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!

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

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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. When Wynter Roth is turned out of New Earth, a self-contained ... Read more

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Free: The Malveaux Curse Mysteries, Books 4-7

This box set includes the final four books in the Malveaux Curse Mysteries series. Follow the continuing paranormal adventures of Kendell, Myles and Cheesecake with titles including: Voodoo You Love, Voodoo You Think You Are, Look What You Made Me Voodoo, and Love Me Like Voodoo. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Devil Winds Dance

It all started with a new job. For single mother Abbey Brennan starting a new job was supposed to be the beginning of a bright new future. Instead, it was the beginning of a mystery involving drugs and murder, and a race to save the life of her son. During her relentless quest to uncover ... Read more

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FREE: SOMETHING IN THE WOODS IS TAKING PEOPLE

Fan of the hit TV series ‘Stranger Things?’ Did you think that Strange Unexplained Abductions of Children in the Woods was just sci-fi horror fiction? That Monsters really don’t exist? That deep in the Woods lie Secret Military Underground Bases, where children are experimented on for Time-travel, Teleportation, and Mind Control? The Truth really is ... Read more

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Vanishing Point

Bereft from the loss of an old friend, Sutton Mills has fallen into disreputable habits. That is until Fin finds a case for him to look into: the mysterious hit-and-run of a young man called Christopher Masters. Chris didn’t have any friends, any hobbies, and he certainly didn’t have any enemies. Why then does it ... Read more

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Free: Saving Babe Ruth

Tom Swyers

Burned-out lawyer and Civil War buff David Thompson risks it all to save kids’ baseball in this award-winning thriller based on a true story. A travel baseball promoter wants the town field for his elite travel teams. Thompson wants the field for his son and the sandlot kids. It’s an epic battle between two obsessed ... Read more

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Caligula Reincarnated: a Novel

WARNING: While there is no gratuitous sex or violence in this book, Caligula, in real life, was a vile, murderous person who made his victims suffer. Some of the fictionalized accounts of his actual deeds are here. Some parts, not for squeamish. “Caligula is a perfect monster: nuanced, well-written, an iconic villain.” San Francisco Chronicle ... Read more

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Gate 76

Andrew Diamond

Named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2018 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 a crime that has captivated the nation.Sifting through ... Read more

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Bloodshed

Would you stop a school shooting if you could? An active school shooter leads John Jordan on a riveting chase into a stunning mystery. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Avenue of Regrets

What would you do if you discovered that the tragic deaths of your family seven years ago were not as they had seemed? How far will you go to uncover the truth? The brand new mystery-suspense thriller hailed by Publishers Weekly as, “An Engrossing novel of Domestic Suspense. A fast-paced tale of murder Worthy of ... Read more

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Rising Wind: The Thunder Beings (The Rising Wind Series Book 1)

Diane Olsen

A businessman is assailed by dreams of a Thunderbird who needs his help, despite his strong denial of the Lakota Heritage. To make things worse, he is told to find a woman he doesn’t know in a South American jungle to help him solve problems initiated by his former business partner, and aid the Thunder ... Read more

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Free: Target

You can have the world and still desire freedom. Lamont Jones is Teflon. An intelligent modern-day criminal, he has carved an empire on the streets of Leeds alongside his childhood friends. The street life is ever-changing, however, and more money leads to mounting problems. After over a decade of dirt, Lamont is depressed and desperate ... Read more

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The Time and Again Trilogy Boxed Set

A lost town, a misplaced historical artifact, a skeleton in the family tree, and runaway slaves hiding in the attic—all the “history mystery” you could want with a squeaky-clean romance for added spice. Abby Thomas is spending her summer in a run-down old house with a bratty pre-teen named Merrideth she is supposed to tutor. ... Read more

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Coyote: A Jessica James Mystery

If you like your sleuths fierce, funny, and female, you’ll love Jessica James in this award-winning fast-paced thrill ride. $0.99 on Kindle. ... Read more

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The Other Side of Elsewhere

Ret McCoy was always the new kid, but after three years in the small town of Riverton, he thinks his family may have finally settled. He and his friends have the perfect summer planned before they start seventh grade, and his new job at the local mortuary promises enough pocket money for all the sodas ... Read more

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Free: First Shot

J.D. DUDYCHA

Meet Niki Finley. She has no training and only a few specialized skills. But that’s before they get their hands on her. A secret government organization known as the Zealots are on the lookout for new young talent, and they’ve taken an interest in Niki over the past year. In fact, she’s exactly what they’re ... Read more

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Sisters of the Mist

Eric Wilder

“Fun, humor, romance and the paranormal all wrapped up in the ambiance that is New Orleans.” $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Escape to Osprey Cove

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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Tell Me You Love Me

Dylan Carmody

Everyone has secrets. Leroy Jenkins has secrets. Dark secrets, perverted secrets, secrets that would ruin him if anyone found out what he truly was. He lives the seemingly perfect life. A well-paying job, and recently married to the love of his life, Leroy finally has his life in order. But those secrets that he has, ... Read more

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Sweet Dreams, Baby Belle

Kim Carter

Waitress Lizzie Headrick thought she had finally met her prince charming in Dr. Grant Chatsworth. She was young and in love, and their quick courtship ended with the four-carat diamond engagement ring of her dreams. Now residing in one of Buckhead’s finest estates, Lizzie soon learns all that glitters is not gold. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Look What You Made Me Voodoo (Malveaux Curse Mysteries, Book 6)

With Kendell and Myles safely back among the living, the task of keeping Colin in his place has fallen to Sanguine Delarosa. But as hell’s angel, can she resist the devil’s charms? In order to keep an eye on him, she may have to get emotionally and physically closer than she imagined possible. With the ... Read more

