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!
Desert Heat
Navajo Witchery. Human Treachery. Social worker Jordan Bia finds a child who escaped her captors and a life in the sex trade, but four other girls from her small Mexican village were not so lucky. Smugglers hide their human cargo in the hoodoos of a remote canyon on the reservation—a place the Navajo shun, fearful ... Read more
Free: Due North (Butterscotch Jones Mysteries 1)
Welcome to the Gulch… funny things happen in the middle of nowhere. Butterscotch Jones thought that living in the far north provided enough peril to contend with until a private plane crashed outside her hometown of McIntyre’s Gulch, Manitoba, Canada. The treasure inside the plane soon attracted both the RCMP and the Russian Mafia. For ... Read more
Free: Tahoe Blue Fire
TAHOE BLUE FIRE is about a series of brutal murders at Lake Tahoe that may be connected to a priceless artifact from the Italian Renaissance. The prime suspect is former pro football player Adam Simms who is suffering Traumatic Brain Injury from his days on the gridiron. Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna can’t tell if Simms ... Read more
There’s No Place Like HOME
What is the worst that can happen? Maria and Jonas Boegh asked themselves that very question when deciding to sign the papers for their new house. It might be expensive. They might be in over their heads a little financially, but they were never happier than on the day they moved in. Everything was perfect. ... Read more
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Night of the Coyote
Two people murdered. Two suspects lynched for the murders. To some in Lockwood, this passes for justice . . . but not Ethan Ramsey. A high-stakes murder mystery on the American frontier. In 1875, two young Sioux are lynched in Lockwood, Wyoming by a makeshift posse for a crime they may or may not have ... Read more
City of Echoes (Detective Matt Jones Book 1)
On Detective Matt Jones’s first night working Homicide in LA, he’s called to investigate a particularly violent murder case: a man has been gunned down in a parking lot off Hollywood Boulevard, his bullet-riddled body immediately pegged as the work of a serial robber who has been haunting the Strip for months. Driven by the ... Read more
Sleeping With the Enemy
Deskbound CIA technician Anna Mercer yearns for excitement in her job and her love life. She gets both when she’s recruited to a special division of the Agency. Anna must learn to use her wits AND her curves on high-level missions that involve intimacy with dangerous targets. Complicating matters is Ryan Demarco, a fellow spy ... Read more
Picture Perfect
Michaels serves up a heart-pounding romantic thriller in which what starts out as an adventure turns into an ordeal. Pediatrician Lorrie Ryan is looking forward to taking her young hemophiliac nephew, Davey, camping while his parents fly to Florida. The family has been under FBI protection because Davey’s father is testifying for the prosecution in ... Read more
Face of Betrayal (Mystery)
While home on break, a seventeen-year-old Senate page takes her dog out for a walk and never returns. The resulting media firestorm quickly ensnares television reporter Cassidy Shaw, Federal Prosecutor Allison Pierce, and FBI Special Agent Nicole Hedges. Together, these life-long friends call themselves The Triple Threat—a nickname derived from their favorite dessert as well ... Read more
Killer Gourmet (A Savannah Reid Mystery Book)
Plus-sized P.I. Savannah Reid and her pals at the Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency know a thing or two about fine dining. But when murder shows up on the menu, it’s time to go back to the kitchen. Today only, $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs Mysteries Series)
Private investigator Maisie Dobbs receives her first assignment from the British Secret Service in A Lesson in Secrets, the eighth book in Jacqueline Winspear’s award-winning mystery series. Sent to pose as a junior lecturer at a private college in Cambridge, she will monitor any activities “not in the interests of His Majesty’s government.” When the ... Read more
Random Lucidity
Silver Medal Winner – 2015 eLit Book Awards “A remarkable narrative with no wasted chapters.” – Portland Book Review “Adair’s characters are engaging – with the malicious and gorgeously depicted Rita being particularly memorable.” – Literary Fiction Book Review “It’s impossible to read Adair’s work and not scrutinize our own dreams and aspirations to answer ... Read more
Secrets Of The Serpent’s Heart
Where do you hide a mysterious artifact that has the power to change the course of history? You scatter clues to its whereabouts across the entire planet. Five objects buried beneath the rubble of lost civilizations point to the hiding place of a powerful relic called the Sage Stone. Adversaries vie to claim the prize ... Read more
Viral Intent: Terror in New Orleans
An unidentified virus in the CCMC Emergency Department is killing dozens of people, a horrific death of a popular politician in the French Quarter has the NOPD hopping, and internet chatter suggesting the unspeakable has chilled the hearts of law enforcement all over the world. Read how Alex and Jack learn to play well with ... Read more
Blurring the Line
Fiction and non-fiction. Reality and make-believe. Can you draw the line between the two? Do you know where real horror starts? Blurring the Line is a collection of 20 horror short stories by some of the best writers around, plus 10 non-fiction articles to make you think twice about the world we live in – ... Read more
Confessions of a Murder Suspect
James Patterson returns to the genre that made him famous with a thrilling teen detective series about the mysterious and magnificently wealthy Angel family . . . and the dark secrets they’re keeping from one another. Today only, just $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more
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The Scavenger’s Daughters Series is simply told but beautifully rendered, the reader is swiftly transported into the hearts and lives of a Chinese family after the Cultural Revolution. Powerful and poignant, this story captures the heart of humanity. This is the kind of book that will get shared by friends and chosen by book clubs. ... Read more
