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 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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 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 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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Mako Bay

Stephanie Ruth
 MAKO BAYOtago 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 fashion boutique and j...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...
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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?

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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!

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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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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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