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!

Free: The Dead Girl’s Stilettos

Quinn Avery

After a Jane Doe is murdered in journalist Bexley Squires’s hometown, she’s hired by one of Hollywood’s brightest stars to clear his name as a suspect. But her skills as an amateur sleuth weren’t enough to find her missing sister. Does she have what it takes to find a killer? When she returns to California, ... Read more

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The Peyton Brooks Mysteries

ML Hamilton

NOW AVAILABLE IN ONE VOLUME – THE ORIGINAL PEYTON BROOKS’ MYSTERY SERIES BOX SET Get all eight of the popular Peyton Brooks’ Mysteries in a single box set, including the prequel, Murder in the Painted Lady. Over 1,000 pages of action and adventure from San Francisco’s top detective.The Peyton Brooks’ Mystery series follows the career ... Read more

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Now & Then

Justin M. Kiska

In the spring of 1981, Parker City is rocked by a series of unthinkable murders. Decades later, the case comes back to haunt the detectives involved. Did they get it wrong all those years ago? Find out in the first installment of the Parker City Mysteries Series. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: A Deadline Cozy Mystery

Sonia Parin

Eve Lloyd’s attempt to revamp her life turns her into a magnet for murder and mayhem and the idyllic small town of Rock-Maine Island into a stomping ground for killers. Even when she sets her heart on a swanky new stove, she lands right in the thick of a murder investigation with the finger of ... Read more

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Free: FORGOTTEN FEARS

C.E. Nelson

Agent Don Trask had relentlessly pursued his parents’ killer for years, and now he was getting too close. The sister of his fiancee has been murdered, a note pinned to her body warning Trask to stop, telling him more will die. The choice will not be easy. Free on Kindle.... 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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Silent Child

Sarah A. Denzil

In the summer of 2006, Emma Price watched helplessly as her six-year-old son’s red coat was fished out of the River Ouse. It was the tragic story of the year – a little boy, Aiden, wandered away from school during a terrible flood, fell into the river, and drowned. His body was never recovered. Ten ... Read more

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Free: Sweet Murder

Madison Kent

In Madeline Donovan’s hometown of Chicago in June 1891, life is brimming with new industry. A Chicago first, an ambulance service begins and two friends volunteer there. When they urge the female sleuth to attend one of their sessions to meet with someone who says all manner of mystery things are happening in the park. ... Read more

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Free: Agent Red:Fatal Memory: Teagan Stone Book #1- Gripping Mystery, Suspense and Crime Thriller (Agent Red:Teagan Stone Series)

Ava S King

Early in her military career, Teagan Stone was recruited from the Navy to work with an elite group, where she became a notorious spy. After many years of service, all she wants to do is focus on her husband and three kids. Instead of enjoying retirement, she wakes up one day and finds herself chained ... Read more

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Free: Killing Rebecca

K. J. North

An Ordinary Life… Marni Rome lives a happy life with her husband and two beautiful children. Her heart is filled with love for them. It’s a life that excites her every morning when she gets out of bed. She is lucky to be living in a beautiful home overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and she loves ... Read more

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Free: The Divine Devils

R Weir

Two teenage siblings in peril. A mysterious group with an agenda to abduct them. The call going out to former US Marshal, Hunter Divine. Hunter and his team toeing the line between virtue and vile. Drawing on brawn, halos and pitchforks the Divine Devils are willing to move heaven and hell! Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Circle Of Betrayal

Ruth O'Neill

Lena Farnham has it all: a job she loves, a wonderful husband, a huge house, and a baby about to arrive. She’s the happiest she’s ever been, and she can’t believe how lucky she is. Unfortunately, Lena’s luck is about to run out. Even the most perfect people can have dark pasts – and even ... Read more

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Free: Never Been Traced

Kenneth S. Kappelmann

Detective Tomas O’Malley is called to the site of a murdered teenager. As the case unfolds, O’Malley learns that this teenager was the school bully, dealing in everything from taunting sports players to date-rape and assault. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Big Shot

