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.

Trending


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 ...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 Johanna Kincaid Mystery Collection, Box Set 1: Psychological Thriller Collection Featuring a Female-Led Investigative Team and Intuitive Crime Solving

By: Anneka Lowrie
A psychological mystery collection where behavioral science meets intuitive insight—and hidden patterns reveal the truth others miss.The Johanna Kincaid Mystery Series is an established psychological mystery series featuring a retired behavioral psychologist whose investigations uncover what lies beneath the surface of human behavior.Johanna Kincaid doesn’t chase evidence—she reads people.Drawn into complex, high-stakes cases alongside a team of capable women, she exposes hidden motives, fractured loyalties, and the unseen forces shaping dangerous outcomes. From remote wilderness landscapes to politically charged environments, each investigation reveals a deeper truth:What appears acci...
View More

Mary's Little Lambs

By: Les Johnson
Book Summary​This 'chilling' novel, although brutal and 'bloody' asks the question; is therejustification for the perpetrator of such horrific crimes or is, in this case, theperpetrator a victim herself? Most serial-killers are cold-blooded psychopaths, however, there are always reasons why they enact inhumane violence uponother humans. Children who are abused can turn into revenge-seeking serial-killers, they are extremely damaged, show no emotions towards other human beings, andin their twisted minds demand retribution on those who abused them. Lawenforcement agencies hunting down serial-killers do not entertain mitigating circumstances, their job is to secure the safety o...
View More

Delay of Game

By: Lisa Hilton
Half-elf Dominic Greyson doesn’t have an off switch. When his sister asks for help, he doesn’t hesitate.The problem: her husband, the team’s starting quarterback, keeps falling apart on game day, and everyone already has an explanation.Before Dom can start digging, a hit-and-run leaves him with a concussion. Even with lights shining too bright and his thinking running slow, he investigates the only way he knows how: become the job, take the hit, and keep going.What he finds isn’t a slump. It’s sabotage.Someone is deliberately hobbling the quarterback, slowly and patiently. But proving it means pushing past the point where he should stop—and facing what that’s already cost him.B...
View More

A Reservoir of Lies

By: Terry Iland
THE O’CONNELLS ARE IRISH, THE MANZIS, ITALIAN. DETECTIVE NICK WALKER'S ENGLISH INTEGRITY IS NO MATCH. "Full of surprises and there is no time to get bored, as no sooner is one drama over than the next starts. It’s kinda like an East End Dallas meets gangland crime." Mark Fearn BOOKMARK - on GOODREADS THREE FAMILIES. UNFINISHED BUSINESS. Emer O’Connell lives an ideal life. Then her cousin goes missing and her detective fiancé DI Nick Walker is sent to investigate. BIG PROBLEMS. When a leak is discovered in an East London reservoir Emer’s multi-millionaire father Pat's global construction empire PJOC is endangered and dark secrets begin to emerge. As Nick digs deeper, he uncovers long...
View More

BLIND EYE

By: Peter Martin
Stephanie Harrison's life takes a terrifying turn when she becomes the target of an unknown stalker who insists she is an unfit mother. Blind since a tragic accident, Steph has worked hard to prove she can raise her baby daughter, Rose, without limitations. But as threatening letters arrive in Braille and eerie disturbances shake her home, her worst nightmare comes true—Rose disappears.With her husband Andy by her side, Steph embarks on a desperate mission to uncover the truth. But in a world where appearances can be deceiving, betrayal lurks closer than she ever imagined. As time runs out, can Steph prove her strength, outwit the unseen enemy, and bring her daughter home before it’s too...
View More

Love Floats

By: D.W. Thompson

Emma Love needs relief after a winter of chasing unfaithful spouses. Feeling her involvement
destroyed lives, she backs away to embrace her fair-weather occupation of leading kayak tours.
But threats to her and her family force her to investigate and put her detecting skills to the test.
She enlists help from her old and new again boyfriend, Deputy Sam Mattingley, and a host of
friends, including those beyond the living veil. 

Love Floats is the second standalone novel in the award-winning Emma Love Mysteries series.

