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 Knowing
It starts with a school shooting… It ends with the return of an evil as ancient as the bones of the universe. The first book in The Knowing Saga is a sprawling tale of spiritual warfare that spans a quarter of a century. If you crave sleep-with-the-lights-on suspense coupled with characters so true they’ll feel ... Read more
The Picture on the Fridge
Winner of the Kindle Storyteller Award 2019. Reader reviews: “Best book I’ve ever read from start to finish. Fast-paced, unexpected” “Compelling, almost impossible to put down. Two thumbs way up” “Could not put down, fabulous book from start to finish” “This is one of the best books I have read in a long time and ... Read more
The Cat’s Sure In The Rye
Bodies are piling up, and I’m in charge of figuring out why. I can’t help it! There are innocent people being accused. And don’t get me started on the heat and humidity in Beulah. The thick cloud of death is only surpassed by the constant hot flashes induced by the weather. I could keep going. ... Read more
The Darkness of Truth
“What will we find in the Darkness that we are unable to find in the light?” Thrust into a world of ancient evils and shadowy villains, Anna navigates vampires, religious mysteries, and world mythologies, realms she previously thought only fiction, as she discovers human existence is far more subtle, and far more important, than she ... Read more
Spiral
HAUNTING STORY THAT WILL GRIP YOU FROM THE START Thrilling murder mystery with a cliffhanger ending! A page-turning thriller murder mystery written in the vein of The Lovely Bones, The Changeling and Ghosts, Spiral is a suspenseful murder mystery powered by the unsolved death of a girl who turns up missing in segregated Memphis, Tennessee’s ... Read more
Bayside Boom
A controversial law. A planned attack. And the one man who can save thousands of innocent lives…$5.00 on Kindle.... Read more
The Lost Boy
“We’re all monsters.” Rainer Kincaid struggles to subdue his darkest demons. On Halloween Eve, a mysterious boy compels him to follow where society’s dregs dwell. Could the boy be Rainer’s savior? Or just a casualty of the beast within? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Bangkok Shadows
In Bangkok, everyone gets the chance to start over. Few questions are asked. When American criminal defense lawyer Glenn Murray Cohen took a bundle of cash from a murdered client and moved to Thailand and a new life, he thought his troubles were over forever. Glenn forms friendships and seeks love, spending much of his ... Read more
Free: Mr. Hyde, Book 6 of the Carrows Family Chronicles
A narcissistic, criminally unscrupulous NYC real estate developer and bully crosses paths with the billionaire Carrows family. Wait. The Russians are involved? Naturally, they have their own agenda. They usually do. It’s good versus evil time. Upon whom will you bet? A humorous, satirical mystery caper series. Another intricately woven sting operation. Sit back, relax, ... Read more
Golden Horizon
After a deadly London fire, Matt, a fireman running from his past, returns to his hometown of Dartmouth to put his life back together, but instead becomes embroiled with a murderous Russian who will stop at nothing to retrieve his stolen gold. With arson, murder, and abduction, Matt, will have to confront his demons ... Read more
Free: Stealing Tesla
Cracking the wrong safe was his first mistake 1941–as America edges toward world war, a cat-burglar stalks Manhattan. The newspapers call him, The Smoke–elusive and vaporous. However, The Smoke’s next job will throw him headlong into the world of espionage and murder. The thief has his eyes on an Egyptian artifact tucked away in a ... Read more
Free: A Tango Before Dying
When trouble waltzes in, it’s not long before Georgie Shaw and Detective Jack Wheeler step in to solve another mystery! The renowned dancer, Madame Charlotte Carol Chantel, is visiting LA to participate in the World Ballroom Dance Championship. Lunch and a photo op in Arcadia Park with “Mad” Max Marley suddenly go terribly wrong. An ... Read more
A Promise Given
Anxious to be married, Henrietta and Clive push forward with their wedding plans despite their family differences, made worse now by Oldrich Exley’s attempts to control the Von Harmons. When the long-awaited wedding day arrives, there is more unfolding than just Clive and Henrietta’s vows of love. Stanley and Elsie’s relationship is sorely tested by ... Read more
Free: Bangkok Whispers
