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!

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FUIN nga

A hawker is discovered by a successful lady only to discover happiness is not far fetched. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Becoming Dawn Knight

Brigitta Moon

Waiting is difficult, but in this game of murder, waiting is the name of the game. Susie has a humdrum life working in an airport coffee shop, but it doesn’t stop her from having big dreams. When the planes are grounded, life changes for her after she accepts a new job and a deal that ... Read more

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Free: The Glittering Web

Richard and Linda Nathan

A fast-paced spiritual thriller, The Glittering Web plays on today’s fascination with witchcraft in a succession of fiery adventures that rock Loren and Eve Montcrest’s love and sanity. But rescue means giving up everything. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Wine Valley Mystery (Books 1-4)

Sandra Woffington

Wine Valley pairs wine and murder! Blond, blue-eyed Max King, a new detective, partners with Dr. Joy Burton, a dark and disturbed forensic psychologist. Together, they root out the killers of Wine Valley, but they also delve into their own mysterious past: they’d shared the first few years of their lives together before being adopted ... Read more

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Free: Karma’s A Bitch (A Pet Psychic Mystery)

Shannon Esposito

Enjoy pet-themed cozy mysteries? Then come meet Darwin Winters, reluctant pet psychic and Karma, a toothless mastiff with a heart of gold. When a local homeless man she befriends is found dead, and the police assume it’s a suicide, Darwin has no choice but to use her gift to help collar the killer. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Dying to Cruise

Dawn Brookes

When you spurn a cold-blooded killer, vengeance will someday follow… Rachel Prince is drawn to investigate when the leader of a Bucket List tour party is discovered in the library on the first day of her Antipodean cruise. Can this seemingly harmless group of elderly people have a killer among them? Rachel thinks she is ... Read more

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Flight of the Forgotten: A True Story of Heroism and Betrayal

Mark Vance

The true story of one of the most closely-guarded American military secrets of all time and how a fifty-year-old aviation mystery was ultimately solved by the nephew of one of the victims. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Escape to Osprey Cove

Luisa Marietta g

The mystery begins with an unusual find in the secret compartment of Doug’s new Corvette. It will change his and Catherine’s life forever, forcing her to find escape at The Osprey Cove Lodge. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: A Predator and A Psychopath: A Dark and Twisted Psychological Thriller

jay kerk

After Jason is committed to a mental institution, he begins to uncover things he never knew before or things his mind shut out to protect him. Under the care of the facility’s doctors, he finds himself questioning what’s real and what’s not. What is the truth? What happened to him? Is his mind playing tricks ... Read more

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Power in the Blood

Michael Lister

A missing mom and a suspicious death force a reluctant detective out of self-imposed exile in this fast-paced mystery thriller. Detective John Jordan thought he had put a murder investigation behind him for good—his own good. Leaving Atlanta, he returns to Florida in search of the serenity that has so long eluded him. Until he ... Read more

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Murder Creek

Jane Suen

College student Eve Sawyer senses something disturbing at Murder Creek—the site named for infamous murders committed centuries earlier and where Lacey Walken went missing. Twenty years ago, Lacey disappeared without a trace … except for her bloody scarf tangled in fallen branches at the muddy water’s edge. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Wicked for Hire

Momoe Funakoshi

Medical student Amanda Meyer thought she had her life all planned out until people started dying the moment they touched her. Being cleared of any wrongdoing didn’t stop the medical school from expelling her, and it didn’t rid her of the unfortunate nickname Grim Reaper. Luckily, having a rep as the harbinger of death isn’t ... Read more

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The Italian Deception

Darby Philips

Paul Taylor hides from his past in a private boarding school. The mafia finds him and try to kill everyone he cares about. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Season, Unforgettable

Keta Diablo

Would you forsake your mother to save the woman you love? Season Scrimshaw isn’t selling the land her parents left her when they died, not even to the gorgeous Rann Brogan who saved her life in the forest. Especially not after she finds out he was in the woods surveying her property. Rann’s mother, Charlotte, ... Read more

