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!
California Gray
A beautiful artist fleeing Minneapolis with a broken heart, and a San Diego detective with a broken life, find themselves pitted against a manipulative and cunning murderer in a life and death struggle that will define who they are… and ultimately challenge their will to survive. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Drop (A Harry Bosch Novel Book 18)
Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two.DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime ... Read more
Red Velvet Cupcake Murder
This summer has been warmer than usual in Lake Eden, Minnesota, and Hannah Swensen is trying to beat the heat both in and out of her bakery kitchen. But she’s about to find out the hard way that nothing cools off a hot summer day like a cold-blooded murder. . . Features over Ten Cookie ... Read more
Rock with Wings (Leaphorn and Chee Mysteries)
Navajo Tribal cops Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, investigate two perplexing cases in this exciting Southwestern mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Spider Woman’s Daughter. Doing a good deed for a relative offers the perfect opportunity for Sergeant Jim Chee and his wife, Officer ... Read more
Free: WANNA GET LUCKY?
A young woman plunges from a Las Vegas sightseeing helicopter, landing in the Pirate Lagoon in front of the Treasure Island Hotel in the middle of the 8:30 Pirate Show. Almost everyone writes her off as another Vegas victim. But, Lucky O’Toole, head of customer relations at the Babylon megacasino, smell a rat, though she’s ... Read more
Free: Cold Fear
In the remote, rugged corner of Montana’s Glacier National Park known as the Devil’s Grasp, little Paige Baker of San Francisco disappears with her dog, Kobee, while on a camping trip with her family; or so her mother and father have told authorities. A multi-agency task force launches a massive search as Paige fights to ... Read more
Free: Marriage Can Be Murder (A Baby Boomer Mystery)
Empty-nester Carol Andrews is thrilled when daughter Jenny announces her engagement. She’s dreamed of planning her daughter’s wedding since the day Jenny was born. But with only two months to pull together a destination wedding on Nantucket, Jenny insists on hiring Cinderella Weddings to organize the event. Father-of-the-bride Jim objects to the cost, and Carol ... Read more
Free: Calamity Jayne (Calamity Jayne Mysteries)
Tressa Jayne Turner has had it up to here with the dumb-blonde jokes and a childhood nickname that’s harder to get rid of than her favorite pair of cowboy boots. Thanks to one Rick Townsend, Iowa Department of Natural Resources officer, local hottie, and general pain in Tressa’s behind, everyone knows her as “Calamity Jayne”. ... Read more
One Night in Tehran: A Titus Ray Thriller
While on the run from the Iranian secret police, CIA officer Titus Ray encounters a group of Christians in Tehran. The battle-hardened agent becomes a believer shortly before being smuggle him out of Iran to freedom in Turkey. Back in the States, Titus learns he’s been targeted by a Hezbollah assassin. Now, while trying to ... Read more
Wreck
Five seemingly unrelated stories become entwined during the course of a single night in this short but effective thriller. It begins with a hold-up and ends with a chase that will claim lives, shatter hopes, and forever change the way we look at strangers. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: A Crabby Killer (Moosamuck Island Cozy Mystery)
How far will the Islanders go protect one of their own? When the body of an ‘outsider’ is found stuffed in the crab boil pot right before the opening of Mooseamuck Island’s annual Crab Festival, the islanders aren’t too worried. After all, outsider business is none of their concern. They just don’t want something as ... Read more
What hurts the most (7th street crew Book 1)
What would you do if your brother were being framed for a murder? Driven by a rightful anger Mary is trying to prove her brother’s innocence. She gets back together with her old high school friends(the 7th street crew) to help solve the mystery of who killed the person they arrested her brother for. $0.99 ... Read more
The Leveling (A Mark Sava Spy Novel)
These days, Mark Sava spends more time in tutoring sessions than in cloak-and-dagger rendezvous. The former CIA station chief of Azerbaijan has settled into the modest life of a professor in Baku…until an assassin makes a brazen attempt on his life in the hallowed halls of the national library. The Azeri government deems Sava, with ... Read more