Some people just can’t avoid danger. Lately, American expat lawyer Glenn Murray Cohen has been one of them. A year ago, Glenn and his close friends from Bangkok’s mysterious NJA Club were drawn into a CIA plot to kidnap a Russian gangster. They succeeded and survived, thinking life was back to normal. When a sleazy ... Read more
Free: 49 Buddhas: Lama Rinzen in the Hell Realm
Lama Rinzen awakens from meditation to find himself reincarnated as a detective on Denver’s Colfax Avenue. Immediately he realizes that once again he has been reborn into the Hell Realm—this time charged with finding insurance man Sonny Heller’s killer. Rinzen believes finding Heller’s killer will lead to the Sacred Dorje, which has eluded the lama ... Read more
The Fallen O’Connell
NY Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart brings you The Fallen O’Connell, “Now over eighteen years later, the truth about Raymond O’Connell has been revealed, and it has come at a cost. That cost is measured by the loss of life, the loss of innocence and the loss of what could have been.” ... Read more
Wafa
On January 27, 2002, Wafa Idris blew herself and an old man to Kingdom Come on a crowded street in the center of Jerusalem. She did it for Islam. She was the first female suicide bomber in the Israeli-Palestinian War. For the next 18 years she wandered the Netherworld in search of Allah’s paradise. She ... Read more
Free: Mermaid Cliff
Rockport is a small, seaside town. After the new girl at school is found beneath the iconic, Mermaid Cliff, a group of teens will hunt for the killer or become the next victim. The town is thrust into the national spotlight, forcing an investigation into the town’s darkest secrets. Free on Kindle... Read more
Full Throttle
Twin gang leaders spell double trouble for Farrell Donovan and the newly expanded Night Viper squad. When unexpected help comes from an old enemy, will Farrell be able to accept it? $3.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Some Laneys Died
“No matter how hard it gets, there’s always a version of you who can fight a little longer.” Laney’s world collapsed when she caught her dad cheating. He begged her not to tell, but she did. Her family fell apart and regret consumes her, especially when she learns every decision she makes spawns a new ... Read more
The Lads Will Have Blood
James Cornleak is jailed for 18 years. His father and a gang of estate lads battle the forces of law to prove his innocence. A fast-moving thriller with intrigue and murder that rallies the people of a council estate and brings about an unexpected outcome. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Cutie
Software consultant Jari Styrman is down on his luck. As a young man, he left Sweden to achieve a dream: succeed as a computer consultant in the United States. Now, a few years later, Jari is burned out. He is forced to accept assignments at a sex company where an incident leaves him horrified. See ... Read more
Eppington: The Guarded Secret
With a sense of urgency, four close friends return to their respective homes only to discover that nothing is quite the way they’d left it. Their family members are behaving strangely and their dogs, in particular, are far different than they ever imagined could be possible. Will Hewey, Rob, Jason and Samantha get to the ... Read more
First Cut: A Novel of Suspense (Book One in the Detectives Daniels and Remalla Series)
Jill Jacobs must confront an elusive psychopath whose trail of terror left seven dead and whose obsession almost destroyed her. When the murders begin again, Detectives Daniels and Remalla must rely on Jacobs, the former detective whose strange psychic connection to the killer is their best hope to catch him. Can Jill find the courage ... Read more
Beneath the Fallen Leaves
A small Central Texas city known for it’s sanctity and safety is hit by storms both figurative and literal. The people of Sealy, Texas had never before needed a hero, and when they did, there were none to be found. You’ll feel like you’re right in the middle of the 1984 Texas summer as theft, ... Read more
Vardin Homecoming
An Unwanted Reunion… Six former friends from Vardin Village reluctantly reunite eight years after the devastating homecoming weekend that tore apart their lifelong friendship. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Dangerous Waters
She was terrorized, afraid, and desperate for help. But her hopeless pleas would never be answered. No one would come to her rescue. Now her body lays lifeless, floating in the water. The girl could not escape the deadly and sinister secrets that Windsor Island holds… It’s been a year since the body of FBI ... Read more
