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: Say You Love Me
Former FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas is back and embedded in a true nightmare reaching deep into her own family. What would you do if your brother was accused of a horrible crime, and you were certain he didn’t do it? Life is not done throwing Eva Rae Thomas curveballs. A phone call turns her life ... Read more
The Tahitian Pearl
A businessman is found murdered in a Monaco hotel room. A billionaire’s yacht has been besieged by pirates. The search for a 500- year-old treasure ship has just turned deadly. John Otter, caught in the middle of it all, must stay ahead of the ruthless pursuers before it costs him his life. Is there anyone ... Read more
Don’t You Want Me?
London,1981. Amongst race riots, a royal wedding & New Romantics, an identity-shifting serial killer is operating in plain sight. Detective Inspector Anna Leeding suspects certain accidents & suicides are deliberate acts, but has secrets of her own in a story of revenge where no-one is quite what they seem. So come back to ’81, it ... Read more
Free: Blood Land
Blood Land, the award-winning, must-read first book! Crime’s an ugly constant in the big cities. L.A. Chicago. New York. But when a savage murder brutalizes a small town and neighbor turns on neighbor, a tough-as-nails cop is essential to restoring order. Blood Land is a gritty, emotional saga set in the contemporary Wyoming badlands with ... Read more
Something Found: A Coin
Local Artist and so-called “Selfless Scavenger” Todd Freeman may have a seemingly idyllic life painting and scouring the Key West sands with his metal detector and returning lost items to grateful locals and tourists. Yet, his past holds grief and pain: the death of his son, the swift end of his marriage, and the tumultuous ... Read more
The Tell All
The town party planner has a secret, and it’ll be the death of her. Good thing amateur sleuth, Kay Carrera is on the case! Life at sixty isn’t quite what Kay Carrera expected. She’s working as a skip-tracer for a PI who is desperate to land his own reality TV show. She has a new ... Read more
Don’t You Want Me?
London, 1981. With a backdrop of riots, a royal wedding, and New Romantic synthpop, D.I Anna Leeding suspects apparent accidents are deliberate acts of revenge in this retro eighties thriller where no-one is what they seem. Leave 2020 and come back to 1981…it was a hell of a year. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The American Strangler
Simple and sweet. We all know how lots of people hate lawyers, especially if they have ever been sued. Dr. Ron Rellick loses everything, including his sanity, to a malpractice claim and goes homicidal. Get inside the mind of a good man turned violent. See how the evil of corrupt lawyers leads to unforgiving vengeance. ... Read more
The Blue Rose
Best-selling author, Terry Toler, brings you this exciting novel about Wanda Rose, the greatest female jazz singer of her day. How did her husband of twelve years never hear her sing? Cathy Tolliver, an insurance claims adjuster is processing a simple Christmas tree fire claim. When a hundred thousand dollar necklace shows up missing a ... Read more
Prey For Me
World-renowned scientist Victor is thrust together with Alex, a brilliant financier in the risky world of London finance. Alex plays with Victor’s emotions and her behavior becomes increasingly violent. Who will win this psychological game of sensuality and desire? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Mad Dog
Fourteen-year-old Daniel and his friends enjoyed the best that childhood could offer during the summer of 1975 in a northern mining town until someone started brutally killing family pets. Daniel, who wants nothing more than be the hero from his books, but this only brings him to the attention of the killer. Free on Kindle.... Read more
In The Beginning, There Was a Murder: An Amateur Female Sleuth Historical Cozy Mystery
A secret liaison. A violent murder. Can one woman solve the crime without joining the body count? Northern England, 1953. Pauline Riddell has grand ambitions for her future at the armament factory. But she’s shaken to her core when the police arrive with news of her best friend’s murder. Desperate for justice, Pauline’s insistent poking ... Read more
The Fog Ladies
Spunky senior sleuths and an overtired, overstressed, under suspicious medical intern live in an elegant San Francisco apartment building where old ladies start to die. The building is turning over tenants faster than the fog rolls in on a cool San Francisco evening. Is it murder? Will one of them be next? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Jeff Trask Crime Drama Series: Books 1 – 3
