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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!

Tea Cups & Tiger Claws

First comes the miracle and then comes the madness. The miracle is the birth of identical triplets, and the madness is all about money, of course. The year is 1916 and the rare occurrence of identical triplets turns the newborn baby girls into pint-size celebrities. Unfortunately, this small portion of fame soon leads to a ... Read more

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Undercover In High Heels

New York Times, USA Today, and #1 Kindle Bestselling series! “Gemma Halliday’s Maddie Springer is like the west coast version of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum – only more stylish!” – LG Book Club Secret affairs, hunky gardeners, and housewives desperate enough to bare it all… welcome to Magnolia Lane, TV’s hottest new prime time show. ... Read more

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Betrayal

Presumed dead after an attack blamed on Al-Qaeda, FBI agent Odysseus Carr is running for his life with the missionary doctor who rescued him in Iran. As Odi unravels a devious plot of profound political manipulation and global consequence, the hunted becomes the hunter, and then the real terror begins…. Written by a former Green ... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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Screaming To Be Solved

Marxie Vaughn becomes a widow at twenty-five years old when her police officer husband, Evan, is tragically killed—reduced to ashes in an explosion in the line of duty in their small Georgia town. Without even a body to bury, Marxie is left to deal with the sorrow of his abrupt and brutal end. Seeking to ... Read more

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Dead Dreams Book 1: A Young Adult Psychological Thriller

Eighteen-year-old Brie O’Mara has so much going for her: a loving family in the sidelines, an heiress for a roommate, and dreams that might just come true. Big dreams–of going to acting school, finishing college and making a name for herself. She is about to be the envy of everyone she knew. What more could ... Read more

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Coercion

Written by a former Green Beret and counterintelligence specialist with a decade of experience on the ground in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Coercion is a Robert Ludlum global conspiracy crossed with a Ken Follett historical drama. On the eve of perestroika, Alex Ferris stumbles onto KGB General Karpov’s scheme to regain Russia’s superpower status while investigating ... Read more

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Murder by Moonlight (Dick Moonlight)

In Murder by Moonlight, Vincent Zandri’s cunning detective Dick Moonlight returns with his toughest case yet: proving an open-and-shut murder investigation isn’t over at all. Joan Parker is the last woman private eye Dick Moonlight would ever expect to see in his Albany office. From the right side of the tracks—neighboring Bethlehem—she bears her upper class ... Read more

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Cliff Diver: An Emilia Cruz Novel

When Emilia Cruz, Acapulco’s first and only female police detective, dives into the investigation of a dirty cop’s death, she might just hit the rocks instead of the water. With hot nights on the beach and suspense straight out of the headlines, CLIFF DIVER and the Emilia Cruz mystery series go inside Mexico’s drug war ... Read more

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Worse Than Being Alone

Worse Than Being Alone is a riveting tale involving multiple cons, a vicious murder, romance, betrayal, and escape as it vividly explores just how far all of us are prepared to go to avoid being alone. Kitty and Roni are building their fledgling investigative agency by following workers’ comp cheats. Every PI’s dream of catching ... Read more

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Death of a Nation

During Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s May, 2010 visit to the U.S., former private detective Jake Card watches the Arizona marches and protests on TV and debates immigration, illegal immigration, with a pair of violent illegal immigrants who have kidnapped him with the help of a sexy and beautiful, but treacherous, American girl he once knew ... Read more

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Sportsman’s Bet

Velma Saunders was the meanest woman in Tobias, North Carolina. Everybody was a little afraid of her. Except her boss, Mayor Mike Ellis who was a lot afraid of her. Still, the whole town is shocked when Velma’s body is found in the Municipal Building’s old bomb shelter. The only clue to her murderer is ... Read more

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Sedition. A Political Thriller

The President of The United States is dead. There is no Vice President to take his place. As the nation slips into a constitutional crisis, a small group of disenfranchised neo-patriots conspire to violently seize power. They have the will. They already have someone on the inside. And they have the explosives. Standing in their ... Read more

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Baby Species Intervention-Book One

A 200 year saga commencing during Prohibition, encompassing tender love between divergent species, political downfalls and violence of unspeakable order. When you think you have it figured out….WHAM! You won’t see it coming.   Get it Now!... Read more