Free: Still Life With Murder (Nell Sweeney Mystery)
“P.B. Ryan makes a stunning debut with Still Life with Murder, bringing Nineteenth Century Boston alive, from its teeming slums to the mansions on Boston Common, and populating it with a vivid and memorable cast of characters. The fascinating heroine, Nell Sweeney, immediately engages the reader and I couldn’t put the book down until I ... Read more
Lilah
Beautiful and mysterious Lilah arrives in sleepy little Silver Narrows and journalist, Nick Hendricks is soon caught in her spell. When he investigates a string of tragic disappearances from the past he soon realizes there are guilty secrets lurking beneath the town’s cozy exterior and that somehow Lilah is connected. But he’s unprepared for the ... Read more
Hit the road Jack (Jack Ryder Book 1)
Ben is supposed to be in school. His parents are asleep after a night of heavy drinking. When his black Labrador suddenly runs upstairs and comes down with a finger in his mouth, Ben knows he’s not making it to school today at all… $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Dance with the Enemy
“An excellent and action packed story that is hard to put down” Dance with the Enemy is the explosive first chapter in the highly-acclaimed and bestselling Enemy series of thrillers featuring Carl Logan. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Once Gone (Riley Paige Mystery-Book 1)
Women are turning up dead in the rural outskirts of Virginia, killed in grotesque ways, and when the FBI is called in, they are stumped. A serial killer is out there, his frequency increasing, and they know there is only one agent good enough to crack this case: Special Agent Riley Paige. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Night of the Bonfire
Ex-Navy Seal Michael Quinn is called in by the CIA to investigate a key undercover operative’s brutal murder. From the peaceful seaside town of Laguna Beach, the trail leads him across the globe, and into a world beyond anything he imagined. Amidst violent twists and turns, Quinn’s journey takes him from the crowded streets of ... Read more
The Fall and Rise of Peter Stoller
In 1960’s London, British Intelligence agent Peter Stoller is next in line to run the Agency—until he falls in love with cab driver, Charles, and his life goes off the road. When Charles is accused of treason, Peter is guilty by association. Peter manages to extract them both, but the seeds of doubt have been ... Read more
Closer (The Unit 1)
Danger. Intrigue. Suspense. Former Green Beret Michael Cartwright thought he left all that behind him…. That is until he meets Emma. +18 warning – This book is intended for mature audiences. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Sword Princess
Victorian romantic mystery in the humorous vein of Jane Austen. The Great Detective has more in store for his landlady’s niece than washing jars and labeling specimens: pistol shooting, fencing, boxing, and Jiu-Jitsu. This she can master, but Mirabella Hudson must face the greatest horror of all: Miss de Beauvais’ Finishing School for Distinguished Young ... Read more
ICE
“A gripping novel that combines archeological, historical, scientific, and romantic elements to create a thrilling, strong story. Authentic characters, all-too human relationships, adventures and mysteries transport readers into past, present, and future events–a wonderful discovery for this reader, who cannot wait for more!” — The Columbia Review. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Chihuahua Affair
One woman is dead. Another is missing. Is a 4 lb Chihuahua really to blame? Looks like a job for Chief Randy Sorensen and the dog lovers at the Redbud Area Dog Rescue. This is the second book in the Dog Lady Mystery series. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Red Stick One
When senior wildlife officer is murdered in the field the half-Indian boy he raised, now grown and also a wildlife officer, takes off his badge to embark on a cross-country search for the killer. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Right Hand Man (Trouble in Paradise)
In Trouble in Paradise, the continuing adventures of the Right Hand Man, Alexander Cusard goes undercover for the first time to investigate the Executioner’s next target. But when he makes a fatal error, he must be prepared to do the unthinkable. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Kill Fest
