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 Lilac Code

The world of espionage is prepared for double agents, covert missions, and deadly adversaries…but are they prepared for this Texas trio of headstrong women? The adventure continues in Book 8 of the award-winning The Sisters, Texas Mystery Series! $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Bordello Justice

Russ Towne

Traveling from Massachusetts to California in search of answers to his brother’s mysterious death, Will McKinnon encounters an enchanting woman who plunges him headlong into the fight of his life. Accepting the challenge to be a hero, this city boy rides a horse aptly named Damn You into a harsh land where he doesn’t speak ... Read more

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Free: Beasts Shall Reign Over the Earth!

The year is 2018. It’s August. New York City is sweltering, baking under unrelenting heat and humidity. Added to this misery is a wave of grotesque maulings of dogs in Lower Manhattan. NYC Rookie Detective Teresa Rodriguez of the 5th Precinct and her partner and soon-to-retire mentor, Detective Morgan Jackson, set out to solve the ... Read more

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Free: The Case of the Death Book

Award-winning author Michael Pickford brings us a delightful new series about a teen lawyer with Holmes-like powers of observation. Samuel Hickson moved from Chicago to Tennessee to attend college. He sought a new roommate because he couldn’t bear to live another week with a bunch of rowdy party animals. Samuel’s neighbor introduced him to a ... Read more

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City of Spirits

Eric Wilder

A house in the French Quarter is rife with spirits as French Quarter sleuth Wyatt Thomas unravels a Garden District mystery and a forbidden love triangle. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Mystery of Julia Episcopa

This novel of ancient and modern Rome follows three women across two millenniums, united to right an ancient heresy and to solve an unspeakable murder. Kirkus calls it “…thoughtful and satisfying…inventive – and highly believable…” Readers Choice says it is “…intriguing and inspiring.” AudioBookReview notes that it is “…an unexpectedly moving mystery.” $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Trial of the Gods

Tochukwu Okonkwo

A boy kills a sacred python and provokes the anger of the gods. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Verona Blood

Lili St. Germain

An arranged marriage. A brutal abduction. And a love so forbidden, it might consume them both. Prepare to step into the corrupt, bloody underworld of San Francisco, as Lili St. Germain brings you a modern, dark retelling of Romeo and Juliet. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Grizzly Creek Massacre

Russ Towne

Following on from his recent Western successes! Discover something new and exciting from bestselling author Russ Towne. These are Western adventures that are filled with guns, guts and the spirit of the Old West. The Grizzly Creek Massacre Four young men in the cavalry witness a mutiny and brutal murder and are chased by their ... Read more

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Snakebite: Alpha Squad (Book 1)

Heather Ramsay

A fast-paced, truly “unputdownable” thriller. Snakebite is full of action, suspense and a large dose of romance! Come on a mission with Phoenix and her Alpha Squad as she deals with amnesia and terrorists, all while trying to impress her formidable commander, General Cobra. Check out this five-star read and see what everyone is talking ... Read more

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Free: The Breathtaker

A haunting thriller about a string of murders during tornado season by award-winning author Alice Blanchard. When a tornado slams into Promise, Oklahoma, the town’s terrified residents realize that a killer is moving among them. “A tension-filled thriller that will leave readers spinning.” Milwaukee Journal. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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(She’s Got The) Devil In Her Heart

Monk’s in California, in dire straits (no; not the band.) Sal Leon, the gangster, has him captive with an aim to maim. Bonnie may—or maybe not—be an accomplice to that goal, which isn’t a good thing, considering Monk was considering proposing. Lou and Cassidy are still in Chicago, spying on crooked Aldermen, threatened by flooded ... Read more

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Free: My Sister And I

A young teenage girl and her Psychotic twin sister must grow up hard and fast in the unforgiving Scottish Highlands as their father – a sick and twisted, violent man, obsessed with the end of the world – teaches them how to survive out in the wild with no one to rely on but themselves. ... Read more