Federal prosecutor Jeff Trask and a team of FBI agents and local police officers tackle three international criminal organizations threatening the nation’s capital city: A Jamaican drug-trafficking cabal led by a psychopathic serial killer; The vicious MS-13 street gang, known for murder, rape, and a total lack of mercy to its own members and recruits; ... Read more
Free: The Glorious Yacht: A New Sherlock Holmes Mystery
On the night of April 12, 1912, off the coast of Newfoundland, one of the greatest disasters of all time took place – the Unsinkable Titanic struck an iceberg and sank with a horrendous loss of life. Onboard that ship was Sherlock Holmes’s friend, Victor Trentacost – his only friend other than Doctor Watson. The ... Read more
The Aviculturist
Atmospheric and compelling, Ann Smythe’s debut immerses the reader in a gripping story of love, murder and revenge. June 1971, Alice Sanders is celebrating her sixth birthday at her family’s Cornish country home in Lostmor. But by the end of the evening, an event so horrific unfolds that it changes the family’s lives forever. Years ... Read more
The Cat Behind The Curtain: A Cozy Cat Crime Caper
A murder plot… …and the cat who must stop it. Jamie’s girlfriend wants him dead. Scottie needs to save his human’s life. But how? He’s just a cat. The intended victim goes about his daily life not knowing his girlfriend and her secret lover are plotting against him. Scottie knows, but the soon-to-be murdered man ... Read more
Quantrall Box Set (Books 1-3)
Cowboy justice for hire. Jesse Quantrall, Texas oil magnate and renowned horse breeder, launches a new career in criminal investigation. Follow the lives of Jesse and his brothers in this action-packed western P.I. series. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: For Keeps: A Green Marble Mystery
Sam’s world falls apart when a beloved family member is found dead, stabbed with his own garden shears. Rocketed into temporary insanity, he’s locked in the same ward he was in when his brother Billy died 50 years ago. Sam gets help from Billy’s spirit, who propels him through time. Sam’s plan: to change time, ... Read more
Cozy Up to Death-Murder-Blood
Beau Smith is a man hiding from his past as an enforcer in an outlaw motorcycle gang. Unfortunately, it is not easy for a 6’4, 225 pounds, and heavily tattooed man to hide. He has the tendency to stand out in towns like Pleasant Valley, Maine. When he starts to feel the pull to be ... Read more
Sacrificial Lam
When English professor Lam Corso receives a death threat at work, he thinks it’s a joke by one of his colleagues. When his home is broken into and his wife’s business vandalized, he denies any connection to the threat. But when the violence escalates, he is forced into action. His wife—a passionate anti-gun crusader—is outraged ... Read more
The Guilty Die Twice
Estranged lawyer brothers Travis and Jake Lynch find themselves on opposing sides of the courtroom in a high-profile, grisly double murder case—with another accused criminal’s life on the line. The case pits brother against brother in a contest of wits, wills, and legal savvy that will shake the justice system to its core. $0.99 on ... Read more
Edited Out A Carmen Ramirez Mystery
A young journalist risks her life to bring a child killer to justice, and finds love along the way. The author weaves a story of love, loyalty, and the fight for justice in this engaging mystery-romance. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Olympus Project: The Phoenix Series – Book 1
There are only so many outcomes for a man on a mission of vigilante justice. He succeeds. He gets caught in the process. He dies. Or he meets like-minded people who believe they must right the wrongs of a nation gone soft and make criminals pay for their crimes. The Phoenix Series begins. Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Singularity Witness
THE SINGULARITY WITNESS: Murder and abduction are just the beginning. When a clandestine research lab disposes of its test subject and kidnaps a U.S. Senator to protect its secrets, those events trigger a federal investigation. The covert program requires the services of Thomas Parker, a Princeton professor and neurologist, to deliver its breakthrough achievement. And ... Read more
The Third Call
