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!

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Lisa Haddock

Carmen risks her life to bring a child killer to justice. Meanwhile, Julia, tall, athletic, and funny with zero credentials as a lesbian, turns on the charm as she pursues Carmen. The author weaves a story of love, loyalty, and the fight for justice in this engaging mystery-romance. $0.99 on Kindle... Read more

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Death of a Telenovela Star

Teresa Dovalpage

Teresa Dovalpage’s deliciously twisted novella, set on a Caribbean cruise, showcases the dark—sometimes deadly—side of celebrity. Former Havana detective Marlene Martínez, now happily running a bakery in Miami, has booked a week-long cruise to Mexico and the Caribbean with her niece, Sarita, as the girl’s quinceañera present. Sarita is beyond thrilled to discover that a ... Read more

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Smell You Later

Noel Cash

Rory Harper, after finding two bodies, solved one murder, but not the second. That was last week. This week, it’s a new job and a kidnapped seven-year-old. $3.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Accidental Lazarus

Kfir Luzzatto

It is sort of annoying having dead people dropping by at all hours… A paranormal detective like Dave Callaghan has already seen everything, but he never expected to find a presumed dead mobster drinking scotch in his armchair. He is definitely unhappy when he (it?) engages him to find out who shot him. But the ... Read more

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The Lies of Our Fathers

Jonathan Mark

Antioch 1098. A Crusader knight saves the lives of a Muslim family. Ankara 2000. An ancient bible is discovered. Iran 2005. A son hunts his terrorist father. Richard Helford, MI6 agent, is searching for his father, a wanted terrorist. A search for the truth will take him from the Greek islands to the deserts of ... Read more

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Deep Flakes Christmas: A Nisse Visit

Joy Ann Ribar

Baker/vintner Frankie Champagne is named coordinator for the Deep Lakes Holiday Festival in the unexpected absences of the town officials. What should be a piece of cake for the confident multi-tasker is a half-baked fiasco when the town is buried by snowstorms, and the official Christmas tree and its delivery truck driver go missing. With ... Read more

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Kamas Trilogy Box Set (Books 1-3): Dystopian Political Thriller

Preston Fleming

The Kamas Trilogy Box Set (Books 1-3) contains the complete text of all three novels in the Kamas Trilogy (FORTY DAYS AT KAMAS; STAR CHAMBER BROTHERHOOD; and EXILE HUNTER) in a single ebook file. Perfect for new Preston Fleming readers. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Betrayed

Joseph Lewis

Betrayed is a contemporary psychological thriller and an exploration of the heart and of a blended family of adopted kids, their relationships to each other and their parents woven into a tight mystery-thriller. A late-night phone call turns what was to be a fun hunting trip into a deadly showdown. $0.99 on Kindle.  ... Read more

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Murder at the MIll

T. A. Belshaw

Murder at the Mill. A Gripping New Cosy Crime Series with a light-hearted touch. January 1939 and the residents of the snow-covered streets of a small Kentish town awake to horrific news. When young Amy Rowlings meets Detective Sergeant Bodkin at the scene of a burglary on the way to work at The Mill one ... Read more

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Society for Paranormals: The Complete Series

Vered Ehsani

It’s Jane Austen meets Lara Croft in this delightful cozy mystery romp through Victorian Africa. Armed with Victorian etiquette, a fully loaded walking stick, and a dead husband, Miss Beatrice Knight arrives in the small colonial town of Nairobi desperate for a pot of tea and a pinch of cinnamon. This collection brings together for ... Read more

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Free: The Driftwood Mysteries

William Cook

The Driftwood Mysteries are nail-biting suspense thrillers set in a small town on the Oregon coast. Native American policeman Charley Whitehorse and his partner, Tony Esperanza, are all that stand between the residents and the darkness that takes so many forms: a sexual predator prevented from being brought to justice by the Catholic Church’s Seal ... 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 and the first African-American tank unit in U.S. history. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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A Man Out for Blood (The Jack Reacher Cases)

Dan Ames

$10 million to kill Jack Reacher. When the family of one of the richest men in the world is murdered, evidence points to Jack Reacher as the killer. The billionaire puts a $10 million bounty on Reacher’s head. Soon, three assassins are on Reacher’s trail and one of them targets private investigator Lauren Pauling, a ... Read more

