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!
Come Full Circle
Come Full Circle is a visceral experience that will linger in your thoughts long after you’ve turned the last page! This fiction is a heart-wrenching military and psychological thriller with Christian undertones that navigates the treacherous landscape of the War in Ukraine while delving deep into a human psyche on a path to redemption. Written ... Read more
Threshold
Step into a world steeped in danger and high-stakes suspense in this riveting thriller. Key Murphy, an experienced guardian of the powerful, is drawn into a deadly game with the Vice President of the United States at its heart. Intelligence of a sinister assassination plot in Philadelphia propels Key into a pulse-pounding race against time. ... Read more
Free: One Last Move
In the wake of his business partner’s untimely demise, Dr. Lawrence Rosewood finds himself thrust into a world of chaos and danger within their illustrious chain of luxury retirement homes. A sinister game of a hostile takeover, orchestrated by shadowy figures of organized crime, sets the stage for a pulse-pounding race against the odds. This ... Read more
Free: Run For Your Life
With the weekend right around the corner, Homicide Detective Mitch Cannon is looking forward to Saturday night. It isn’t often he has a date, and this one will be particularly interesting. His new friend Liza is beautiful, edgy, outspoken, and somewhat odd. But Mitch’s usual Friday-morning phone call to his mom sets the wheels in ... Read more
Free: Seriously, Murder?
Don and Alice are recent law school grads, and they know what theyre doing. But when they find themselves assigned to their first murder case, they might be in over their heads! And of course they cant forget about their other crazy clients (or Alices love life, for that matter). Part romcom/part mystery, this R-rated ... Read more
The Russia Leak
Cam Warfield never flinches from duty. So after building a stellar reputation as an Army intel operative, he doesn’t hesitate to answer the call when the president requests his involvement in a leak of classified information. In the resulting hunt for stolen Russian nuclear material, Warfield follows a winding thread through Moscow, Langley, Paris, and ... Read more
The Covid Murders: Another American Health Policy Detective Story
The second in the Irv Tinsley Health Policy Detective Series, following the acclaimed The Theory of Irv: An American Health Policy Detective Story fits in a new genre of novel: health policy detective stories that grapple with the very real problems of dysfunctional American health care policy. Like the first novel, The Covid Murders begins ... Read more
Free: The Case of the Missing Photographer in Las Vegas
Cupcake-loving croupier and private investigator Tiffany Black has a strange new case: why did the photographer go missing twenty-five years ago, and is she still alive? Meanwhile, the mysterious Rosie insists on being her assistant, but what secrets is Rosie hiding and why are strange men following her? Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Dynamite Fishermen
An espionage thriller in the classic tradition of Graham Greene, Eric Ambler, and John Le Carré, Dynamite Fishermen follows junior CIA case officer Conrad Prosser through Civil War Beirut in pursuit of an agent recruitment to revive his sagging career, exploiting friends and colleagues heedlessly along the way. At the same time, Prosser directs his ... Read more
Free: Louisiana Longshot
Miss Congeniality meets The Golden Girls in this hilarious mystery set in southern Louisiana. With a price on her head and a leak at the CIA, assassin Fortune Redding undertakes her most difficult mission ever…in Sinful, LA. Armed with her considerable skills and two ladies the locals dub The Geritol Mafia, Fortune decides to solve ... Read more
Innocent in Las Vegas Box Set: Tiffany Black Mysteries Books 1-4
Welcome to Las Vegas – and a series of cupcakes-and-crime mysteries! Cupcake-loving croupier Tiffany Black tries to solve four murders (and a daring art heist!) in this box set of four bestselling books. “Winters will have you giggling into your book!” Hilarious hijinks, secretive suspects and many, many desserts – they’re all par for the ... Read more
Free: May and Ted
May isn’t your average child. Neither is Ted. May is controlling and manipulative. Ted is brilliant. May is obsessed with Ted. When Ted falls in love with a man, May’s obsession becomes everyone’s nightmare. Beginning in 1973, the story of May and Ted starts with the innocence of childhood, peppered with disturbing moments of abuse ... Read more
Free: What Echoes Render (Windsor Series Book 3)
Immerse yourself in this thrilling investigation where the sins of the past cast a long shadow. From betrayal to blazing fires, ‘What Echoes Render’ is a heart-pounding thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Follow Jesse and David as they race against time to extinguish a killer’s trail of destruction. Free ... Read more