Kirsten Weiss

Small Town. Big Murder. The number one secret to my success as a bodyguard? Staying under the radar. But when a wildly public disaster blew up my career and reputation, my perfect, solo life took a hard left turn to crazy town. And to bodies. Lots of dead bodies. I thought my tiny hometown of ... Read more

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Free: Murder at Beachside

A.M. Holloway

A detective by chance, not by choice. A quiet Florida town until… They beat the town’s business owners within an inch of their lives. No one speaks of the crime. This time, they beat the wrong man. Clint Rugbee, ex-Marine, lay in the room next door. He rescues Ralph by shooting the two guys holding ... Read more

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Killing The Girl

Elizabeth Hill

Carol found loving Frankie easy. Killing him was easy too. When his body is found, Carol will have to face justice. But she’s not the only one with blood on her hands. Who else deserves to die? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Cold Secrets: A Swamp Yankee Mystery

James Y. Bartlett

Julius Haddock, the former chief of police of the small town of Little Penwick in the smallest state of Rhode Island, is out for revenge against those who conspired to put him in jail. But first, he takes up a 30-year-old cold case and begins to discover secrets … new and old … that refuse ... Read more

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Big Shot

Kirsten Weiss

  Small Town. Big Murder. The number one secret to my success as a bodyguard? Staying under the radar. But when a wildly public disaster blew up my career and reputation, my perfect, solo life took a hard left turn to crazy town. And to bodies. Lots of dead bodies. I thought my tiny hometown ... Read more

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Superstitions and Apparitions (The Sisters, Texas Mystery Series, Book 13)

Becki Willis

Superstitions? Ghosts? Or a twisted sense of greed? Book 13 of the award-winning The Sisters, Texas Mystery Series. Madison deCordova has another quirky assignment. This time, a highly superstitious client wants her to spend seven days and seven nights in a newly inherited house to declare it ‘haunt-free.’ With an address like 1313 Omen Lane, ... Read more

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The Book of Souls

Kevin Moore

The dead don’t come back, but some never leave… Jack Kelly remembers everything about his wife and children. The wonderful smell of his wife’s hair, the way she whispers to him at night. His three children running through the house, the sound of their laughter. That was his life before the accident. His near-death experience ... Read more

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Free: Silver or Lead

James Cox

“What would you do if you found out that the person you were trying to save might have to kill you?” Teddy Dabrowski is a man harboring a dark secret until one fateful day a horrific crime at his favorite coffee house forces him to confront his past. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Blown

Nolon King

She can pay with her life … or she can pay with her crimes. Alison Tanner thought she was living her best life. Her husband’s seven-figure consulting business earned them entry into the country club crowd and paid for her gifted daughter’s tuition at the best private school in the area. She lives in a ... Read more

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A Dozen Strange Tales

William See

A Dozen Strange Tales is twelve stories from the mind of William See. Unexplainable coincidences, strange sightings, misguided adventures, legends, and outright fibs are wrapped together in one entertaining collection. Set in multiple locations during various eras of time, these stories range from unbelievably impossible to completely true. In the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe ... 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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Silenced: Consent Of The Governed Book One

B.D. Lutz

Jack Stinger has been silenced! But have they underestimated the Stinger family? Government is supposed to exist at the consent of the governed. What happens when it doesn’t? $0.99 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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When Dawn Never Comes

Kim Carter

When Dawn Never Comes Now a Book Excellence Award Winner… Jordan Maxwell, a twenty-seven-year-old freelance journalist, ventures to New York City to make a name for herself. With both of her parents dead, she struggles to get by living in one of the worst neighborhoods in the city. In a twist of fate, Jordan finds ... Read more

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Unmitigated Violence

Jason Creed

What does it take for one man to break another’s legs and throw him on a bonfire just to savor the screams? Each day, the system fails to bring any justice for Victor, things only get worse until he decides to take matters into his own hands and speak to the Dirty Kingz street gang ... Read more

