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!
Free: “Plain Dealing”
The death of a woman forces a small rural town to solve a murder for the first time in more than fifty years. In a small town so small, where everyone knows the details about each other’s lives, it should be easy to find the killer? But it’s not. Free on Kindle.... Read more
A New Dawn Rising
After suffering great personal tragedy, ex-cop Sam Carlisle is close to giving up, drowning in alcohol and recurring nightmares. Out of the blue, he is offered work as a personal minder. Sam decides to take a chance. He knows it could be his last. However, soon after accepting the job, his new boss goes missing ... Read more
When Camels Fly
When archaeologist Grace Madison’s adult daughter is kidnapped in Israel, Grace knows she’ll have to break almost all Ten Commandments to bring her home alive. Moments after Grace shoots Maggie’s abductor, a young shepherd kills a second assassin. Running for their lives, the women quickly unearth a global evil poised to sacrifice millions. Their pursuit ... Read more
The Patent
When the world teeters on the verge of World War III, the nation that develops a patent attorney’s invention will be invincible in the race for global dominance. America’s enemies have stolen the plans and kidnapped the inventor. Marc must find a way of escape before his captors realize the invention is theoretical. Or is ... Read more
My Sister’s Grave
Here’s what the critics have to say about the mystery “My Sister’s Grave” — “Combines the best of a police procedural with a legal thriller, and the end result is outstanding…Dugoni continues to deliver emotional and gut-wrenching, character-driven suspense stories that will resonate with any fan of the thriller genre.” —Library Journal. ($1.99 on Kindle)... Read more
Free: “The Narrow Path”
She thought her heart was mended… Four years ago, Jamal dumped Angela. She went crazy missing him, and when he walks back into her life, she feels in love with him again, but broken-hearted. Can they get over all of the secrets and lies they’ve told one another while avoiding being sucked back into a life ... Read more
Subtropical High
A Florida cocaine caper begins after two grungy fisherman discover a bale of cocaine–aka square grouper–floating in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Ponce Inlet. In their quest to sell the lucky score, they must overcome a host of nefarious Florida folk, elude a rogue Game Warden, and negotiate southbound down the Florida peninsula ... Read more
The Mill River Recluse
There are those in Mill River, VT who have things they wish to hide. None more than the widow Mary McAllister, who for the past sixty years has secluded herself in her marble mansion overlooking the town. Most of the residents have never even seen the peculiar woman. Only the priest, Father O’Brien, knows the ... Read more
Henry
After witnessing her sister’s murder, Prue Collins is sent to a small town in Astoria, Oregon and with her comes a secret that endangers more than just her own life. Ex-Officer Henry Clay, has been assigned to protect Prue, as she is a witness. But Prue can’t keep her mouth shut, and almost blows her cover ... Read more
The Professor
Customer review: “Do not pass this one up! It’s a good, juicy legal thriller – one of the most compelling I’ve read in a long time.” $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Brothers’ Keepers
When a dear friend disappears without warning, archaeologist Grace Madison exposes his deadly deception—only to realize that it endangers everything she cherishes. While cataloging looted antiquities in Brussels, Grace learns that her daughter has disappeared in France and son’s bride has been attacked in Switzerland. Family members convene in Paris, where they discover that they ... Read more
A Bucket Full of Lies
Poor Private Detective Roosevelt, all he wants out of life is to find his center and a lady that truly loves him. But, true to his luck, all he ever finds are bodies. “It’s your karma, Pea Brain, his obnoxious guardian angel tells him. “No doubt,” Roosevelt replies, “I am stuck with you.” A funny, ... Read more
GIFTED (A Redeeming Romance Medical Mystery)
When gifted doctor Lily Lapree gets an offer from her dream hospital, the choice isn’t easy. She’ll have to leave “Rainy,” her special needs sister, and their widowed mother behind. But spreading her wings will give her a chance to find a cure for her sister. With days consumed by work and family, there’s been no ... Read more
Free: “Murder Offstage: A Posie Parker Mystery”
“This novel is a first class cozy, worthy of Agatha Christie.” – Sweet Mystery Books. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Dark Places
Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice” of Kinnakee, Kansas.” She survived—and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club—a secret secret society obsessed with notorious crimes—locates Libby and tries to get details about the murder. They hope ... Read more
Destiny Takes a Hand
Follow CIA agent Harry Silver on his next case. He is to go under cover as a photographer for a Modeling agency. When he finds out Jill, another agent goes undercover as a Model, he doesn’t like the idea, Harry and Jill have a romantic past together. On the case, he finds deep details on ... Read more
First to Kill
Ten years ago, a botched mission in Nicaragua ended covert ops specialist Nathan McBride’s CIA career. Now he utilizes his unique skill set in the private sector—until the night Frank Ortega, former director of the FBI, calls in a favor. A deep-cover federal agent has vanished, along with a ton of Semtex explosives, and Ortega ... Read more
Free: “Connected”
Two apparent suicides, a country apart, drive a physicist and a college student to seek answers. But what they find sucks them deep into dangerous mind-altering technology that could change the world forever. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Carbs and Cadavers: A Supper Club Mystery
James Henry, a kind-hearted professor of English literature, is forced to move back home to Quincy’s Gap, a tiny town in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, to care for his aging father. Shortly after moving into a house that hasn’t changed since his childhood, the overweight, divorced, book-loving cheese puff addict accepts a position as head librarian ... Read more
Free: “TIGER” (Shaolin Darkness)
Unbeknownst to him, Micah Keating gets himself involved with the Chinese Triad, headed by a psycho Shaolin master, Chin. When worse comes to a worst and when $3Million is at stake, Micah has no other choice but to battle the psychopathic Master. He was like a fly caught in a spiderweb. But not for long. ... Read more
