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!
A Disturbing Nature
A Disturbing Nature is a psychological thriller and coming-of-age story that examines Post-World War II America, exploring the heredity of prejudice, the hypocrisy of privilege, and the blurred line between man and monster. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Big Farewell
Hard boiled crime fiction set in the Roaring Twenties, a dark murder mystery with a supernatural twist. A debauched Jazz Baby dies a lonely death. Back from the dead she goes to a cynical gun for hire to solve the riddle of her death. And entangles him with crooked cops, corrupt politicians, and New York ... Read more
Sixty Positions with Pleasure
In the year 2050, twenty-something IT worker, Charlie Gibbs, has a problem – several problems, in fact. His boss has just been killed in mysterious circumstances. Replacement boss, fifty-year-old Dutch cougar, Ilse Teuling, is writing a sex manual and wants Charlie to help with “the practical work”. Populists have declared a coup; people are seeing ... Read more
Free: Destiny’s Demise
After years of debunking the supernatural, Louisiana might be the end for Daniel Myers. When a fan of his work commits suicide, it is up to Daniel to overcome his past and find the evidence the police overlooked. Evidence that some would prefer never became public. Destiny’s Demise is the first novella in the Daniel ... Read more
Free: Escape to Osprey Cove
Doug has grown up poor, envying what others have. So when he meets wealthy Catherine, he thinks she is his ticket to all he desires. After marrying her for her wealth, he finds that he covets one more thing — independence. The mystery begins with a discovery in the secret compartment of his new Corvette ... Read more
Sauvignon Slaying
What could a grisly murder, a naked ghost, and a 100-year-old secret all have in Common? Verity Blume is about to find out… Moving to Spell’s Bay with her nephew Joel was supposed to be Verity’s Do-Over… Instead, she bought the farm…literally. Lock, stock, and flesh-eating spiders… Crooked Tree is a rundown vineyard and orchard ... Read more
Bangkok Blues
U.S. expat lawyer Glenn Murray Cohen is tiring of his role managing Bangkok’s best guitarist, also it’s most obnoxious foreign resident, when he and his friends from Bangkok’s mysterious NJA Club meet a scientist investigating reports of a deadly virus in China. When they realize the scientists is being tailed and needs their protection, Glenn ... Read more
Free: Thick as Thieves: A Cozy Mystery with a Twist
Amish twin sisters find their quiet lives suddenly turned into chaos when the sheriff of their small town is found murdered behind their family’s hardware store. Known as the wise women among the community, the twin amateur investigators soon question if they are in over their heads as they race to solve the mystery and ... Read more
All That This Life Requires
Detective Jack “Mac” McCrae has lost his hero. When the man’s son reaches out to Mac with a mysterious letter containing a startling confession, asking for his help, Mac begins the search for answers in the past. He quickly discovers that no one wants him looking there, and that justice is more complicated than he ... Read more
Free: Captive
A body, wrapped in plastic, is discovered in a ditch along a secluded country road. Detective Jade Monroe, and her partner, Jack Steele, arrive at the scene in minutes. Suspicious looking evidence gives the impression that this young woman has been held captive. As days pass, more local women vanish without a trace. Jade and ... Read more
Cult of Darkness
A seaside paradise. An endless war. Everyone pays in blood. The cartels have splintered, triggering violent conflict over control of the illicit drug trade. One has risen to power above all others with its ruthless methods: The Riviera. As mutilated bodies appear on the pristine white sands of lucrative beach communities, locals fear for the ... Read more
Free: Cardinal Virtues
2037: Underwater exploitation has changed the world. Every nation wants territory, and no one wants war. Until someone sinks a civilian submarine. Trying to save that sub throws Alex’s career down the crapper and makes the U.S. everyone’s favorite scapegoat. Exile to Armistice Station leaves him bored and useless—until a hostile takeover puts ... Read more
Dead Man’s Pose
Dead Man’s Pose is a tension-reliever in yoga. Not this time! Elaina, a spirited yoga teacher, and Ric, a dark-horse partner, investigate the mysterious death of a friend. Quirky characters, late-night spying and a gummy web of intrigue in Sydney. A classic hallmark ‘whodunit’ … but presented as a gin fizz romantic mystery with extra ... Read more
Free: Falling Into Magic