Killing The Girl
This tense psychological thriller of deceit and murder hooks you from page one. In 1970, Carol kills her womanizing boyfriend, Frankie, and buries him in the orchard. Today her house is being demolished and he will be found. Carol revisits that time as she writes her confession to mitigate her guilt and avoid prison. She ... Read more
Free: Beneath the Surface
When a teenaged boy is found hanging from a tree in a park, DC Ruby Knight suspects it is not the suicide her colleagues presume it to be. But alienated from her team and under pressure from her chief, she’ll have a hard time convincing them they are dealing with murder. Can she catch the ... Read more
Free: The Eden Deception
In Iraq, an American soldier discovers a beguiling artifact engraved with an ancient script. In Cambridge, England, a famed archaeologist prepares to excavate the most historic and mysterious site in human history: the Garden of Eden. Brought together by chance, Will Eastgate and Olivia Nazarian are menaced by a common foe—an obscure order, the Flaming ... Read more
Free: Missing Lynx (The Lynx Series Book 2)
As old enemies surface, Lynx will fight until her last breath. In a deadly international game, USA Today bestselling author Fiona Quinn brings Lynx to the edge of life and death. Can Lexi’s teammates save her from her kidnappers before it’s too late? Free on Kindle.... Read more
Murder in the Arboretum
Discovery of a dead body shattered the calm of the Arboretum. Another murder in small town Cold Creek has tensions rising. Clive Johnson, the groundskeeper at Cold Creek College, is a convenient scapegoat for a police chief. Convinced Chief Pfeiffe has it all wrong, Sheridan Hendley sets out to help prove Clive’s innocence. Not everyone ... Read more
Free: The Suitcase
David didn’t see himself as a toyboy and he didn’t see Sue Lynne as a cougar. That was his first mistake. His second came when he agreed to collect a suitcase from Hong Kong and take it to Australia. His third mistake was to open it. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Off Grid
Philosophical fiction wrapped in a political thriller with a sci-fi/romance twist. In a dystopian near future, Jenny Hernandez struggles to keep her rural church community alive. Seeking haven from the Surveillance State, a team of disruptive technologists, and Jenny’s ex, arrive bringing hope. But the Feds have discovered their hiding place…$2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Clarkeston Chronicles
Dark humor abounds in this ongoing mystery series that starts with sociologist Stanley Hopkins interviewing porn stars and solving a murder in LA. Once he is summoned to lovely Clarkeston, Georgia, he’s joined by an unforgettable cast of characters who try to maintain their sense of humor as they confront a series grisly murders. Free ... Read more
Free: Red Skies
A treasure-laden galleon sinks in 1715 off the coast of Honduras. Three hundred years later, casual scuba divers Holly and Cas find a small trunk containing what looks like a treasure map. Back home in Marblehead, they ask their friend Shaun to help them interpret the map. And, then they are off to find the ... Read more
Free: Crisis Management: Beyond the Call of Duty
Delta Force are called in to where others fear to tread. Supposedly an extraction of American citizens left behind in the panic and pandemonium of the outbreak. But who and what else was left behind and are Delta prepared for it? Is it really a Delta mission or are they covering someones ass again, someone ... Read more
Snake in the Grass: A Cobra McCoors Adventure
Left for dead in the African savannah. Bloodthirsty mercenaries on his heels. Dangerously low on gin. Cobra McCoors is a tough former soldier who makes a good living by guiding tourists through remote Big Five country. He also mixes the best G&T this side of the Great Rift Valley. When elephant poachers blow his Land ... Read more
Come and Get Me
An intrepid journalist confronts a small town’s dark secrets in Come and Get Me, a breakneck thriller for fans of Tess Gerritsen and Julia Keller. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Material Things
Larry Spencer’s riveting, interlocking narratives circle the lives of Matthew Street, Jon Lewis and Christopher Styles, in a 1970s California backdrop that takes them from owning and operating a fashionable clothing boutique into the gripping world of an FBI undercover operation, drug trafficking, prostitution and a nefarious criminal element, that brings to light a Mafia ... Read more