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Free: Maniacal: A Detective Jade Monroe Crime Thriller

C.M. Sutter

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 turn ... Read more

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It Began With a Lie

Michele PW (Pariza Wacek)

A fresh start. That’s what Becca had hoped for. But instead she’s thrust into a past she barely remembers, one that threatens her sanity and her life. Get started with this award-winning series today. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Not Dead Yet (Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Book 7)

Willow Rose

Secrets lead to lies and lies to murder in this pulse-pounding mystery 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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Free: A Teacher in the Dumps

Monique Bird

Claire is a seventh-grade science teacher who loves a good puzzle. When a young man is found dead in a restaurant’s dumpster Claire is happy to help her friends. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Suckerfish City

The Brothers Rodemeyer

A cautionary tale of misplaced loyalty and blind obsession from the bestselling writing team, The Brothers Rodemeyer. Like a typical love story, Suckerfish City begins with a drug deal on a porn set. Okay, it’s not Jane Austen, but Shakespeare would have dug this gritty, no-holds-barred, crime-drama. Told from the perspective of a teenage runaway, ... Read more

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Free: Murder and Mozzarella

Carole Fowkes

Claire DeNardo finally has her own private detective agency, DeNardo & Son. The son is her beloved dog, Charlie. Her first client is the wife of a Cleveland power broker who hires Claire to find her missing daughter and to make sure her derelict stepson isn’t guilty of foul play. But Claire quickly discovers her ... Read more

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The Interview: Country on Fire

R Lazarus

As protests, riots, fires, and rampant crime rock the world, Shawn Thomas finds himself in an interview room the morning after the most violent night in Atlanta’s history. APD Detective Vaughn has made it his mission to find out how things escalated the way they did, but when his questioning takes a turn down a ... Read more

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Shallow Ground (Detective Ford Book 1)

Andy Maslen

Detective Ford has a cold-blooded killer to catch. But can he escape his own dark secrets? Barely a month since his promotion to Inspector, DI Ford is called in to investigate the murder of a young nurse and her son in a small flat in Salisbury. There are few clues, and no apparent motive, but ... Read more

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The Secret of The Golden Christmas Cracker

May Quillink

A captivating Christmas mystery novella, set in Victorian London with a dash of danger. This is no ordinary Christmas cracker. And these are no ordinary lovers. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Blood in the Bluegrass

Virginia Slachman

Harper had put the past behind her. Or so she thought. When her sister dies, she returns to the flashy and high-dollar world of Lexington Thoroughbred horse racing and quickly realizes her sister’s death was no accident. Solving her sister’s murder and saving her family’s stud farm will take every ounce of Harper’s wit and ... Read more

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Bad Analysis

Colin Knight

Bad Analysis is an excellently-paced terrorism thriller, hitting all the right notes of intrigue, duplicity, and desperation. With realistic descriptions of national intelligence organizations, anti-terrorism efforts, and filled with fanatics, high placed traitors and despicable thugs. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: The Message in the Painted Rock (An Arthur and Marya Mystery Book 1)

Tom Blanton

Summer vacation for Arthur and Marya takes a very strange turn when a weird old man with a long white beard draws the two friends into an ancient mystery that they must solve in order to recover a magical artifact from the distant past. They soon learn that they are not the only ones who ... Read more

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A Life for a Life: A Mystery Novel

Lynda McDaniel

Laurel Falls, N.C., 1985. Della Kincaid, a crime reporter in D.C., escapes the big city for a quieter life in the mountains of N.C. Until she finds the body, that is. Bullied and mocked for being different. Abit Bradshaw spends long hours by himself. These two unlikely partners team up to prove the death is ... Read more

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Eyes of Vengeance

Marilyn Spanier

If you like suspenful thrillers then you will love this book. Liz Jameson, a gifted psychic who works closely with the New York City Police department inexplicably finds herself seated on a bench in a dangerous Bronx neighborhood at one in the morning . Before long, her life is threatened by members of a vicious ... Read more

