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!
Crime Thriller: Damnatio Memoriae
On a small, remote island off the coast of Maine life is pretty quite for Enim, a high-school student. But when a body washes up on the school’s shore and a teacher vanishes without explanation, Enim finds himself tangled in the crime. He fears the unfolding events might dredge up horrors in his past that, if uncovered would ruin ... Read more
Until Morning Comes
Secret Service Agent Carlie Simmons began her day surrounded by trusted colleagues in an inter-agency shooting competition in Tucson. It ended with a staggering body count as the world around her unraveled from a deadly virus. With her mission to extract the President’s daughter from the University of Arizona gone awry, she must choose between ... Read more
Free: The Caller
Author Em Watts begins to receive disturbing phone messages on her answering machine from a fan of one of her early books. As the book is a harrowing tale, she is concerned that the caller would be attracted to that particular book; and that he is calling regularly. A chilling kidnapping mystery, this book will ... Read more
An Unquiet American
In the dead of night, Rufus Reed is a former British Special Forces officer turned author, is drugged, kidnapped and “disappeared” to a secret CIA prison outside the United States. Accused of terrorism he is relentlessly questioned and tortured. But Rufus is no ordinary prisoner, and has some surprises of his own. He engages in psychological ... Read more
The Broken Men
The year is 1980 and South Africa stands on the brink of collapse. World opinion is firmly against the white Afrikaner controlled government and internal strife is rising as indiscriminate bombings become an almost daily occurrence. Every white male between the ages of sixteen and sixty-five is eligible for conscription and the war has become ... Read more
Image of Deceit
This cozy murder mystery tells the intriguing story of Bygie Hudson who had wanted a divorce for most of the years she was married. Still she did not know the depths of her husband’s depravity. When he ends up dead, Bygie learns what he’s really been doing, and she finds herself at top of the ... Read more
Melancholy Manor
[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”B00NDCO4HM” desc=”0″ locale=”com”] Private Investigator Hera Hunter thinks it’s odd when no one steps forward to identify the woman found dead behind City Hall. Then another friendless woman is gunned down on the street. “My stepbrother murdered them,” Zoey Barnes cries. But everyone knows she’s a little crazy. Besides, she’s hated her stepbrother ever ... Read more
Free: A Killer Season
“A Killer Season” is the story of the man who wants to win the most money in Las Vegas history. Remarkably, he wants to do it betting on baseball, the most difficult sport on which to predict outcomes. To achieve this ambitious feat, Coll Nolan has to fight for his life all the way through ... Read more
Free: Eleven (Brandon Fisher FBI Series)
Eleven Rooms. Ten Bodies. One Empty Grave. Brandon Fisher never expected this when he signed up as a Special Agent for the FBI. Working in the shadow of Supervisory Special Agent Jack Harper of the Behavioral Analysis Unit his career seemed set. But when the team is called to a small rural town where the ... Read more
The Clout of Gen
A Suicidal Journalist, a hidden box, a recorded message taped 30 years ago, mentioning events happening decades ahead. Can John Teddy uncover a conspiracy reigning from East to West. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Body Business
What if your killer job could get you killed? Great job. Fantastic boyfriend. Samantha Newman thought she had it all. But when her best friend vanishes, doubt creeps in. Is there some ugly reality behind her firm’s success? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Clonmac’s Bridge: An Archeological Mystery
Inspired by a real discovery, Clonmac’s Bridge is based on the effort to raise Ireland’s earliest major span. An archaeological thriller, a love story, and a dramatic exploration, it’s the story of two men who struggle against envy and mediocrity—a millennium apart. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Betrayal: A Tall Pines Mystery
Marcella Hollister realized a lifetime of hopes and dreams when she was given custody of a child. A cousin of her half-Seneca husband, Quinn, the baby’s mother was murdered in a political plot—and Marcella, who’s never been able to have children of her own, formed an instant bond with little Kimi. Then a distant relative ... Read more
Dangerous Times
