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!
The Shoulders of Giants
Life gets dangerous for rookie P.I. Jake Abraham when the missing college student he’s looking for shows up dead. It’s a hell of a first case. Up against a ruthless serial killer who’s always one step ahead of the police, how can one inexperienced young P.I. hope to make a difference?... Read more
Deadly Circles
The pall of death hangs over two distinctly different valleys separated by eighteen-hundred miles. One a modest, unknown channel drained by a small cool-water stream and the other a magnificent gorge carved by a roaring river that separates two states. Unknown to a man, tormented by loss and intensifying anger, both valleys hold his fate. ... Read more
Stalking Jack
Madeline Donovan is a complicated woman, distressed and ready to abandon life as she knows it. A recent tragedy has left her without the vision or moral compass to go forward. She is not leading her own life at the moment, it is leading her. The journey she will take into London’s East side will ... Read more
Jacks Are Wild
Handsome, white-knight, Police Officer Jack Stratton is back in this action-packed, thrilling adventure. When his sexy, old flame disappears, no one thinks it’s suspicious except Jack and one unbalanced witness. Jack feels in his gut that something is wrong. He knows that Marisa has a past and if it ever caught up with her – ... Read more
Sufficient Ransom
A mother’s search for her missing child takes her to the dangerous streets of Tijuana, to a drug smuggling tunnel on the San Diego/Mexican border, and into the world of evangelical Christianity. Other children have been disappearing in San Diego. Is her son’s situation related to theirs, or not? Read this page-turning debut novel to ... Read more
The Fixer, Season 1, Episode 1
JC Bannister’s clients think of him as a fixer. He calls himself a solutionist. The government? His enemies? A hitman for hire. If you can afford it, and if he’ll take you on, Bannister will find the solution to your problem. But when the contract he’s asked to take on involves killing a US Senator, ... Read more
Photofinish
Photofinish is a suspense novel written in a tight, wide-appeal style for adults. The length is approximately 78,500 words, or 340 pages. SYNOPSIS and SETUP: Rory Kind I, a wellknown horse-trainer, is killed at night alone at his racetrack stable. His death occurs from a blow to the head, after a charity meet where heavy attendance ... Read more
Continuance
Two mysteries set over a century apart – and both connected by the remains of a murdered man found in a pirate’s tunnel in modern-day Savannah. Only one man had the answers – but he took them to his grave…... Read more
Target For Terror
“If you leave on your own, you’ll be dead by morning.” Critical Care Nurse Natalia Sokolova can’t ignore former FBI Agent Sloan Dryer’s dire warning. After the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia dies under her care, her house explodes in front of her eyes and now she’s found her best friends brutally murdered. Ironically, the only ... Read more
Next of Sin
A series of murders dating back to the late 80’s and no one has even joined the dots….until now. The vital clue has laid dormant, hidden away in a childhood memory – but suddenly that memory has been triggered and it want to be remembered. When trying to solve the conundrum of a recurring dream, ... Read more
Savior
A father and son stumble into the secret world of the Santos Muertos, a crime cartel bent on global domination. The son must find his father and keep the secret of the ancient Mayan code underlying the creation of matter in the universe from falling into the wrong hands. A story of sacrifice and love.... Read more
White Picket Prisons
A group of friends with a penchant for goofy nicknames return to their hometown for a funeral and what had been a pleasant, albeit melancholy, reunion quickly escalates into a fight for their lives with an enemy they didn’t know they had. Putting up with each others quirks with good humor they must unravel a ... Read more
Jack Knifed
Handsome Police Officer Jack Stratton is the “hometown hero cop with a heart of gold.” Constant nightmares have forced him to seek answers about his rough childhood, and the dark secrets that lay hidden there. With Replacement by his side, Jack travels to Hope Falls to solve a murder that occurred before he was born. Everyone ... Read more
The Blood Feud
