Free and Discounted Mystery & Thriller Books

Prepare for suspense, excitement, and plenty of tense situations within these mystery and thriller selections! From high-speed thrillers to tense caper stories to fascinating police procedurals, these books will keep you entertained and enthralled for hours on end. Here's a selection of mysteries, legal thrillers, crime thrillers, spy thrillers, mystery thrillers, cozys and more!

The Prepared

Colton Lively

When an EMP cripples the nation’s power grid, lawlessness erupts across the country. Fighting against the chaos, Bailey Smith must rescue her family from the city and bring them to a remote cabin in the West Virginia mountains. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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AETERNA: Shrine of the Black Flame – Thriller

Mikael Lundt

Unholy conspiracy or scientific sensation? For centuries, the occult society AETERNA has guarded an incredible secret: The Shrine of the Black Flame, an artifact as old as the Earth and as sinister as the apocalypse in the darkest prophecies. Now, the supernatural power of the shrine seems unleashed — with fatal consequences for all life ... Read more

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Free: Alena’s Revenge (The Wolf Queen of Vrania Book 1)

Evan Oliver

Alena and her brother lived in the forest, content to work and provide for themselves, until the warriors of Jarl Torgis came to take what was not theirs. What began as a simple theft like so many others would sow the seeds of war that would drench Vrania in blood. Bullied and harassed into outlawry ... Read more

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Circumstantial Danger

Richard DeVall

What begins as a serial killer investigation in a small town turns into a story about a detective who loses his way with a coworker when he has an affair and ends up in a messy divorce. The hunt for the killer is alive and well, but not always front and center. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The World Before the Apocalypse: The illustrated novel (Book 1). 18+

Antonio Morale

Be careful! It’s going to be really hot! * * * * * Warning! Explicit scenes! (quite a lot) Violent scenes! (a few at most) Foul language! (not a lot) * * * Earth. The year 2622. A world where magical abilities are in balance with modern technology. A world where clans and aristocrats rule, ... Read more

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Smite the Waters

David T. Isaak

Terror works both ways. Aging billionaire Rex Atwater is on a mission to reshape history with a chilling act of anti-terrorist terrorism: the nuclear annihilation of Mecca. To carry out his plan, he recruits an unlikely team— embittered ex-Special Forces ace, Carla Smukowski, and a zealous para-military brigade, led covertly by weary FBI agent Boyce ... Read more

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The Perfect Impostor

Iris Baxter

Someone is living her life—and they’re doing it better. Can she uncover their identity before she is completely erased? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Cell-Jacked: PORTIA BLACK VOLUME 2

Pascoal Antonio

The average length of a human genome is approximately six feet. Which, co-incidentally, is the average depth of a human grave. When Portia Black wakes up, drugged and in a strange apartment, her first instinct is to run. After all she’s not the kind of girl authorities are sympathetic to. It doesn’t help that she’s ... Read more

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The Ambition

Yvonne Blackwood

“The Ambition is a riveting story of high-finance business deals, Italian family ties, an illicit romance, and murder. You won’t soon forget Connie, Lorenzo, and the other vivid characters who populate this unique tale.” –Marcia Trahan, author of Mercy. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Frozen Farmhouse

Robert J. Walker

Prepare and survive. When an EMP cripples the nation’s power grid, lawlessness erupts across the country. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Crime Dates

S.M. Wendel

Cleo Krol, 40, is a laid-off reporter who recently moved to Washington DC. When her friend and next-door neighbor, Rae Gagnon, has a psychotic break, Cleo is bewildered – Rae showed no warning signs. When Rae is released from the hospital, she returns to work and seems okay for the first couple of weeks and ... Read more

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Free: Raze vs Snatchers: Book one in the Raze Warfare series

Shelley Cass

An LGBTQ+ action romance series that packs a punch…“Razes, Razes, everywhere … snatchers, snatchers all beware …”Hato’s gang must go up against an underground system trading in the lives of youths, or risk losing the kid brother of their group forever. Kiddo prefers to be a wallflower. But being a ten out of ten on ... Read more

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Free: West End Justice

KJ Kalis

Everything in Detective Morgan Foster’s life is a secret…Living in West End, West Virginia wasn’t part of the plan, but the murders of her husband, Peter, and her partner, AJ Roth, have sent her into hiding.For a while, everything seemed to be fine, but two dead bodies at her waitressing job tell another story…Unable to ... Read more

