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!

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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Free: 30 Days in June

Chris Westlake

On the 1st day of June 1988, the residents of South Wales were thrown into a state of panic when a married couple were brutally murdered in their own home. The killer, nicknamed Spartacus by the media, did not flee the scene immediately; instead, he stayed to carve Roman Numerals onto his victims’ chests. This ... Read more

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The Girl in Cabin 13

AJ Rivers

FBI agent Emma Griffin is sent undercover to the small sleepy town of Feathered Nest to uncover the truth behind the strings of disappearances that has left the town terrified. To Emma there is nothing that can lay buried forever. Even though her own childhood has been plagued by deaths and disappearances. Her mother’s death, ... Read more

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His Betrayals

Jerry Payne

Like the hills of San Francisco, where he made his name, businessman Kyle Stone will not be denied his destiny. Orphaned at 13, war at 18, married at 20, he survives the perils of Vietnam, and now faces the dishonesty of the boardroom. Follow Kyle through a series of obstacles laced with corporate intrigue and ... Read more

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The Point Of A Gun

Steven W. Kohlhagen

Is it the FBI’s Counterterrorism head running the inner rogue circle? The Army’s Senior Special Ops’ head? The CIA’s? Don’t miss this plot-twisting, page-turner! $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Ugly Things We Hide

M. Ocampo McIvor

It’s 2007 in idyllic Costa Rica and 24-year-old Daniel is carefree while surfing, falling in love, and getting high with friends. But reality crushes him when he returns home to Hawaii. Soon he caters to the filthy rich for money and delves into their secret shame, and his. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Tahoe Deep

Todd Borg

A 14-year-old blind boy who witnessed the sinking of the Tahoe Steamer ship in 1940 becomes a murder target 80 years later. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Bailey’s Law

Meg Lelvis

Jack Bailey, small-town hard-boiled detective, must solve the crime, but his own unrelenting demons rising from his struggle with PTSD and buried family secrets complicate his task. Darkness brings unwanted memories, nightmares, and the realization he needs to face what happened ten years ago. Jack understands. Only too well. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Palm Beach Nasty

Tom Turner

For fans of Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard, and Stuart Woods comes Tom Turner’s “entertaining debut” (Publishers Weekly) set in glitzy Palm Beach, FL? Where the residents are as treacherous as they are rich. Burned out by high-profile murders in New York and his love life splashed all over Page Six, homicide cop Charlie Crawford heads ... Read more

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Free: Ubiety

Grzegorz Kunowski

If you were to find yourself at the edge of a dying world with a lingering sense of reality, would you simply fade into the nothingness or would you fight for everything you hold dear? This assertive question is at the heart of the thought-provoking book Ubiety, for this book was designed to help people ... Read more

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Beyond the Hill

Sheldon Peart

Detective Inspector James Chisolm embarks on an extensive search to find fifteen-year-old Kathy Shackleton, who disappears after leaving school one afternoon. The trail ends with Lloyd Robins, her biology teacher, and the inspector’s best friend. But he denies knowledge of Kathy’s whereabouts. When police intelligence leads to an abandoned house, perched on top of a ... Read more

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Lori Daniels Mystery: Pillow Talk

Tom Preschutti

“…an ingenious, inventive thriller and page-turner about power, drugs, sex, corruption, and secrets that can destroy.” –Authors Reading. Police Detective Lori Daniels has a knack for picking the wrong guy as a lover. This complicates her next big assignment. One former lover from HS is now the front man for a major illegal drug distributor. ... Read more

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Spaced In

Cal Danat

Two serial killers are on the loose. The second decade of the millennium is drawing to a close and the century has begun to form its identity. In London, one economist is determined to remove inefficiencies from the system from the top down. Spaced In takes a look at what happens when rational behavior reaches ... Read more

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The Watanabe Name

Sakura Nobeyama

Japanese business magnate Kenji Watanabe, 80, has protected the secrets surrounding his father’s murder for many years. When a detective calls in 2002 hoping to solve the case with new information, Kenji takes immediate action to keep the truth from becoming public. Yet, Kenji would rather die than reveal the secret. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Fruits of Evil

