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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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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A Murder Foretold
By: David T. Wolf
Charlie Novak has been making a very nice living staging fatal accidents and splitting the insurance payouts with his partner. The victims? His partner's many wives. But when one of those wives is slain 6 months ahead of schedule by someone else, Charlie needs to find out who did it, and why--before a homicide investigation unravels their entire history of serial insurance fraud and serial murder. But there are complications. Disfigured as a child, Charlie has never known love. So he's in way over his head when he falls for the woman who found the body, and whose involvement in the crime is a deepening puzzle. He's helplessly drawn to this woman despite knowing she has dark secrets of her ow...
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Snodgrass
By: Mark Bertrand
Amidst the tension of a true historical military escalation between the USA and Libya in 1986, a Navy fighter pilot navigates his haunted past and uncertain future, discovering that true battles lie within, while a determined detective in Denver unravels a web of deceit, murder, and stolen diamonds that threatens to destroy them both.Eight years after I ran away from home in a daring bid for freedom, I soared over the Mediterranean Sea in an F18, engaged in combat against the Sudan, Yemen, and Soviet Union militaries.At fifteen, I confronted a daunting choice: endure the torment of my abusive stepfather or brave the uncertainties of the world alone. Opting for independence, I set out into th...
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Beyond the Shack
By: G. B. Cook
Beyond the Shack is a gripping thriller that delves into the dark underbelly of a remote Alaskan town, weaving a tale of survival, corruption, and the relentless pursuit of truth. The narrative centers around Calliope "Cali" Sims, a geology graduate whose internship in Alaska takes a sinister turn when she is kidnapped by the disturbed Jed and his complicit family. The Westfords, steeped in violence and secrecy, create a chilling atmosphere of captivity and dread. Cali's resourcefulness and determination are tested as she navigates the treacherous environment of the Alaskan wilderness, while her sister, Detective Sara Ponte, embarks on a desperate quest to find her. Sara's investigation...
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Briarwood Manners
By: Vince Nakovics
"There's two parts to the legend. If Red Cardinals sing to you, a dead one is visiting. If they shed their feathers, they have come to escort your soul."" -Nathan Walters-It was a surprise when Lisa Daniels ran into Janice Walters in Dundrum, Northern Ireland. She had no idea what would come from that meeting. When Maya Campbell uncovers her body the next day she is unaware that this event would drive her for the next thirteen driving her to become a Detective with the Northern Ireland Police. Maya knows the people she hunts are dangerous, but not how dangerous. They thwart her attempts to trap them, even after gathering an international task force. Janice Walters and her twin Nathan were co...
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Human By Day
By: Jamel Rogers
Human By DayBy Jamel Rogers & Aurelie DuncansonA Chilling YA Mystery-ThrillerSix UCLA students - Alec Garcia, Jack Priest, Damien Jones, Amara Jackson, Jasmine Valenzuela, and Casey Chang - escape to a secluded cabin in the Alps for a winter break getaway. They’re hoping for peace, snow, and a break from their hectic college lives.But their trip takes a sinister turn when they encounter eerie signs of something lurking in the mountains - something not human. As they dig into the area's dark past, they uncover disturbing disappearances that occurred just before their arrival. What began as a relaxing retreat is now a fight for survival. Trapped and hunted, they must solve the mystery be...
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First Bloodshed
By: MaddiBelle EmoryA cold blooded killer with a God complex.
"Maybe if I was normal, just as anybody else, I would fill this whole inside me with sex. Instead, I fill that hole with blood."
A serial killer is on a mission to currupt his boyfriend into also becoming a serial killer, but it doesn't work out the way he had the idea in his head. How could turning somebody into a killer be so hard?
Magnanotron: The Evolution
By: Robert James Saniscalchi
The electrifying continuation of the Bond of Brothers stories...Magnanotron: The Evolution takes the reader two years after the action filled Russia Affair. A remarkable new discovery has come to the creators of Magnanotron and now it has evolved into something much more deadly. Follow Jason Patrick and Commander Ryan as the call of duty comes from the President. America's Military and Special Forces enter the fight to stop another even more unthinkable threat.Now under the capable leadership of legendary sniper and Special Forces soldier Sergeant Major Tex Larson – with the help of Magnanotron, the Delta Team continues to enhance their formidable reputation, with successful missions both ...
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The Unseen
By: Chris Cloake
Your life has ended abruptly. The reason and cause unclear. There can be no eternal rest until you know how and why this happened. Where would you start? Who is to blame? Was it avoidable, inevitable, an accident or murder?Follow Scott as he tumbles uncontrollably through a confusing array of experiences, each fragment piecing together a revealing picture of himself and the key players in his world. The final realisation emerges like a knife in the darkness, ready to tear apart the truths he had built his life upon.The Unseen by Chris Cloake takes the reader on a personal journey of absolution that will resonate deeply with anyone who has ever questioned the path of their existence. For love...
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Justified Homicide
By: Kelly MarshallMadison Jackson is gunned down on her wedding day, bleeding out on the church steps, her only thought is her young child’s future. Awakening in the ICU, Madison suspects the attack is linked to her past, once married to a notorious Mexican cartel boss. Now, with his suspicious death exposed, she’s charged with felony murder. With Texas Governor Dixon Tucker, her new husband, pulling legal strings, the courtroom becomes a battlefield. But will the truth save her, or seal her fate? Justified Homicide is a pulse-pounding legal thriller and the thirtieth installment in the Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles.
Liberator Legacy
By: Domenick Venezia
2021 CIBA Series Award Finalist for Global Thriller High Stakes FictionSeptember 1946 – Destined for a stateside scrapyard, Sadie Sue, a B-24 heavy bomber lifts off from Tokyo on a flight plan to Geiger Field in Washington state. Having miraculously survived fifty-six missions together, navigator, pilot, and copilot Malloy, are the only crew. An unscheduled detour ends in unseen disaster.Two generations later, US Air Force pilot, Major Lincoln James Malloy is transferred from Afghanistan, forced to leave behind his wingman, the A-10 Warthog he loved, and the marines and soldiers who had counted on his close air support. Major Malloy resigns his commission and returns home, picking up ...
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Where Sunflowers Stand: A Traitor in Ukraine. A Spy in Russia. A CIA Man. And the Fight for Freedom.
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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Start with C
By: Garry R McDougall
Start With C *** Long-listed in Best Unpublished Manuscript, Whitsunday Literary Festival, 2024.When a corrupt Bicentennial official disappears amid an Indigenous death-in-custody, town mayhem and a Royal Commission, only Kev plays detective. He first suspects the fiery Aboriginal leader Billy, then the passionate Mara of ‘Patchtown’, and later, manipulative councillor Cheryl Sheila and her fiance and Council administrator, Roger ‘Humblebum’.Weighed down by his sense of responsibility, and his biological link to the infamous Jimmy Blacksmith, Kev wants only peace and civility, and safety for his wayward son, Danny, working for local ...
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