Deadly Traffic: A Florida Thriller
Will Harper’s back at it again, as he makes a heartrending discovery: a gritty underbelly of modern-day slavery has been operating right in his own backyard. When Will’s informant, a terrified Guatemalan teenage immigrant who’s just escaped the elegant compound where she was enslaved as a maid, is forced to run from the hired goons ... Read more
Jingle Bell Justice
Robin Pearce moves back to her hometown to start a new life. Robin reluctantly attends her sister’s Christmas party to launch her new bed-and-breakfast. When a dead body is discovered, Robin is pulled into the investigation to clear her sister-in-law’s name. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Turkey Trot Trouble
Nothing good happens in the morning. Case in point: the Turkey Trot 5K Race. For a night owl like Kenzie, the idea of dragging her bones out of bed to go running at the crack of dawn would typically be a nonstarter, especially on Thanksgiving Day. But her long-time best friend Blaise insisted, and the ... Read more
Free: The Fixer
When the mob had a problem they knew just the man to take care of it. They called him “The Fixer”. Bentley Chance is a retired lieutenant with over thirty years at a mid-size Washington police department. His assignments included patrol, traffic, street crimes, S.W.A.T. and narcotics followed by commands in every division of the ... Read more
S’More Murder
Jerria Danson isn’t an author. Tasked with preserving great-aunt Henrietta’s family stories, she reluctantly takes time from her busy life to attend a writer’s retreat in beautiful North Idaho. All she wants is peace and quiet to record the oral history for the family and maybe pick up a few writing tips along the way. ... Read more
The Nocturnal Devil: A Griffin Knight Mystery Thriller
When two women mysteriously disappear within a few days of each other, is it random, or is there something–or someone–more sinister at play? Detective Griffin Knight was supposed to be at home recovering from the events of his recent investigation in Seattle, but his captain and police colleagues needed his help to find out what ... Read more
Framed
Framed is a gripping mystery/cop-and-robber romance, with twists and turns to keep you guessing! Join Detective Jake Griffin and Dr. Alexis Lee as they embark on a whirlwind romance, but when a gruesome murder forces their secrets to come out, their opposing roles threaten to destroy their relationship. Can Jake and Alexis catch the culprit ... Read more
Free: Will Harper Florida Thrillers: Vol. 1-4 (Will Harper Mystery Series)
A VERY GOOD FRIEND… WOULD HELP YOU HIDE A BODY Ready for some action and adventure in the tropics? Join Will Harper, ex-journalist, and budding detective as he tries to solve murders happening on the Florida coast. From small town corruption & greed to the Florida prison system and arson. Get ready to immerse yourself ... Read more
Bee Conspiracy
Impulsive Detective “Duke” Wayne is stuck on admin leave from the LAPD, pushing papers across a desk. He desperately wants to rejoin Robbery-Homicide. When the Captain asks him to do a Field Investigation Report on an accidental death from bee stings, he thinks open and shut, this is my ticket back to the squad. But ... Read more
Hide Me Away
Ex-police officer Rileigh Bishop never wanted to come back to her hometown. But when a dead teenage girl is found with her tongue cut out, she must return. After all, that’s the same way Rileigh’s sister died. Reluctantly, she joins forces with the county sheriff to solve the brutal murder. The locals maintain a strict ... Read more
Who’s Killing the Old (and mostly lovable) Mystery Writers?: Old Guys Murder Mystery #5
Eight top mystery writers meet in a remote resort. Their mission: write a perfect mystery novel. The money is huge. But then, one writer gets murdered. Then another. Charlie North and his buddy Ben Tucker jump in to investigate. It all becomes clear, in a single room, and justice seems to be served. Ah, not ... Read more
Free: Fabergé
Manchester detective, Becky White faces a challenging case with high stakes as she and her team try to track down a stolen Fabergé egg. She’s up against a ruthless set of villains who will stop at nothing to prevent her achieving her goals. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: A Seed for Murder: A Joey Mancuso, Father O’Brian Crime Mystery Book 11
In a matter of minutes, they ruled Myrna Tucker’s death a suicide. But one must ask, did the detective assigned to the case conduct a thorough investigation? If not, why not? In his latest addition to the acclaimed Mancuso and O’Brian Crime Mysteries series, author Owen Parr plunges readers into the world of industrial espionage ... Read more
The Salvation Project
Finalist, Political Thriller of the Year. “The intricacies of the Project are unusual and memorable.”–Publisher Weekly’s BookLife. U.S. President Isabel Tennyson has survived impeachment, attempted assassination and sex scandals. Politically wounded, she runs for re-election unaware that her opponent is a Manchurian Candidate-like figurehead promoted by a ruthless international cabal determined to change America forever. ... Read more
