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!

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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Little Lovely Things

Maureen Joyce Connolly

A new voice on the fiction scene, Maureen Joyce Connolly brings the smart suspense of a Gillian Flynn novel combined with the sharp focus of Liane Moriarity. When doctor-in-training, wife and mother, Claire Rawlings suffers from a life-threatening reaction while speeding down the highway, she must pull herself and her two girls to safety. She ... Read more

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Charleston Buzz Kill (Nick Janzek Charleston Mysteries Book 2)

Tom Turner

When one of the stars of the boozy, risqué reality show, Charleston Buzz, takes a bullet to the head in mid-tryst, homicide cops Nick Janzek and Delvin Rhett swing into action. Within twenty-four hours they have five suspects…problem is all of them have solid alibis. Meanwhile, across town, is that a clandestine brothel being run ... Read more

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Guardian Angel: True Calling

Brian D Campbell

It’s never too late to answer your true calling, but be careful not to let the demons of yesterday’s mistakes catch up with you. Ben Gilsum is safe, back in Decatur, far beyond the reach of corrupt government officials and the corporate double-dealers of Washington, DC. Or is he? The young, aspiring history professor will ... Read more

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Free: A Perfect Confluence

Peter Bridgford

Noah has finally gotten himself under control; he’s clean and sober, and carving out a new life. But when he gets involved with a woman from a local crime family, he lets his demons run amok again. He has no other option than to flee in his canoe onto the river. Along the way, he ... Read more

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Wrong Question

Edita A. Petrick

An overachieving journalist begrudgingly sent to rural Idaho begins a fictional crime blog, only to be criticized and stalked by a cruel stranger who insists she uses real, mysterious deaths marked “accidental” by law enforcement. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Stronger than Blood

Allan Mason

In a future America, privacy is a long-forgotten relic of the past. Civil unrest and societal disharmony is quashed by the government with ruthless efficiency. Nobody can stand up to this government until a chance encounter with a former lover puts Albert Woods on a mission to find the truth. Now he’ll risk everything, even ... Read more

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Midnight

Norm Olson

Marc Ryder an ordinary man whose extraordinary jobs leads him into the USSR, the Greek Isles, Mexico and the Caribbean. His beautiful Afghan fiance seems to be a magnet for assassins and bombs. Ryder chases an elusive assassin while faced with a rogue Soviet General who steals a nuclear bomb and ships it to Long ... Read more

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Savage Lies

Peter Boland

An abandoned van in London, containing the surgically removed wombs of missing girls. John Savage sets out to find one of the victims. He thinks it’s a simple case of sex trafficking. What he discovers is more shocking than he could have ever imagined. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Long Beach

Norm Olson

Murder and betrayal run rampant for government agent Marc Ryder an ordinary man thrust into extraordinary circumstances. His marriage is on the rocks while his wife becomes involved with a drug cartel. He travels to the USSR where he meets a Chechen drug smuggler and a beautiful Afghan woman. He becomes the target of an ... 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 hitman ... Read more

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Free: Deadly Lies (The Jill Shannon Murder Series Book 1)

Chris Patchell

Hurt Jill Shannon once, shame on you. Hurt Jill Shannon twice, she’ll bury you six feet under. For those who couldn’t put down The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo comes a thrilling ride a la Mr. and Mrs. Smith, where husband and wife stand on opposite sides of a divide created by lies and rooted ... Read more

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Free: The Normal House

Wendy Weiss

Julia’s house was the nicest on the street, but Julia’s father committed suicide. At least that’s what her mother had told her. With the help of her boyfriend, Julia uncovers a trail of clues which expose a shocking secret. Did Julia ever really know her father? Did he take his own life or did something ... Read more

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Storm Island, A Kate Pomeroy Mystery

Linda Watkins

2019 Silver Medalist in Fiction-Suspense, Readers Favorite International Book Awards! 2018 Winner, First Place Award, Chanticleer International Book Awards (PARANORMAL AWARDS)! For nineteen years, Kate Pomeroy has suppressed that memory. A second-year-resident in surgery, she thinks she has her life under control. But a curious conversation overheard while taking a catnap launches her on a ... Read more

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The Note Man

Andrew Pine

Peter Jeffries, a South Boston family man, is fed up with the way people drive. He comes up with anonymous post-it notes that he places on the windshield of cars after their drivers make a bad move. He then hides and sees how they react when they come back and see the note. It starts ... Read more

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The Wicked Game of a Psychopath

