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!
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
Free: A Berry Clever Corpse
Cooking disasters, crazy new friends, and two hunky men vying for her attention – will Kylie Berry survive her move to the small town of Camden Falls? And will she be able to prove that her friend Susie is not a killer, or will the real murderer get to her first? Free on Kindle.... Read more
An Innocent Man
There is no justice in the universe except for the rich and powerful. At least it seems that way. 500 years in the future, technology has changed. Humanity has not. One man’s fate lies in the hands of a team of corrupt prosecutors bent on making their prosecutorial mark for personal gain. Standing in the ... Read more
Free: Wicked Innocents (Case No. 1, The Frontenac Sisters: Supernatural Sleuths & Monster Hunters)
Evil hides behind the sweetest faces. Even the face of a child. Meet the Frontenac Sisters, Hyla and Lizeth, as they face one of their most difficult foes: a nine-year-old girl with a devious imagination and a dark secret. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Separated
If you were cut off hundreds of miles apart from your children when the grid across the United States went down, what lengths would you go to find them? That’s the exact question facing parents Bill and Sally Chandler when an EMP goes off while vacationing in their getaway cabin out in the Montana countryside, ... Read more
A Dickens of a Crime
The murder of a prominent socialite inspires community volunteer, Meg Miller, to find out more about the victim’s family and the controversial mega church on the edge of town. Meg is also motivated to clear her name as one of the suspects. After all, she did discover the body while prepping for the annual historic ... Read more
The Line Between
In this frighteningly believable thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee, an extinct disease re-emerges from the melting Alaskan permafrost to cause 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
Free: Dog Gone Lies
Drained by the wearisome job of rural county sheriff, Ray Pacheco has withdrawn to a life of seclusion. But not for long. A stray show dog and a dead body begin an adventure with ties to the past. New eccentric companions become extraordinary allies. Soon they are all in great danger, even the dog. Ray ... Read more
The Shotgun’s Wedding: A Cozy Mini-Mystery
Gun smoke fills the air with a runaway bride, a clever psychologist, dangerous shenanigans, and another in-law… in law. Can the Clue Queen chase down the truth before the wedding smoke clears? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Hit
A mysterious hitman opens fire on a Tel Aviv café and opens a Pandora’s box. The tortuous investigation includes colorful characters acquaintance with the dark alleys of Tel Aviv and the luxurious offices of high tech companies. Free 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 Summer Nanny: An Emerald City Thriller Novella
It was the perfect summer job—until it turned into her worst nightmare. Bridgett is enjoying an idyllic summer as the nanny for Leo, the son of Paul and Emily Cooper—a famous actor and renowned charity founder. Not only is she generously compensated to care for Leo at the couple’s Seattle waterfront estate, she develops a ... Read more
The Moon in Deep Winter
Parker Sloane has given up his job smuggling cash for a drug cartel and returned to his childhood home in the woods of New England. There he finds his family just as paranoid and unpredictable as the underworld types he just escaped. Now Parker has to manage family dysfunction and he’s unaware that each has ... Read more
Gate 76
Named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2018. “One of the year’s best thrillers.” — BestThrillers.com A mysterious woman fleeing an unknown terror boards the wrong plane at San Francisco International and disappears into the heart of the country. Freddy Ferguson, a troubled detective with a violent past, believes she’s the last living witness to ... Read more
Knee Deep
His wife went missing 5 years ago…She was boating with some friends. That was the last time he saw her. Her boat was found in a marina in the Bahamas…The numbers had been changed and the railings were gouged. He never gave up hope in finding her. When a new woman works her way into ... Read more
Free: The Delight
….it’s the final twist that leaves you breathless. Because at the end of your rope, is the end of your story…. And it’s all so deadly simple. One young female detective. Two small-town suicides. The unspeakable truth no-one in their right mind should ever dare find. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Cutie
Jari Styrman’s life and career are failing. As a young man, he left Sweden to achieve a dream: succeed as a computer consultant in the United States. Now, a few years later, Jari is burned out. He is forced to accept assignments at a sex company where an incident leaves him horrified. He abandons the ... Read more
Hidden Faults