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In The Dust

K. A. Gandy

When the water is all gone, how will you survive? Twenty-three year old Nyx wakes up one day to find her older brother and protector vanished, leaving her utterly alone in the Wastes. She has only her skills as a scavenger and their busted-up Bronco to lean on as she works to stay alive, and ... Read more

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THE CATALOG / 20 THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO ME

T.G. Phebus

In the first story of this double novella: Do you wish that you could spend time with your favorite celebrity or possibly transform someone into your fantasy come true? The Catalog will accomplish what is impossible as long as the price is right. Just hop on the website and let John know what you desire, ... Read more

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The Shroud Key: A Chase Baker Thriller

Vincent Zandri

Adventurer and treasure hunter Chase Baker goes on the hunt for the greatest Biblical relic in history. The mortal remains of Jesus of Nazareth. The problem is, does such a relic exist? When rival factions are willing to kill for the sacred remains, Chase becomes a moving international target. The number one bestselling thriller from ... Read more

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Genocide: An Action-Adventure Series

Brent Towns

Kane and Jensen are hauled before an intelligence committee bent on finding out the truth no matter the consequences… $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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What Happened to the Boy?

June Summers

An intense fire destroys the palatial home of a prominent attorney and his wife. After their bodies are removed from the burning house, Sam Nagy is pronounced dead immediately; his wife, Alyssa, succumbs on the way to the hospital. The causes of death are due to bullet wounds—not the fire. But what happened to their ... Read more

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Artistic License

Wayne Clark

Love or art? Love of money? Veteran New York PI Humph Barstal discovers that the motive for a cunning theft of irreplaceable paintings from the nation’s biggest gallery can be driven by both. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Immortalised to Death

Lyn Squire

Death strikes England’s foremost novelist, his latest tale only half told. Was he murdered because someone feared a ruinous revelation? Or was it revenge for some past misdeed? Set in the Kent countryside and London slums of 1870, Immortalised to Death embeds an ingenious solution to Charles Dickens’s unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood within ... Read more

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mon-ters

Kaye Bell

You can’t run from them or hide from them. But maybe, just maybe, you can outsmart them. Or can you? $3.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The HR Informant

Joseph Leebs

Dave is just a regular guy, working in Human Resources, when he is approached by Derrick to help create a new consulting firm. While Dave is considering this life-changing career choice, he is drawn into the complicated world of spying on his potential new partner, which could have major political and life-saving ramifications. The novel, ... Read more

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The Eye of Ebon (The White Sword Saga Book 1)

P. Pherson Green

A young Samiare lies dying in the snow, in her hand, a sword of legend, and now the whole world is changed. For Ruegette, hero of Tierinor, the girl marks the earliest stages of a new war against the Shadow, and a new struggle to keep safe what has been hidden for more than an ... Read more

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Reb’s Revenge

J B Black

If you like fast-paced, action-packed thrillers with tough-as-nails heroes, smart and sexy heroines, exotic locations, fast boats and fast cars, the good guys shooting it out with the bad guys, and some political intrigue and romance thrown in for good measure, then join Reb Rogers—a former special operator living on the Gulf Coast running a ... Read more

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O’SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS INC. Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar’s Kiss

A.G. Russo

Book 2 of 3 in the O’Shaughnessy Mystery Series. The homefront 1943. Maeve O’Shaughnessy and Vic Marino are in the second year of running the detective agency her brothers left her with when they went overseas to fight in World War II. This time around they are dealing with more dangerous cases. Maeve and Vic ... Read more

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Slantwise

Zac Cannon

Once a devoted father figure to two boys and partner to a woman who, for some reason, had wanted to love him, Holt’s now haunted by regret and the ghosts of choices that drove them away. When an unforeseen second chance thrusts him back into the life he can’t quite let go of, he uncovers ... Read more

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Dying for Monet

Claudia Riess

Amateur sleuths Erika Shawn and Harrison Wheatley are once again drawn into an investigation involving an art-related homicide, this time sharing an unnerving coincidence with violent cries occurring abroad. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Pura Vida

