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!

Knee Deep

Mac Fortner

You have to be brave – to ride this ride While trying to find the pirate ringleader who killed his wife, Cam unknowingly exposes a disturbing connection to an international criminal organization that has plans to do far more than make people disappear. How far is Cam willing to go to expose them and who ... Read more

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Free: Slaying of the Innocents

Robert Dustman

Innocent people are being slaughtered with an obscure medieval weapon in and around the fictitious town of Clover Valley, which is located about 45 minutes south of Seattle, Washington. Initially, the killings appear random with no apparent motive. Suspects emerge but are soon written off as Detectives Philip Gaines and Brad Watson work through a ... Read more

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A Ghost Too Many

J. THOMAS WITCHER

A reluctant new police chief in a Georgia coastal city must solve a murder of a woman found on the beach while dealing with the irritating ghost of an ex-husband. $2.99 on Kindle... Read more

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Free: A Lesson in Crime

Wes Markin

When a student party ends in a violent murder, Michael Yorke begins to realize he harbors a fascination with crime which goes way beyond the norm. Driven to discover the truth behind a series of murders which shocks the university community, Yorke turns his back on those closest to him: his girlfriend, Charlotte, and his ... Read more

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Free: Shattered Triangle

William P. Messenger

Three friends, inseparable as children, take very different paths toward adulthood. In spite of the distances that emerge among them, they are thrust together by the tragedy of death. Tom Moran, a detective with the LAPD, is charged with finding the murderer and building a case for justice. He feels no call to forgive. This ... Read more

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The Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Series (Book 1-3)

Willow Rose

Multi-million-copy bestselling author Willow Rose’s new mystery series ensnares ex FBI profiler Eva Rae Thomas in some confounding murder cases. Mystery, love, and action this series has it all. All books in this boxset were instant #1 bestselling New Releases on Amazon. DON’T LIE TO ME: When twelve-year-old Sophie Williams went on a Girl Scout ... Read more

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Thirteen Across

Dan Grant

Thirteen Across is an intricate thriller on a clock built around a puzzle, and will appeal to fans of Dan Brown and James Patterson. FBI Agent Kate Morgan’s life is derailed when Phillip Barnes makes his attacks on the nation’s capital personal. Seven stops. Seven sets of clues. Conspiracies. Lies. When you murder a killer’s ... Read more

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The Hard Side of the River: A Novel of Abolition

In the Old South, freedom moves in kind hands and brave hearts … but justice only comes from the barrel of a gun. The setting is Maysville, Kentucky, 1833—thirty years before the War Between the States will tear our fledgling nation asunder. But on the dusty roads just south of the freedom line, schoolteacher Dana ... Read more

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Kill Code: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

Clive Fleury

WHEN THE OCEANS RISE…THE TRUTH DROWNS It’s the year 2031. Our future. Their present. A world decimated by climate catastrophe, where the sun’s heat is deadly and the ocean rises higher every day. A world ruled by the rich, powerful, and corrupt. A world where a good man can’t survive for long.Hogan Duran was a ... Read more

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Murder at Rendsburg Resort (Jill Pemberton Mysteries Book 1)

C.L. Wells

When a small band of vacationers arrives at the exclusive “unplugged and remote” mountaintop estate, no one expects what will happen next. But soon a guest is murdered, and the only means of communicating with the outside world is destroyed. Trapped in a remote resort with a killer is not what mystery writer Jill Pemberton ... Read more

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Testarossa (A John Testarossa Novel Book 1)

JD Cary

Things are never what they seem; especially in police work. John Testarossa is an LAPD cop with an NYPD attitude who has seen it all. The dead, the dying and the decomposing are all in a day’s work for the red-headed Italian from Brooklyn. After an arm rolls up on a Santa Monica beach, and ... Read more

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Free: Alterlife

Matt Moss

Breaking Bad meets Ready Player One in this high-adrenaline novel about a man’s quest for money in the world’s first VR MMORPG… and the troubles that come with being the hot shot new guy that seems to have all the luck. For fans of the Otherland series by Tad Williams, World of Warcraft, and Skyrim. ... Read more

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Danny Smashed

Tony Sawicki

Born to an unstable mother whose death leaves him in the clutches of a sexual predator, sixteen-year-old Danny escapes from a commune in the northern Arizona desert and makes his way to Los Angeles. In short time, the spectacularly handsome teen lands a modeling contract with a small West Hollywood talent agency. Cunning and charismatic, ... Read more

