The Indie Mystery & Thriller Bestseller List

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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 for the eight-week period ending January 17, 2021. 
 

1. The Searcher
Tana French, Viking, $27, 9780735224650

2. A Time for Mercy
John Grisham, Doubleday, $29.95, 9780385545969

3. Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $27, 9780525620785

4. Moonflower Murders
Anthony Horowitz, Harper, $28.99, 9780062955456

5. The Law of Innocence
Michael Connelly, Little, Brown, $29, 9780316485623

6. The Guest List
Lucy Foley, Morrow, $27.99, 9780062868930

7. All the Devils Are Here
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99, 9781250145239

8. The Sentinel
Lee Child, Andrew Child, Delacorte Press, $28.99, 9781984818461

9. Squeeze Me
Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $28.95, 9781524733452

10. Daylight
David Baldacci, Grand Central, $29, 9781538761694

11. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman, Pamela Dorman Books, $26, 9781984880963

12. Snow
John Banville, Hanover Square Press, $27.99, 9781335230003

13. One by One
Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $27.99, 9781501188817

14. Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo, Flatiron Books, $17.99, 9781250751362

15. When No One Is Watching
Alyssa Cole, Morrow, $16.99, 9780062982650

16. Still Life
Louise Penny, St. Martin’s, $17.99, 9780312541538

17. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780525541349

18. Long Bright River
Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $17, 9780525540687

19. The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones, Gallery/Saga Press, $26.99, 9781982136451

20. The Institute
Stephen King, Gallery Books, $19.99, 9781982110581

21. The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides, Celadon Books, $26.99, 9781250301697

22. Magpie Murders
Anthony Horowitz, Harper Perennial, $16.99, 9780062645234

23. Deadly Cross
James Patterson, Little, Brown, $29, 9780316420259

24. Fortune and Glory
Janet Evanovich, Atria, $28.99, 9781982154837

25. The Best American Mystery Stories 2020
C.J. Box, Otto Penzler (Eds.), Mariner, $16.99, 9781328636102