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 Lads Will Have Blood

Ken Ross

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. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: A High Price to Pay

Cynthia Hamilton

Madeline’s dual professions as event coordinator and private investigator cross paths during the most lavish affair of her career—a weekend-long 40th birthday extravaganza for the wife of a famous film director. As the party draws near, a simple background check after the disappearance of precious family jewels quickly turns into a murder investigation, and before ... Read more

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Weather Ira’s Wrath

JD Lightner

As a young lad swiftly thrown into a world of pain not of his own making. From the very start Mardale’s life is an unhinged nightmare of unyielding heartache. With the death of his infant sister Janie. His mother turns into a raving lunatic admitted into a psychiatric hospital. He has no family left, Sheriff ... Read more

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Never Been Found

Kenneth S. Kappelmann

Long-time Chicago homicide detective has been working the case of a missing girl with little success. Now, her father has been found executed and a serial killer is leaving a trail of female bodies across the city. Are all these cases related? Who could be behind such a wide spread epidemic of organized crime? $0.99 ... Read more

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Free: Slaughter: Origin Story (Book 1)

James Beltz

His family was murdered right in front of him. Now, when the same type of evil threatens once more, it finds someone who is just as lethal as those who pursue him. Problem is, the FBI wants to lock him away and the bad guys want payback. But be warned: DJ Slaughter is no hero. ... Read more

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Chosen

O.M. Faure

When Olivia and DeAnn were recruited into a secretive organization, they had no idea they’d accidentally find themselves on a field mission. Unprepared and unqualified, will they rise up to the challenge? Some of The Cassandra Programme’s secrets are worth killing for and some secrets… could get them killed. See price on Kindle.  ... Read more

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The Girl That Vanished

Ava James

A ten-year-old girl has vanished on her way home from camp. And things took a turn for the worse when another child, a child that Emma knows, goes missing. Disappearances, death, and tragedies has followed Emma Griffin throughout her childhood. Her obsession with finding out the truth behind her past was what led her to ... Read more

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Trials and Tribulations: A Kurtherian Gambit Series

Natalie Grey

Trials and Tribulations is a completed boxed set part of the Best-Selling Kurtherian Gambit Series. Stephen, Michael’s brother, is charged with finding out what is happening to Wechselbalg in Europe and uncovers a sinister plot. Jennifer is working this operation with him. While the Queen is watching from above. How will the two of them ... Read more

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Free: The Loss of What We Never Had

Carolyn Thorman

Paige Glasgow, an American psychiatrist visiting Spain, discovers the decapitated head of a Muslim woman on the beach. Against her better judgement, Paige enters into an abusive relationship with a seductive officer of the Knights, making herself a player in the centuries-old conflict between Muslims and Christians. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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When She Returned

Lucinda Berry

She left a wife and mother. She returned a stranger. Kate Bennett vanished from a parking lot eleven years ago, leaving behind her husband and young daughter. When she shows up at a Montana gas station, clutching an infant and screaming for help, investigators believe she may have been abducted by a cult. $1.99 on ... Read more

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Smoke & Mirrors

Cheryl Bradshaw

Grace Ashby wakes to the sound of a horrifying scream. She races down the hallway, finding her mother’s lifeless body on the floor in a pool of blood. Her mother’s boyfriend Hugh is hunched over her. At first glance, it seems Hugh is to blame, but is Hugh really her mother’s killer? As revelations about ... Read more

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A Dear Abby Cozy Mystery Collection Books 1 – 3: End of the Lane, Be Still My Heart and The Last Ride

Sonia Parin

A page-turning collection of cozy mysteries: In the idyllic town of Eden, newspaper reporter Abby must uncover who poisoned her boss, find a murderer at the annual picnic fundraiser, and stop a killer before they check more names off their list… $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Dead and Breakfast

Colleen Mooney

Dead In Bed! Who You Gonna Call? Good Catholic school girl that she is, Brandy Alexander’s a true and trusted friend, not to mention something of a detective. So when Brandy’s best friend Julia, the ex-stripper-turned hotelier, finds her first guest covered in blood, lying half on and half off a broken bed, with Julia’s ... Read more