A Bucket Full Of Lies (Bob Roosevelt Mystery Series)
Private Eye Bob Roosevelt and Pea Brain, his snide guardian angel, stop a Greasy Eds for a bowl of chili. What starts out as a lousy bowl of chili turns into murder, gun smugglers, enough drugs to make Janis Joplin sing again, cops as crooked as a road in the Ozarks, an a cast of ... Read more
The Girl in the Glass (Thriller)
June 1904. Aimée Garnier Whitby, a beautiful French artist and wife of one of Maine’s richest and most powerful men, is found near death on the Whitby family’s private summer island, the letter “A” mysteriously carved into her chest. June 2012. Veronica Aimée Whitby, the eighteen-year-old descendant and virtual double of the first Aimée, becomes ... Read more
Free: Seven Sisters
Carrie Jo has a secret—she dreams about the past. The handsome and wealthy Ashland Stuart has hired her to uncover the history and the secrets of Seven Sisters, an aging antebellum mansion in sultry downtown Mobile, Alabama. A series of dreams, an untimely death and the betrayal of someone she loves lead her back in ... Read more
The Rattler
Would you die to stop a curse? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: If… Second Chance
A thought provoking tale that examines how events can change life decisions in a heartbeat, Shona Forrester is determined to make her business a success. However, her carefully planned future will be turned upside down by events so bizarre, events she never could have imagined. Rick seems to be part of the equation for a ... Read more
The Good Daughter
Most good daughters would say they owe their fathers everything. Marisa Peruzzo, Mafia princess, would. She owed him for killing her fiancé. She owed him for destroying her mother. She owed him for chaining her to the ‘family business’. And she owed him for taking away her lifelong friend. Payback’s a bitch. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Reagan’s Ashes
Imagine yourself deep in a forest. You notice your travel companions rifling through your backpack while muttering to themselves at half-volume. Unsettled, you retire to your tent where you find a mysterious key. You don’t know what lock it might open, but you have a hunch the others will do anything to get it… $0.99 ... Read more
Free: The Death Planner
Jenny can’t rest in peace until she finds out who murdered her. Grace Abrahams can see ghosts and she agrees to help Jenny find her killer. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Shatter Point
When her 19-year-old son Jack miraculously recovers from a serious head trauma, Maggie is sure her luck has changed. But when she’s abducted by a shadow from her past – a phantom with dangerous sapphire eyes – it’s up to Jack and his younger brother Tom to unravel the mystery and save their mom from ... Read more
Free: Cranberry Bluff (Mystery)
Molly Elliott’s quiet life in Tallahassee, Florida, is disrupted when routine errands land her in the wrong place at the wrong time: the middle of a bank robbery. Accused and cleared of the crime, she flees both media attention and mysterious, threatening notes, to move across the country to Cranberry Cove, where she has inherited ... Read more
Seniors Sleuth
Ex video game tester Winston Wong left his career to follow in the footsteps of Encyclopedia Brown, his favorite childhood detective. Will he succeed with his first case, a murder in a senior home? $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Pretty Little Creatures
Ebola, ISIS, Drug Cartels – and a Dark Force… In pursuit, three very different people committed to stopping a hellish scenario. Follow the chase, joined by Navy Seals and Texas Rangers, from the evil enclaves of ISIS into the wild heartland of a Mexican drug cartel. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Last Airship
In 1939 a secret airship departed Nazi Germany in the dark of night filled with some of the most influential people of its time. Its cargo: a complement of rich Jewish families carrying their most valuable possessions. One such item amongst them was as dangerous as it was priceless. The airship never reached its destination. ... Read more
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NightWhere by John Everson
When Rae broached the idea of visiting an underground sex club, Mark didn’t blink. He should have. Because NightWhere is not your usual swingers club. Where it’s held on a given night…only those who receive the red invitations know. Soon Rae is indulging in her lust for pain. And Mark is warned by a beautiful ... Read more
The Voice & The Darkness: Act 1
Q (Quincy) and Zander are the most unlikely of friends, a revelation that continually seems to be weighing on Q’s mind the further time goes by. However, when the unexpected death of a mutual friend prompts them to both set out on a ritualistic pilgrimage into the wilderness a last minute detour finds them stranded ... Read more
The Origin of Dracula
The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past. —William Faulkner Between mourning the recent loss of his wife and trying to raise his young son alone, librarian John Grant is barely surviving. And then he receives an anonymous letter promising a terrible revenge—retribution for a childhood sin John had thought long forgotten. The threat couldn’t ... Read more
Today Only: Select Mysteries by J.A. Jance, $2.99 or Less Each
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Today only, select mysteries from best-selling authors Jeffrey Archer and Janet Evanovich are $2.99 or less each on Kindle. Browse now.... Read more
Silver Lead and Dead
Mexico is collapsing under the weight of the drug cartels’ murderous struggle to dominate the international drug trade. While on a mission to rescue a kidnapped family friend, ex-CIA agent Evan Hernandez stumbles into a conflict between two other deadly forces: an ambitious cartel leader with a desire to reshape Mexico, and Dark Cloud, a ... Read more
Trusting Evil
In the summer of 1966, Richard Franklin Speck, murdered eight student nurses inside a townhouse in South Chicago, shocking the surrounding hardworking, religious community to its very core. Twenty years later, Carly Rocket is hired to cast extras for a Hollywood movie inside Stateville Correctional Facility where Speck is one of the inmates. His infamous ... Read more