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They All Fall Down

Duane Lindsay

Meet John Paul and CJ Morgan, a typical suburban couple. Nice house, good jobs, however, life is a bit boring–okay, it’s a total bore. That all changes when the couple meets a few mob members who are just as bored. Faced with violence and rape, John Paul and his wife fight back. What starts out ... Read more

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Free: At Daddy’s Hands

Jacob Paul Patchen

In public, Jim Handler is a well-respected, small-town hero, and homicide detective who solved the case of the Will’s Creek Massacre. But at home, in the shadows, Jim’s childhood demons come alive to feast upon his family in all forms of abuse. But his three teenage children have had enough. They have devised a plan ... Read more

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Free: Never Been Found

Kenneth S. Kappelman

The first installment of the Tomas O’Malley thriller series. Long-time Chicago homicide detective, Tomas O’Malley, is charged with solving the murder of a man whose daughter is missing and presumed dead. The missing girl may hold the answer if she could only be found. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: The Gryphon Home

C.G. Loggie

The second book in the series finds Griff, the reclusive, blind war veteran with inexplicable abilities, return home, reintegrate with his old life and apply self-imposed rules for his special skills. He forces himself to confront previous behaviors and open up to friends and family. When a seemingly unconnected murder puts his family at risk, ... Read more

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Journey to Children of Bwola Dances

Amaya Amaya

The fiction thriller and suspense novel takes from recent history about a fanatical religious rebel group, called the Lords Resistance Army (LRA), fighting against the Ugandan Government with a reputation of using abducted children as a highly effective but brutal army. The novel challenges how the Developed Western world would treat their children if they ... Read more

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Free: Cold Winter’s Morning

Alan Bexley

A ruthless killer. A bloody corpse. A determined detective on a mission. Lies and secrets. Can detectives catch a sociopathic slayer hiding in plain sight? A murderer has run down 24-year-old Vicky Crosby, reversing over her body to make sure she is dead. What has Vicky done to deserve such naked aggression? Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Viable Hostage

Audrey J. Cole

Malorie’s best friend is missing, but no one seems concerned about the wayward medical student’s mysterious disappearance—until another student’s partial remains wash ashore a Seattle beach…$0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: The Gryphon Found

C.G. Loggie

The first in a series of books finds Lisa, a new community worker and Griff, a reclusive blind war veteran with inexplicable abilities, thrown together on the streets of London and onto the radar of a serial killer. Searching for a missing friend, they stumble on clues to the killer’s identity. With the killer closing ... Read more

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A Touch of Terror

Gary Ponzo

A rogue Russian agent known as The Machine has infiltrated the U.S. border with a case of uranium powerful enough to destroy the entire west coast. FBI agent Nick Bracco recruits his Mafia-connected cousin Tommy to help track down the case and try to save the nation from the devastating attack. But this time Nick ... Read more

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Free: Jihadi Bride

Alastair Luft

When Erik Petersson’s troubled daughter joins a terrorist group in the Middle East, an ex-soldier turned national security analyst embarks on a personal mission to save her. Torn between rival agendas, father and daughter must choose between family or country, love or fear. Author Alastair Luft is a 20-year veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces. ... Read more

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Jack Be Nimble Jack Be Dead

Wendy Owens

Jack Eggerton, the local dog catcher, is found dead in the back of the animal shelter Penny runs in her spare time. After a heated argument between her and Jack about a missing dog, it appears the finger is pointed directly at Penny Preston. Enlisting the help of her seamstress neighbor, Linda, and her chubby ... Read more

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Free: Pretty Little Girls (Agent Victoria Heslin Book 2)

Jenifer Ruff

From a USA Today Bestselling author, a timely and intense new mystery. Until you know who to trust, trust no one. The disappearance of a prep school girl from an affluent family leads to a world of hidden secrets more shocking and horrifying than anyone could imagine. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Lurking in Paradise

Van Argan

No means. No motive. No opportunity. No camera. The last time celebrity photographer Antoine Talon was in Oahu he left under a cloud of suspicion after a tragic death at one of his photo shoots. This time he’s leaving in a body bag. Discovered at a wedding rehearsal dinner on a dark rooftop, confusion abounds. ... Read more