View More

Avalon Lost

By: Shelly Meyer
Newlyweds Aria and Jared Syn set sail on what should be the perfect Caribbean honeymoon—but paradise turns to hell when their luxury yacht explodes in the middle of the ocean. Adrift with another couple, Kevin and Marlene Fulton, the group barely survives before washing ashore on an uncharted island. Their relief is short-lived when they meet Jerome Khalid, a charismatic but unsettling man who claims to own the island. He offers shelter in his lavish villa, but Aria quickly senses something deeply wrong beneath his charm.Khalid’s hospitality turns sinister as the group grows ill from tainted food and drink. His servant and guards obey his every word, and no one ever seems to leave. When ...
View More

Her Mind SCREAMS MURDER

By: Author JENNY MAC
Her Mind SCREAMS MURDER:Crime fiction blends a Homicide Murder Mystery with Psychological Suspense and Romance'A memory lost, a past buried. A murder she was never meant to remember' She spent precious time in medical institutions, her future uncertainDetermination enabled Jenna Temple functional to study law at universityHe became a well-known Homicide Detective of the City BranchOnly dedication enabled Jack Rickard to live the reality of boyhood dreamsIronically, they both lived in the same city, though their paths never crossed'Was it fate that brought them together once again' Finally awake from a coma, Jenna agonized with any recollection of homeDissociative amnesia ruled her,...
View More

Lawyers Gone Bad - Book One - The New & Completely Revised Edition

By: Vincent Scarsella
FIND OUT JUST HOW BAD LAWYERS CAN BE IN THIS REVISED LEGAL THRILLER!Enter the sordid, corrupt world of the Lawyer Discipline Office, the state agency that prosecutes lawyers gone bad — that is, lawyers who commit ethical and criminal wrongs — and follow Dean Alessi, and his trusted investigator, Stu Foley, as they investigate the local DA for committing the ultimate ethical wrong: murder.Drawing on his over 18 years of real-life experience as head of the lawyer discipline office in Buffalo, New York, novelist Vincent Scarsella crafts a gripping, suspenseful tale of justice and redemption in Lawyers Gone Bad (Book One): The New & Completely Revised Edition.  This novel is Book On...
View More

The Ride of a Lifetime, a Crime Novel

By: G. Gruen

A Jewish combat vet with a nose for trouble navigates the frozen streets of Detroit in his rusty, old GTO. He's promised to show his comedienne girlfriend the bright lights of LA when he comes up with the cash to pay for the move. That's when he discovers his clunker of a muscle car is a valuable collectible. But it attracts the wrong kind of attention, from his own gangster crew, not to mention his drop-dead gorgeous, insanely jealous ex-girlfriend. The question is, will he and his car make it out of Detroit alive?

View More

Beyond All Measure

By: Thom Tate
In the frozen depths of the Arctic, the world's largest oil reserve lies waiting—and some will kill to claim it.When scientist Richard Cathey discovers a game-changing energy source that could reshape global economics, he becomes a target. His sister Evelyn, a Canadian intelligence agent, must unravel a conspiracy that threatens to ignite an international powder keg. Alongside CIA operative Blake MacKay, she races to stop exiled Saudi Prince, Awadi Salib from drilling a reserve that could trigger a catastrophic environmental meltdown.With mercenaries hunting them, political tensions escalating, and a thin layer of rock separating untapped oil from a massive magma chamber, Evelyn and Blake ...
View More

Ruby Ransom

By: Linda Hehir
Kidnapping Mystery: A thrilling adventure with a touch of romance and an unexpected turn of events.Derek young man arrives at the hospital unconscious. Rachel, a nurse, finds strange objects in Derek's shoes. Facing an ethical dilemma, Rachel investigates the objects further. The theft of Derek’s clothes from the ward and Rachel’s bedroom being ransacked indicates that Derek’s attacker is still looking for something he desperately wants. Alerted of these events Rachel began to feel anxious that her life could be in danger through inadvertently becoming the temporary custodian of the strange objects she found amongst Derek’s property. Upon Derek awakening, she felt compelled to help h...
View More