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!
Bangkok Slingshot
US expat lawyer Glenn Murray cohen’s visit to Florida is cut short by a violent street encounter that brings him back to Bangkok. Glenn had no idea the event was orchestrated to drag him into a Mossad plot to assassinate a terrorist hiding out in Thailand. Action & adventure every step of the way. Another ... Read more
Finding Lucy
Lucy Moore vanished in thirty seconds. Her mother spent ten years inside the network that took her — rising through it, earning trust she means to betray, one wrong word from a bullet. She’s closer than ever to finding Lucy. But the girl she’s fighting to reach may not be the daughter she lost. $0.99 ... Read more
EMP No Power No Shelter
She thought it was just another drill. He let her believe that for one more hour. Her father’s paranoia cost her a childhood, her inheritance, and years of her life. It was about to buy her every day she had left. The town called him crazy. The lawyer called it theft. Burning through her dead ... Read more
Bangkok Slingshot
US expat lawyer Glenn Cohen’s Florida visit is cut short by a violent street encounter which brings him back to Bangkok. Glenn had no idea the event was orchestrated to drag him into a Mossad plot to assassinate a terrorist hiding out in Thailand. Action & excitement every step of the way. Another exotic noir ... Read more
Ghost Debt
A young server falls to her death at a Charleston estate party, and professional crisis fixer Mateo Reyes is called in to contain the scandal. For years, powerful families have trusted Mateo to clean timelines, manage witnesses, and shape public narratives before the truth catches up. But when this scene fights back, small contradictions fracture ... Read more
Road to Colorado
The alert said to stay inside. The sky was clear. Then the power died. Mail carrier Charlotte Meyers has already lost her husband. Now the grid is down, war is spreading, and her daughter is somewhere in the chaos. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Losing Lenore : A Tommy Cuda Mystery
Winner 2026 Best Mystery Pacific Book Awards. Tommy escapes a life of text messages by chasing his grandad’s dream of cruising Route 66 in a Barracuda. A fortune teller’s tarot card, a Cadillac in hot pursuit, a sex crime, and a deep family secret hop in the car beside him. So, Tommy does what any ... Read more
Max Gator
GOD DOESNT ALWAYS CREATE BEAUTIFUL CREATURES. SOMETIMES HE CREATES PURE EVIL! When a massive, almost prehistoric gator infiltrates a privately owned South Florida, Ultra Maximum-Security Prison and begins its mission to feed on both inmates and corrections officers alike, panic ensues. Since permanent lockdown isn’t a sustainable option, especially since the gator is big and ... Read more
An Abrupt Departure
Welcome to Bleeding Hearts Valley, a standalone series of interconnected thrillers in one twisted midwestern suburb. A mystery from USA Today Bestselling author, P.D. Workman that will keep you turning the pages! An abandoned apartment holds deadly secrets. When Graham Hall, owner of “Hall it Away” junk removal services, steps into an abandoned apartment, he ... Read more
The Patriot Oath
The riveting 1st thriller in the Josh Kavanagh series. A retired Marine legend returns home and ends up engaged in the deadliest of battles. If you like war-hardened heroes, action-packed fight scenes, and powerful political agendas, you’ll love this thriller. Can he protect his country and family? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Storm Warning: A Sonny Marshall Thriller
Sonny Marshall, a gifted saxophonist with a past haunted by violence, lives his life between soulful nights on stage and the quiet discipline of martial arts. But when a friend’s chance sighting reopens the cold case of a girl kidnapped seven years ago, Sonny is drawn into a darkness that melody can’t touch. His unofficial ... Read more
Storm Damage: A Sonny Marshall Thriller
The deadliest threat in California doesn’t come with a warning—it slips into your system, rewires your mind, and turns you into a killer with a smile. When a banker opens fire at Folsom Flea Market, Detective Kat Hastings catches the case—but takes three bullets before she can stop the carnage. Now she’s in the ICU, ... Read more
Free: The Screaming Echo of Death
In this mystery novel, Dart is a private detective whose life is falling apart. Driven by guilt, unable to see the path ahead, he stumbles awkwardly forward. Suddenly he is confronted by two deaths. A boy hires him to discover why a woman walked into a bay and never stopped before killing herself. Then Dart’s ... Read more
Vice & Virtue