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A Kind of Woman

Jacob Barder, a successful New York attorney, returns home to New York after being trapped in Europe during the Second World War and miraculously surviving the Holocaust. Barder does not return alone: with him is his new wife, Rachel, a beautiful blonde woman whom he met in Warsaw shortly after the war – a Jewish ... Read more

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Free: Rogue Wave

Christopher Cartwright

The offer – $20 billion split between four leading scientists on alternative energies to purchase and then squash their research lines, which include the recent discovery of a powerful new energy source capable of replacing mankind’s reliance on fossil fuels. There’s no doubt their discovery is worth ten times that much. But will any one ... Read more

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Unspeakable Grudges

A puzzling series of murders collide with a messy big-money divorce in this taut, vivid thriller set in the dramatic mountains of the Southwest. $4.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Black Kiss Of Death

Step into the troublesome world of Diamond White, daughter of the infamous Charles White. While Charles has managed to climb his way to the top of the drug trade and organize a Los Angeles-based crime syndicate known as the Great White Organization, he has also managed to make some fierce and very formidable enemies along ... Read more

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Gold Envelopes & Murder: Val Masters Wedding Planner Cozy Mystery Series (Book 2)

A dead Best Man. A high profile crime. And a murder charge against the wedding planner. Things never seem to go right in Buckingham Downs, a quaint coastal resort town in California, where when the rich get married, it’s a billion-dollar business. Things certainly aren’t going right for Valerie Masters, her clingy Yorkie, Buttons, and ... Read more

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Demon Seeds: A Supernatural Horror Novel

  The Beast is awake. Swallow a seed and let the demon grow inside you. Your deepest desire will be fulfilled, and you’ll have more power than you can imagine… … at least until it’s fully grown. Are the dark thoughts in your head your own? Or is something else already thinking through you? $0.99 ... Read more

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Lethal In Old Lace

In Savannah there are two things guaranteed to get folks talking…weddings and funerals especially if bodies go missing and wedding plans get hijacked by everyone with an opinion. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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I Killed My Son-In-Law!

Some people have fantasies about killing someone. Yes, some do. What deters most from killing someone is their ability to feel remorse, but this story breaks that mold! Vick is tired of his son-in-law’s abusive ways, punk ass mouth, and the way Tad disrespects his wife and daughters. He so desires to teach Tad a ... Read more

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Ribbons of Death

A career soldier who survived a deadly riot in Cairo, and a reclusive mythology expert from Montana, race against time to find the product of ancient myths and legends that are cutting a bloody path across the continent. If you love thrillers, don’t miss this action-packed adventure with deadly consequences at every turn of the ... Read more

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The Day of the Donald: Trump Trumps America

Andrew Shaffer

Read the satire that boldly (or foolishly?) predicted the Trump presidency, from Andrew Shaffer, author of the instant New York Times bestseller “Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery.” When Trump’s official biographer turns up dead, a down-on-his-luck tabloid journalist must do some real investigative reporting, get to the bottom of a long series of ... Read more

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Ollie Stratford Cozy Mysteries

N.C. LEWIS

Cozy Mystery Fan Looking for Something Different? Try Texas! Grab this Cozy Mystery five Book Box Set from Author N.C. Lewis’s popular Ollie Stratford Cozy Mysteries series. Enjoy hour upon hour of good, clean, humorous, reading with characters you will grow to love! $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Cult

Grant Griffin

Before the cult, John Stevenson lived a life full of girls, parties, and friends; something many high-schoolers can only dream of. However, that was before the cult. The cult took everything from John in a single night; they killed his parents, kidnapped his sister, and most important of all, stole from him his own identity. ... Read more

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Free: Sam’s Song

Sam’s Song is book one in the Amazon #1 Sam Smith Mystery Series. Each book in the series combines a psychological mystery with humor and romance and can be read as a stand-alone. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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White Satin & Murder: Val Masters Wedding Planner Cozy Mystery Series (Book 1)

