The Indie Mystery/Thriller Bestseller List

The American Booksellers Association’s specialty bestseller lists provide a current snapshot of what’s selling in indie bookstores nationwide.

Here is the Indie Mystery/Thriller Bestseller List, based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending October 15, 2023.

1. Holly
Stephen King, Scribner, $30, 9781668016138

2. The Last Devil to Die
Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $29, 9780593299425

3. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9781984880987

4. The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703

5. None of This Is True
Lisa Jewell, Atria Books, $28, 9781982179007

6. A Haunting in Venice
Agatha Christie, Morrow, $18.99, 9780063342965

7. Verity
Colleen Hoover, Grand Central, $16.99, 9781538724736

8. Too Late
Colleen Hoover, Grand Central, $18.99, 9781538756591

9. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.), Vintage, $17, 9780593468463

10. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $12.99, 9781538742570

11. Fairy Tale
Stephen King, Scribner, $20, 9781668002193

12. Happiness Falls
Angie Kim, Hogarth, $28, 9780593448205

13. Mother-Daughter Murder Night
Nina Simon, Morrow, $30, 9780063315044

14. The Paris Apartment
Lucy Foley, Morrow, $18.99, 9780063003064

15. The House Across the Lake
Riley Sager, Dutton, $18, 9780593183212

16. The Maid
Nita Prose, Ballantine, $18, 9780593356173

17. Bright Young Women
Jessica Knoll, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, $27.99, 9781501153228

18. The Only One Left
Riley Sager, Dutton, $28, 9780593183229

19. The Running Grave
Robert Galbraith, Mulholland Books, $32.50, 9780316572101

20. Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo, Flatiron Books, $17.99, 9781250751362

21. Silver Nitrate
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $28, 9780593355367

22. Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
Rupert Holmes, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $28, 9781451648218

23. The Bullet That Missed
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18, 9780593299418

24. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton, Sourcebooks Landmark, $16.99, 9781492670124

25. The Boys from Biloxi
John Grisham, Vintage, $10.99, 9780593470916