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!
Fake News
Twenty years after Bill and Valerie Clark sell their newspaper, the new owner dies in prison and leaves the paper to his daughter. It doesn’t go well for her until a high school English teacher takes over. Before that happens the teacher gets fired, accused of murder, and hooks up with a beautiful FBI agent. ... Read more
Shiny Lies
Aydin returned home to Denver with a plan. The SpecOps Commando and his desert wingman, Phil, are going to make it back in the world. There’s money in software if you work hard, get lucky, and stay alive. The thing is, he never counted on his wife, Allison, using their past within The Program to ... Read more
A Luca Mystery Series Box Set Books 1 – 3 (Luca Mystery Box Set Series)
Three cases you won’t believe… …and a detective you’ll adore. In twenty years, he’s never been challenged like this. In this boxed set, Frank Luca will need to get to the bottom of an open and shut case that is anything but, take on a murder in Florida that has him second-guessing himself, and track ... Read more
So You Found The Body, Huh
When the sarcastic and mischievous Charlotte is whisked away from her university lecture by some very serious men in impeccable suits, she believes it to be a great opportunity to be able to skip class. The only problem is that she will have to miss a few more classes than anticipated since she is not ... Read more
Connections, Conflict & Murder
A walk in the park, a dead body, and dangerous discoveries. Making connections results in amateur sleuth, Stacie Maroni, and her friends in the crosshairs of a murderer. Mystery with a side of humor. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Jabberwock
Nower County was never a hard place to leave. But now, leaving is impossible. When drunk teenagers add letters to the Welcome to Nower County sign, making it Welcome to NoWherE County, nobody repaints it. Because, Why bother? Everyone knows they live in the middle of nowhere. A bizarre storm blows through the Appalachian Mountains ... Read more
Jessup
Jessup is a broken man, scarred physically and emotionally, by what he witnessed during World War 2, and now cleans the toilets of prisoners to make money to buy alcohol. When not arguing with his best friend, Marlow, he broods in his room and contemplates suicide as the only way to escape his pain. But ... Read more
If She Dies
Nine months ago, Tess’s five-year-old daughter was killed in a car accident. The driver, Brady Becker, was sentenced to two years in prison. It didn’t make Tess’s pain go away. Brady also has a daughter: A twelve-year-old named Eve who walks to Chandler Middle School every day. Tess knows this because she’s been watching Eve ... Read more
Genesis (Harry Starke Genesis Book 1)
She was the one that got away. It was a dark and stormy night… No kidding, it really was. I’d quit the police force only a couple of days earlier – that was back in 2008 – and I was on my way to a poker game at the Sorbonne when a shadow crossed in ... Read more
Lucy & Eve
Burying a body was a bonding experience for Lucy and Eve. Keeping it secret could tear them apart. $1.35 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
Project Renaissance: White Wings
After his family vanishes, Detective Booker’s reality fractures. Upon receiving a cryptic 3-word warning, his search uncovers a chilling conspiracy. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Lost Moments
Haley has survived a horrific accident, but she was not the only one involved. After fleeing the scene, she seeks shelter in an unfamiliar town. Suffering from amnesia, details of her life are foggy and she carefully conceals details of the accident while she struggles to remember who she is, where she’s from, and why ... Read more
Good Lookin’: A Joe Turner Mystery
Kirkus Reviews called Good Lookin’ “a rigorous, thoroughly engrossing mystery from a writer with immense potential.” Defense attorney Joe Turner’s latest case seems impossible to unravel. At its heart is a decade old crime that has the murder trial of his young client hanging in the balance. It’s a modern day whodunnit with a bombshell ... Read more
Lost Contact
A mysterious object in space. An archaeologist in search of answers. A cult hailing the end of the world. The Bridge awaits… The Da Vinci Code meets Contact in this near-future SciFi thriller. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Lotus Jar