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Looks Could Kill

Emma Jones has an unusual ocular ability which becomes apparent at her christening when the vicar drops dead. Her mother recognises that something is amiss and is convinced that her baby is evil. Emma struggles to reconcile her potentially lethal ability with wanting to pursue a career in medicine. But others are already watching her ... Read more

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This Doesn’t Happen In The Movies

This Doesn’t Happen In The Movies is a rollicking ride. Witty, intrepid Reed Ferguson is a wannabe private eye with a love of film noir and crime fiction. Shortly after Reed hangs out his shingle, his first client appears. Amanda Ghering is a rich, attractive femme fatale who hires Reed to find her missing husband. ... Read more

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CONNECTED

CONNECTED is a speculative fiction thriller with touches of science and philosophy, which reached No.1 in Amazon UK’s Bestseller lists for both Thrillers and Science Fiction within 5 days of release. Beginning with the funeral of a renowned classical violinist in a sleepy rural hamlet in the Lake District, a former theoretical physicist tries to ... Read more

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The Shoulders of Giants (A Jake Abraham Mystery)

A missing girl. A ruthless killer. A rookie P.I. Jake Abraham is a child of the 80s, brought up by Jim Rockford, Thomas Magnum and three beautiful girls who worked for a man named Charlie. He’s loving his new job as a Private Investigator and already has his first client – a disgraced former police ... Read more

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Black Harvest

Treasure seized by Alexander the Great during the fall of Babylon puts Nick Carter and Selena Connor of the PROJECT dead center in the cross hairs of a conspiracy bent on world domination. Book Four in Alex Lukeman’s thriller series about the Project will keep you turning pages through the night. Get it Now!... Read more

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Creepy (Book 1)

“Damn! That was fascinating, Jeff. An interesting story, well told. Thanks for sharing.” ~ Matthew McNash ABOUT CREEPY: The Creepy series is a one of a kind combination of true supernatural occurances, mixed with a variety of supernatural short stories. Creepy contains The Rumblin’ and Murdoch’s Eyes. Best of all, Creepy includes some of the author’s real life supernatural ... Read more

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The Crypt

Sarah Roberts is in search of a weapon on the streets of Budapest. A strange man in a fedora follows her, but before she can find out who he is, she is arrested. After her release from the Hungarian jail, she is ordered out of the country. The man in the fedora shows up at ... Read more

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The Devil’s Grin

In Victorian London’s cesspool of crime and disease, a series of murders remains undiscovered until a cholera victim is found floating in the city’s drinking water supply. Dr Anton Kronberg, England’s best bacteriologist, is called upon to investigate and finds evidence of abduction and medical maltreatment. While Scotland Yard has little interest in pursuing the ... Read more

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After

Nick always believed he was an ordinary kid until an unusual cardiac arrest strikes him down. Leaving behind his mother and girlfriend, his soul enters the hereafter and finds it is nothing like the fire and brimstone he’d always imagined. Incoming entities are distributed to levels according to the good vs. evil they had done ... Read more

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Pulp

Struggling thriller writer Kevin Turner just received a panicked call from his ex-girlfriend Tina, a self-proclaimed clairvoyant prostitute. One of her clients, the mayor’s married son, died in her bed and she needs Kevin’s help to dispose of the body. As if Kevin doesn’t have enough problems. His current girlfriend is the spouse of the ... Read more

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Degenerates

Brutal slayings in the quiet suburbs of Philadelphia have detective Aaron Miller on edge. Residents are readily falling victim to a cold-blooded serial killer who is absolutely vicious, torturing and murdering at random and for sport. As pressure mounts to stop this psychopath, Aaron becomes increasingly frustrated by the lack of evidence. As his own ... Read more

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Frostproof

On a winter night in 2009, Niles Goodman risked his life to try and save a woman and her newborn infant from a terrible car accident, seriously burning his hands in the attempt. The injuries left him unable to work and the financial strain is taking a heavy toll on his marriage. Enter Cody Larson ... Read more

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AL Kibar

6 September 2007. A non-descript building in the Syrian desert is destroyed in a midnight air strike by jets from the Israeli Air Force. In the days following the attack, the governments in Tel Aviv and Damascus say nothing. 24 April 2008. In a public statement, the Director of the CIA announces that the destroyed ... Read more