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One for the Money

D. B. Borton

Meet Cincinnati’s newest, oldest, funniest detective-in-training. After decades of marriage, motherhood, and grandmotherhood, Cat Caliban is looking for a new career. So she sells her suburban house, buys an apartment building in a “transitional” neighborhood, and begins her training in detective work, only to discover a dead body in an upstairs apartment. What’s the connection ... Read more

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In My Power: A Murder Mystery

R.S. Dorian

After losing his only brother to a car crash, Stuart Hollister, an elevator technician with social anxiety, finds a clue on his brother’s phone that leads him to think the accident was not so accidental. With the help of a hacker he meets on the Dark Web, Stuart follows his only thread to the truth, ... Read more

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The Takeover

Jonathan Dunne

Ireland’s underworld is run by the Doherty family. The head of the clan, Malcolm Doherty, has infiltrated all levels of public office and rules the city’s criminal landscape without mercy or compassion. Gerald O’Brien is the incorruptible cop on the Dohertys’ trail, obsessive and indefatigable, yet unable to bring them down. Nathan Corbally is a ... Read more

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The Stalker

Lorhainne Eckhart

Dark secrets are resurrected in this new O’Connell novel. Don’t miss the newest release in The O’Connells. Alison Sweetgrass-O’Connell believes she’s forever a misfit and will never fit in until she meets who she believes is the perfect guy. But when a suspicious turn of events has her fearing she’s being stalked by someone who ... Read more

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Rumspringa

Lee Maguire

A dark soul emerges… Josef is a young Amish man in Pennsylvania who lives on a farm with his mother and works as a carpenter. Although he lives among the plain folk, Josef has dreams of a life beyond his Amish community. Josef obsesses about Hollywood and the rich and famous he believes lives there. ... Read more

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Killer Politics

Norman Brewer

Killer Politics: A Satirical Tale of Homegrown Terrorism is laced with razor-edged political satire aimed at a thinly veiled Trump-like president. Inspired by President Tower’s divisive rhetoric, Hoss, a white supremacist and terrorist, launches a bid to incite martial law and defend the “American way of life.” $0.99 on Kindle... Read more

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Triple Damages

Kate Francis

A popular talk radio host is murdered after calling for the Governor’s impeachment, and someone close to the Governor is the prime suspect. It’s up to former Executive Protection Officer Kenna Devlin, in her first case as a private investigator, to find the real killer before he strikes again. In the midst of a wicked ... Read more

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Free: Escape to Osprey Cove

Luisa Marietta Gold

This exciting mystery begins with an unusual find in the secret compartment of Doug’s new Corvette that will forever change his and Catherine’s life. Doug’s mysterious behavior after the find forces Catherine to seek escape at The Osprey Cove Lodge. What she finds at the lodge turns out to be far more valuable. Follow the ... Read more

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Free: Every Form of Malice: A Short Story (The Collaborative Story Project Book 1)

S.H. Livernois

No one knows what killed Henry Whitelock. People say he just dropped dead from a heart attack, but not everyone believes that story. No one knows what happened to Gideon Aloways, either. Rumor has it he died years ago. So it’s a shock when he shows up at Henry’s funeral to tell an old story ... Read more

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The Big Guy

Jason Palmer

Two convicts. A calculating giant with a gift for making plans. A manipulative sociopath tortured by wild ambition. An unwilling partnership that becomes the most harrowing rivalry in the history of Seamax Penitentiary. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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One Fine Mess

Mark Petersen

All Jules Nichols wants is a quiet family life, which she and her lover Wesley can have once they off her abusive hubby, Eddie. But after he’s good and dead, mob guys and drug dealers are popping out of the woodwork, the staties are suspicious, and all Jules’s careful plans are going wrong. Who would ... Read more

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Monastery Valley Series

Bill Percy

“Percy juggles both plotlines effectively while addressing important social issues.” –Publisher’s Weekly. This box set includes the first four mysteries in the Monastery Valley Series. Book #5, The Fury Before the Fire, releases January 28, 2021. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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To Catch A Spy And Traitor

Toby Oliver

London, 1962: Double agent Alexei Ivanov is the highest-ranking KGB officer in Britain. For months, he’s acted as a secret agent while working at the Soviet Embassy in London. Now, he’s under surveillance, and the Soviet net is closing in on him. But who betrayed his identity? $3.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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