Romance and suspense collide in this pulse-pounding read! When dispatcher Charlotte Roy passes along a call to bad-boy deputy Marcus O’Connell, they learn a six-year-old child is in danger. Can they save the girl from a desperate situation? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
A Simon Grave Mystery Trio
Len Boswell is the author of eight books, most notably his Simon Grave Mysteries, an award-winning series featuring the comic exploits of “almost handsome” Detective Simon Grave and his “nearly invisible” partner, Sergeant Barry Blunt. This box set contains the first three Simon Grave mysteries. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Dangerous Bureau
Tara Helms, a housewife and computer whiz, learns quite-by-accident that her child’s killer is in the IB. She’ll team with a dying, guilt-ridden, former IB agent in attempting to destroy Eric Colvin. The fight will be an arduous, brutal one – to the death. Free on Kindle.... Read more
A Snake Among Flowers
In this page-turning fast-paced book of suspense, a young woman from the LGBT community is found murdered and the police suspect her girlfriend. Why is Myra lying to the police? Find out why the detectives miss an important clue. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Dream Merchants
Johnny plots his way to the top while Peter works to stake his fortune on the movie business. Beautiful starlet Dulcie Warren is willing to use her sexuality and to play dirty to get to the top, if that’s what it takes. When the lives of these three ambitious, determined characters collide, they have the ... Read more
A Snake Among Flowers
A gay girl is murdered and suspicion falls on her girlfriend. The two detectives are distracted by personal issues and miss some clues. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Woman In The Water
Charlotte’s body lays lifeless floating in a pool. Ruby red water surrounds her. Her daughter’s desperate screams fill the air… “Mom?!!!!”. Charlotte MacMillan, the mother of three, found dead. Murdered in broad daylight. Only two know the twisted truth. The victim and her killer. To solve this case, Paxton must bring light to the unrelenting ... Read more
Central City
Bound by time, integrity, and the reality of life in Central City, Detective Vincent Bayonne and Kane Kulpa made peace with their past. Now, gang tension spirals from corrupt to deadly, and a series of murders stresses Kane and Bayonne’s uneasy alliance. Kane balances on a razor’s edge to protect his bar, power, life, and family, and ... Read more
Free: Close To Home
Profiler Selena Nash is America’s #1 expert on serial killers. No one suspects it’s all based on a mistake she’s afraid to admit. Not just because it will ruin her career — Selena’s dark secret will also destroy her family. When a serial killer strikes in her prosperous hometown, each death strikes closer to home. ... Read more
Free: Exodus ’95
A relic buried in the Egyptian desert, a beautiful adventuress and fast-paced, suspenseful action, are the ingredients of this international thriller. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: A Deadline Cozy Mystery (11 book series)
Fun-filled cozy mysteries. 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 ... Read more
The Poseidon Files
In The Poseidon Files Artist and psychic Naomi Richards suddenly finds herself in a perilous situation when top-secret files exposing a plot to weaponize the weather is inadvertently passed to her by a whistle-blowing scientist. What follows is a trail of intrigue and menace on the streets of Liverpool and Snowdonia in which the supernatural ... Read more
Follow Her Home
Lynda McGowan knows all about stalkers. Her father, a musician with local acclaim, was killed by his. When a friend begs her to play a few shows with his band after their lead singer’s sudden departure, she can’t resist the opportunity. But it isn’t long before she senses she’s being watched, and soon she’s facing ... Read more
One Taste Too Many
For culinary challenged Sarah Blair, there’s only one thing scarier than cooking from scratch—murder! Married at eighteen, divorced at twenty-eight, Sarah Blair reluctantly swaps her luxury lifestyle for a cramped studio apartment and a law firm receptionist job in the tired hometown she never left. Sarah knew starting over would be messy but things fall ... Read more
The Eternal Darkness: 159 Tales of Terror
Stephen King meets Dean Koontz. Do you like stories in the style of the Twilight zone, Outer limits and Tales from the crypt? Then this massive book of short stories is for you, not too wordy, not too long but still packs a hell of a punch. 159 tales from the deepest depths of the ... Read more
