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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 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...

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 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 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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 Cesspool of Spies

By: Linda Watkins
The year is 1950 and the world is in turmoil. The Chinese have invaded Korea, the Cold War is raging, and, at home, a senator accuses the State Department of being riddled with communists.Under this backdrop, Simon Biggs, son of a coal miner and Navy veteran, is graduating from college on the GI bill. He has dreams of a future far away from the mines.Bradley Hiram Sullivan, a major in the US Army and Euro Chief of the newly formed Central Intelligence Agency, is looking for bright young men – men he can mold – men who are hungry — men who will do anything. Simon Biggs is one of these men, and will be sent to the ultimate place of international mystery and intrigue – Istanbul.A Cesspo...
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Turtle Point

By: DL Havlin
Benny Dupree’s life has been relatively calm for 30 years in spite of the secret and heartache preoccupying him the whole time in Turtle Point, featuring Harper Sturgis in the Iron Lady Mystery/Suspense Series, Volume 1 by DL Havlin. Quite unexpectedly, strangers seem to be looking into the double murder Benny committed one night in June 1980, after he witnessed the burial of his girlfriend, but the story takes on an amazing life of its own as more pieces that don’t seem to have any place are added to the puzzle.The idyllic life Benny has led is turned upside down and others are drawn into the confusion as Havlin’s plot thickens and weaves an intriguing tapestry of interconnections and...
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Nayantara - Echoes of the Taken

By: Devesh Vernekar
Beneath the jagged peaks of Shivalkot, where the air hums with secrets and the earth cradles both life and shadow, Dr. Shridhar Varma (Shri) steps into a past he thought he'd buried. Lured back to this remote village by Dr. Anirudh Kashyap’s urgent plea after the untimely death of Dr. Pratap Sharma—a towering figure who held the hospital together for decades—Shri finds himself standing at the edge of a world he abandoned thirty years ago. The hospital, a decaying shell of a forgotten royal retreat, looms over eighteen villages and a reclusive tribal hamlet, its cracked walls whispering tales of healing and something far darker.From the moment Shri arrives, the village grips him like a ...
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Return To Hawaii: A Donovan Cross Novel

By: Daniel J. Voelker
Donovan Cross is the NIA’s legendary secret agent. He has been sent on dozens of missions in every corner of the globe and will stop at nothing to achieve his goal. Originally from Hawaii, Cross has not returned home in nearly 30 years. The unexpected death of his parents altered the course of his life. Instead of attending a prestigious college on a scholarship, he chose a path of spying and espionage.When the Agency ordered him to return to his birthplace, he anticipated confronting painful memories of his parents’ passing. Unbeknownst to him, his presence on the island is crucial to addressing a sensitive global crisis: China’s imminent invasion of Taiwan. Hawaii is being used, shro...
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Murder Music

By: Michael Baldwin
     Murder Music is a quirky mystery-thriller for anyone who enjoys mayhem, music, and romance. Missy McKean, beautiful and rebellious teen violin virtuoso, and her jazz mentor, Tiger Blakely, are marked for death by an unknown demonic mastermind.Blakely and Missy go on a cross-country musical road trip to find out why they are being targeted. Blakely’s wise-cracking, genius dog, Bix, will help them, as will the spirit of Missy's haunted violin. But what about the handsome, red-haired Indian from outer space? Is he Missy’s love interest or maybe one of the killers? How are the KKK, the Apollo space program, and the President’s plane involved in the mystery?The susp...
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Financial Syndicate: Some Caree Opportunities Go Too Far

By: David Wolfson

Alex Colton is a young, idealistic recent college graduate, received an incredible career opportunity at boutique asset management firm Carrington Capital Partners. After the death of the chief executive officer, the leading CEO candidate creates a toxic security threatening to upend and possibly bankrupt the whole financial system. Through the help of the deceased CEO’s family and the company receptionist Lynda, Alex battles through corporate and political intrigue, along with learning secrets about himself and how he is personally and professionally linked to the ongoing saga regarding him, his family, and his place with his employer.

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All For A Buck

By: 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 gripping courtroom mystery where truth hides in plain sight-and redemption is hard-earned. From foxholes to false accusations, these men hold tight to the one thing that war couldn'y take-loyalty. Together, they rise again-not just to clear a friend's name, but to finally build the dream they started before the war.

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The Masquerade Kilker

By: 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 beneath years of silence. But when two bodies are found—each posed with a shattered white masquerade mask—Detective Victor Vega knows this is no ordinary case.The killings are precise. The patterns too deliberate. The deeper Victor digs, the clearer it becomes—this isn’t just about murder. It’s about him. The killer isn’t hiding. They’re waiting. Watching. Leaving breadcrumbs that lead straight to a past Victor thought he had outrun.But some nightmares don’t stay buried. And as ...
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Where Sunflowers Stand

By: 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 – Alex’s prized asset at the top of Moscow’s hierarchy.It all started with a whisper. A traitor inside the Ukrainian General Staff tipped off the Russians: Ukraine had prior knowledge of Moscow’s war plans. Now the noose tightens, and Alex must do the impossible – unmask the traitor before the Russians can neutralize his asset.But if they strike first, the CIA’s operation – and Alex himself – could be compromised, costing Ukraine territory and countless lives. And if the Ukrainians ar...
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The Weipa Crocodile - Murders in the Outback

By: 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 ancient lands are under siege, Bruce Hudson knows he is the last line of defence. A fierce protector of Cape York and its sacred heritage, Bruce faces a battle to safeguard his community’s ancestral lands from encroaching mining corporations. But as he struggles to preserve his roots, a murder rocks the tight-knit town of Weipa, Far North Queensland, setting off a deadly chain of events.THE MYSTERY:The victim is Walt Henry, the wealthiest man in Cape York. Weipa's two police officers set to work to ...
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Pregnancy Pains & Mystic Chains: Paranormal Women's Fiction (Mystical Midlife in Maine Book 16)

By: Brenda Trim
Whoever said "pregnancy is magical" clearly never had to deal with actual magic while pregnant. Trust me, trying to cast spells when your center of gravity has its own zip code is no picnic. But here I am, attempting to save Maine from supernatural disaster while growing three tiny demigods.Just as I was getting used to my new life of pickle-flavored ice cream and floating prenatal yoga (literally), my nemesis Lyra decides it's the perfect time to unleash chaos. Now I'm stuck on doctor-ordered bedrest, which is as useful as an umbrella in a hurricane when you're a witch with a penchant for trouble.While my divine baby daddy Aidon and our ragtag magical crew are trying to stop Lyra's latest s...
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The Suicide Detective

By: 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 working dog, Razor, is gravely injured in a valiant attempt to protect her, presumed dead by her side. Despite heroic rescue attempts by Special Forces and Navy SEAL teams, Amber remains lost in the shadows of war.Now back home as a disabled veteran, Amber begins to rebuild her life working at the VA Medical Center in Grand Junction. With the help of her loyal service dog, Nikita, she battles PTSD and the haunting grief of losing her fiancé, a fellow soldier killed in combat. But Amber’s heal...
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