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!
Trouble at the Animal Shelter
When Maggie Ryan, a retired schoolteacher, is murdered, and over thirty dogs are discovered living in her home, the Cedar Bay Animal Shelter is stretched beyond its meager resources. What to do with the dogs and finding the murderer becomes a challenge. But who would have wanted the elderly spinster dead, and what was the ... Read more
Slip Out The Back Jack
They take turns with the knife, cutting their thumbs open. A drop of blood lands on the dark wooden table. Eyes meet across the room. All four thumbs are pressed against each other one by one. Blood is shared, secrets buried. Years later a brutal madman sprays bullets into a crowd at a movie theater ... Read more
The Real Dad
Lulie Brannigan thinks her ex is still in prison. But he keys himself in and refuses to leave, so she and the two boys must go. They run, keep moving, even hide, but they can’t shake him. Nate will stop at nothing to get his family back. Prepare to burn the midnight oil as you ... Read more
A Higher Power
In this tale of corporate skullduggery and mystical awakening, a multibillionaire decides to radically alter his course and seek a clearer path to happiness. For New Yorker Nick Dalca wealth is a birthright, but his perfect life is starting to crumble around him. His private jet? Missing. Wife and son? Presumed dead. Having no one ... Read more
Free: Deceptions
Jack Petrov, lead singer of a successful rock band, is spending the Thanksgiving weekend with his wife and children in the Poconos. He has been out of the limelight for two years after a terrible car accident that resulted in the deaths of two of his children. Traveling with the family is the children’s nanny, ... Read more
Midnight Sun
Wyatt, Alaska is a place of family, beauty, and unspeakable tragedy. A couple of years after Aaron Grant lost his wife and daughter in a fire, one of his daughter’s best friends, Sarah, is kidnapped. After spending the last two years as the town drunk, he reluctantly investigates the kidnapping along with the ambitious FBI ... Read more
The Courtyard Corpse
When concierge sleuth Cassie Hall discovers the dead body of a professional golfer, and resident millionaire, Kip Ace in the crab apple tree courtyard, Cassie finds the residents’ demands are the least of her worries. With less than a day to catch the killer Cassie must sort through the residents’ motives which have piled up ... Read more
Dying for Data
A rival suitor, and a deadly attack are enough to put a damper on any date. Just when Adina’s social life is looking up, her night out is interrupted by the scream of police sirens. Afraid her bartender boyfriend might be accused of murder, Adina’s neighbor enlists her assistance, and in the process exposes her ... Read more
The Killing Game
The series opens as Ives Andrich, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the FBI, is confronted with investigating the woman he has waited a lifetime to find. Because of her more than accurate novel about an Italian crime lord, the Bureau, against Ives’ wishes, asks for her help in infiltrating the ... Read more
Free: Three, Four… Better Lock Your Door
This top-rated mystery-thriller is on sale for a limited time to introduce you to the wildly popular Rebecca Franck Series from bestselling author Willow Rose. We hope you enjoy! An electrifying novel from a bestselling author.It was supposed to be a night of fun, pleasure, lust and pain for Susanne Larsen when she agreed to ... Read more
Free: Sweet Masterpiece (Samantha Sweet Mystery)
“Connie Shelton gets better with every book she writes.” –The Midwest Book ReviewUSA Today bestselling author Connie Shelton introduces her most delightful cozy mystery series yet–a little romance, a little magic and a lot of chocolate! Free on Kindle.... Read more
Warren Lane
Susan Moore is about to hire the wrong man to investigate her philandering husband, Will. There’s something not quite right about that detective, but he’s all she has at the moment. Detective Warren Lane drinks too much and has a hard time staying out of trouble. He’s just the kind of guy Will’s mistress can’t ... Read more
The Trojan Project
A peaceful night is disturbed as a strange light rises from behind the Cheviot Hills, and a green mist descends across the valley. Its swirling tendrils, seeming to bear a life of their own as they snake across the land, can only be an omen of something sinister and evil. When Sarah’s husband fails to ... Read more
Missing Mona
