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 May 12, 2024.

1. The Hunter
Tana French, Viking, $32, 9780593493434

2. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Benjamin Stevenson, Mariner Books, $18.99, 9780063279032

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

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

5. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Doubleday, $28, 9780385546874

6. How to Solve Your Own Murder
Kristen Perrin, Dutton, $28, 9780593474013

7. Birnam Wood
Eleanor Catton, Picador, $19, 9781250321718

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

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

10. The Teacher
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781728296210

11. First Lie Wins
Ashley Elston, Pamela Dorman Books, $28, 9780593492918

12. The Fury
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $28.99, 9781250758989

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

14. The Kamogawa Food Detectives
Hisashi Kashiwai, Jesse Kirkwood (Transl.), G.P. Putnam's Sons, $25, 9780593717714

15. A Calamity of Souls
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $30, 9781538765029

16. The House in the Pines
Ana Reyes, Dutton, $18, 9780593186732

17. The Inmate
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781728296173

18. One by One
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781728296197

19. Listen for the Lie
Amy Tintera, Celadon Books, $26.99, 9781250880314

20. Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo, Flatiron Books, $18.99, 9781250751362

21. Zero Days
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $18.99, 9781982155308

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

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

24. The Searcher
Tana French, Penguin, $18, 9780735224674

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