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!
The Silent Forest
In New Haven, everything is changing. And theres no going back now. It’s been weeks since Allison went missing, and everyone has given up except for Kaia. New Haven mourns their dead as she keeps looking. And now, she’s starting to find answers. As the unsolved cases pile up, a new discovery in the forest ... Read more
Shadows of Darkness
Four ruthless criminals on Death Row are chosen to participate in a three-month groundbreaking clinical trial facilitated by Dr. Alicia Sharp, utilizing cutting-edge Psychological Rehabilitation through Virtual Reality (VR) technology. Crafted scenarios within the VR experiences are designed to evoke empathy, remorse, and emotional healing by confronting the criminals with the consequences of their actions. ... Read more
The Ville: Volume I
Colorful crime novel situated in Louisville, Ky. Through the course of his seemingly mundane life, community college professor Jared Longley encounters organize criminals, who threaten to take away everything loves. He has to rely upon an unlikely source to claw to hold onto the life he has worked hard to provide for himself. It is ... Read more
Mountain Captive: A Tale of Survival and Escape
Survive the Wilderness: A Tale of Unyielding Spirit When Jill Harper decides to navigate the serene yet untamed Appalachian Mountains, she envisions a tranquil drive home from college for her spring break. The journey she’s made countless times before takes a harrowing detour, thrusting her into an unforeseen survival ordeal. Amidst the dense canopy and ... Read more
The Embalmer: A Steve Jobz PI Thriller
When the Albany Police Department calls on Jobz to look into a series of horrific killing, it’s chance for him to get out of the office for a while. But what he doesn’t realize is that he’s about to come face to face with a serial killer who embalms his victims alive. What he is ... Read more
O’SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS INC. The Cases Nobody Wanted
The homefront, summer 1942, Brooklyn, New York. Maeve O’Shaughnessy is left to manage her brothers’ detective agency and her 15 year-old brother as they are off fighting in WW II, but she is struggling. Then ex-cop Vic Marino shows up one day saying he’s going to help her. Maeve protests but Vic says she has ... Read more
Free: The Winterstone Murder (The Woodhead & Becker Mysteries Book 1)
A graduate student has been poisoned with a hallucinogen in a historic chapel in Milwaukee in the dead of winter. As the list of suspects grows, can a forensic toxicologist with a nose for trouble and a disgraced federal investigator find the killer? Start this new series from USA Today bestselling author Paul Austin Ardoin. ... Read more
Shadowed Obsession
Her stalkers message is deadly clear. She’s his. When Keira ORyan starts receiving photos of herself at business events, she assumes its just another office prank. Then the situation takes a menacing turn when the spotlight shifts to her personal life. As the photos pile up, Keira comes to a chilling realization she has a ... Read more
If He’d Never Seen: A Dana De Witte Mystery
A lonely road a foggy night a woman trying to move forward A troubled young man, who tried desperately to right the wrongs of his past and bring the truth to light. A death. Murder? Accident? Dana De Witte wants more than anything to find a cold case that would be a good subject for ... Read more
Team Reaper: Volume One
ITS A RACE AROUND THE WORLD FULL OF HEART-POUNDING ACTION, AND TEAM REAPER REFUSES TO RETREAT. After being betrayed and shooting the two of the most powerful men in the Irish Mob, John Reaper Kane is forced into hiding. Seeking refuge in the seemingly quiet town of Retribution, Arizona, Reaper soon discovers that appearances can ... Read more
Holmes on the Range: A Western Mystery Series
SHERLOCK HOLMES MEETS THE OLD WEST IN THIS THRILLING MURDER MYSTERY ON A KILLER RANCH. Its 1893, and wandering cowboy brothers Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer are down to their last few pennies. When a job becomes available at a ranch run by a confident and enigmatic foreman, neither brother can say no. $0.99 ... Read more
Free: Malevolent (Shaye Archer Series Book 1)
Shaye Archers life effectively began the night police found her in an alley with no memory of the previous 15 years. Now, she’s a PI who gets answers for her clients, and maybe for herself. When her new client Emma claims she’s being stalked, Shaye is determined to help. Emma knows her stalker, but the ... Read more
A Moment of Distraction