A missing fifty-thousand-dollar wedding dress. A clingy Yorkie. And a dead Maid of Honor. It’s the first wedding Valerie Masters has ever planned and the start of her new business. There’s money flowing in Buckingham Downs, California, a small coastal town largely taken over by the rich, where weddings are a billion-dollar business. Val works ... Read more

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Free: Thief

CL Stone

Kayli Winchester is a dirt-poor girl living out of a hotel, forced to be the parent for a drunken father and teenage brother who she’s desperate to keep in school. Her one skill: pickpocketing. But even though she’s a thief she has a moral code, only targets who can defend themselves. Not that they see ... Read more

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Free: Fear Runner

“The author keeps the action flowing and delivers enough clever twists to make this an enjoyable read for thriller fans . . . ” — Kirkus Reviews Scott Quinn travels to Washington, D.C. to save his career, but after meeting Lauren Chandler, he quickly finds himself in a desperate struggle to save something far more ... Read more

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Flashback

Sarah is an orphan who starts experiencing memories that are thousands of years old. A DNA swab exposing a unique gene has brought her to the attention of a company that specializes in genetic research. Sarah eagerly seizes the chance for a better life and the fact that she must share her memories as a ... Read more

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Burning Matches

Detective Kieran Temple is woken by a 4 am phone call. Not unusual, except that this call is from his ex-partner, Mia Burrows. And she’s just killed her boyfriend. As Temple is compelled to investigate the death, he must do so behind the backs of his superiors and his wife. All evidence supports Mia’s claims, ... Read more

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Out Of Time: The Dream Traveler (Book One)

‘When your past calls – Don’t answer, it has nothing to say’. Unless your name is Sean McMillan – in which case you had better answer and listen carefully. Out of Time is the first in a series of books that introduce the reader to Sean McMillan ‘The Dream Traveler’. McMillan is a detective assigned ... Read more

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Karma’s Envoy

Kevan Houser

Inexplicably waking up in 1962 in the body of little kid is bad enough, but imagine discovering you’re destined to die. This is Todd’s dilemma as he faces life in a run-down trailer house with a new name, an unbalanced mother, and an unspeakable evil lurking in the idyllic Oregon community. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: The After War

Two years have passed since humankind faced extinction. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Marriage Before Death

Uvi Poznansky

After D-Day, her photograph appears on the most-wanted Nazi propaganda posters. Who is the girl with the red beret? She reminds Lenny of Natasha, but no, that cannot be. Why does Rochelle step into the courtroom when he is lead by SS soldiers to the gallows? At the risk of being found out as a ... Read more

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Free: One: Rage Vengeance Murder

Kathleen McGillick

In our daily lives, we cross paths every day with hundreds maybe thousands of people. But what happens when two random stranger’s lives intersect in such a way that encounter leads to an obsessive focus on the destruction of each other’s lives? Free on Kindle.... Read more

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The Death God

K.E. Young

An old friend brings a horrific crime to Charley’s attention and its victims cry out for justice. With some hard work and the aid of an ancient Aztec god, they’ll get it. At the behest of her old friend Ahote, ATF Special Agent Charley Rogers travels deep into the mountainous highlands of New Mexico. There, ... Read more

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Free: A Walk on the Haunted Side

Two of Ripley’s favorite things are books and ghosts, not necessarily in that order. When a famous author shows up dead after a book signing – the ghosts demand her full attention. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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C’Mon Inn Mystery Trilogy: Books 1-3

Paradise Down Aloha Nicholás! But will this be a hello or a goodbye? When Lucia Santerez returns home to Hawaii to help her brother Nicholás with his new dive shop, she learns Nicholás has disappeared–and someone doesn’t want him found. Enlisting the aid of hunky vacationing firefighter, Brandon Matthews, gets them the wrong kind of ... Read more

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The Last Ride

Sonia Parin

Functioning on limited coffee rations, Abby Maguire stumbles upon a body and a mysterious inheritance. There’s a killer on the loose in the small town of Eden and he might be working his way through a list. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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