The Indie Mystery and 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 and Thriller Bestseller List, based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending October 16, 2022.

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

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

3. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $17, 9781984880987

4. The Bullet That Missed
Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $27, 9780593299395

5. All Good People Here
Ashley Flowers, Bantam, $28, 9780593496473

6. The Ink Black Heart
Robert Galbraith, Mulholland Books, $32, 9780316413039

7. The Paris Apartment
Lucy Foley, Morrow, $28.99, 9780063003057

8. Wrong Place Wrong Time
Gillian McAllister, Morrow, $28.99, 9780063252349

9. The It Girl
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $28.99, 9781982155261

10. The Final Girl Support Group
Grady Hendrix, Berkley, $17, 9780593201244

11. Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $17, 9780525620808

12. The Man Who Died Twice
Richard Osman, Penguin, $17, 9781984881014

13. Fox Creek
William Kent Krueger, Atria, $28, 9781982128715

14. The Guest List
Lucy Foley, Morrow, $16.99, 9780062868947

15. The Plot
Jean Hanff Korelitz, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250790750

16. The Maidens
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250304469

17. The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton, Sourcebooks Landmark, $16.99, 9781492670124

18. The House Across the Lake
Riley Sager, Dutton, $27, 9780593183199

19. Portrait of an Unknown Woman
Daniel Silva, Harper, $29.99, 9780062834850

20. Daisy Darker
Alice Feeney, Flatiron Books, $28.99, 9781250843937

21. The 6:20 Man
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $29, 9781538719848

22. April in Spain
John Banville, Hanover Square Press, $17.99, 9781335475091

23. State of Terror
Louise Penny, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Simon & Schuster/St. Martin's Press, $18.99, 9781982173685

24. Hell and Back
Craig Johnson, Viking, $28, 9780593297285

25. Silverview
John le Carré, Penguin, $17, 9780593490631