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Silkworm

The unthinkable, terrorists have launched multiple attacks on the world’s vulnerable infrastructure. The terrorists though are not driven by religion or ideology – they seem altruistic and economic gain and have been responsible for many of the market disruptions of the last half-century. Elle Hardwick isn’t the standard CIA operative and her means aren’t conventional ... Read more

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When a Stranger Comes…

A 2018 Reader’s Favorite Bronze Medal Winner Author Alexa Wainwright vows to do whatever it takes to attain the heady ego-stroking success of her debut. But is she really? Witnessing an out-of-the-blue lightning bolt whose giant tendrils spread over the blue sky and city streets below her loft window, Alexa doesn’t realize just how this ... Read more

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Boston Homicide

John Dalglish

Officer Danny Sullivan has just become Detective Danny Sullivan, But quickly, his first case with a new partner throws him into a web of secrets, half-truths, and dead women. The conclusion he draws puts him at odds with everyone in his life, and the young detective must decide whether to risk everything to prove his ... Read more

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Free: Pink Diamonds and Murder

A murder threat. A scared DJ. And the dreaded chicken dance. When someone stabs a rubber chicken into DJ Meow Meow’s door, Morris runs to Val for help. She takes the case, against Detective Mathews’ protests. Can Val figure out who is threatening Morris’ life in time? Can she keep a murderer at bay and ... Read more

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The House of Murder

Hope Hopkins

On the streets of St. Louis, a murderer is running loose, murdering women everywhere he goes. He is ruthless when he kills his victims, for years the police have not been able to catch him, he was notorious for his kills because the women he murdered were brunettes and he cut them a certain way. ... Read more

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Red Mist

Simon Rosser

For London lawyer, Jack West, a chance meeting with a sexy and beautiful women one lunchtime in his local wine bar turns his day into disaster and his world upside down. The secret she hides however, is far, far worse. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Weakest Lynx

A madman forces his way into Lexi’s home. Her survival means she is the only one who can identify the stalker. Lexi becomes the critical witness who holds the key to stopping the murderer who is terrifying Washington families. Striker Rheas, an ex-Navy SEAL, and his team of expert operators are charged with protecting Lexi. ... Read more

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The Predator and The Prey

Kevin Sivils

Everyone has a past they’d like to forget. Inspector Thomas Sullivan has a past that is about to catch up with him. Imagine being sent to the developing planet Beta Prime to clean up its corruption and crime. You’re alone, with no friends or allies, and your own police force is out to frame you. ... Read more

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Free: Frost and Ashes

Thrilling Scandinavian mystery From an international best-selling and award-winning author During a snowstorm, an 8-year-old boy is found dead in a stream running through a village in Denmark. He has been strangled with a fishing line and has severe burn marks on his hands. The investigation of the killing of the boy goes in several ... Read more

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Arachne’s Challenge

The last words of a dying teenage car thief set off a race across Europe to find an SUV that may be harboring a terrible secret. Within seventy-two hours of landing in Nice, Carter and Stella are in the proverbial eye of the storm. What swirls around them in a deadly funnel is a chilling ... Read more

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Coroner to Coroner

Bliss, Texas will never be the same. A murder will make sure of that. The town Sheriff is fat, happy, and useless. Just like his daddy before him and his dad before that. Ethel and Velma Harmon should know. They’ve been around for all three. These two seventy-something sisters-in-law refuse to let their ages slow ... Read more

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Free: Dark Sky

Joel Canfield

First Lieutenant Robert Davidson. A war hero who died in combat during the Afghanistan conflict. Or did he? The answer could bring down a secret military empire – as well as a guy named Max Bowman – in this sardonic thriller in which an underwhelming hero must confront an overwhelming conspiracy. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Foreign Involvement

Chuck Winters, recently retired San Francisco homicide detective struck it rich by developing a U.S. criminal database earning him over $100 million after taxes. Within weeks his venture capital mentor called on him to investigate a missing CEO that disappeared days before a scheduled public stock offering. The worldwide chase for a killer starts. Free ... Read more

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Underground

Adrienne’s father was murdered during his investigation of the disappearance of several runaway girls from a women’s help center. Sixteen years on, Adrienne receives a phone call from socialite Rebecca Kaber who tells her she knows who killed him. Before they can meet Rebecca is found dead. A year ago, Rebecca’s husband fell from a ... Read more

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Karma’s Envoy

Inexplicably waking up in the body of an 8-year-boy in 1962 isn’t easy to start with, but imagine discovering you must face a horrific evil destined to kill you. This is Todd’s dilemma as he faces life in a run-down trailer house with a new name, a new chain-smoking mother, and an unspeakable evil lurking ... Read more

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Free: Voodoo You Think You Are (Malveaux Curse Mysteries, Book 5)

Kendell Summer is finally settled into her new French Quarter apartment with her boyfriend, Myles, and their two pups, Cheesecake and Doughnut Hole. Life would be perfect if it weren’t for the swamp witch Sanguine, who is still lying comatose—after losing her soul—on their new couch like Sleeping Beauty. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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The Peacetaker Series Boxset

A career soldier who survived a deadly riot in Cairo, and a reclusive mythology expert from Montana, race against time to find the product of ancient myths and legends that are cutting a bloody path across the continent. And the story continues across the globe, with the unlikely partners pursuing the myths that threaten humanity. ... Read more

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Free: Chinawoman’s Chance

Clara Shortridge Foltz faces a patriarchal nemesis in 1884 San Francisco. When a white prostitute is murdered and flayed down to a skeleton, Clara is hired by the Six Companies of Chinatown to defend the 16 males who are swept up by the Chinatown Squad. This ragtag and corrupt group of sheriffs work for the ... Read more

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