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: Bones in the Wash: Politics is Tough. Family is Tougher.
Bones in the Wash: Politics is Tough. Family is Tougher, set during the 2008 presidential campaign in New Mexico, is one part political thriller, one part family soap, and one part murder mystery. Ambitious Albuquerque Mayor Tomas Zamara, charged with delivering the state’s five electoral votes for John McCain, is directed to shut down voter ... Read more
The Holy City Murders: A Duke Dempsey Mystery
Duke Dempsey is a private investigator in 1938 Charleston, SC. Thrust into the case of a lifetime when the Vatican comes calling and hires Duke to find an invaluable relic. Charleston is also hit with the mysterious murders of a prominent priest of St. Patrick’s Cathedral and a local cop. Duke is forced into a ... Read more
Free: Exodus ’95
Claire may be a step away from recovering the most powerful artifact in human history: Moses’ Biblical staff, which her dying neighbor found and hid in the Arabian desert twenty years ago. But his startling revelations have got her entangled in a global race with ruthless fanatics who want to get to the artifact first. ... Read more
Idol Worship
The serial killer industry remains lucrative. Crime shows, slasher movies, podcasts, clickbait. Serial killers are everywhere…especially in the world’s collective psyche. So what news anchor wouldn’t seize the opportunity to interview a still at-large psychopath? Especially one as infamous as The Mayberry Murderer. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Patent Pending and Death
Fiona Fleming is back, and, just her luck, the bodies keep piling up! Happily married and diving into her new career, Fee finds herself once again embroiled in the heart of mysteries she can’t seem to stop solving. At least this time she’s actually legit. Acting as a local investigator for her co-owned Fleming Investigations ... Read more
A Destiny to Die For (Book I)
Angelita grabs at a chance to get out of the favelas when she finds a huge cache of heroin. Money becomes no object, so much so, it seems too good to be true. It is! The drugs belong to the cartel. See price on Kindle.... Read more
Crime Beat Girl
A girl is dead. A boy is locked up. Can Debbie Bradley discover the truth before more lives are lost…maybe even her own? A series of deadly shootings. An outbreak of stolen cars. When journalist Debbie Bradley returns home to St. Louis, the summer crime wave has started. And she’s in the center: A witness, ... Read more
Free: The Evelyn Project
If the present can change the past, what will happen to us if we make a mistake? Well, you are about to find out. “Luzzatto has spun a fast-paced tale that keeps the reader guessing…” Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Side Hustle
Hard work is murder! Is a big real estate deal behind the death of a personal finance blogger? Two homicide detectives work to uncover the truth. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Double Image
A politician’s kidnapped child is returned unharmed, but Executive Protection Officer Kenna Devlin discovers information suggesting the child who was found is not the same child who was taken. Now, in the midst of a political campaign, she’s desperately looking for a kidnapped child no one else believes is missing. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Generalissimus
Joseph Stalin is miraculously resurrected in contemporary Moscow only to find himself in a country ruled by corrupt officials and oligarch clans. Shocked by what he sees, the ex-dictator decides to restore the USSR and so tries to reintegrate himself into society. With the help of a zealous supporter, Stalin reaches out to the masses ... 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
Free: Take Me Out the Back
A mass shooting in a nursing home rocks a southern Indiana town. The ripple effects afflict emergency workers, the nursing home staff, town officials, and the friends and families of the victims—both immediately and for weeks and months thereafter. Chillingly, those murdered often appear as ghosts, plaguing family members. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Operation Underpants
Unceremoniously dumped in a retirement home by their children, international spies Max and Olivia languish forgotten and waiting to die. After finding a secret message in the newspaper they must escape and travel to the UK with the fate of London and much of the world hanging in the balance. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Treasure Hunting Mysteries
These five fictional short stories are packed with witty adventure and unexpected twists that will leave you gasping for breath? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Code Hunters – A Nicholas Foxe Adventure
A Tablet 10,000 Years Old May Change the World’s Future Nicholas Foxe leads an unlikely team around the world to solve the code. Powerful men stand in their way. It’s a life and death race. An Army Ranger makes a snap decision in the heat of battle. Cave explorers discover a 10,000-year-old tablet with a ... Read more
Do No Harm
2020 American Fiction Award winner for Best Medical Thriller Doctors go to medical school to save lives… right? When Matthew Preston was eight, his father was shot and killed in rarefied Pacific Palisades by Ted Nash, a home burglar who happened to be the Preston’s neighbor. Though Nash was sentenced to life in San Quentin, ... Read more
Edited Out: A Carmen Ramirez Mystery
Carmen Ramirez, 24, a fledgling copy editor, gets her first big break on a retrospective for the anniversary of a brutal child murder. After challenging the inaccurate, homophobic coverage, Carmen is pulled off the project. Undaunted, Carmen searches for the truth — a decision that risks her job and her life. Meanwhile, Julia, tall, athletic, ... Read more
China Bohannon
China Bohannon fled a bad situation and decided to start her life over as a strong, independent woman in the wild and woolly town of Spokane, Washington. China takes on the role of bookkeeper at Doyle & Howe detective agency with her uncle, Montgomery Howe, and his handsome partner, Gratton Doyle. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Foundation Game, Beginning
The Foundation Game. A global web of political and financial deceptive activities concealed under the auspices of a nonprofit, or “third sector” foundation, highlighting the conflicts between the public good and personal quest for wealth and power. The first book Beginning introduces the characters Margo Maxwell and her nemesis Jonathan Ross in a fast-moving thriller ... Read more
