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!

Where the Owl Sings

Lucinda Stein

News that her sister has vanished draws Allie McKenzie back to her family’s ranch. Allie must confront her past—and accept her future—as she attempts to solve the mystery of her twin sister’s disappearance. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Helix: Episode 1

Nathan Farrugia

A genetically-enhanced operative’s deadly mission will lead her to a startling conspiracy in this riveting read. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Both Sides of the Law: The Casper Halliday NYPD Series Book 1

Nathan Roden

He shared his father’s dream of becoming a detective. A prison sentence was not part of the plan. On his seventeenth birthday, in the throes of depression, Casper Halliday made a desperate decision. That decision brought him face-to-face with one of the most dangerous men in the city—and a future he could never have foreseen. ... Read more

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The Problem Solver

STEVE PYNE

When a resident of a member-only community goes missing, it’s the freewheeling, live in the moment, sexually ambivalent Dakota Gaits, the founder’s protégé, who heads the search. Forced to join her, is ex mafia man Frankie Tecano, a resident whose wife has an undeclared past. Help me, or your family’s life in Hope will be ... Read more

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Free: Retribution

C. M. Sutter

The violent drug-related murders of two prominent attorneys have the homicide division of the Chicago Police Department scrambling for answers, but without clues, a motive, or a suspect, not even the FBI can track down the killer. With the media demanding an arrest and at their wits’ end, the Chicago Police Department makes an urgent ... Read more

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In The Service of Others

David William Pearce

While trying to solve his brother’s apparent suicide, Monk is joined by his father, Moses, and the two do what they can to discover what happened to the Marines on their last tour, and what led so many of them to take their own lives. Monk and Moses find themselves targets, with Monk coming to ... Read more

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An Untapped Source

Amy Martinsen

Reeling from a series of painful losses, CIA agent Kate Ross finds her faith coming into question. If you like undeniable chemistry, page-turning tension, and Christian values in action, then you’ll love Amy Martinsen’s fast-paced series, An Untapped Source. From $0.99 to $2.99 on Kindle. Learn More... Read more

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Free: Scott Jarvis Private Investigator

Scott Cook

A Florida-based tropical private detective series. Loaded with screeching tires, blazing guns, exotic locations and page-turning intrigue. Former cop turned private investigator runs the gamut from mafia murder to international espionage to kidnappings and everything in between. Fraught with action, romance and humor. For anyone who loves Spenser, Marlowe, Doc ford or Jesse McDermitt. Free ... Read more

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The Latitude

Pete Clements

  They fly unseen into the U. S., bound for Midwest and East Coast distribution, invade under cover of night, commandeer homes, and threaten murder. Some brave citizens fight the traffickers, bring high seas chase all the way to Bahamas hideouts, battle vicious gunfire, and even find young love. Who wins? This time, you do. ... Read more

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Free: Death by Dumpling

Elizabeth Rain

Juli’s job is to make sure the Soup of the Day delivers…a daily dose of magic that is…But there’s Murder afoot in Veil Falls. Before she knows it, Juli is on the case, chasing baddies, finding clues, and whipping up the right magical recipes to save them all. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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The Practical Navigator

Chris Crowley

From the decks of the world’s finest yachts to the beds and boardrooms of some of the most powerful people in America to an electrifying courtroom trial in a dying coastal town, The Practical Navigator steers a course through its own labyrinth . . . a whirlpool of obsessive sexuality, murder, and despair. $0.99 on ... Read more

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All In

Jed Henson

Jim Ericssen, a whitehat (mostly) hacker, loses his anonymous, loner lifestyle when he crosses swords with a powerful, alien artificial intelligence burrowed deep into the internet. To get his life back, he must work with the government to defeat it and save humanity. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Blaze In, Blaze Out

Joseph Lewis

Working with a joint multi-law enforcement task force, Detective Pat O’Connor infiltrated a Ukrainian crime family. Headed by Dmitry Andruko. O’Connor and his control, Detective Paul Eiselmann were the lynchpins in the guilty verdict. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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MIDNIGHT SUN: An Alaskan Romantic Suspense (A Grant & Daniels Trilogy Book 1)

Charlotte Raine

Wyatt, Alaska is a place of family, beauty, and unspeakable tragedy. A couple of years after Aaron Grant lost his wife and daughter in a fire, one of his daughter’s best friends, Sarah, is kidnapped. After spending the last two years as the town drunk, he reluctantly investigates the kidnapping along with the ambitious FBI ... Read more

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Murder at the Tea Party: 1920s Historical Cozy Mystery (An Evie Parker Mystery Book 2)

Sonia Parin

Fun 1920s Historical Cozy Mystery Warning: Afternoon tea with Lady Woodridge can be fatal. Evie has her hands full trying to keep the name of Woodridge free of scandal as well as mending fences with her maid Caro. No easy task when one of her afternoon tea guests is poisoned. Is it a coincidence when ... Read more

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Mark of Steel

Lynn Landes

From singing to becoming the target of an unseen enemy… Marina Stephenson fills in at her friend’s bar the night her singer doesn’t show up. It was supposed to be a simple gift to help, but her life is soon in turmoil. Dubbed the “Secret Singer” by the press, Marina’s life is turned upside down ... Read more

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Free: Witcher Upper

Amy Boyles

When Southern witch Clementine Cooke discovers her business partner face-down in poured cement, she becomes the primary suspect in this hilarious paranormal cozy mystery. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Zoe Hearty and the Space Invaders