Glenn Trust

Caught between warring crime factions, Alice Trent is on the run again. Abducted by Vegas mobsters, she now finds herself caught up in their money-laundering scheme. They make her an offer she can’t refuse…accept their terms or end up in a hole in the desert. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: The Hated

walter marks

The discovery of a dead body in an East Hampton beach lifeguard chair sends Detective Jericho into a world of Hate groups, violence, and murder. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Ghosts of Guatemala

Collin Glavac

Who can you trust when corruption and danger are a way of life? The CIA never left Latin America, and is facing catastrophic blackmail at the hands of an erratic Guatemalan drug lord: the infamous patrón of Antigua – Pablo Puentes. Desperate for a swift solution, the agency calls in their black operative fixer: John ... Read more

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Memories of A Murder

Sid Kar

Frank Kirk, a NJ State Police homicide detective and an Ex-Army Ranger, investigates the most perplexing case of his life with unexpected help from a potentially mad neuroscientist who offers to extract memories from the murder victim’s dead brain. $0.99 on Kindle... Read more

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Tales of Mystery Unexplained

Steph Young

What happened to Elisa Lam, found dead in a water tower on the top of a hotel roof. Who were the two men that came to see her & what was in the mystery box they gave her? How could her gravestone & the last place she was seen share the same zip code? Why ... Read more

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The Widow’s Husband

William Coleman

Allan Tuttle’s wife identifies his body, the victim of a homicide, and no one is more surprised than he is. The simple task of proving he isn’t the dead man turns into a challenge when the police decide to look at him as a suspect in the murder. Despite obstacles every step of the way, ... Read more

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The Almanac

E. L. Stricker

A century after the pandemic known as The Calamity wiped out the population, Illya Oslov’s village is on the brink of starvation. The ways of the old world are feared, but an ancient copy of The Old Farmers’ Almanac® may be the only hope for his people’s survival. Will Illya’s newfound knowledge be their salvation? ... Read more

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Stilettos & Scoundrels: A Presley Thurman Cozy Mystery Book 1

Laina Turner

Can Presley figure out who murdered a senator and get herself off the suspect list? Frustrated with her dead-end human resources gig, thirty-something Presley Thurman makes a big career move that just might land her in the slammer. Freelance journalists fight for their assignments, and Presley thinks she’s won the battle when she’s hired to ... Read more

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The Devil in the Details: Siblings of the Shadows (Book 2)

Michael Weinberger

A serial killer…captured…imprisoned…but with his final words he sent chills through the entirety of the FBI. More were going to die. The murders already sent into motion by his arrest and only his immediate release could stop the victim’s bodies from being delivered to their families…piece by piece. Book 2 in the “Siblings of the ... Read more

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Free: Death On The New Moon

Michael Lindley

A captivating and twisting tale of love, betrayal and murder in the Low Country of South Carolina and the continuing love affair of free legal clinic attorney, Hanna Walsh, and Charleston Police Detective, Alex Frank. Hanna and Alex seem to have found a promising new start for their lives together when Alex encounters a tragic ... Read more

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EF1 Einer Freake: Genesis

Joe Hero

Ex-Navy SEAL Einer Freake is remarried with children, but still mourns the loss of his first wife, murdered in a convenience store robbery. Her killer is back out on the street due to a failure in the justice system. Anger and grief at the recent loss of his parents at the hands of a hit ... Read more

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Twilight’s Last Glory

Stephen Perkins

In the future, America’s favorite game will be used to control the world… It is the year 2030 and football has become a global past-time. But just like in the days of Rome and the Gladiators, the game is being used by a shadow organization called the Octagonal, not merely for profit, but to subdue ... Read more

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Thirst Of The Rain God

J.A. Kalis

A fast-paced adventure thriller, full of mystery, suspense and danger. Deep in the Guatemalan jungle, archaeologists discover Mayan ruins and a sprawling network of tunnels and caves. But there is someone who wants to stop them from exploring the underground. Someone who will kill to protect the secrets that lay hidden there for centuries. Fans ... Read more