Shelley Young’s The Blood Feud is the first book of the Dardian Dreshaj novels. Who would have thought that the death of an aging ex-mafia boss would start a war between law enforcement, the mafia and a secret criminal underworld organization known as The Association? Homicide Detective Jesse Richards is facing the murder case of his ... Read more
Scrapyard Blues
Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. How did one crazy night of excess end up with 25 years behind bars? Convicted for the brutal murder of an ex girlfriend, JD Smith is back on the streets a bitter and broken man. Now in his fifties, the once good looking, carefree, former musician in a post punk ... Read more
Mark of the Loon
Mark of the Loon is the first installment of the Gen Delacourt Mystery trilogy, and introduces Gen as an amateur sleuth who helps best friend Madison Boone unravel the puzzle hidden within the walls of her old stone cottage in Northern California.... Read more
Ring of Lies
Daniel Elliot dies in a single-car accident one rainy English night. His wife, Grace, is grief stricken. Although their marriage was imperfect, sheltered Grace doesn’t relish the future alone. She soon learns how little she knew about Daniel. There are secrets: an alias, a strange list of numbers, a house in Florida – and a ... Read more
The Customer Is Always…
Everyone hates Monday. Including Vincent who, at 9AM, already wants his shift to be over. Ten long hours sit before him, tedious, boring, repetitive. Then he receives a phone call from Mr Pierce. A routine call at first, Mr Pierce becomes more aggressive and, eventually, violent and demanding. What started as a standard call has now turned ... Read more
Natalie’s Revenge
TWO MURDERS TWENTY YEARS APART 1988: Ten-year-old Natalie is devastated when police find her call girl mother brutally beaten to death in a New Orleans hotel. Like the dragon tattoo girl, Natalie wants revenge. She vows to find the man who killed her mother and punish him. After her unhappy teen years in Texas, her ... Read more
The Origin Of Murder
Enjoy the newest release in the same series as “The Deadly Dog Show”. Somebody is murdering the passengers on a luxury cruise through the Galapagos Islands. Private eye Roger Bowman and his scientist wife Suzanne just happen to be in the right place at the right time (or is it the wrong place at the wrong ... Read more
What Laurel Sees
When Laurel Fischer has a disturbing vision that precedes her ex-husband’s murder, Laurel becomes a prime suspect. The harder Laurel battles to regain custody of her only daughter, the more that seems like motive to authorities. A tabloid reporter, Joe Hardisty, is assigned to cover the story, profiling Laurel’s visionary gift. As skeptical about relationships ... Read more
Mortom
Mortom: population 986. On the outskirts of town, 33-year-old Craig Moore is found drowned in the lake. A loner and town eccentric, few attend the funeral. One week later Andy Crowl arrives in Mortom, still stunned by his cousin’s death and equally confused why everything was left to him. The two hadn’t spoken in years ... Read more
No Hard Feelings
In this, the second book in the Kate Stanton mystery series, past mistakes and family secrets dating back to the Second World War continue to haunt Kate Stanton and her granddaughter, Liz, as they try and put their terrible past behind them – no easy feat, especially when a murdered man’s remains are discovered in ... Read more
The Sneaker Tree
Remember when you were a kid and you had that one magical summer that seemed to last a lifetime? Cooper, Gooby, Chuck, Cliff and Bolo don’t know it, but they are in the midst of a summer they will never forget. Their small town is paralyzed with fear as a serial killer preys upon children ... Read more
Viral Intent
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
The Deadly Dog Show
Private detective Roger Bowman is hired to impersonate a wealthy sponsor showing a champion German Shorthair Pointer named Juliet at dog shows in California. His undercover assignment is to ferret out whether some of the winners are cheating. Before too long, bodies of murdered judges start popping up at dog show venues and Roger’s wife ... Read more
Dream Student
What would you do if you could see other people’s dreams? If you could watch their hidden fantasies and uncover their deepest, darkest secrets…without them ever knowing? Sara Barnes is about to find out. She thought that all she had to worry about was final exams, Christmas shopping and deciding whether she likes the cute freshman ... Read more
Stolen Daisy: A Novel