Pink Ballerina
Who is that woman in the pink ballerina outfit? And why can’t Andre Esperanza’s once photographic memory recall her identity? Andre must answer these questions after he photographs her drawing pirouettes on wet sand. The burst of 51 photos he shoots reignite painful, missing memories of a life he thought he’d left behind. They also ... Read more
Fatal Rhythm
“Best of 2014” – Suspense Magazine In the pre-dawn hours of the graveyard shift, the ICU at the Houston Heart Institute is quiet, and quietly patients are dying. Surgery resident Joe Morales dreams of becoming a rich heart doctor. First, he must survive his assignment to an ICU rife with land mines–unexplained patient deaths, rival ... Read more
Free: The Cagney Man
The four short stories with each have a twist. You think twice about sleeping after reading these tales of suspense. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Mystery and Misadventure
Meet Samuel Prite, an inoffensive old man, with a strange walking stick, and in possession of a pristine Morris Minor. What could possibly go wrong if you offended him? These seven short stories thrust ordinary people into circumstances they would rather avoid. Some of them are nice, and some of them are not, but they ... Read more
Better To Give Than Deceive
The story begins with three grifters traveling across the country trying to stay off the beaten path after stealing $2.4 million. When Frank, the leader of this small criminal enterprise is unexpectedly arrested and transported to jail, his two partners are in a panic because at the time of his arrest, Frank was in possession ... Read more
Birth of an Assassin
Set against the backdrop of Soviet, post-war Russia, Birth of an Assassin follows the transformation of Jez Kornfeld from wide-eyed recruit to avenging outlaw. Amidst a murky underworld of flesh-trafficking, prostitution and institutionalized corruption, the elite Jewish soldier is thrown into a world where nothing is what it seems, nobody can be trusted, and everything ... Read more
Graveyard of Memories
What makes a legendary assassin? For John Rain, it’s deep experience. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more
“DEAD BEEF”
Someone is bringing down power grids, financial networks, and going after military installations with the very code designed to protect them. Only Martin Spencer can stop the careening crisis. Except the company he once founded and owned down-sized him, and Spencer has gone on the run. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Law & Annabelle
Murder and romance collide in the old west gold mining town of Red Gorge, Dakota Territory 1882. U.S. Marshal Luke Johnson has a mystery to solve involving a phony diamond mine and two brutal murders. Young widow Annabelle Miles may hold the key to solving the crime and the key to his heart. That could ... Read more
With Full Malice
When Madison’s editor needs her to cover a paroled sex-offender’s brutal murder, Madison’s world turns upside down. Together with San Bernardino homicide detective Dexter Quinn, they must unravel the treachery before she runs out of time. Together, they discover a terrifying adversary, one who’ll stop at nothing to protect the Ruby Red Society’s secrets.... Read more
Bubble Screen
A cable TV firm in Los Angeles is being plagued by grand larceny, and the owner hires Burnside, a Private Eye and former football star at the owner’s alma mater, to go undercover. But before Burnside can gather enough evidence on the crooks, theft spirals into murder. And in Burnside’s eyes, everyone is now a ... Read more
Mocha, Moonlight, and Murder
A midnight food run nearly gets 28-year-old Katherine O’Brian killed. She’s the only person to see the man who brutally murdered a local woman and the killer is hell-bent on making sure she doesn’t talk. Enrolled at the local community college, she meets Scott Mitchell; literally, tall, dark, and handsome. Scott and Katherine will face jealousy, ... Read more
Free: “Mimicry of Banshees”
Alexis Parker never imagined that working for James Martin would be this difficult, but the playboy millionaire has a habit of getting himself into trouble. After spending a month consulting for the Office of International Operations, Alex plans to return to her job as security consultant at Martin Technologies. Unfortunately, that plan is derailed when ... Read more
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Get all the books in these popular romance series, sci-fi series, or thriller series for just $1.99 each. Today only on kindle.... Read more
Hollywood Plays for Keeps
Live in the raw, real underbelly of the acting world. In this novel, punctuated with dark humor and provocative satire, the actors claw their way from the seedy Valentine Theatre to the big screen. With opening night looming, they stop at nothing, even murder, to win their fifteen minutes of fame. Veronica Kennicott, amateur actor ... Read more
Hunted
Melbourne is a city living in fear. A sadistic killer is on the loose. A spine-chilling thriller that takes you deep into the mind of a killer. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more
White Jade
With crisp writing, a fast-pace and characters that jump off the page, White Jade is a thriller with some serious momentum. Get ready for international intrigue, terror plots, and an epic power struggle. White Jade is the first book in the Project Series. $0.99 on Kindle. ... Read more
Free: “Once Again”
This novel takes the reader on a virtual trip to the past along with history professor Merrideth Randall as she uses her time-rewinding computer software to search for the location of the early American Fort Piggot. Her colleague, physics professor Brett Garrison, wants to date her, but she thinks that would be career suicide in ... Read more
Flower of Heaven
This award-winning novel has already received four national book awards. On March 19, 2013, it was the Indie Book of the Day. On June 21, 2013, it was a winner at the 2013 New York Book Festival. In January, 2014, it was a winner at the 2013 New England Book Festival, and in May, 2014, ... Read more
Johnny Creep: Detective Carl Street Thriller
Johnny Creep is a crafty serial killer that’s always one step ahead of the police as he taunts them by leaving mutilated bodies all over Michigan’s countryside. On edge and frustrated, Detective Carl Street finds another victim and this time it’s someone close to him. The victim’s arms and legs are dismembered and stuffed into cubbyholes. ... Read more