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Free: Plan to Kill

C.V. Hamilton

When the President of the United States and the Supreme Court succeed in reversing Roe vs. Wade, four outraged Las Vegas professional women, each with a personal abortion experience, plan an assassination. A restaurateur, a retired Toxicology Specialist, a CPA, and a Congresswoman each contribute to the brazen plan. Can they pull it off? After ... Read more

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Free: The Bones Will Tell

Vickie McKeehan

A serial killer has the city of Seattle gripped in fear. As his bloody total continues to mount, Skye Cree gets dragged into the mix by her longtime friend, homicide detective Harry Drummond. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Soldiers of Freedom

Samuel Marquis

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. $3.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Sniper’s Nest

C. M. Sutter

The ambush is in place, he takes aim, and shots ring out. Chicago is officially on notice, and a siege is underway on the city’s men and women in blue. Assigned to the task force investigating the shootings, Jesse McCord and twenty of Chicago’s top-notch detectives work day and night to track down the sniper ... Read more

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Free: Hollow Stars

Lauryn Dyan

As lead singer of popular, emerging rock band, Tracing Stars, Kennedy has the swagger of a badass, or at least she used to. While caught up in the booze, passion, and chaos of her first major rock tour, her dreams are erased by a string of ever-worsening blackouts. Now, the instability of her mind has ... Read more

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Free: The Lamb

J.E. Clarkson

When city detective Kate Monroe endures a bitter break up, her only option is to relocate back up north to the town of her birth, Barnsworth. She soon finds that her detecting skills are in demand, as a mysterious serial killer stalks Barnsworth’s streets seemingly picking victims at random. Who is this faceless killer and ... Read more

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Free: ACTION-PAK

Paul Roberts

Discover ACTION-PAK Series–one-of-a-kind global thrillers loaded with rapid-fire action, unthinkable international intrigues, heart-stopping cliffhangers, jaw-dropping surprises, explosive secrets and mayhem that will send you running for shelter. Start reading…Book 1–PERMANENT ENEMY is FREE. Books 2-6: $0.99 Each for Limited Time. Grab ’em all now. Thought-provoking high entertainment. All titles available in Kindle Unlimited. Free to ... Read more

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Mayan Shadows

Craig Hart

Maxwell Barnes is an archeologist and the son of an archeologist. He and his companion, friend, and brother since youth, Axel Morales, have been treasure hunting for their benefactor Myron Crabtree, in the jungles of Guatemala. This area, not coincidentally, is also rumored to be the location of the last great city of the Maya, ... Read more

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Free: SCAM A-LAMA DING DONG

Jinx James

Humorous dark comedy for fans of Carl Hiassen. Humorous crime fiction author Jinx James exposes the sleazy side of rock ‘n roll and ShowBiz. When you’ve been a rock star as long as Marc Charles has, you’ve seen a few shady scams in your time, but never one quite like this. Cory, the dude from ... Read more

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The Link

Dennis Shock

James Brickman is an investigator for the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Department. When his personal life collides with his work life he finds himself racing to save a young girl held captive by human traffickers. Traversing a peninsula in the Pacific North West, this unyielding ex-detective puts his life on the line in the name of ... Read more

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Do No Harm

James Cohoon

2020 American Fiction Award winner for Best Medical Thriller Doctors go to medical school to save lives… right? When Matthew Preston was eight, his father was shot and killed in rarefied Pacific Palisades by Ted Nash, a home burglar who happened to be the Preston’s neighbor. Though Nash was sentenced to life in San Quentin, ... Read more

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Free: Not Dead Yet (Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Book 7)

Willow Rose

Secrets lead to lies and lies to murder in this pulse-pounding thriller with lots of shocking twists. Has former FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas finally gotten herself in deeper than she can handle? When the body of Nancy Henry is pulled out of the water of Sykes Creek by two local fishermen, they soon realize she’s ... Read more

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