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Free: The Anatomy Lesson

Robert I. Katz

While trying to put the past behind him, surgeon Richard Kurtz finds himself swept up into another murder. One so horrific that even a seasoned detective is shocked. Powerful forces don’t want this murder solved, and Kurtz finds that while he is hunting a murderer, the murderer is hunting him. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Death’s Cold Touch

K.C. Sivils

Nothing lasts forever. Certainly not in Capital City on the frozen planet Beta Prime. Inspector Thomas Sullivan wanted nothing more than dull, routine days of police work. Sullivan’s young partner Sarah wanted to leave her past behind and forge a new life for herself, free from fear. But a man with a cybernetic right eye ... Read more

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The Girl Who Cheated Death: A Supernatural Suspense Thriller

Alan Baker

Alexandra Drummond cheated death once. To bring her family back to life, she’ll have to do it again. Standing in her way is the terrifying Azrael, the angel of death. He haunts her dreams and follows her everywhere she goes. In order to save them she must risk everything, which could mean giving Azrael what ... Read more

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Stone Addicted: A Dr. Lila Stone Mystery (Book 1)

Wendy Weiss

Dr. Lila Stone’s patients are suddenly developing deadly infections and she can’t figure out why. Could it have anything to do with her secret double life? While she juggles her orthopedic practice, her sick patients, and her late-night addiction, a new romance begins to bud. Lila’s complicated life, filled with highs, lows and designer clothes ... Read more

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Free: A Tango Before Dying

Anna Celeste Burke

When trouble waltzes in, it’s not long before Georgie Shaw and Detective Jack Wheeler step in to solve another mystery! Was Madame Chantel murdered by a jealous romantic partner, an obsessed fan, a rival in the competitive world of Ballroom Dancing or someone else? Is Madame Chantel the only target or are other dancers in ... Read more

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My Very First Murder

Brian Johnson

The narrative is a confession to the murder of an unnamed person who, it is alleged, was a total stranger to the perpetrator. The glory-seeking author claims to have committed an undetectable crime, but are they telling the truth? The storyline leaves little doubt that the homicide portrayed could have actually occurred. An intriguing question ... Read more

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Dangerous is the Game

Kevin Sivils

With nothing left to live for, Inspector Sullivan accepts the most dangerous assignment a cop can have. He goes undercover to help break up a human trafficking ring. Reeling from guilt and loss, Sullivan dives into his undercover role of enforcer for the local mob in Brill City on the planet Minaria Prime. Alcohol and ... Read more

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Oleander

Stacy- Deanne

The most beautiful things can be the most dangerous. Sharice and Jason are trying to get their marriage back on track after the death of their young son when Jason is accused of murdering a woman he claims he’s never met. Wyatt, the sexy detective on the case isn’t convinced Jason is telling the truth ... Read more

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The End of America’s War in Afghanistan

Ted Halstead

Three Russian agents are trying to stop nuclear weapons stolen from Pakistan by the Taliban. The Taliban wants to use the stolen weapons to force America out of Afghanistan for good, and return to power in Kabul. Will nuclear strikes in multiple locations across Afghanistan let them succeed? Or can Russian agents and American special ... Read more

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The Last Bullet: Gun For Hire

Parker Dixon

Jack Cross is a one-man force of nature. He’s fierce, stubborn and doesn’t know how to take a backward step. But when Jack is tasked with finding a runaway conman with a price on his head, Cross finds himself caught in the midst of simmering tensions between opposing factions of the Graceland City underworld, and ... Read more

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The Coroner: A Coroner’s Mystery

Jennifer Dornbush

Summoned from her promising surgical career first to her estranged father’s bedside, and then his post as medical examiner when his small town needs urgent help with a suspicious death, Emily Hartford discovers home is where the bodies are in this pitch perfect mystery debut. $1.99 on Kindle... Read more

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Survival Instinct

Katherine Carlson

An isolated inn. A frozen wilderness. A serial-killer husband. Jeannie Parker’s about to discover her Survival Instinct. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Crimes of the Levee

John Sturgeon

It is 1905, and Chicago is an open town. There are brothels, madams, opium dens, gambling joints and plenty of alcohol, but it all comes at a price in the Levee. With the hanging of serial killer, Simon Kluge, police Detective Patrick Moses is suddenly without a case. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Fava