[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”B004YDPQC6″ desc=”0″ locale=”com”] John Kirk is an auto mechanic who wants to get out of the city of San Pedro and leave his troublesome relationships behind. His live-in sweetheart is fed-up with his station in life and has become difficult, his mother finds solace from the death of Kirk’s father by embracing the bottle, ... Read more
The Devils’ Cradle
On Australia’s island state, more than one species of Tasmanian Devil exists… Beneath the surface of Nina Holt’s perfect marriage lurks a life of terror inflicted upon her by her politically powerful husband Michael and his brother Greg, a sadistic detective. For over a decade they have managed to keep Nina imprisoned, using her to satisfy ... Read more
Sons of Zadok
Charlotte Ansari, international correspondent for CCN, has a problem. Her investigation into a clandestine society of assassins has made them very angry. And that’s not the most frightening part. Her Asperger’s son, who is now the leader of this global, murder-for-hire organization, has assigned its top-ranked assassin to take care of the problem. Find out ... Read more
And Justice for Her
[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”B00FQWQTH0″ desc=”0″ locale=”com”] Ready for a box set of 3 mystery, thriller & suspense novels? This one contains the following books by Brenda Hill: WITH FULL MALICE: A Crime Thriller, TEN TIMES GUILTY: A Psychological Thriller, and BEYOND THE QUIET: A Romantic Thriller.... Read more
Without Mercy
A bank robbery. A murder. A single mother caught in a deadly plan. China and her young daughter’s lives are invaded by a group of mercenaries with a sinister plot. They will stop at nothing to win, and each time China tries to find a way out, someone dies. She’ll fight to her last breath, ... Read more
Free: “The Lipstick Murders”
Free Christmas Gift, “The Lipstick Murders.” Nick Burns retired as the Chief of Police for the Chicago Police force to get away from the Murder and mayhem of the big city. He accepted a new job as Chief of Police of the sleepy little Town of Frederick, Maryland only to discover there is a serial killer ... Read more
The Contestant, A Crime Fiction Thriller
Raymond is a serial killer, brilliant and resourceful. Once a respected psychological profiler, a hit-and-run accident five years ago left him in a wheelchair, and now he’s reduced to scratching out a living with online contests using fake or stolen identities. Blinded to how petty his life has become, his predatory instinct is mostly spent ... Read more
Love on the Run
An unemployed risk assessment manager and a human rights advocate take up robbing banks to rescue their relationship, to say nothing of escaping the ennui that is life in suburbia. As if robbing banks and casinos weren’t hard enough, there’s the issue of how long they can continue to dodge the hotshot lady FBI profiler ... Read more
Dark Tides Rising
In Philadelphia, Penn historian Erika Carr studies a Revolutionary era map that had been lost for centuries. Scrawled across its surface is a cryptic poem, the contents of which Erika suspects may point to a prize that has fascinated mankind for ages… $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
This Beautiful World
As a girl growing up in small Cider Town, RaeAnne and her sidekick King came across the body of a boy their age within a crate of apples in the town’s orchard, which is operated by the eccentric and powerful Gray family. The novel opens with RaeAnne now grown, the mother of a troubled eight-year-old ... Read more
Deception in Plain Sight
Awesome Petté was a man without ethics. His primary purpose was to get rich without putting in the blood, sweat and tears. If it meant using people and ruining their lives, he couldn’t care less. So, Christine Bailey, a beautiful, young and successful businesswoman would unknowingly partake in his sinister plot to make his dreams ... Read more
Post Pattern
Private Investigator Burnside is trying to determine who’s behind the attempted murder of a local football star in a California freeway. As Burnside unravels a complex series of baffling leads, the body count piles up. He is on a mission to crack the case, and it involves drugs, strippers and some pretty frightening bad guys. ... Read more
Lethal Lawyers
[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”B00I5SFMUM” desc=”0″ locale=”com”] A legal thriller that immerses you in the cutthroat culture of big firm practice. Here the partners and associates not only win at all costs, but also battle each other for money, power, love, clients, and ultimately their own survival. A blue-collar idealist with a huge student loan debt, Sophia Christopoulos, ... Read more
Free: “Devil’s Lake”