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The Line Between

Tosca Lee

In this frighteningly believable thriller from New York Times bestselling author and master storyteller Tosca Lee, an extinct disease re-emerges from the melting Alaskan permafrost and causes madness in its victims. For recent apocalyptic cult escapee Wynter Roth, it’s the end she’d always been told was coming. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Winds of Fear

Glede Browne Kabongo

For Abbie Rambally, life is finally back on track after a few difficult years—she’s raising three wonderful children, pursuing a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, and her surgeon husband is a rising star in his profession. But things are about to get downright sinister when the new neighbors drop by for a visit. Why are the ... Read more

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Free: A Merry Christmas Wedding Mystery Georgie Shaw Cozy Mystery

Anna Celeste Burke

The Star of Marvelous Marley World’s Latest Feature Film Goes Missing! And there’s less than a month to go before Georgie Shaw and Detective Jack Wheeler’s Christmas wedding. With Georgie’s boss “Mad Max” Marley involved, the whole affair becomes much more complicated. Where’s the missing diva? If she didn’t vanish on her own accord whodunit ... Read more

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What Doesn’t Kill

K.C. Sivils

If that which does not kill you makes you stronger, then Inspector Thomas Sullivan is one tough dude. As life continues to kick Sullivan around the galaxy, the Alliance finds one criminal mess after another for the Inspector to clean up. Cynical, bitter, and under no illusions about what life has in store for him, ... Read more

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Free: The History Teacher

Susan Bacon

In the wake of a baffling double murder, a Columbia University professor is drawn into an intrigue that harks back to the beginnings of the Cold War—and forced to confront the truth about her family and history as we know it. Reviewers are calling THE HISTORY TEACHER “fresh and eye-opening” (Emily Yellin), “a satisfying page-turner” ... Read more

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Cold Red (FBI Joint Task Force Series Book 2)

Fiona Quinn

Undercover. Under fire. Under arrest. It’s hard to save a special agent’s life with your hands cuffed behind your back. Anna walks into the house and is met with flashbang. The FBI have her cuffed and belted into the back of their car. Two FBI agents are escorting her over the mountains of West Virginia ... Read more

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Free: Fear Runner

Dale Brandon

Fasten your seat belt…Critically acclaimed action scenes will keep you on the edge of your seat in this high-energy thriller. Fear Runner immerses the reader in a suspenseful new world filled with clever twists as Scott Quinn and Lauren Chandler try to escape from the world’s most dangerous assassin. Pull up a chair and follow ... Read more

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His Betrayals

Jerry Payne

Like the hills of San Francisco, where he made his name, businessman Kyle Stone will not be denied his destiny. Orphaned at 13, war at 18, married at 20, he survives the perils of Vietnam, and now faces the dishonesty of the boardroom. Follow Kyle through a series of obstacles laced with corporate intrigue and ... Read more

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Ten Times Guilty: A Gripping Crime Thriller of Passion, Brutality, and Rage

Brenda Hill

A serial rapist finds his new victim: struggling single mother Tracy Mic. Will she and her baby ever be safe? There’s only one thing to do.haels. $.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Yule Be Sorry

Kim M. Watt

Abducted postal workers. Exploding baubles. Stolen turkeys. And a dragon-sized problem. Someone’s on a crime spree in the tiny village of Toot Hansell, and they’re framing the dragons. The Women’s Institute need to find out who’s behind it all before the police get too close to their scaly secret – and before that cat gets ... Read more

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Free: The Journey (Books 1-3)

Glenn Trust

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 on her own. She is a survivor with her own way of dealing with those who threaten her and the people she cares about. Killers, mobsters, and dirty politicians, ... Read more

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Let Me Go

Willow Rose

The #1 Bestselling Mystery Series on Amazon continues! What if a stranger tells you that she believes your child is about to be killed? What if that woman is an ex-FBI profiler with a disputable reputation? Would you believe her? Eva Rae Thomas is chasing down a vicious killer, but no one will believe he ... Read more

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Survival Instinct

Katherine Carlson

Jeannie Parker married a serial killer. She didn’t know it at the time. But she blames her own demons for steering her into such a black orbit. Now, she’s running for her life… Stumbling through the frozen woods, she’s mad-lucky to find the decrepit cabin. But she can only hide so long. Their final showdown ... Read more

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