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The Fourth Awakening Chronicles (Book I)

Chronicles is a series of short Novellas based on the characters and concepts explored in the full-length novel “The Fourth Awakening.” The story picks up where the second novel in The Fourth Awakening series, “The Gathering Darkness”, leaves off. While each Chronicle is a stand-alone episode that can be read independently, it is a part ... Read more

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Family Secrets (The Third Charon Family Adventure)

Meet the Charons. They’re your typical dysfunctional family of four of the world’s best assassins. Father Michael is the former head of a covert arm of the CIA that did so many “wet” jobs it was code named “Water Works.” Mother Valerie is a legendary femme fatale whose steamy sexuality has been luring men to ... Read more

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A Secret to Die For

Darcie Thayer needs to find what her late husband hid before she is killed. The package may be her only means of survival. She accepts a job as nanny to a best-selling author in hopes of having the time to continue her search in the last place she ever thought she would go back to. ... Read more

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Deadly Neighbors

When Marsha Calloway’s daughter is accused of a crime she didn’t commit, Marsha is determined to find the real culprit. She enlists the help of her Cadillac driving mama, the man who ditched Marsha at her high-school graduation but kept her heart, and a bumbling police officer. Folks around River Valley are having things disappear ... Read more

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Broken Build (Silicon Valley Romantic Suspense)

Jen Jones hides a horrible secret behind her new degree, toned body, and exciting job at Silicon Valley’s hottest startup—until a man linked to her past is killed in a hit-and-run. CEO and founder Dave Jewell is about to land a huge deal. He doesn’t need blood on his car, threatening phone calls, and Jen ... Read more

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The Body in the Parking Structure

Suzanne Foster discovers the body of a Bolivian scientist in the parking garage next to the Medical School at UCLA. The police treat the killing as just another drug deal gone bad. P.I. Roger Bowman, Suzanne, and his team investigate the murder, which seems to be linked to a small biotechnology company and a new ... Read more

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A View to Die For

When Megan Carver is arrested after her fourth husband is found at the bottom of Truman Lake, the local DA and sheriff consider the case closed. Megan has a history of collecting on life insurance policies of her husbands, and the latest policy is worth a million dollars. A black-widow murder is what the media ... Read more

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High Striker

In 2018, Dr. Amos Konklin, a renowned neurosurgeon dubbed “Doctor Golden Hands,” is arrested for a grisly double-homicide at the Old Wilderness Campground. During a mesmerizing interview with reporter Peter Wild, Dr. Konklin reveals a shocking secret. For decades he’s wrapped those golden hands around a twelve pound sledge-hammer, his instrument of choice in numerous ... Read more

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The Surreal Killer

A serial killer is leaving a trail of dead women across Chile, Peru, and Bolivia. The gruesome corpses all seem to have died in exactly the same macabre way. There may be a link to a small group of scientists who meet annually in different locations in the region. Roger Bowman and Suzanne Foster are ... Read more

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The Kennedy Rifle

Kirkus Starred Review–The first installment of Brandon’s saga features Phoenix-based ballistics expert Michael Cole in an un-put-down-able thriller noir. Cole knows Kate Marlowe is trouble. Two thugs have already visited his office and beat him up, warning him to stay away from her or else. But when the divorced legal secretary from Houston shows up ... Read more

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Brightside

Across the nation, telepaths are rounded up and sent to the beautiful mountain town of Brightside. They’re told it’s just like everywhere else, probably even nicer. As long as they follow the rules and don’t ever think about leaving. Joe Nolan is one of the accused, a man who spent his life hearing things people ... Read more

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The Black Mile

#1 Amazon bestseller in “Mysteries and Thrillers” Best-selling author Mark Dawson makes his stunning Kindle debut with a thriller that has earned multiple “5-star” rave reviews from readers in the UK and US. London, 1940: the Luftwaffe blitzes London every night for fifty-seven nights. Houses, shops and entire streets are wiped from the map. The ... Read more

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FAMILY FALLACIES, A Kate Huntington Mystery

Threatening notes, a malpractice suit, interrogations by homicide detectives–psychotherapist Kate Huntington is having a rough autumn. There’s one bright note. She’s falling in love. Now if she could just get the ghost of her dead husband out of her head. Is this book still free…CHECK HERE... Read more

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