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 17, 2026.
1. The Keeper
Tana French, Viking, $32.00, 9780593493465
2. The Ending Writes Itself
Evelyn Clarke, Harper, $30.00, 9780063444614
3. Dear Debbie
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464249624
4. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18.00, 9780593312070
5. Strange Buildings
Uketsu, HarperVia, $18.99, 9780063514096
6. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $18.99, 9781538742570
7. Want to Know a Secret?
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $18.99, 9781464249600
8. My Husband's Wife
Alice Feeney, Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar, $28.99, 9781250337818
9. Judge Stone
James Patterson, Viola Davis, Little, Brown and Company, $32.00, 9780316579834
10. Strange Houses
Uketsu, Jim Rion (Transl.), HarperVia, $17.99, 9780063433151
11. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18.00, 9781984880987
12. Fever Beach
Carl Hiaasen, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $19.00, 9780593315477
13. This Story Might Save Your Life
Tiffany Crum, Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar, $29.99, 9781250395238
14. Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief
Benjamin Stevenson, Mariner Books, $30.00, 9780063434387
15. Strange Pictures
Uketsu, HarperVia, $17.99, 9780063433083
16. Anatomy of an Alibi
Ashley Elston, Pamela Dorman Books, $30.00, 9780593834459
17. Hope Rises
David Baldacci, Grand Central Publishing, $32.00, 9781538758021
18. Beautiful Ugly
Alice Feeney, Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar, $18.99, 9781250337801
19. Mad Mabel
Sally Hepworth, St. Martin's Press, $29.00, 9781250284549
20. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.), Vintage, $18.00, 9780593468463
21. The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703
22. The Widow
John Grisham, Doubleday, $32.00, 9780385548984
23. The Tenant
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781464227318
24. The Housemaid's Secret
Freida McFadden, Hachette Mobius, $18.99, 9780349132617
25. The Boyfriend
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $17.99, 9781728296227