Eve LaVoy is a Royal Canadian Mounted Police training instructor. A man called Munroe contacts her with important information about her past. She travels to Lompoc California to meet him, but Munroe fails to show. Lee Maron is a traumatised ex-L.A. vice cop. When Eve LaVoy starts asking questions about a violent assault, Maron sees ... Read more
The Trap (Billy Jo McCabe Mystery Book 4)
On a cold and rainy night, Billy Jo McCabe receives a troubling phone call about a child in trouble. But when she shows up alone, things quickly go sideways, and she realizes her mistake. “When Billy Jo is called in the middle of the night to assist a child, she ends up being kidnapped. But ... Read more
Pieces of Murder
Why are all these bodies buried on this Montana mountainside? And who did it? While walking with its owner, a dog unearthed a skull on a popular walking trail in Montana, and that was just the beginning. Just like always, FBI Agent Watson summoned Digger Collins, a forensic anthropologist, to Montana for the bone recovery ... Read more
Nothing As It Seems (Billy Jo McCabe Mystery Book 1)
The social worker and the cop, an unlikely couple drawn together on a small, secluded Pacific Northwest island where nothing is as it seems. Protecting the innocent comes at a cost, and what seems to be a sleepy, quiet town is anything but. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Plane in the Lake
Tony Valenti is up against a legal behemoth trying to pin a deadly air tour crash on a pair of mechanics. Tony is already on the ropes when he finds himself and his family in the cross-hairs of a far more dangerous enemy than win-at-all-cost lawyers and a corrupt corporation. He’s suddenly in a race ... Read more
Blue Falcon
Former airman turned celebrated war-movie TV host Deron ‘Ace Claymore’ Barron is about to discover that certain casualties of war don’t always stay buried. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Off Track
Trouble follows Captain Gordon Sewell. It always has. He never seeks it. It just finds him. Bad decisions, bad luck, and bad timing conspire against him, but he never gives up. Quitting is not in his nature. When Collin Cook finds Captain Sewell, trouble is not far behind. Soon, the two men’s fates are intertwined ... Read more
Moral Misconduct
You Can Choose Your Friends. You Can’t Always Choose Your Partner. NYPD homicide detective Frank Flynn catches the worst case there is; a murdered police officer. Forced to team up with Internal Affairs investigator Christine Levy, they must get past their differences and learn to work together, and more importantly, trust each other, if they’re ... Read more
Sleeping Dogs
The brilliant debut paranormal crime mystery from British author Wendy Turbin. Penny Wiseman is a failing PI, trying to save her father’s business from collapse. On the trail of a husband suspected of cheating, she’s suddenly haunted by the ghost of a teenage girl, forcing Penny’s investigation to take some unexpected twists and turns. $2.99 ... Read more
Quick Sands
Money. Love. Murder. Sand? Ex-FBI intelligence analyst Theo Ramage doesn’t want to die in an endless West Texas wasteland, but there’s gold in them thar hills… or rather, dunes, and old habits die hard. The fracking craze in the Permian Basin has made Texas sand worth billions, transforming the endless sea of windswept dunes into ... Read more
Disquiet at the Dive Shack: Murder at the Bed & Breakfast
A murder in paradise. Shelby is at it again. The tourists at a charming bed & breakfast on Palawan Island are in for a surprise when a fellow guest is murdered. All the vacationers are exhibiting strange behaviors. Everyone is on the list of suspects. Shelby is on the case, investigating the guests and watching ... Read more
Privateers
“Newton is the real deal. I’ll read anything he writes.” — Lee Child Marines storm Haiti’s Banque Nationale, loot $26 million in gold, then vanish. A century later, clues surface during demolition of a Chicago racetrack. Three fierce, vibrant women reunite to hunt the treasure, hoping it will buy their survival from past entanglements. $0.99 ... Read more
The Path of the Tapir
Chloe Summers and Peyton Paddington travel to Costa Rica on a lark. For these two free-spirited, college-age girls, it’s a find-yourself, sort-out-your-life trip filled with sun, surf, sex, and the awakening of an eco-consciousness. Good times. When they turn up dead—burned in a mysterious fire on the property of a palm oil company—private investigator Philip ... Read more