This gripping new FBI thriller turns into a race against time to rescue a serial killer’s latest victim. The killer is smart and hiding in plain sight. He’s turned the hunters into the hunted. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Silent Child
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
Busted on Broadway
Broadway actors are being murdered for no apparent reason until a PI gets help from an unexpected source to solve a case the NYPD can’t. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Copper Isle Ghostslayer
Layla Devereaux, an exceptionally perceptive nature photographer and former investigative journalist, travels to an isolated island and finds that it is inhabited by ghosts as she tries to find out what really happened to a lighthouse tour guide there the previous summer and free her brother from prison for a murder he didn’t commit. $3.99 ... Read more
Free: Hoofprints in Saguaro Shadows
Set in the beauty of the American Southwest, “Hoofprints in Saguaro Shadows” portrays the complicated dynamics presented in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, bringing to life the intensified fears and vulnerabilities at the U.S.-Mexico border a frontier of both hope and peril. Amidst this volatile backdrop, Rye Dalton, a fiercely independent woman, and ... Read more
Your Brain’s Still Flashing
When Simon Steed gets released from the mental hospital, he needs a job to pay his bills. And quick! At last, he convinces a night court judge to let him represent indigent clients. Once Simon settles in at his childhood home again, he meets friendly neighbors, including a mysterious woman who is at first only ... Read more
Redemption Grove
Chris and Max, two men who are each struggling to find their own reasons to live, navigate the wilderness of Alaska, where they’ll either become better men or die trying. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
NJA Club Series
In this exotic noir thriller series, US expat lawyer Glenn Murray Cohen and his eclectic friends from Bangkok’s mysterious NJA Club, are constantly drawn into dangerous intrigues. Follow them as they battle Russian gangsters, North Korean hitmen, Chinese spies, the American Mafia, and at times, the CIA. Stephen Shaiken has lived and worked in Bangkok, ... Read more
Frontier Justice: A Coogan Mystery
Danny Coogan, a Montana Fish and Game Officer and Afghanistan veteran, hopes for a simple life in the small town of Darwin. But life becomes a nightmare when he is shot and left alone in the freezing countryside to struggle for survival. His assailant? A local he had considered a friend. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Frontier Outlaws: A Coogan Mystery
Months after nearly losing his life, Danny Coogan, a Montana Fish and Game Officer, faces a new threat. It starts with a dead steer. Which happens to be near the body of a dead rancher. With the flavor of a down-home yarn and the intensity of a high adventure, FRONTIER OUTLAWS offers fans a thrilling ... Read more
Free: Snapped
Fresh out of training and ready to dig in, fledgling FBI agent Jade Monroe is tasked to join the hunt for the single-minded murderer whos been terrorizing Houston, Texas. But when the investigation brings her face-to-face with the killer, Jade drops off the radar and must rely on her wits if she ever hopes to ... Read more
The Spy from Palestine
British-controlled Palestine, 1947. Teeming with murders and treachery. Here prize-winning American war journalist, Charly Lawrence, and her lover, Jonas Shaw, ex-Churchill bodyguard and spy, arrive on a dangerous mission: amid this scrap of desert, fought over for centuries, find a Jewish survivor of a notorious WWII Nazi massacre in Europe. Then interview her for a ... Read more
Silent Child
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
The Secret Between Them
Sage Witten’s dream of a fairy-tale marriage turns into a nightmare when she discovers she’s being watched. At 23, she thought she knew her millionaire investor husband, Braxton, but the more she learns, the more she realizes she’s married to a stranger. A chilling encounter with her stalker forces Sage to question everything, even her ... Read more
The Sellout
A writer of trashy thrillers is punished by having to live inside the novel of an even trashier author. This comic thriller won the 2024 IndieReader Discovery Award for humor. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: West End Justice
Everything in Detective Morgan Fosters life is a secret Living in West End, West Virginia wasn’t part of the plan, but the murders of her husband, Peter, and her partner, AJ Roth, have sent her into hiding. For a while, everything seemed to be fine, but two dead bodies at her waitressing job tell another ... Read more