When Frank Smiley woke up this morning, he thought today was going to be like any other day. He was wrong! Scott Ross, his friend and fellow scientist, is being framed for murder. As a conspiracy between corrupt politicians and ruthless businessmen unfolds, Frank must race against time to save his friend and family from ... Read more
Free: The New America
In 2045 after WWIII, America experiences widespread death and destruction. Almost half the country flees to a safe zone between the Mississippi River and the Appalachian Mountains. The government establishes a new Capital in Nashville, Tennessee. This is “The New America.” At the time, the country was governed by four powerful men known as the “Presidential ... Read more
Deadly Flip: A Home Renovator Mystery
Flipping houses can be deadly! Katelyn takes on a home renovation in Hiptown, Minnesota, that “has history…a murder” at BFF Myra’s urging. What was she thinking? Besides the young woman being killed by the home’s prior owner, the girl didn’t get the justice she deserved. The killer got away with murder! Could the victim’s restless ... Read more
Free: Fisherman’s Court
Finn Carroll is a failed artist living a marginal existence in his dead parents’ home. So why would a team of killers want to murder him and frame it as a suicide? Finn survives the encounter to discover the killers have left behind a “suicide note” detailing a dark incident from Finn’s past no one ... Read more
Panic’s Of Tremble1
Kirck Spence is searching for clues, while his wife is missing. Kirck Spence does not understand what is going on, and something to do about a Haunted House. $4.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Where Dandelions Sway
On a Friday afternoon in the small town of Glen Ridge, three armed men invade the home of Paul and Alexis Hudson. The Hudson’s find themselves in a life or death situation where tempers flare, demands soar and repercussions loom. On the surface, the invasion appears to be a simple robbery. Until one of the ... Read more
Primal Creatures
French Quarter private investigator and recovering alcoholic Wyatt Thomas climbs back up on the wagon and accepts a dangerous job from a movie producer to investigate a bizarre and gory murder at an exclusive resort for actors and artists on an island south of New Orleans. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Case of the Dead Dowager (Michaela McPherson Book 2)
Retired homicide detective Michaela McPherson and the aging Countess Dorothy Borghase team up again – this time to match wits with two serial killers stalking children, women and the elderly. When Dottie Borghase’s friend Camilla Rothrock collapses at a lunch gathering of old friends, the countess’s only concern is to dial 911 for help. But ... Read more
The Moment Between
The Moment Between is a psychological thriller that brings death to life through the story of Doctor Hackett Metzger, a neurologist who struggles with grief four years after losing his wife when he becomes involved in a medical study of near-death experiences and meets a woman with a dangerous past. Hackett is reluctantly involved in ... Read more
Free: WOLF: A Suspense Thriller (Jessica James Mysteries Book 1)
She wants her degree. But she just became a suspect of first-degree murder… Jessica James is broke and counting down the days until she can defend her philosophy thesis. Desperate to get out of her grubby attic digs, she and her friends break into her professor’s office…only to find her adviser dead in the tub. ... Read more
Death on the New Moon
Michael Lindley’s captivating and twisting tale of love, betrayal, and murder in the Low Country of South Carolina and the continuing love affair of Hanna Walsh and Alex Frank. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Never Nerida
When expectant mother Livia Karras spontaneously falls victim to aquagenic urticaria–an allergy where a single drop of water against her skin could be fatal–doctors determine her condition to be purely psychosomatic. Psychologist Elliot Chiles is assigned to her case. He suspects she is subconsciously sabotaging her own pregnancy due to unresolved guilt over a traumatic ... Read more
From the Outside In
A five-year-old little girl is brutally murdered by her mother’s boyfriend. His true identity is questioned and questionable from the very beginning. Her mother, a social worker, is found culpable but is not the primary killer. The people responsible for her protection have ultimately failed the little girl…and not just once. The story makes national ... Read more
Unspeakable Grudges
In this thriller, a Denver private eye’s legal investigation has ties to an ongoing multiple-murder case. Get it today to discover why Kirkus Reviews called it “a laudable mystery galvanized by a series-worthy gumshoe.” $3.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Ten Times Guilty: A Gripping Crime Thriller of Passion, Brutality, and Rage
A single mother struggles for worth after a savage attack, a police sergeant seeks redemption for a crime he didn’t realize he had committed – until the victim dies. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