Te Norris

Zoe Hearty is a serial killer. Even Netflix says so. Well—either that or aliens are real, they invaded earth, possessed her husband, kids, and god knows who else, and Zoe had no choice but to kill her entire family to stop it. But no one wants to hear *that* story. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Hood Legend

CEDRICK WILSON

During a recession, the U.S. government bails out the rich and ignores everyone else. An ex-con returns to his old habits to bail out the people. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Murder at the Tea Party: 1920s Historical Cozy Mystery (An Evie Parker Mystery Book 2)

Sonia Parin

Fun 1920s Historical Cozy Mystery Warning: Afternoon tea with Lady Woodridge can be fatal. Evie has her hands full trying to keep the name of Woodridge free of scandal as well as mending fences with her maid Caro. No easy task when one of her afternoon tea guests is poisoned. Is it a coincidence when ... Read more

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Redemption Song

Steve Beattie

A contrived court case saw vital evidence withheld from his defence team resulted in him convicted to spend a large period of his life behind bars for crimes he was not guilty of committing. Jake Martin found himself driven into a fight to try and clear his name and earn his freedom. In amongst his ... Read more

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Free: A Murder on Wall Street

Owen Parr

A Wall Street executive flies out of a 21st floor window. Is it suicide or homicide? Former NYPD Detective Joey Mancuso, now a private eye and half-owner of an Irish Pub in the financial district of New York has doubts. And so does his half-brother and part-owner of the pub, Father Dominic O’Brian, pastor of ... Read more

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8 Days on Maui

Keith Rees

8 Days on Maui is a fun, yet mysterious and ghostly tale of time travel, romance, passion and murder. This paranormal mystery romance takes place at the famed tavern, the Windsock Lounge: a tiny A-framed bar that sat atop the small terminal at the old Kaanapali airport in West Maui. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: A Murder on Long Island

Owen Parr

TOO MANY LEADS, TWO FEW BREAKS, AND only TEN DAYS TO GO IN THE TRIAL OF THE YEAR… Things are finally turning around at Captain O’Brian’s Pub and Cigar Bar, an oddball location for a PI office, but the kind of warm, buzzy scene every mystery reader loves. After first getting fired, then earning a ... Read more

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Free: Civil Terror: Gridlock

J. Luke Bennecke

Terrorists hack and weaponize the new self-driving car network designed by engineer Jake Bendel, forcing him to partner with a rogue FBI agent to stop a larger national attack. An intense thriller with a plausible scenario from a real-life traffic engineer about artificial intelligence and the self-driving revolution. “Fans of smart, fast-paced thrillers, like those ... Read more

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Kill Joy

Mike Rickett

Kill Joy is the second Naomi Richards story. Children’s author Joy Davis mysteriously disappears after her car crashes during a snowstorm on the outskirts of Liverpool in the UK. Has she simply escaped her cheating and wasteful husband Jon or has something more menacing happened? Could her disappearance be linked to her writing which has ... Read more

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Disturbed Mind

Charlotte Raine

After Grace Ellery a college English teacher had to kill one of her students in self-defense, it seems like things are finally returning to normal…or so she thought. When Grace’s boyfriend Sam starts helping local police detectives investigate a brutal killing, the normal life Grace has been waiting for takes a serious detour. The horrific ... Read more

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Free: Crime Beat Girl

Geri Dreiling

A girl is dead. A boy is locked up. Can Debbie Bradley discover the truth before more lives are lost…maybe even her own? A series of deadly shootings. An outbreak of stolen cars. When journalist Debbie Bradley returns home to St. Louis, the summer crime wave has started. And she’s in the center: A witness, ... Read more

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Free: Red Rover

Leonard Di Gregorio

Holly Flynn’s brother Jeff is involved in a boating accident on Long Island Sound. Holly receives word that her brother is in critical condition and she must return home from college to Port Jefferson, New York. There she finds that the police have accused Jeff of negligent homicide in the death of Jeff’s friend Stephan. ... Read more

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The Book of Souls

Kevin Moore

Jack Kelly, a 47 year old man, remembers everything about his wife and children, but that was his life before his near-death experience. When he awakens, he finds that he’s his thirteen-year-old self with the ability to read people’s minds, recall their pasts, smell their feelings and fears, see and hear dead people, demons, ghosts, ... Read more

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The Lost City of the Condor

Vickie Britton

A Reader’s Favorite Finalist in Adventure. While traveling on a local bus in Chinchero, Peru, Arla is approached by a mysterious female peddler who shows her a small, silver warrior. The statue is identical to those found only in rare Inca tombs located high in the Andes. Arla suspects this is a genuine artifact, perhaps ... Read more

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Free: Cold Justice

Nolon King

The bestselling authors of Yesterday’s Gone, 12, and No Justice bring you a brand new series that blends mystery and suspense into pulse-pounding, revenge-seeking thriller action. A collection of corrupt men inside the justice system ruined his cousin Frank’s life, and now Stan Manning is going to make them pay. Instead of starting at the bottom, he enlists the ... Read more

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The Big Farewell

Dan Leissner

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

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A Disturbing Nature

Brian Lebeau

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

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Sixty Positions with Pleasure

Sahlan Diver

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

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Free: Destiny’s Demise

Atsie Newt

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

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Free: Escape to Osprey Cove

Luisa Marietta Gold

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

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Sauvignon Slaying

Elizabeth Rain

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

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Bangkok Blues

Stephen Shaiken

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

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Free: Thick as Thieves: A Cozy Mystery with a Twist

Mary B. Barbee

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

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