An accidental journey through a magic mirror. A portal to an enchanted land. A mysterious family she never knew she had. Hayden’s life is upended with the wonder of Destiny Falls. But it is tainted by the danger that brought her here and that threatens her newfound family. Can Hayden and her sassy sidekick remove ... Read more
Free: The First Mistake I Made Was Being Born
In this thrilling mystery, Ethan Brady must solve the murder of a lost love. While struggling with that, Ethan realizes his sister is involved with a mysterious stranger, a man Ethan feels compelled to investigate. A very strange romance slowly evolves, adding suspense to this puzzle set in New York and New Orleans in 1963. ... Read more
Free: Mystery Along the Danube
Who would have thought Rosetta’s exotic trip to Europe would involve thieves and kidnapping? (Book 1 of 3). After her daughter is kidnapped, Rosetta has to use clues from an old diary to find her through famous palaces and castle ruins. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Black Water
Bailey Donahue was supposed to stay dead… After witnessing her husband’s murder, Bailey’s been ripped from her life and secreted away in the Witness Protection Program. Too bad the sleepy town of Shadow Rock was the wrong place to hide. Believed dead by the mafia, Bailey finds herself trapped in a torturous limbo, walled-off from ... Read more
You Better Run
The beach read of the summer! When 19-year-old Meg Briggs wakes up after having a crazy party with her friends, she finds a girl in the pool. Dead. Who is this girl? How did she end up in the pool? Was she even at the party? Even more strange is when they pull her out ... Read more
Her Terrible Mistake
Chicago 1922 — Chicago Tribune reporter, Garland Hopkins, is a high-ender from his brown derby down to his cap-toe Oxfords. And he’s clever as a fox covering the news, but he has a weakness, the wicked women and jazz down on The Stroll, South State Street’s famous strip of clubs. When Esther Allen, the caramel-skinned, ... Read more
Free: Oxygen!: A Darwinian Moment for Mankind
Once enough to serve seven billion people on Earth, the green planet is showing alarming signs of running low on human and animal life’s elixir: oxygen. A team of researchers discovers the unpopular truth during work in the Himalayas and the mountains of northern India. Is this a defining Darwinian moment for mankind? Governments are ... Read more
Tangled Lies
“I love a good murder mystery with characters you can root for, and this one fits the bill. Tangled Lies is a page turner that’s packed with fast-paced suspense, a masterful plot, and a hefty dose of sizzling hot romance.” –Linda Sheehan, author of Decanted. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Devil’s Trident
Ten years after a top-secret mission in Afghanistan, retired NYPD Detective and Navy SEAL Michael Keough finds himself about to hit rock bottom. He’s divorced from his wife and instead married to the bottle. Then, on a cool fall evening, a volley of gunfire erupts outside his apartment. When he discovers his partner mortally wounded, ... Read more
Sea Change
Divemaster and charter boat captain Alex Nolen is finding a new normal in his relationship with marine researcher Jennifer Walker. His once solitary existence no longer troubles him. But when a man from Jennifer’s past appears, Alex and his friends suddenly find themselves facing dangers that could forever alter the course of their lives. How ... Read more
Killing Karma
Had Peter imagined he’d be considered a serial killer, he’d have chosen differently. Have you ever felt karmic retribution in your own life? What the characters in Killing Karma come to realize is that no karmic debt ever goes unpaid. In Killing Karma, this sentiment is taken to the nth degree, where crime fiction ... Read more
Red Herring
“She stood before the TV and searched the news channels. There it is. Oh, my God. Is that Tina’s plane? Please, God no.” Red Herring starts with quite a literal boom as the main heroine Holly Flynn awakes to discover the plane Bermudian Air flight 47 that one of her best friends aboard had just ... Read more
My Perfect Daughter
Zoe adopts Maddie, the daughter of the notorious serial killer, Peter McKenna. Eleven years later, Maddie’s best friend goes missing, and her school bully is found dead. Zoe can’t help but wonder: like father, like daughter? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
AN INCONSPICUOUS MURDER: A Maggie Fitzmorris Mystery
THE DEAD DON’T LIE—THE LIVING DO Dr. Maggie Fitzmorris disagrees when the police label the death of a young woman as accidental. When a man comes forward with some startling information, Maggie realizes that someone is lying—and it’s not the dead body. A tantalizing picture of the victim soon emerges, along with several suspects. But ... Read more
