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!
Bakersfield
Mark Bakersfield, a wealthy businessman, is married and has a seemingly happy life in New York. The story starts with the invasion of his house by an unknown perpetrator who is attempting to murder him. However, to understand the motive, we need to look into his past. In parallel, the book also follows the investigation ... Read more
Lies Behind The Woods
He thought he witnessed a kidnapping. He thought he did the right thing. He thought he was a hero. He thought, he thought. Until his thoughts came back to haunt him. Steve Breiten is a college professor who has a long line of failed relationships behind him. All he wants is a long vacation in ... Read more
No Justice
No Justice is the first book in this dark and disturbing series about vigilante vengeance, retribution, and redemption. Mallory Black is a detective whose world was shattered when her young daughter was kidnapped and murdered by a sadistic serial killer. Jasper Parish is a vigilante who, guided by his daughter’s psychic visions, hunts and punishes ... Read more
A Surgeon’s Knot
Jackson Cooper. MD will never forget that first day, its stunning conclusion forever etched in his mind. His year as a surgical intern is a story of medical suspense, tragedy, and occasional terror, as a young physician deals with the world of surgery. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Contempt
Playing by the rules landed him on death row. After spending five years in jail for a murder he didn’t commit, lawyer Thane Banning agrees to take on a case defending a former inmate against the same DA who put Thane behind bars. He’ll have to break more than a few rules this time around ... Read more
Murder and a Wedding
Solving a murder wasn’t on the wedding planner’s checklist. With so many changes in her life, sleuthing is the last thing on the mind of Cold Creek College’s amateur sleuth. Unbeknownst to her, the victim she stumbled across was the manager of Hidden Oaks, a picturesque wedding venue – the precise location the wedding planner ... Read more
P.N.G. Persona Non Grata
What could go wrong when two recently retired oddball cops from Washington, D.C. dive head first in search of gold in Afghanistan and a buried fortune in Mexico? A lot! P.N.G. is a fictionalized account based on real events of two former cop’s adrenaline rush search for riches that’s interspersed with moments of comedy and ... Read more
Missing Peach
The McKay family’s idyllic life in Iowa is about to implode. A mysterious rosary found by soldier John McKay in war-torn Iraq foreshadows an obscure prophecy. As the rosary’s mystique grows globally, his sister, Janey McKay, is threatened when a radical extremist group escalates the stakes by expanding their fight to the U.S. heartland. But ... Read more
Ten Times Guilty: A Gripping Crime Thriller of Passion, Brutality, and Rage
A serial rapist finds his new victim: struggling single mother Tracy Michaels. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Boulevard Dreams
In this intelligent and darkly funny mystery set in 1958 San Francisco, a private eye endures surrealistic dreams of a friend’s suicide and discovers he disappeared weeks before the dreams began. His investigation sends him spiraling down an unrelenting road to face the shocking reality of his friend’s fate and the final desperation of his ... Read more
Free: Forgotten Journey
Rogue waves, capsizing vessels, floating “Sea”crets, and a little dog named Bitti?! What a maritime tale of stress and survival, and one can only hope the beloved parties eventually made it to shore. Free on Kindle... Read more
A Very Funny Murder Mystery
When Jepson the butler is drowned in his own mango chutney at a ladies’ curry evening, self-proclaimed detective genius Clinton Trump arrives on the scene: ready to shun logic, breach protocol & trust in his own gut instincts. Don’t miss out on this tremendous detective spoof packed with British humor, one-liners & lots of silliness. ... Read more
Holidays, Hijinks & Murder
Deck the halls and the shots rang out. The attempt to get Stacie in the holiday spirit falls flat when someone shoots Santa’s elf. As Stacie and friends help the elf and deal with the potential witnesses, a man in an old wool coat stands out. Ignoring police demands, he disappears into the crowd. When ... Read more
The Case of Dr Dude: A Michaela McPherson Mystery (Book 1)
At the intersection of greed and evil… …lies a human trafficking. Can McPherson crack the case? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Forty Days at Kamas
Inspired by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s account of a Soviet labor camp revolt in Gulag Archipelago, Volume III, the story follows political prisoners and security officials at a corrective labor camp in Kamas, Utah, where inmates seize control during the summer of 2024. “A brutal portrait of a dystopian America, full of dramatic irony and shocking revelation.” ... Read more
Only Lies Remain
Everyone thought Danny Walsh deserted his family when his sons were young but when his body is discovered fifteen years later and his wife, Maura, is implicated in his murder, accusations and old rumours surface. Aoife rushes in to clear her mother-in-law’s name, but why is it that Maura’s story doesn’t quite add up? Aoife’s ... Read more
The Girl in the Rabbit Hole: A Thriller
Claire Foley has attracted the attention of some dangerous people. They want her to do something — and they aren’t asking. Now, she finds herself surrounded by threatening men with terrifying desires. Faced with shocking revelations and a deepening mystery, she must find a way to escape the inescapable, before they force her to do ... Read more
Free: Vengeance Blind
Of poor eyesight and confined to a wheelchair after a road accident, a successful author is alone in her house. She begins to hear strange noises, but is relieved when a care assistant arrives. However, her problems are only just beginning as she is left to the mercy of someone with a grudge to bear. ... Read more
Free: Escape to Osprey Cove
The mystery begins with an unusual find in the secret compartment of Doug’s new Corvette, changing his and Catherine’s life forever. Doug’s mysterious behavior afterward forces Catherine to escape to The Osprey Cove Lodge, where she finds something even more valuable. The series is uniquely written, spanning seven geographic locations, from the scenic Canadian region ... Read more
Free: A Game of Greed and Deception