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The Invisible Reich

Kenneth Pazder

Welcome to the War on Animals – 30,000,000 of them were killed today! Despite these staggering numbers, this travesty remains largely invisible to the masses. That is until it comes up on the radar screen of ex-Special Forces soldier, Kenneth Pearce. His unique brand of “shock and awe” military strikes on animal-unfriendly targets in the ... Read more

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Don’t Tell

Willow Rose

From the multi-million-copy bestselling author comes a mystery novel based on historical events. When detective Jack Ryder is going skiing with his family in the mountains of North Carolina, he hopes for a week of fun in the snow with his family. But then the body of a teenage boy turns up in the creek ... Read more

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The Target List

John Reizer

A medical doctor invents a noninvasive technology that cures cancer without drugs or surgery and finds himself the target of an assassination plot engineered by big pharma. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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No Name Key

Jessica Argyle

Months before the devastating Labor Day hurricane of 1935 Elle Woodman escapes her vicious husband, to hide out in the isolated Florida Keys. She reinvents herself as a cook at a remote fishing lodge on No Name Key, when her husband tracks her down. As the hurricane descends, her situation becomes desperate, pulling her into ... Read more

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The Templar Succession

K. R. Eckert

In 1972 a disgraced college professor and a retired FBI agent set out to discover, once and for all, the final resting place of the legendary Treasure of the Knights Templar. Days later, both men disappear without a trace. Forty years later, spurred on by the discovery of a long lost manuscript, the Professor’s son ... Read more

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Climbing the Coliseum

Bill Percy

It’s the rugged Monastery Valley of Montana. Depressed psychologist Ed Northrup and Monastery Valley newcomer deputy sheriff Andi Pelton struggle to unravel these mysteries before they explode in a violent collision. And amid the chaos, Ed, Andi, and Grace must face the most formidable decision of their lives. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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A Dead Man and Doggie Delights

Aleksa Baxter

When her grandpa is accused of murder, Maggie May, with the help of her Newfie Miss Fancypants, must find the murderer before her grandpa goes to prison. (Again.) A clean cozy set in the Colorado mountains. Perfect for dog-loving mystery readers. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Goliath

Richard Turner

In 1931, during its maiden voyage, the British Airship Goliath mysteriously disappears without a trace. Hidden deep inside is a secret that could change the world. Present day, in The Philippines, an attempted kidnapping draws historian Jennifer March and former soldier Ryan Mitchell into a deadly race to find the Goliath before a mysterious figure ... Read more

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Free: The Second Wife

Kishan Paul

Kidnapped by her patient. Taken around the world to be his second wife. Ally must fight for survival while her husband fights to find her. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Boulevard Dreams

Ryan Janz

In this intelligent and dark-humored mystery set in 1958 San Francisco, Private Eye, Joe Nails, endures surrealistic dreams, in which his once best friend pleads for his help before turning a gun to his own head and firing. Joe sets out to locate him but learns he vanished weeks before the dreams began. As he ... Read more

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Free: The Bad Games Series (Books 1-3)

Jeff Menapace

Three blockbusters. One box set. All terror. The first three books in the highly acclaimed Bad Games series, now in one ultimate eBook. Leave the light on. The Lambert family is heading to the cabin for some weekend fun and games. Someone is watching though, and they want to play some games of their own. ... Read more

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Fangs and Frenemies

Cherry Andrews

A witch, a shifter, and a vampire who were frenemies back in high school must work together, to solve the mystery of their missing classmate. But in the cloudy, romantic beach town of Blue Moon Bay, Oregon, everyone seems to be guarding a magical secret. Will Hazel, Britt, and Max stop getting on each other’s ... Read more

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With Full Malice: A Deadly Vigilante Crime Thriller of Twisted Justice

Brenda Hill

Is it ever acceptable to commit murder? What if, as a good citizen, you waited for justice, but it never came? In this stunning thriller, a deadly secret society is dispensing its own form of justice, and the hits are so diabolically clever that no one even suspects it’s murder – until a traumatized food ... Read more

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Echoes of the Past

Evan Bond

To escape an abusive relationship, Sasha and her daughter, Tara, move to a small town in Maine. The friendly locals and clean air seem like a nice change of pace. When death falls upon the small town, the locals take matters into their own hands. Soon, Sasha finds herself in a struggle for her life ... Read more

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