Free: Soldiers of Freedom
SOLDIERS OF FREEDOM is the true story of the 1944-1945 War in Western Europe and the final Allied struggle to conquer Nazi Germany. The story is told through the eyes of William McBurney, a tank gunner in the 761st Tank Battalion, the first African-American tank unit in U.S. history. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Raven
No one could figure out exactly why Sandra McDowell had to die. What was her connection to The Raven, an aging hitman twenty years on death row with only days left to live? Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Secret Seal Isle Mysteries Books 1-3
Enjoy a convenient boxed set of the first three Secret Seal Isle mysteries! FBI agent Cookie James is enjoying her extended leave from the agency on Secret Seal Isle, managing her quaint inn and flirting with the oh-so sexy handyman, Dylan Creed… until her sixty-year-old mother goes skinny dipping and is almost drowned by a ... Read more
Deceived by Ornament
Detective Kim Brady must find the killer of Mariano Avila, beloved community activist and immigration lawyer in Brooklyn. The only eyewitness, Amara, a fifteen-year-old undocumented escapee from a human trafficking ring, has described the killer as wearing a police uniform. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Victim of a Delusional Mind
Tragedy enters the quaint coastal town of New Haven, Oregon when the recently released convict, Ross Conrad, vows to make good on a ten-year-old threat. Private Investigators, Troy and Eva Winters take on the case when they realize their good friend, Jasmine, is the object of his delusional obsession. When the threat becomes deadly and ... Read more
Free: The Girl, the Ghost, and the Kill
“Evil must be identified before it can be driven away,” Jess once read… and then she made the mistake of voicing it within the walls of her stepfather’s mansion. In the twilight months between her high school graduation and college move-in, Jess wants to finally be treated as an adult who knows things, and if ... Read more
Fatal Limit
Dora Stephens can’t refuse this case. When she witnesses Sheila, the aunt of her best friend, stagger out of the hospital and die from a traffic accident, Dora’s private eye instincts kick in. Something’s not right. Sheila had no known enemies… but someone wanted her dead. Digging into the circumstances of Sheila’s death leads Dora ... Read more
Free: The Games of Cordella
A dystopian temporary fantasy mystery where a feared magical assassin meets a socially outcasted mortal noble boy. To win the Survival Game, participants must survive for two years in an area known as the Dark Zone, where the forever elusive monsters come out after dark. Levi once thought that the scariest thing were the monsters, ... Read more
Silent Betrayals
The destinies of three remarkable women are severely altered when they are misled and taken advantage of by contemporaries they thought they could trust. With no regard for the consequences of their actions, those malicious deceivers provoke catastrophes that tarnish the prosperity of everyone who loves their victims. $1.00 on Kindle.... Read more
Variables
They cured cancer, and they’re killing to cover up their means. Collier is an ex-military rogue who couldn’t follow orders. How will he handle working for a corporation where murder is part of the job description? Matt and Karen are long divorced and hate each other’s guts. Now an explosive reunion awaits them when ... Read more
Free: Maniacal
Sleepy little North Bend just woke up. The newly promoted Sergeant Jade Monroe, and her partner, Detective Jack Steele, have just been informed of an unidentified male body found at a local lake. The town is in an uproar. The victim was nearly decapitated, and murder simply doesn’t happen in North Bend. As more bodies ... Read more
DEVIL’S DAWN: A Gripping Serial Killer Thriller (A Grant & Daniels Trilogy Book 2)
Sarah Latham is the epitome of an all-American sweetheart. She’s a cheerleader with good grades, a judge for a father, a homemaker for a mother, and a reputation that makes everyone else look like devils. But after being kidnapped, something triggered inside Sarah and she’s no longer made of sugar and spice. Acting Chief of ... Read more
A Break in the Trees
Everly Mae Lansing has everything she ever wanted. She lives with her best friend in Hawaii, and is still dating her high school sweetheart. When her boyfriend’s former college roommate comes to town, the group goes on a camping trip that changes their lives, and not for the better. Everly, Addy, Benji, and Leo witness ... Read more