Jim Utsler

  Detroit homicide detective Jacob Miller has been accused of many things, but being smart isn’t one of them. The murder of drug dealer Willy is proof enough of that, but not covering it up is even worse. So why would he think that stealing a fellow inmate’s hidden fortune is any smarter, especially when ... Read more

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Murder Under Redwood Moon

Sherri Dodd

At the age of eight, Arista Kelly was frantically swept up by her parents and whisked off to an isolated town in the California redwoods. Two days later, her parents were gone. Now at the age of twenty-three, she has settled quite nicely into an eclectic lifestyle, much like her great aunt, and guardian since ... Read more

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Machinations of a Murderer

Peter Zander-Howell

There are at least two reasons why Robin Whitaker wants to eliminate his wife, Dulcie. He is not allowed to drink any alcohol, nor to gamble. Dulcie controls his life to an extent that he finds intolerable. But she is also wealthy, so merely leaving her is not an acceptable option. In most circumstances Dr ... Read more

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The Darling Killer

E. M. Jones

After a neighbor’s horrifying confession pulls 12-year-old Eli into a deadly secret, his path collides with Julie Baker, a librarian haunted by her own dark past. Together in the shadows of small-town Darling, they face an ancient evil that hungers for them both. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Reawakened Flames (Sparks Shall Rise, #1)

Lindsay McCafferty

Aria, the crown princess of Torrannon, has the world at her feet and a bright future. Then she develops anxiety and depression and finds herself trapped in a losing battle that seems to only have one tragic path of escape. Landa, a phoenix, has an embarrassing accident, and her confidence diminishes. She then loses the ... Read more

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The 34 in the Floor

R.B. Schow

When the past collides with the present, murder becomes as easy as breathing. In the remote woods of Northern California, a shocking discovery at a hunting cabin unearths dark secrets tied to FBI Special Agent Sadie Gray’s own history. Twelve years after her abduction in Grass Valley, she is thrust into a chilling murder investigation ... Read more

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Cigarettes on Saturday

Vincent Vecchio

It’s a race against time. Pamela finds herself suddenly abducted by an insane, lonely redneck, Tom, who forces her to be his wife. She’s confined to the third floor of his home most days, and in heart-shattering desperation to be free again, she must get creative and play into his delusions to escape not only ... Read more

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Chase Baker and the Da Vinci Divinity

Vincent Zandri

The secret behind Leonardo da Vinci’s divine gifts lies inside a secret cave in the Tuscan forest. It’s Chase Baker’s job to find it before an unspeakable enemy bent on world domination gets to it first. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Chosen

Marla Meyers

Marissa Dow is recovering from the death of her mother and a recent divorce. When she travels to the farm where she grew up, something extraordinary happens. It’s an event so bizarre that she questions her sanity and confides in her best friend, Becka, who is skeptical about Marissa’s wild tale. When proof presents itself, ... Read more

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Crescent City Carnage: An Alex Boyd Thriller

Mel Harrison

“Crescent City Carnage”, takes special agent Alex Boyd and his wife Rachel Smith on another thrilling hunt after only a day into their long-awaited vacation to New Orleans. When the couple goes to join their good friend and colleague, Simone Ardoin, they discover she was brutally murdered. Simone’s well-connected parents, longtime residents of New Orleans, ... Read more

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Vampires and Villains: Magical Mystery Book Club #2

Elizabeth Pantley

When this club selects a book, magic happens. They are whooshed inside the book and become the main characters as the mystery comes to life. It is exhilarating fun – until they realize they can’t get out until they solve the crime and reach The End. In every book journey they are excited to meet ... Read more

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The Patriot Oath

Lloyd Lofthouse

He fought for his country. Now he’s home and engaged in the deadliest of battles. Josh Kavanagh eats and breathes loyalty. Wary of how he’ll fit in after a twenty-four-year absence, the Special Forces legend returns to his family’s Montana ranch on an undercover mission. And though he’s anxious to see the high school sweetheart ... Read more

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Free: BLOOD RIVER

C.E. NELSON

A silent killer stalks the north woods of Minnesota. When two anglers are murdered on a remote island, sheriff Dave Trask enlists the help of his identical twin, Don, to track down a killer bent on revenge. BLOOD RIVER is the first book in the acclaimed Trask Brothers Murder Mystery Series. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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