutal murders. The case was closed. Justice served.But now, two more girls are found dead — killed in strikingly similar circumstances. As the old investigation begins to crumble under fresh evidence, Richards is forced to reckon with an unthinkable truth: the man he helped condemn may have died innocent… and the real murderer is still at large.With his career in ...

Fertile Ground for Murder

By: Steven Nimocks, Stella Sinclaire, Lyam Lockwood

In the quiet, tightly-knit community of Willow Creek, Iowa, secrets often lie buried beneath layers of time and silence. When true-crime podcaster Samantha Brewer returns home after the shocking murder of her childhood friend, she uncovers a web of hidden relationships, long-held secrets, and unspoken betrayals. As Samantha delves deeper, she's forced to confront her own past, including a strained relationship with her mother and unresolved feelings for her old flame. But the truth is far more dangerous than she ever imagined, and she finds herself in a race against time to unveil the murderer before they strike again. Fertile Ground for Murder is an award-winning ps...

The Murder of Gabbar

By: Venkat Raman V

In India's newest and first of it's kind police procedural, DSP Gaurav investigates the murder of a notorious gangster, navigating complex motives and alliances. Can he solve the crime and prevent a city-wide gang war, or will violence prevail?

Being A P. I., Again

By: Alan Lee Zacher

Tom Mayor is a man in his mid-fifties who had done nothing with his life. Never had a steady job living off his parents, and he was a closet drunk. Then, as a joke, he told his mother that he had “the stuff” to be a private detective, like the “Thin Man”.
With the help of his mother, he gets his first case, and after some difficulties, he solves the murder of the next-door neighbor’s granddaughter. The case made him famous—and rich! The father of the murder victim gives him a million dollars. Life, for the first time in his miserable life, is good for Tom.
But now, someone is trying to kill him. Who? Why? To find out, Tom must become a P. I.—Again!

An Ocean Life

By: T.R. Cotwell

Following years of grappling with financial challenges, Mark at last secures the vital funding required to sustain his ailing company. Filled with a profound sense of relief and newfound optimism, Mark decides to celebrate by treating his family to a long-awaited vacation—a chance to temporarily escape the pressures that have weighed heavily on them for so long. He also yearns to reignite the spark in his marriage.However, their peaceful retreat is abruptly shattered when fate intervenes, thrusting Mark into the depths of uncertainty and peril. A sudden and terrifying encounter with an apex predator leaves Mark stranded and isolated, adrift in the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean. He sudd...

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