As Tommy looks squarely at his next decade his smartphone convinces him the time is ripe for a change. So he hits the road. He immediately meets a damsel in hitchhiking distress named Mona. She persuades him that the bright lights and dark clubs of Chicago might be his kind of town. So on a ... Read more
The Damascus Cover
In a last ditch effort to revive his career, washed out agent Ari Ben-Sion accepts a mission he never would have 30 years ago, to smuggle a group of Jewish children out of the Damascus ghetto. Or so he thinks. Feature film adaptation starring John Hurt and Jonathan Rhys Meyers in theaters 2017. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Rebekka Franck Mystery Series
It’s the stuff of a living nightmare… She thought she was safe when she met a man offering her drugs, she thought she was safe when she went alone to her tent to take the pills. But when she opened her eyes and found herself in the man’s basement, she knew she wasn’t safe anymore. ... Read more
Emma Frost Mystery Series
We all know that high school reunions can be a daunting and sometimes horrifying experience. Well, for Emma Frost that is exactly what it becomes when she is invited to meet with all of her old classmates at a desolated hotel in the most Northern part of Denmark. Soon, she will learn that there was ... Read more
True Blue Murder
Retired librarian Lilliana Wentworth is sure her deep blue African violet will win a ribbon. Maybe even best in show. But when Bette Tesselink, her fiercest rival, turns up dead, Lilliana must find the murderer before she winds up in jail. The first in a new cozy mystery series sure to engage you with its ... Read more
Jack Ryder Mystery Series
More than 150 raving 5 star reviews! HIT THE ROAD JACK: Ben is supposed to be in school. It’s Monday morning but his parents are still asleep after a night of heavy drinking. Ben waits patiently, even though he knows he is missing out on today’s field trip to the zoo. But, when his black ... Read more
Mendez Genesis
SPLINTERED SOULS: Tina Miles is a young girl starting a new chapter in her life. When she encounters Devin Snow, everything changes. Deep down, she believes there is more to Devin than meets the eye. Meanwhile, Det. Lisa Warner is convinced there is more to Tina’s story. People are dying. No one has answers. What ... Read more
What Hurts the Most
Am I pretty? Imagine being asked that question standing face to face with a killer. What would you answer? While her life is going from bad to worse, journalist Mary Mills receives a phone call from her father telling her that her brother has been arrested for murder. Mary decides to go back to her ... Read more
Free: Tahoe Dark
Tahoe house cleaner Evan Rosen’s dream of one day going to law school is shattered when she is arrested for murder. Although Detective Owen McKenna was instrumental in uncovering the evidence that led to her arrest, he doesn’t believe she is guilty. The only way to prove her innocence is to find the real murderer. ... Read more
Free: The Real Dad
Lulie Brannigan thinks her ex is still in prison. But he keys himself in and refuses to leave, so she and the two boys must go. They run, keep moving, even hide, but they can’t shake him. Nate will stop at nothing to get his family back. As the man slowly morphs from embittered spouse ... Read more
Dollar Signs
MERIT BRIDGES, an attorney and widowed mother in Austin, Texas, works hard, drinks too much wine, and sleeps with younger men. When Merit goes after a shady corporation threatening her client, she encounters hired gun Boots King. His charge is simple, “Stop her!” Merit and her team – including Betty, a mothering office manager with ... Read more
Iraqi Icicle
The fix is in and the bodies are piling up. A dead actress, a dead gambler and that’s for starters. With murder following his every step, determined under-achiever Steele Hill is tangled in layers of intrigue and deviousness. Pulled from his cozy world of the racetrack, the rock-music pub and his favorite band in the ... Read more
Free: Slenderman
Ever heard of Slender Man? They say he is always there. They say he is always watching. A tall guy in a suit and tie, with no face, and arms like tentacles. Some say he is an online myth; others will go very far to prove he is real, so far that they might even ... Read more
Nine, Ten… Never Sleep Again
This top-rated mystery-thriller is on sale for a limited time to introduce you to the wildly popular Rebecca Franck Series from bestselling author Willow Rose. We hope you enjoy! An engrossing novel from a bestselling author.It is business as usual when Henrik Fenger picks up a girl in the bar and cheats on his wife ... Read more