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Offenbunker

A.G. Russo

The Russians didn’t just start trying to destroy the US. It began after WW II. They had killer spies from East Germany to Washington D.C. This book explores how the Soviets developed the nuclear bomb during the Cold War and intended to use it to threaten and frighten Americans by infiltrating our intelligence agencies and ... Read more

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The Kidnapped Bride

steve higgs

My Name’s Patricia Fisher. I’m 53, a few pounds overweight, and on an around the world cruise because I caught my husband cheating, cleaned out the bank accounts and ran away. Now I’m staying in the ship’s best suite and have my own butler! Life would be perfect if I didn’t keep getting embroiled in ... Read more

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Home: A Dystopian Journey

David Kummer

The wilderness shows no mercy. A story of love, the lost, and the hunted. In this dystopian journey, survival is key. Behind them, certain death. Ahead, a mystery called Home. The trail isn’t what it seems. And Lucy is sick. Some say nobody comes back from Home. And others say they can’t. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: The Watenabe Name

Sakura Nobeyama

A Japanese tycoon contrives to keep the truth of his father’s 1967 murder – both who and why – a mystery to protect the family name, and he’s willing to die trying. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Cupcakes and Corpses

Carole Fowkes

A serial killer is terrorizing Cleveland, PI Claire’s hometown. When her beloved former babysitter is murdered, it gets personal for Claire. Pursuing the suspects through sleazy bars, churches, bingo parlors, and music studios, Claire puts herself in the killer’s sights. As the corpses pile higher than meringue on a pie, Claire is determined to hunt ... Read more

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The Amazon Job

Vince Milam

A new heart-pounding thriller of espionage, treachery, and terrorism from the bestselling Case Lee Series. When a rogue scientist disappears with an earth-shattering discovery, a man with special skills is sent to find her. Will he succeed in time to stop a global disaster? $0.99 on Kindle... Read more

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Blind Sight

Tanya R. Taylor

Lucille Pfiffer sees, but not with her eyes. She lives with her beloved dog Vanilla (“Nilla” for short) in a cozy neighborhood that is quite “active” due to what occurred in the distant past. Though totally blind, she plays an integral role in helping to solve pressing and puzzling mysteries, one right after the other, ... Read more

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The Crowlands

T M Creedy

Sara’s on the run and has found the perfect place to hide. Finding herself the unexpected custodian of a large Victorian mansion in rural Australia, Sara can at last put her murky past behind her and concentrate on creating a new life. But the sinister Crowlands House is not all it appears to be, and ... Read more

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Choice Cut

Arnold Eslava-Grünwaldt

Jerome Samuels was a famous muralist. Before he switched mediums, he was a tattoo artist—and a damn good one. His untimely death has renewed interest in old rumors and triggered a race to find his ink work. Samuels’s two shiftless sons believe his unique creations contain clues that lead to the proverbial pot of gold. ... Read more

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Free: Special Access

Mark A. Hewitt

Hunter Thriller #1 of 5. 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. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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The Ghost Who Loved Diamonds

Bobbi Holmes

Everything is right on track for Danielle as she prepares for the grand opening of her bed and breakfast. All that changes when her cousin, Cheryl, shows up to claim her share of the inheritance-housemate Lily figures out there is a ghost in the house-and the million dollar necklace goes missing. $0.99 on Kindle  ... Read more

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Free: Escape to Osprey Cove

Luisa Marietta Gold

What Doug finds in the secret compartment of his new red Corvette will forever change his life. It will also change Catherine’s. Doug and Catherine come from two different worlds. Catherine’s world is one of privilege and wealth. Doug grew up dirt poor and full of envy of others who had the things that he ... Read more

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The Bug Hunter

Ken Davenport

“You have an appointment in Samarra.” This cryptic message, a parable that reaches back in time to the Babylonian Talmud, sets in motion a complex terror plot where rogue scientists have turned nature itself into a devastating weapon. Within months of the message being received, a virulent toxin is killing people up and down the ... Read more

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Free: Both Sides of the Law (The Casper Halliday NYPD Series Book 1)