John Hazen

The biggest story of Francine Vega’s career could end her life…or start World War III. Francine teams with FBI Special Agent Will Allen, one of the few people who believe the threat is real, in a desperate race across three continents to stop the plot before it’s too late. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Where Fools Dare to Tread: A Monk Buttman Mystery

David William Pearce

A dead man’s money is just waiting to be had. A band of fools and a nobody named Monk Buttman unwittingly find themselves caught in a web of murder and revenge between two unseen factions using them as bait. After a good day ends in murder, Monk is tasked with finding the killer. Why him? ... Read more

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They Walk Among Us

Leonnard Ojwang

Fearless faceless men have killed dozens of strippers, including Special Agent Denali’s sister, for body parts. Weeks of intense investigations and search for answers plunges him into the middle of a dark underworld of strippers, drug addicts and clandestine gangs. The crimes are so heinous he completely devotes his life to an afterthought as he ... Read more

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Short Fuse

Carolina Mac

Two lifers go over the wall at a Texas maximum security prison and lead the Blackmore Agency crew on a chase across the southwest. Can Blaine figure out what’s going on before it’s too late? This time it might take more than a genius to unravel the maze of violence and deception. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Special Access

Mark A. Hewitt

Duncan Hunter, a retired Marine Corps fighter pilot, flies a top-secret airplane with his mentor, Greg Lynche, the sometimes über-liberal retired CIA Chief of Air Branch. Together, in their quiet airplane, they execute some of the CIA’s most sensitive airborne counterterrorism missions under a Special Access Program. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Foreign Involvement

Robert E Smith

San Francisco Homicide detective Chuck Winters, accidentally strikes it rich with his criminal software database program, retires and takes his money and runs. He soon gets caught up with a nemesis character that spews death and destruction, hiding throughout the world like a chameleon—causing Winters to leave his serene retirement and take chase. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Blood of Like Souls (A Julie Madigan Thriller Book 1)

Val Conrad

Julie Madigan’s career with the New Mexico State Police ended in a puddle of her own blood after having her throat cut, barely able to lift her gun to shoot and kill the man who almost ended her life. But survival led to a year of recovery and left her desperate to hide the scars ... Read more

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A Grave Misunderstanding: A Simon Grave Mystery

Len Boswell

Murder has come once more to the seaside town of Crab Cove, testing the mettle of “almost handsome” Detective Simon Grave and his “nearly invisible” partner, Sergeant Barry Blunt, who investigate a locked-room mystery with a significant twist: the prime suspects are in the locked room, not the victim, a logic-defying situation. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Fatal Beauty (A Cleve Hawkins Detective Novel Book 1)

RC Hartson

Ex-Chicago homicide cop, and private eye, Cleve Hawkins is a hard-boiled former Marine hired by Betty Rohrman, to help in finding her missing sister. Through treacherous twists and turns, Hawkins works to solve the case of the missing woman but finds a clandestine world of evil. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Mooved to Murder

CeeCee James

Chelsea Lawson is a ride-or-die friend. When her best friend Tilly asked her to stay at her place to watch her six-year-old daughter and pets for a while, Chelsea didn’t hesitate to say yes. What she didn’t realize was that she was already in over her head before the dead body turned up. $0.99 on ... Read more

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Tales of Mystery Unexplained

Steph Young

What happened to Elisa Lam, found dead in a water tower atop a hotel roof? Who were the two men who came to see her and what was in the mystery box they gave her? Why did the location of her gravestone match the zip code of a Bookstore, miles away? Plus many more Tales. $0.99 ... Read more

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Foundations, Funny Business & Murder

Chrisa Nardi

The best of intentions shouldn’t include murder. After a slashed tire, attempted break in, and a murder, Stacie isn’t buying coincidental bad karma. Some how it’s all connected to the fledging non-profit foundation and someone wants her off the board – at any cost. Enter Kevin McNair, a smooth talker with piercing blue eyes. Can ... Read more

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Free: ICE

Kevin Tinto

“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!” Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Mink Eyes

Dan Flanigan

Fans of the Harry Bosch series are going crazy for P.I. Peter O’Keefe in MINK EYES. Private detective Peter O’Keefe, a physically scarred and emotionally battered Vietnam vet, is hired by childhood friend and attorney Mike Harrigan to investigate what appears to be a petty mink farm Ponzi scheme in the Ozarks. But quickly O’Keefe ... Read more

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