When the charming Tammy Worthington takes her wealthy husband and step-daughter on a holiday weekend in the Colorado mountains, she has purely sinister intentions. Her husband is killed in a tragic auto accident, just as she had planned…and now her pending fortune awaits her. Or does it? With no body to be found in the ... Read more
Teaching is Murder
On a nightly jog, Claire follows a stray kitten into an empty home and stumbles across a murdered jewelry thief. To make matters worse, a former student sends her a cryptic email the next day. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Camp Chaos (The Unit Book 1)
She’s a bada$$. A foul-mouthed woman with a gun on her hip and a badge on her belt. And she’s good with a gun. Very good. She’s dying to be a member of the unit – literally. Meet Special Agent Kathryn Hanko as she joins the clandestine law enforcement team known only as “the unit” ... Read more
Free: Implant
A small town is beset by a series of cruel murders. The victims are tortured in bizarre ways. The killer leaves a message with each crime – a playing card from an obscure board game. DI Gardener launches a manhunt but it will only be by figuring out the murderer’s motive that they can bring ... Read more
MIssing on Main Street
Lydia hunts desperately to find her lost student. Little does she know, she’s not the only one looking. Join the search. Read Missing on Main Street today. If you love faith-building Christian mysteries then you’ll love the Honey Pot Mystery Series. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Double Blind
Two detectives hunt a serial killer. The killer’s hunting them. A lone trucker is ambushed, shot, and brutally stabbed. A tourist meets the same fate while out for a jog. Facing two crime scenes that could have come from a horror movie, Detectives Carly Sanderson and Sergio Martin search for a crazed serial killer. Five ... Read more
Central City
Kane Kulpa learned which laws could be bent and which broken after a short stint in prison courtesy of Detective Vincent Bayonne. Bound by time, integrity, and the reality of life in Central City, Bayonne and Kane made peace with the past. Now, gang tension spirals from corrupt to deadly, and a series of murders ... Read more
Free: The Journey Series Box Set: (Books 1-3)
The Bestselling Journey Series, Books 1-3 Includes An Eye for Death, A Desert View, and Blue Water Horizon On the run from the mob, wanted by the law, blue-eyed Alice Trent is alone. She is a survivor, dealing with those who threaten her and the people she cares about. Killers and rapists, mobsters and dirty ... Read more
Every Fire Tells a Story
Shakti Morgan, an inner-city arson investigator from Detroit, is a fish out of water in Portland, Oregon’s granola-and-compost culture. When a beloved new age book store burns to the ground and kills its owner, the local fire marshal gambles on her reputation and teams her up with an athletic police detective who is immediately attracted ... Read more
Free: Three For Murder
A a triple murder delight featuring man who likes the police too much, another who has a hard time moving the body, and a boy who thinks that a game of football is a matter of life or death—mostly death. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Series (Books 1-3)
Multi-million-copy bestselling author Willow Rose’s new mystery series ensnares ex FBI profiler Eva Rae Thomas in some confounding murder cases. Every Parent’s Worst Fear! A 12-year-old girl goes missing at camp, and her body is found months later in a sleeping bag. When a second child is kidnapped, FBI profiler Eva Rae Thomas is determined ... Read more
Remember My Name
Dark and twisted secrets mar Shane Coulter’s skin, and darken his fragile heart. Yet he keeps his nightmarish truth hidden from all those he holds dear with a smart mouth and abrasive attitude. His first love, Callan Reid, refuses to accept Shane’s tough exterior. Convinced something truly horrific lurks beneath Shane’s defenses, Callan vows to ... Read more
It’s Not Over
Former FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas is back in a heart-pounding novel of suspense. It’s so shocking it’ll have you sleeping with your lights on. Married couple Peter and Mary Marshall went on a vacation with their son and daughter but returned without their children. They went missing from their hotel room one night while the ... Read more
Free: Our Last Days
How would you defend your family and your home if the grid went down and overwhelmingly dark forces arrived to take your lives and everything that you had? Former soldier Roy Foster, a hardened veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and his wife Josie and daughter Alex are living peacefully out in their peaceful ... Read more
Child of Emptiness
Who is the Child of Emptiness? “He will be born in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the sixth day of the month. He will be empty, and he will be filled.” With what will he be filled? What is his purpose? The prophecy has been found, and the one who discovered it ... Read more
Free: The American Strangler
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” –Dick the Butcher, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2. Ron Rellick agrees. 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 ... Read more
Free: My Heart Will Find You
Sunny has been haunted by dreams of an adventurous, wild past life lived in 1797 as a young girl named Jessamyn for her entire life. She writes her dreams into a racy romance novel and while researching detailed history of the period she discovers the characters in her novel had been real people. Soon she ... Read more
Penance
Retired Boston homicide detective John Gilfillan is in a race to find Lori Doyle, the witness to a brutal killing committed ten years ago. The only problem is, he isn’t the only one looking for her. Will Gilfillan find Lori before the killer does? A page-turning game of cat and mouse that will keep you ... Read more
Pablo’s Apprentice
The two women fell in love when they shared a prison cell. They were angry and wanted to make a name for themselves. When they were released, the world learned they were diabolical. The only one who could stop them was a female victim. The conclusion is on the Crocodile River in Bhutan. $0.99 on ... Read more
Free: In my dark place (Vol 4 The Harlot)
A young delusional serial killer decides to rid the world of a certain type of woman. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Spring of Fire
A town threatened with extremist violence. One woman is tasked with diffusing the threat. Can she uncover the truth before her town explodes in violence? Sgt. Cory Marin wants to bask in the glow of her pregnancy, but when an extremist preacher threatens to burn the Koran and books of the devil, national attention falls ... Read more