Free: Echoes Trilogy: The Complete Collection
Echoes (Echoes Trilogy Book 1) At the edge of sanity lies an extraordinary truth. Discovering it may be the last thing she does… Hannah thinks she’s losing her mind. After hitting and killing a man with her car, he vanishes without a trace. Desperate to prove she isn’t insane, she searches until she finds him ... Read more
Free: That Was Before
The “That Was Before” romantic thriller series brings friends and lovers close, but enemies even closer. With secret pasts and hidden agendas, nothing is quite what it seems. It all comes together in three action-packed thrillers with psychological twists that will keep your head spinning. Best Thrillers says to, “Buckle up for a full-throttle thriller ... Read more
Free Fall: Story 1 in the “Tales of Suspense” Series
In 1968, Della Adderly—an aspiring art director—strolls down Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue before settling into a seat at a little sidewalk French Bistro. As she is noshing on a cheese sandwich, there is a scream from bystanders and seconds later a body falls at her feet from twenty stories above. It is the woman she had ... Read more
Free: Strangeways to Oldham
Lady Amanda Golightly of Belchester Towers is a person in complete contrast to the stereotypical image of one of her breeding. She is short, portly, and embarrassingly forthright. If she wasn’t calling a spade a shovel, it was only because she was calling it ‘trumps’! On a visit to a local nursing home where an ... Read more
The Latina President
“An unusually deep plot for a political thriller. An enthralling protagonist at the heart of a gripping tale. A suspenseful–and topical–tale of White House intrigue.” — Kirkus Reviews. U.S. President Isabel Tennyson (“Tenny”) is elected with a sweeping refrorm agenda. Powerful financial and political forces aim to destroy her first. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Sisters
In a web of deceit, escape is just the beginning. Ava Cressman’s life takes a twisted turn after her divorce from Spencer. Seeking comfort, she falls into the arms of a mysterious man named Joel Carney, a former college acquaintance. However, when Joel meets Ava’s sister, Tanya, an unsettling connection sparks between them. Tanya, seemingly ... Read more
Free: Antoinette in the Dark: Trapped by Her Own Fantasies, Intrigue, and Desires
A sinister secret, a possible murder, a tangle of painful lies lost in what might have been—life did not turn out to be the dream An had planned. As a girl, she’d longed for the love and connection her complicated parents never provided. Now, due to an unspeakable secret, the perfect family An thought she ... Read more
Kutri
The Slow Plague, a gender-targeting infection with no cure, killed billions of women and girls worldwide and created a dystopian society in which the survivors are treated as highly valuable commodities. Kutri Chandigarh, a rare beauty, is shipped from her native India to Los Angeles, a shattered metropolis barricaded behind a radiation-proof wall. Within the ... Read more
Free: Shadow of Death
Sidra is no longer safe on Earth. Will a faceless attacker wreck the last of her shattered life? Doctor Who meets The Twilight Zone in this spine-chilling science fiction thriller with intriguing characters, dark conflict, and edge-of-your-seat scares. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Where the Light Shines Through: An Olivia Penn Mystery (The Olivia Penn Mystery Series Book 1)
A shocking murder … Family secrets revealed … Her life will never be the same. Olivia Penn is looking forward to visiting her father while spring is in bloom in her beautiful hometown of Apple Station, Virginia. Her plans to enjoy a week of relaxation with her friends and family vanish, though, when a mysterious ... Read more
Free: Blood in the Bayou
SSA Jade Monroe and her new partner, Lorenzo DeLeon, are tasked to southern Louisiana. Human bones have been found deep in bayou country and the locals aren’t too excited about the FBI poking around. A chance meeting with a hunter gives Jade just what she needs to break through that unwelcoming barrier. He comes on ... Read more
The Secret Behind the Silk Sheets
Croatian family struggles after their son Dario vanished in the storm. His sister Klara is engaged to a playboy Sebastian. After a murder happens, family secrets will get on the surface. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Black Seagull
Unravel the captivating family secrets of a Russian Jewish immigrant family in Israel in “Black Seagull,” a gripping family saga with a thrilling mystery at its core. Embark on a captivating journey through generations as “Black Seagull” unveils a mesmerizing family saga filled with long-buried secrets. This gripping tale unravels the complex web of relationships, ... Read more
