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 20, 2026.
1. Big Little Truths
Liane Moriarty, Crown, $34.00, 9780593798638
2. Mad Mabel
Sally Hepworth, St. Martin's Press, $29.00, 9781250284549
3. Dead Beat (Ninth House Series #3)
Leigh Bardugo, Flatiron Books, $29.99, 9781250884312
4. The Witch (Deluxe Edition)
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $29.99, 9781464249648
5. The Unknown
Riley Sager, Dutton, $32.00, 9798217044092
6. Brain Damage
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $18.99, 9781464249617
7. Fruit Fly
Josh Silver, Crooked Lane Books, $19.99, 9798892426374
8. The French Illusion (The French Illusion Series)
John Grisham, Doubleday, $35.00, 9780385550543
9. We Chase Shadows: A We Solve Murders Mystery
Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $31.00, 9798217060399
10. Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel: The New Miss Marple Mystery
Lucy Foley, Agatha Christie, William Morrow, $30.00, 9780063376694
11. Angel Down
Daniel Kraus, Atria Books, $18.00, 9781668068519
12. The Frozen River
Ariel Lawhon, Vintage, $18.00, 9780593312070
13. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Shane Hawk (Ed.), Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Ed.), Vintage, $19.00, 9780593468463
14. Verity
Colleen Hoover, Grand Central Publishing, $18.99, 9781538784051
15. The Widow
John Grisham, Vintage, $20.00, 9780593685297
16. The Divorce
Freida McFadden, Poisoned Pen Press, $18.99, 9781464249631
17. Other Worlds Than These: A Talisman Novel (The Talisman Trilogy #3)
Stephen King, Peter Straub, Scribner, $35.00, 9781668233092
18. Our Noble Selves
Kate Atkinson, Doubleday, $32.00, 9780385551168
19. The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $17.99, 9781250301703
20. God's Country (Cork O'Connor Mystery Series #22)
William Kent Krueger, Atria Books, $28.00, 9781668231869
21. Strange Houses
Uketsu, Jim Rion (Transl.), HarperVia, $17.99, 9780063433151
22. A Trade of Blood (Ana and Din Mysteries #3)
Robert Jackson Bennett, Del Rey, $32.00, 9780593723852
23. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Penguin, $18.00, 9781984880987
24. The Housemaid
Freida McFadden, Grand Central, $18.99, 9781538742570
25. The Impossible Fortune: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery
Richard Osman, Penguin Books, $20.00, 9780593653272