Wicked of the Christmas Past
Deck the halls with wows of wicked! A romantic getaway to a posh spa with her devastatingly sexy boss seems like a Christmas miracle to FBI special assistant Amanda Meyer, but when you work for the bureau’s Paranormal Cases Division, disaster never takes a holiday. Bestselling author Carina Christien is dead, her apparent suicide covered ... Read more
Free: Miss Polly Had A Dolly
Not for the faint-heartedMiss Polly had a dolly. A beautiful daughter that she called her Baby Doll. Every day she dressed her in dresses and brushed her hair before they went outside to show off to the neighbors. On the playground, one day her Baby Doll talked to a boy, and for one unforgivable second, ... Read more
Dead Wrong
Kelvin Jameson has everything a pro basketball star needs — good looks, a stable family life, a good public image. At least, that’s what he looks like on the outside. Hours after hitting a game-winning shot, Jameson is found dead in a hotel room … and the truth begins to leak out. Engaged in a ... Read more
Careful Little Eyes
Prepare to be scared! Horrifying mystery from an Amazon Best-selling author. Ian Marks is terrified of ghosts. Especially of the one that has just moved into his shed in the back yard of his house in New Orleans. Everyone else thinks he is just a drunk, but when his girlfriend is killed at night by ... Read more
Free: Lost Shadows
Jay Zander was a cheerful ten year old living in the painfully quiet town of Mentis, home to only dust and daydreams. But, things take a terrifying turn when this serene town, and many others, are struck by a mysterious meteor shower, forcing Jay’s family to lock him away in frozen slumber as protection from ... Read more
Transformed: San Francisco
Charley McElroy is a handsome, well-heeled travel writer and CIA informant who also happens to be an F-to-M transman. On the other side of San Francisco, Electra, a Manhattan socialite-turned-dominatrix has just arrived to rebuild her life. Meanwhile Frankie is a lesbian police sergeant on the outs with the SFPD and trying to recover from ... Read more
Smoke & Fire
Newly partnered, Sori Knight and Mycale Phillips began a reign on crime that’s legendary. Their romantic fire and smoking hot connection leaves them breathless. Will their strength and supernatural abilities be enough to stop the most elusive and deadly criminal they have ever had to hunt? Warning: Although this book doesn’t end in a cliffhanger, ... Read more
Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die
A fast-paced, spine-chilling mystery from an international bestselling author. We all know that high school reunions can be a daunting and sometimes horrifying experience. Well, for Emma Frost that is exactly what it becomes when she is invited to meet with all of her old classmates at a desolated hotel in the most Northern part ... Read more
The Exit Man
Suicide should come with a warning label: “Do not try this alone.” If you truly need out and want the job done right, you should consider using an outside expert. Like Eli. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Alexandria Project
Data is disappearing from computers everywhere. As the nation nears collapse, Frank Adversego, a brilliant but conflicted cyber security expert, finds himself trapped in a power play between the FBI and the CIA. Only by exposing and defeating the Alexandria Project can he clear himself. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Incidental Hero
A series of unexplained events forces a high-tech genius into the shadowy realm of espionage and political intrigue. An exhilarating page-turner that grips readers by both their hearts and their minds. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Rope on Fire
On only his second mission for the top secret Hurricane Group, agent John Crane is cut loose as the government shuts Hurricane down without warning. When Internet billionaire Josh Sulenski asks Crane to find out why one of his charitable projects is under attack, Crane quickly finds himself in deep water with no authority and ... Read more
The Shroud Key
Named one of SUSPENSE MAGAZINE’S Best Books of 2014! WINNER: BEST “POTBOILER” NOVEL for 2013 by CrimeFictionBook Blog. THE NO.1 AMAZON BESTSELLER IN “SUPERNATURAL”. THE NO. 1 AMAZON BESTSELLER IN “OCCULT”. THE NO. 1 AMAZON BESTSELLER IN “INTERNATIONAL CRIME AND MYSTERY”. Chase Baker is a true Renaissance Man. He’s also a man who knows how to find trouble. A part-time ... Read more