Free: Graveyard Bound
Jack Ryder is a private detective in Greenwich Village, NYC. It is 1943 and Ryder must confront a Nazi spy, help a man who wants to find a woman he saw on a train platform, and face a romantic rival. Free on Kindle.... Read more
In The Black
CIA’s most valued Russian double agents are being methodically assassinated one-by-one. At Langley Center headquarters itself—Jack Barrett, the Director of Central Intelligence, barely escapes assassination by a trusted employee. When the Agency discovers the attacks originate from a Russian top secret cyberwarfare program called Chernyy Almaz, or Black Diamond, a mind-control program, CIA must respond ... Read more
Missing: A James Lalonde Novella
Excalibur is Missing. A Killer is on the Loose. One Reporter is Determined to Uncover the Truth.James has a nose for trouble. But that’s nothing new.This time, things are different……his life is on the line.James is the chief editor of a small newspaper. It’s hardly captivating work. He’s bored. But all of that is about ... Read more
Free: Rumspringa
A madman with a god complex. A trail of bodies with no end in sight. Can a psychologist stop the murder spree before he’s the next victim? Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: A Wolf in Our Midst
Jack Parr is a lawyer. Entrepreneur and philanthropist Danny Boyle is his most important client. They are family friends — Jack’s wife worships Danny after he tried to save her dad’s life. But Danny’s Excalibur Foundation for Disadvantaged Youth is not what it seems. Police discover the mutilated body of a young woman and expect ... Read more
Free: Brass and Brick: A Military School Mystery
Joe Bamberg, former military school cadet and current reporter, is sent out to his old alma mater to cover the untimely and somewhat suspicious death of a cadet. The circumstances remind Joe of a friend of his who committed suicide at the school twenty years ago. Then Joe finds out that maybe his friend didn’t ... Read more
Redemption
Will the American and Iranian Air Force TOP GUNS meet in aerial combat? An orphaned teenager stands before three graves and in despair and desperation enters the United States Air Force as a driver. Inspired by the pilots he ferries to their planes; Harry rises in the Air Force to become a TOP GUN fighter ... Read more
Free: The Adelaide Henson Mystery Series
This series starts with Book One, leading into Book Two, and features a female protagonist as a detective assigned to a case of a murdered woman. The investigation leads the detective to Miami and Chicago to interview leads involving criminals and contract killers. The identity of the killer is quite a surprise, but the story ... Read more
Free: Mafia Madame
1955- Gangster Joe Spagnoli, and his young friend Tony Spilotro, meet Mario DeStefano when they beat up and stab his bodyguard at a local bar. Why? Because he stepped on Tony’s new shoes. That’s when Spagnoli and Spilotro began their apprenticeship with Chicago’s own homegrown sociopath, Mario’s brother, “Mad Sam” DeStefano. After Spagnoli added ‘collector’ ... Read more
Free: Shrouded Memory
What You Don’t Remember Can Hurt You Rian Field has it all. A thriving career as a marine biologist, a loving husband, and a loyal circle of friends. But after surviving a shark attack, she becomes strangely haunted by disturbing memories where two masked men held her hostage in her own home. Before long, nightmares ... Read more
The Last Bite (A Deadline Cozy Mystery Book 4)
Eve Lloyd’s childhood nemesis, Charlotte McLain, is getting married. Nothing will induce Eve to attend the wedding. Nothing except blackmail. When the groom suddenly dies, all fingers of blame are pointed at Eve. The list of suspects is extensive, but she’s sure she can narrow it down to… at least a half dozen people. $0.99 ... Read more
Free: The Omega Strain (Mitch Herron 1)
Mitch Herron’s business is death and business is good. An assassin without equal, Herron’s latest job is no walk in the park, because fanatics hell-bent on cleansing the planet ambush Herron and turn him into a walking bioweapon. With only days before he’s used to spread the most lethal contagion in human history, Herron must ... Read more