Stan Hendriks

A psychopath has brutally murdered Susan Wilson’s eighteen-year-old son. The police have tried everything they possibly could, but the psychopath is nowhere to be seen. Refusing to sit back and accept that her son’s murderer is most likely going to get away with it, Susan takes matters into her own hands. She goes after the ... Read more

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Free: Crossing Zero

Dale Brandon

She has it…They want it, and they will do anything to get it. Crossing Zero is a compelling page-turner with ever-increasing suspense. Kelly Sanborn has something of extreme value, which competing forces will do anything to obtain. When Kelly’s eleven-year-old son’s life is in danger, the unimaginable happens…An unforgettable twist propels this thriller in a ... Read more

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The Ghost and the Christmas Spirit

Bobbi Holmes

It’s once again Christmastime at Marlow House and the mediums of Beach Drive have all decided to stay in Frederickport for the holiday. Surprises await for them when the true Spirit of Christmas comes for a visit. Do you believe in Santa Claus? $4.50 on Kindle.... Read more

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Jack in Reality

Tony Garrod

Jack in reality is the story of Jack, who, after waking up late for work one morning, finds himself in a hospital bed and lucky to be alive after an experience he is unable to make sense of. As he recovers at home, his world begins to feel unfamiliar; something is wrong, but to the ... Read more

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Free: The Battle of Jericho

walter marks

A disembodied foot is washed up on an East Hampton beach. Detective Jericho’s investigation draws him into the dangerous world of drug dealers, sex traffickers, violence and murder. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Strategic Entanglements

D.E. Knightley

In a brutal and lonely world, how do you get the human connection that you NEED from the person that you CRAVE but cannot TRUST? A deceiver like you. As ruthless as you. The ENEMY. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Sins of the Father

Vincent Davis

From Sicily to New York City, violence seems to follow the Consentino family. Even as Alonzo Consentino attempts to escape the life of crime and the danger it promises, his sons find themselves drawn deeper into it. Set against the backdrop of prohibition and The Great Depression, flapper girls and gangsters, Sins of the Father ... Read more

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The Rosario

Peter Sissons

Imagine being flown to an isolated luxury estate belonging to a fabulously rich but obnoxious Englishman, high in the Catalonian mountains, for an extremely well-paid job. This man’s obsessions, his mania and his total domination of his estate are hard to handle, but he is paying you handsomely for your services, and you tolerate his ... Read more

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Simple Evidence

Edita A. Petrick

Her captors killed her father and her brother. Years later, she refuses to let those responsible forget what happened. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Southern Spirits (Southern Ghost Hunter Mysteries, Book 1)

Angie Fox

When no-nonsense Southern girl Verity Long unwittingly traps a ghost on her property, she gains a supernatural sidekick, and the ability to see spirits. But her new powers also open her up to a century-old mystery that some in town are willing to kill to keep secret. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Rosedale Drive

DB Walker

When a woman’s sudden death spikes suspicions, a door of secrets is opened, chasing five unlikely neighbors through a maze of lies, truths, tragedy, and betrayal. See price on Kindle... Read more

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The Call of Death

R.J. Garcia

Hannah Priestly is an obsessive-compulsive California girl attending an English boarding school with the usual teen problems. She doesn’t fit in at school and is falling in love with her best friend. But when she wakes up knowing the name of a notorious serial killer at large, Norman Biggs, her life goes from complicated to ... Read more

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Free: McKinley Mysteries Box Set One: Books 1-3

Carolyn Arnold

Romance. Humor. Murder. It’s all here! Meet Sean McKinley and Sara Cain, homicide detectives with the Albany PD. In The Day Job is Murder, however, the partners find their lives changing for the better when they fall in love, get married, and retire from the force. But the McKinleys have quite the talent for attracting death ... Read more

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Hostile Ground

Melinda Di Lorenzo

A deserted island. A secret training ground. And a murderer on the loose…$0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Immortal Force

Stephen Paul Sayers

In a universe where caretakers protect earthly souls and jumpers hunt them as prey, RG and Kacey Granville use their otherworldly powers to protect their kind. But a dark evil has returned to settle a score. And in his quest for vengeance, he learns the secret to everlasting life that will unleash a power greater ... Read more

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Free: The Poor and the Haunted

Dustin McKissen

The first horror novel from acclaimed author and journalist Dustin McKissen explores the nature of hauntings, the ghosts from our past that haunt our present, and the unbreakable bond between siblings who learn early on they can only rely on each other, overcoming their father’s unexplained and frightening suicide. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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