Nathan Roden

He shared his father’s dream of becoming a detective. A prison sentence was not part of the plan. On his seventeenth birthday, in the throes of depression, Casper Halliday made a desperate decision. That decision brought him face-to-face with one of the most dangerous men in the city—and a future he could never have foreseen. ... Read more

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The Watcher in the Night

Mike Maroney

Tobias is an Inquisitor of the Watch Cats and patrols the dangerous streets of a big city where the lives of animals and humans are governed by an ancient code. Investigating the brutal murder of three kittens, Tobias uncovers a more sinister and dangerous conspiracy. In a city ripped apart with violence, greed and pollution, ... Read more

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Free: Hill of Secrets

Michal Hartstein

On a blooming May morning, the five bodies of a religious family are found in their apartment in the quiet suburb of Samuel’s Hill (Giv’at Shmuel). Detective Hadas Levinger, the renegade atheist daughter of a religious family, is put in charge of the police investigation. Slowly and skillfully she peels away the shell protecting this ... Read more

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Nondisclosure: A Medical Thriller

Geoffrey Cooper

Sexual harassment at a major medical research institution. When a leading professor accuses a colleague of drugging and sexually assaulting a student, department chair Brad Parker and university detective Karen Richmond join forces to investigate. An investigation that takes unexpected turns and reaches the highest levels of the university. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: The Reluctant Detective

Tom Fowler

It’s C.T.’s first case. He wants to ease into the job. Instead, he gets Alice. C.T. discovers his client is a liar, and both their lives are in danger. Can he keep his first case from becoming his last? Free on Kindle... Read more

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Creation of Madness

Linda B. Meyers

Oregon 1989. Dr. Laura Covington, newest nutcracker on staff, tackles a client haunted by Multiple Personality Disorder who reveals a deadly cult practicing mind control on kids. Laura must decide what she’ll do to protect them, and if she, too, is capable of the creation of madness. Tense, unpredictable psychological suspense. $0.99 on Kindle... Read more

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Russian Dolls

Cristelle Comby

She’s lost a friend. He’s lost his sight. Can Neve and Egan expose the twisted truth before they become the next victims? College student Alexandra Neve never backs down from a challenge. So when her BFF Irina dies of an apparent suicide, she channels her grief into cracking the case police refuse to touch. After ... Read more

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The 51st Directive

Michael Agliolo

A handwritten letter, sent to the FBI unleashes a trail of deceit putting the armed forces of the United States in direct conflict with each other. Discover the power of the 51st Directive through the eyes of FBI agent Erica Brewer as she and Washington D.C. Detective Sam Marco uncovers a secret government conspiracy that ... Read more

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The Rose Diary

Curtis Maynard

A young girl has a paranormal experience that leads her to investigate the cause of her sisters death. With twist interns in every corner it will keep you on the edge of your seat turning each page. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Chilling Effect

R.J. Pineiro

Chilling Effect, R.J. Pineiro’s newest thriller, explores a world in the not too distant future where terrorism is taken to a new level, one with world-ending consequences. You never know what you’re capable of…until the monster inside of you pushes you beyond your moral line in the sand. These are the opening thoughts of former ... Read more

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Jefferson’s Ashes

K.R. Eckert

150 years ago, in the unreconstructed South, a group of powerful families forms an organization for the protection of the old plantation way of life. In a climactic moment of terror, they murder a man who shouldn’t exist, a man whose very life could change history. Then the group vanishes into time. 150 years later, ... Read more

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Pride & Extreme Prejudice

Eric J. Gates

PRIDE can be the downfall of many. FBI Senior Special Agent Thompson had been trying to catch the paid assassin known as The Lion for many years. Now, as retirement looms, fueled by his sense of being outwitted at every turn by the killer, he takes drastic action, with unforeseen deadly consequences. EXTREME PREJUDICE, a ... Read more

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Closer Than You Think (A Broken Minds Thriller)

Lee Maguire

Somebody’s been watching Bryce for a long time. Somebody who knows his life inside and out—his fears, his regrets, his greatest longings and deepest despairs. Somebody with access to his most private places—his workplace, his home, his family…anywhere Bryce might have felt safe. No matter how close Bryce gets to the deadly truth, the enigmatic ... Read more

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