The $3 Million Dollar Turnover
In the cutthroat world of professional sports, agent Dave Bolt works behind the scenes to fix his clients’ biggest problems. Officially, he’s a sports agent, representing professional athletes in basketball, football, baseball, hockey—you name it. Unofficially, he’s there to sweep the drugs, corruption, and the sex scandals under the rug. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Death of a Telenovela Star
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
A Guest to Die For
A New Life. A Dream Business. And A GUEST TO DIE FOR… Daniel Kent has to getaway. He’s lost his job, his fiancée, his self-respect. The accident’s the final straw; Dan needs to make a new life in the sun. As soon as he sees the house, complete with gîte, in the picture-postcard region of ... Read more
Holly and Holidays, Another Murder
Everyone’s dancin’ and prancin’ at the Pets & Paws Holiday Gala, that is, until chaos breaks out. A festive fundraiser to help the dog rescue turns sinister when somebody salts the tempting spread with something toxic. Although Maddie and most of the other guests are quick to recover, Davis Elder is not so lucky and ... Read more
Cam Derringer Tropical Thriller Mystery Box Set
THE FIRST THREE BOOKS IN THE CAM DERRINGER SERIES + A Bonus Prequel Enjoy solving crime in the streets of Key West with Cam Derringer. If you love mystery novels with suspense, action, humor, a touch of romance, and characters you’ll want to cheer for, then the Cam Derringer series is for you. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Crossing the Meadow
A strange nightmare links a man to a woman and to a foggy city. A little girl who can see her dead cat, an old blind woman and a beautiful girl who died too young, all have questions. But to get their answers they may have to look beyond that meadow. Free on Kindle.... Read more
McCabe’s Luck
Jake McCabe is no stranger to trouble. Between serving in the army during the Civil War and being involved in a long-running feud in his home state of Kentucky, Jake has known some hard times. Some have said the McCabe family is known best for their run of bad luck. Jake decides to move to ... Read more
The Reaper
Phenix’s constant battle within pushes the boundaries of what is morally good versus evil. Will Phenix be able to conquer the demons within to defeat the murderous one in the flesh? What will become of Phenix’s son? Is ones fate determined before they are born; or do we make our own by the choices we ... Read more
Free: Fury (The Gabriel Wolfe Thrillers Book 5)
Someone wants Gabriel Wolfe to suffer … Just when life deals SAS veteran Gabriel Wolfe a decent hand, his best friend is murdered. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Asesina
Meet Angel—smart, willful, a lover of animals. She is also one of the Cartel del Noreste’s most lethal hitters, but this time she has met her match. His name is Dr. Ernest L. Girard and he’s a man who has everything—upbringing, looks, gifted surgical skills. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Mouth of the Mine
Wayne and Anita Evans move from New York City to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where they plan to settle and raise their ten-year-old son, Alastair, in the fresh air and amicable environment. Everything is good from the start, despite the many reports of missing people in the area. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Society for Paranormals
Armed with Victorian etiquette, a fully loaded walking stick, and a dead husband, Beatrice Knight arrives in the small colonial town of Nairobi desperate for a pot of tea and a pinch of cinnamon. But she’ll need more than that if she’s to unravel the mystery of the Ghosts of Tsavo without being eaten in ... Read more
Witch Bat To Swing
Everyone’s a suspect. Blood magic is illegal, but the law never stopped the Wavily witches before. After all, Evian’s family runs The Hotel Wavily, which caters to the criminally-inclined. While there’s no self-help spellbook for amateur blood witches, her batty familiar Squeaks and best human friend Rita are more than willing to experiment with — ... Read more
A Year in the Life of Leah Bramd
Leah hopes to rebuild her life in a second marriage, but strange things happen in her new home. As the incidents escalate she begins to fear she is going mad, or is someone trying to harm her? If so, why? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Hero Complex
After ten years and fifteen combat deployments overseas Ex-Army Ranger Thomas Cole is living a simple, peaceful life. But when a woman from his past, a woman he once loved, asks him to use his Special Operations training and skills to help her, he reluctantly sets aside his quiet life. What begins as a favor ... Read more
Saving Karma
18-year-old Thai-American Bree Thomas is in deep doo-doo. Thrown out of her adoptive home just before graduation, Bree is broke and homeless, her college ambitions are ruined, and her best friend, Juju, is in the hospital with a shattered face because of her. So, when the shadowy Meng Foundation offers Bree a free college education ... Read more
Free: Standing Our Ground
A cold-blooded murder. The victim: a fourteen-year-old boy. The shooter waits patiently for the cops and calmly explains his right to kill the boy. “I was defending my property.” Can Deputy Andi Pelton find the evidence to break through the killer’s stand-your-ground defense? Free on Kindle.... Read more
ICE
“A gripping novel that combines archeological, historical, scientific, and romantic elements to create a thrilling, strong story. Authentic characters, all-too-human relationships, adventures, and mysteries transport readers into the past, present, and future events–a wonderful discovery for this reader, who cannot wait for more!” $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Return to South Rapids
South Rapids is a quiet town in the middle of nowhere. Just the kind of place you would like to leave and forget about. Putting the past behind you. But sometimes the past has a way of creeping back into your life. A young group of friends witnessed a tragedy seventeen years ago. They held ... Read more
Free: The Banker and The Eagle
Unhappy with the election outcome, the Banker plots to kill the US president. It is the year 2028, and the terrorist group Guns Against Globalism attacks the Factual News Network headquarters owned by the corrupt media mogul Damien Vanderbilt. This attack sets a dangerous chain of events in motion. The attack leads to the idealistic ... Read more