A dark past. A dangerous secret. A deadly disappearance. Samantha Beckett has one goal of her 12-year-old existence: the safety of her three-year-old sister. And that responsibility is just enough to keep her head above the tumultuous waters of their mother’s rage. Then one stormy spring day Samantha comes face to face with her worst ... Read more
Sufficient Ransom: A Novel
Sufficient Ransom is a fast-paced, mystery/thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat reading long past your bedtime. Art dealer, Ann Olson, lives a comfortable life in an affluent enclave of San Diego with her entrepreneur husband and young son, Travis. Every mother’s worst nightmare comes to pass when Ann’s son disappears ... Read more
The Bones of Others
Some monsters live in your head. Not this one. Brutalized as a young girl by a vile sexual predator, Skye Cree is a survivor. Guided by the visions of her mystical spirit guide to the whereabouts of abducted girls, she uses her unique abilities to turn her horrifying past into a positive force for justice. Fighting ... Read more
Victim City Stories Issue 1
Start your adventures in Victim City for just $0.99. A old-fashioned hero fighting to save the lost in a city finding new ways to hurt. Pray for the Bleeding Skull in The Chains That Bind, The Skull That Bleeds. Thrill and cringe to teen splatter shame in Beer Bong Bloodbath. He’s not an anti-hero. He ... Read more
Terminal Connection: A Thriller
In TERMINAL CONNECTION Steve Donovan pursues a serial killer exploiting a defect in his virtual reality terminal and uncovers a terrorist plot and national conspiracy. Chased by his conscious, his former employers, and Federal investigators, the serial killer becomes a terrorist plot becomes a Chinese attack becomes a computer virus becomes a CIA conspiracy to ... Read more
Terminal Connection: A Thriller
In a setting reminiscent of THE MATRIX and in the man-verses-science spirit of JURASSIC PARK, the players in this mystery and suspense techno thriller novel move between reality and virtuality, finding danger, death, and betrayal in both worlds. What if a terrorist were a computer virus, its weapon a defect, and its target the U.S. military’? ... Read more
The Bewitching Of Alison Allbright
Alison longs to live in a different kind of home, to have smart clothes to wear and smart parents to be seen with. To be taken on exciting holidays abroad. In fact she longs to be able to do all the things that her contemporaries at high school seem to be able to do as ... Read more
Code Name, Erelim
Brilliant and eccentric New York detective, Sherrod Colsne receives an uncommonly urgent plea from childhood friend, Sir Guy Hugo de May, Marquis of Maubrey, former head of MI6, and now president of a British security firm, Tower of London Aegis, or TOLA. The Marquis in Jacksonville, FL for a conference with Biocon, a U. S. ... Read more
Lady Justice and the Organ Traders
A badly burned body with a fresh incision and a missing kidney leads Walt into the clandestine world of an organ trader ring that has set up shop in Kansas City. Walt is determined to bring to justice the bootleggers, who purchase body parts from the disadvantaged and sell them to people with means, until a ... Read more
Quicksilver
A young man named Henry Shelburne disappears in the wilderness of the California mother lode. He leaves behind a gold-flecked ore specimen, a vial of liquid mercury, and a history of chaos. A Silicon Valley venture capitalist named Robert Shelburne hires forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws to track his missing brother. As they ... Read more
Origins: Psychic Unleashed
New Orleans, 1973 – The CIA uncovers two young kids with uncanny psychic ability. A renegade agent wants them for his own. When Ronnie Gilmore and Cassie Reynold fight back, things get deadly fast. The ability to Remote View makes Cassie and Ronnie high value assets in the Cold War contest playing out in the ... Read more
A Book to Die For
For fans of David Rosenfelt, Dean Koontz, Agatha Christie and Lawrence Block’s Burglar Books.From the author of the Number One Cozy Mystery, A View to Die For, comes A Book to Die For, a mystery that will keep you guessing until the very end. Jake Martin is not your ordinary sleuth. He’s an ordinary guy ... Read more
Murder By Bequest
On a frigid Friday afternoon in February, Eleanor Harkness shows up at the door of the “granite palace,” Sherrod Colsne’s New York townhouse. Her unexpected yet incredibly timely appearance not only knocks Colsne’s normally unflappable assistant, Monty Weston, off stride, but takes both of them down a winding path of romance, past and present, and ... Read more
