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!
Power in the Blood
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
Murder Creek
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
The Italian Deception
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
Wicked for Hire
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
Season, Unforgettable
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
Offenbunker
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
The Kidnapped Bride
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
Home: A Dystopian Journey
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
Free: The Watenabe Name
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
Free: Cupcakes and Corpses
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
The Amazon Job
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
Blind Sight
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
The Crowlands
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
Choice Cut
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
Free: Special Access
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
The Ghost Who Loved Diamonds
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
Free: Escape to Osprey Cove
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
The Bug Hunter
“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
Free: Both Sides of the Law (The Casper Halliday NYPD Series Book 1)
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
The Watcher in the Night
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
Free: Hill of Secrets
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
Nondisclosure: A Medical Thriller
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
Free: The Reluctant Detective
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
Creation of Madness
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
Russian Dolls
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
The 51st Directive
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
The Rose Diary
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
Free: Chilling Effect
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
Jefferson’s Ashes
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
Pride & Extreme Prejudice
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
Closer Than You Think (A Broken Minds Thriller)
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
Unbound
When a high profile socialite is found dead, posed in an extremely provocative position, Lieutenant Ellison Frost must set aside her personal connection in pursuit of the truth. As the case pushes into the reaches of the victim’s sexually deviant lifestyle, Frost must battle exposing her own private life and the duality it has become. ... Read more
Khaybar, Minnesota
Already down on his luck, Hack Wilder must confront terrorism in his tiny hometown. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: One Last Prayer for the Rays (Crime Thriller)
School should be the safest place in the world. But it’s not this winter. Detective Michael Yorke faces his most harrowing case yet. When 12-year-old Paul disappears from school, Yorke’s only clue is a pool of animal blood. Fearing the worst, he turns toward the most obvious suspect, recently released local murderer, Thomas Ray. The ... Read more
Free: Tokyo Firewall
An outsider in a foreign land. Her twisted cyberstalker. She’ll fight tooth and nail for her digital privacy. Her life depends on it. Tokyo, the ‘90s. When Alison Crane quit her environmental law practice and followed her hotshot investment banker boyfriend to Japan, she thought they’d only grow closer. But jobless and broke, Alison sits ... Read more
Free: One Last Prayer for the Rays
Join Detective Michael Yorke in a frantic race against time to save a missing schoolboy. His only clues: a pool of blood and a mutilated corpse. ‘An explosive and visceral debut with the most terrifying of killers,’ Best Selling Crime Writer Stephen Booth. Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Monster
Josh Soule’s premiere thriller, The Monster, follows the psychological decline of a nameless narrator who tells his tale of being stalked and framed by a local serial killer.His relationships with friends and family deteriorate, and he soon is required to fend for himself. As days tick by, the time must come to find his way ... Read more
Scarlet Fever: A Crime Thriller
Private investigator Johnny Delarosa’s seen it all. But when a drop-dead gorgeous redheaded mystery woman walks into his bar and drops a $20,000 retainer in his lap, he knows he’s met his match. Claire Dixon wants the hard-drinking Johnny to find $2 million that was stolen from her mob-wife mother thirty years ago, but the ... Read more
The Inside Man
Levi’s search for the kidnapped grandchild of a Japanese mob boss plunges him into a world filled with chaos. When he’s falsely accused of a heinous series of crimes, the FBI makes Levi an offer he can’t refuse: use his mob connections to help investigate the murders of several undercover agents or find himself in ... Read more
River Road
Bizarre New Orleans death ceremony ends in murder. French Quarter private investigator Wyatt Thomas meets a new client at an eerie wake at a Canal Street theater. When the client is murdered before his eyes, Wyatt must go on the run to save his own life. Armed with a bag of cash and a single ... Read more