Former CIA Operative turned freelance assassin Aurora Constantine is young, attractive and outstandingly deadly. For two years her insane appetite for professional murder has led her down a dark path of petty contract killings for unhappy spouses. Her lifestyle of drink and carnage is only grounded by the love of her sister Athena and girlfriend ... Read more
Free: Trudy, Madly, Deeply
After human lie detector Charmaine Digby scores a job as the County Coroner’s new investigative assistant, the unthinkable happens—a doctor reports the suspicious death of Trudy, a family friend and one of several elderly patients at the hospital whose heart mysteriously stopped. With no physical evidence of foul play, Char’s on the case, much to ... Read more
Einstein’s Secret
Struggling scholar Jacob Morgan believes that history is wrong about Einstein’s last message. Now, he’s discovered a clue that leads him to an impossible discovery: time travel. And so begins Jacob’s desperate quest, one where history is not only changeable—it’s changing. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Hit the Road Jack (Jack Ryder Book 1)
New engrossing mystery series from the Queen of Scream: Bestselling Author Willow Rose. 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 ... Read more
Hunt for the Enemy
Hunt for the Enemy is the breathtaking and action-packed finale to the bestselling Enemy series of thrillers featuring agent Carl Logan. All three books in the Enemy Series are just $0.99 through February 29.... Read more
Emma Frost Mystery Series vol 1-5
Ready for 3 Bone-chilling tales in Emma Frost series? Just $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: New Orleans Mourning (Skip Langdon Mystery Series)
MURDER, MARDI GRAS–AND MORE SECRETS THAN BEADS… It’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and civic leader and socialite Chauncy St. Amant has been crowned Rex, King of Carnival. But his day of glory comes to an abrupt and bloody end when a parade-goer dressed as Dolly Parton guns him down. Is the killer his aimless, ... Read more
The Byzantine Connection
As national newspapers report of a Fountain of Youth in Detroit’s St. Hedwig’s Cathedral, Carter is only too aware that all is not as it seems—despite witnessing the so-called miracles with his own eyes. Forty-eight hours later, as he emerges from life-saving surgery, Carter realizes that this is no miracle, but a deadly force preying ... Read more
Free: A Dyeing Shame (Myrtle Clover Mysteries)
Some beauty secrets are more dangerous than others… When Beauty Box beautician Tammy Smith is discovered with a pair of hair shears in her back, there are suspects and secrets aplenty in her small Southern town. Octogenarian Myrtle Clover, bored by bingo and bridge, is intrigued by the crime…and her neighbors’ secrets. But discovering, and ... Read more
Free: A Journal of Sin (A Sarah Gladstone Thriller)
A murdered priest leaves behind records of confessional secrets…Secrets someone would prefer he took to the grave. Read the first novel in the Sarah Gladstone series. New British Detective Novel from former British Detective Darryl Donaghue A small town in the English countryside isolated by a severe storm, and a young female officer, alone and ... Read more
Girl Missing
A beautiful young woman’s corpse is found dumped in a garbage-strewn alley. Now laid out in the office of medical examiner Kat Novak is an unidentified body that betrays no secrets—except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a ... Read more
Dancing In Darkness
Priscilla Barnes finds herself in a new job. Her friends and co-workers begin to turn up dead. When she is directly targeted by the serial killer, she turns to Adam Linston for protection. She finds herself developing feelings for the man who already has fallen in love with her. When her situation changes, she finds ... Read more
Free: Cicada Spring: A Novel
On a warm May evening in the spring of 1979, the people of Heartsridge, Massachusetts, are living the American dream. Families are gathered for barbecues. Kids are playing in front yards. Gardens are being kept. Meanwhile, Kara Price stumbles home through the woods, raped and beaten, her life shattered by a wicked act of violence, ... Read more
Past Due
The year is 1937. The infamous Edgewink gang, three of Boston’s most ruthless criminals, travels to Bangor, Maine in search of a quiet place to rest and split their loot. Instead, they find ambush and death, and they and the treasure they had amassed–now lost, if it ever existed–become the stuff of local legend. Seventy-five ... Read more