When Portia Lamont arrives home after being missing for two years, her family and friends are overjoyed. But when they discover how fragile she is, and question her about what happened, she clams up. Eventually they learn their worst fears are true—someone did kidnap her, and two days earlier, she escaped from his cabin in ... Read more
Current Assets
Author Darcy Farthing is writing at her new home in Marco Island, Florida while her boyfriend Mick Clayton conducts a GAO investigation of government property—asset forfeitures—stolen from under the noses of U.S. Marshals and a sheriff’s office. When close friend, Tom Smythe, is arrested for attempted murder of a deputy sheriff, the couple tries to ... Read more
Past Suspicion
Who do you trust when you don’t trust anyone? When her mother’s death forces Robin to move in with a stranger in a small town, she plots her escape to a normal life, only to be waylaid by secrets, tragedy, romance, and mystery. A hidden diary and an abandoned mansion hold the key to a dangerous ... Read more
Frozen Highway
“Frozen Highway” is the contemporary story of Kate Hendricks – a female veteran of the Iraq war who returns to Alaska physically and emotionally shattered – only to be hunted on a lone highway by a madman. The author offers a realistic story that is part thriller, part family drama, and part psychological crime story. ... Read more
Free: “The Devil’s Dream”
[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”B00IAN7AV6″ desc=”0″ locale=”com”] Matthew Brand’s intellect pushed the world into new eras of knowledge. He spent the first thirty years of his life stretching humanity’s capacity for understanding and learning. By all accounts, his future looked even brighter than his past. And then, police officers mistook his son for a criminal, gunning him down ... Read more
Thriller” Get Clean
The author of “Son of a Serial Killer” and “Finding Her Feet” takes on drug addiction in this crime fiction novel, following the life of Jimmy Walker, an addict who at best is guilty of making some terrible decisions, at worst, is an accomplice to murder… “Get Clean” will have you on the edge of ... Read more
Big Little Lies
[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”B00HDMMISA” desc=”0″ locale=”com”] Sometimes it’s the little lies that turn out to be the most lethal. . . Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive. $3.99 on Kindle. ... Read more
Act of Terror
[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”B006P64M3Y” desc=”0″ locale=”com”] Warning: The next attack on American soil will come from within. From coast to coast, our nation is witnessing a new wave of terror. Suicide bombers incite blind panic and paralyzing fear. A flight attendant tries to crash an airliner. A police officer opens fire on fans in a stadium. And at ... Read more
A Hidden Element
Evil lurks within… When Caleb Madroc is used against his will as part of his father’s plan to breed a secret alien community and infiltrate society with their unique powers, he vows to save his oppressed people and the two children kept from him. Seven years later, Laura and Ben Fieldstone’s son is abducted, and ... Read more
Free Technothriller
Years ago, the US attacked Iranian nuclear installations with a cyber payload. The Iranians got a hold of it, and now are aiming to re-purpose it for a terrorist attack. Only one man, Martin Spencer, can thwart their plans. But he’s been downsized from the defense firm he once founded, and no one knows where ... Read more
Fatal Remedy
A thriller inspired by the controversy over anti-depressant drug therapies for children, ethical and criminal issues in psychiatry and the power of Big Pharma, FATAL REMEDY is a chilling journey into the darkest corners of modern medicine. $0.99 on Kindle. ... Read more
Zandros in Love
Sam Zandros is a major-league poker player—part of a large Greek-American family that runs a bookmaking business. And he’s fallen in love with Clare Russell, a beautiful photographer who has no one to look out for her. Sam decides to be that one. Clare’s fiercely guarded secrets have made her emotionally vulnerable. While Sam tries ... Read more
Free: “Waiting for Shadow”
Major Jane McMurtry came home a double-amputee when an IED shattered her body and her career as a military dog handler. Now she’s trying to rebuild her life, waiting for her dog Shadow to come home, when the police ask for her help tracking two kidnapped teenagers. Having learned to walk again on specialized prosthetic ... Read more
CHIMERAS: A Medical Mystery
Haunted by the girl he couldn’t save in his youth, and the murder he committed to avenge her, Track Presius became a detective. Now he uses his unique gift–the vision and sense of smell of a predator–to save the innocent from would-be killers. (Just $0.99 on Kindle.)... Read more
