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 August 4, 2024.

1. You Like It Darker: Stories
Stephen King, Scribner, $30, 9781668037713

2. The Housemaid Is Watching
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464221132

3. The Midnight Feast
Lucy Foley, William Morrow, $30, 9780063003101

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

5. Eruption
Michael Crichton, James Patterson, Little, Brown and Company, $32, 9780316565073

6. All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker, Crown, $30, 9780593798874

7. Middle of the Night
Riley Sager, Dutton, $30, 9780593472378

8. Camino Ghosts
John Grisham, Doubleday, $29.95, 9780385545990

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

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

11. The Comfort of Ghosts
Jacqueline Winspear, Soho Crime, $29.95, 9781641296069

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

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

14. The Only One Left
Riley Sager, Dutton, $18, 9780593183243

15. Horror Movie
Paul Tremblay, William Morrow, $30, 9780063070011

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

17. Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
Rupert Holmes, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, $18.99, 9781451648225

18. The Housemaid's Secret
Freida McFadden, Mobius, $12.99, 9780349132617

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

20. The Briar Club
Kate Quinn, William Morrow, $28.99, 9780063244740

21. The Last Murder at the End of the World
Stuart Turton, Sourcebooks Landmark, $27.99, 9781728254654

22. One Perfect Couple
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $29.99, 9781668025598

23. The River We Remember
William Kent Krueger, Atria Books, $19.99, 9781982179229

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

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