No More Secrets and Lies: A MJ Lange Mystery
When psychotherapist, MJ Lange, decides to go back to work after a harrowing, near fatal death experience, she takes on a young client who brings secrets and lies along with him, making it almost impossible for her to manage his treatment properly. Unbeknownst to her, this young man came with a dark secret he kept ... Read more
Free: A Dish Best Served Cold
When author and amateur sleuth Victoria Rienzi and her family host a 75th anniversary celebration at the Casa Lido, the party gets crashed twice once by down-on-his-luck family friend Pete Petrocelli, and then by a seasonal hurricane, leaving much of Oceanside Park without power. When the lights come back on, a drunken Pete is the ... Read more
Free: Will Harper Florida Thrillers: Vol. 1-3
WILL HARPER MYSTERIES VOL. 1-3: SUNSHINE STATE INTRIGUE Join Will Harper, a semi-retired journalist-turned-detective in Florida, in this thrilling box set that navigates through corruption, greed, and murder. Featuring “Million Dollar Staircase” with a city-wide conspiracy, “Guilty Money” uncovering a corrupt prison system, and “Florida Burning” tracing an environmental disaster linked to a deadly plot, ... Read more
The Vatican Dictator
Father Mario Marino is your average, unsuspecting priest in Rome. But when he is tasked with digitizing the Vatican’s Secret Archives, he stumbles upon a revelation that shakes the very core of his faith: A hidden journal penned by Pope Pius XII exposes his secret manipulation of Adolf Hitler’s ascent to power, revealing a clandestine ... Read more
Where the Light Shines Through: An Olivia Penn Mystery
A shocking murder. Family secrets revealed. Her life will never be the same. Olivia Penn is looking forward to visiting her father while spring is in bloom in her beautiful hometown of Apple Station, Virginia. Her plans to enjoy a week of relaxation with her friends and family vanish, though, when a mysterious murder occurs ... Read more
Free: Louisiana Longshot (A Miss Fortune Mystery, Book 1)
Miss Congeniality meets The Golden Girls in this hilarious mystery set in southern Louisiana. With a price on her head and a leak at the CIA, assassin Fortune Redding undertakes her most difficult mission ever in Sinful, LA. Armed with her considerable skills and two ladies the locals dub The Geritol Mafia, Fortune decides to ... Read more
Free: Keeper of the Algorithm
Once a misfit dropout, Mike now controls the fate of man versus machine. As technology’s grip tightens, a haunting question emerges: Does anyone hold the reins of the omnipotent Algorithm? Enter an unlikely hero an aimless dropout who unwittingly finds himself at the nexus of power. Tall and lean, Mike has deep-set hazel eyes that ... Read more
Free: Escape to Osprey Cove
An unusual find in the secret compartment of Doug’s Corvette will change lives forever– a tale of love, betrayal, and wealth, weaved into a spellbinding mystery–from the scenic Rideau Lakes in Canada to the beautiful shores of the Caribbean. Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Unwelcomed
A hugely influential account that qualifies as jaw-dropping. (William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist) What did it all mean? And how did each of these murders link with the serial killings of Jack the Ripper and H. H. Holmes? The answer, the grizzled lawman discovers, is more shocking than he could ever imagine! $0.99 ... Read more
Free: Run For Your Life
Detective Mitch Cannon is excited about his date with a new friend, Liza, but a blocked call starts five days of pure hell. Mitch’s sister, Marie, is missing. The next day, Mitch’s partner, Devon, and Liza disappear too. The only clue is from a caller saying, Ticktock, ticktock. Mitch begins a white-knuckled search before they’re ... Read more
1/6: Will Be Wild
1/6: Will Be Wild is an alternate history/political thriller. On January 6, 2021, over 100,000 people showed up at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to attend President Trumps Stop the Steal rally. For four hours, the crowd was whipped into a frenzy by speakers exhortations to Never give up! Never conceded! The President of ... Read more
Free: Runway Dreams
Meet the Price family. Their lives seem perfect… until they’re turned upside down by murder, mayhem, and espionage. Watch them work, play, fall in love, and grieve their losses as they navigate the baffling new world they’ve stumbled into in this thrilling mystery/suspense series. Free to $2.99 on Kindle. Learn More... Read more