Some secrets are buried so deep, it takes a skeleton to unearth them. When a construction crew demolishing an old warehouse uncovers human remains hidden beneath the floorboards, Detective Sergeant Ben Winters knows someone went to great lengths to make sure those bones were never found. Before he can learn whose skeleton it is, Parker ... Read more
Free: The Crucible of Steele
Winner, Best Technothriller—American Fiction Awards. Georgia Steele discovers her near twin—a woman who shouldn’t exist. Her search for answers uncovers a secret society, a deadly conspiracy, and a plan to redesign humanity. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Protect & Defend: A Suspenseful Military Thriller
FOR THOSE TAKEN, HE’S THEIR LAST BEST HOPE. Former Army Ranger and FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader Jacob St. Christopher has always operated within the law. That’s about to change. Start reading book #1 in a 5-book series of action thrillers and join Jacob as his career takes an unexpected turn…toward becoming an elite UNSANCTIONED ... Read more
Vigilante Priest
Father Tony is a once-popular New York priest with family ties to the mob, and is troubled with the secrets he holds – torn by what is right and wrong. Eddie Rodriguez is a tough NYC cop with a serious chip on his shoulder, and a hilarious way of expressing himself. And he can tell ... Read more
Stars and Six-Shooters
A clerical mix-up leaves Yale astronomer Theodore Pembroke wearing a tin star in Moon Creek, a lawless town that’s already buried three marshals. Armed with probability charts and an unshakable faith in science, Teddy fights crime like no lawman before — trapping outlaws in contraptions and confusing desperados into surrender with physics lectures. But the ... Read more
The Closing Window: A Novel
A thirty-nine-day war between the United States and Iran ends the way modern wars end now: not in surrender, but in a memorandum. The guns go silent. The money is promised. The world exhales. Buried within the language of the peace are nineteen words that quietly abandon the people who believed the bombing meant deliverance. ... Read more
Free: A Whale of a Murder: A Venus Bixby Mystery
Why is this July 4th cozy mystery described as fun and frothy? Because … On the morning of her 50th birthday party, VENUS BIXBY stumbles over orange platform shoes in the gardens of the whaling museum and breaks her thumb. When it’s discovered the shoes are attached to the dead body of the manager of ... Read more
EMP Quiet Embers
During the worst winter America has ever seen, an EMP destroys the grid and leaves millions freezing in the dark. Jack gets his family to a remote cabin, hoping the forest will hide them. But the blizzard is not the threat he should fear most. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Haunted River: A Paranormal Mystery Thriller
Don’t Deny the Dead A woman, clad only in a white nightgown, is dead – her body discovered on the banks of Black River. Her unsolved murder, and her ghost, still haunt the small town where she lived and died. Twenty-five years later, Detective Gordon Daniels inherits his estranged grandfather’s home on the property where ... Read more
Echoes of Fortune: The Search for Braddock’s Lost Gold
Young Washington hits theaters July 3, 2026. Andy Serkis plays General Braddock. Read the untold story of what really vanished on Braddock’s Road. Winner of the 2025 PenCraft Book Award for Best Thriller. Can one man change his past with the discovery of a lifetime? “A diverting tale of an exciting, harrowing quest for a ... Read more
Measured Steps: The Claire Morrison Files
Dr. Claire Morrison makes her living inside the minds of killers. Fighting to stay sober and haunted by her mother’s disappearance, she has built her career profiling Baltimore’s most dangerous criminals. But when a disturbing pattern emerges across her cases, Claire realizes someone has been watching her work, studying her methods, and manipulating cases from ... Read more
Together On Our Own
After a patient’s unexpected death, an emergency medicine resident develops an unhealthy attachment to the hospital’s new AI system. But when she’s drawn to a fellow resident, questions about the tragedy pull her back into the real world. Together, they uncover signs the death may not have been an accident. A slow-burn medical romantic suspense ... Read more
Free: Cemetery View: A Novel
When a shocking discovery unearths an old secret, can Stella expose a killer? Abandoned by her mother ten years earlier, Stella Ingman returns to her childhood home to help her father clean up after a flood. But she’s horrified when repairs to the backyard swimming pool reveal her missing parent’s hidden corpse. Plunged into the ... Read more
The Last Ship
Thomas Seville spent years making sure his family could survive the end of the world. Then the end came while they were separated. Now his boat is stocked, his instincts are sharp, and his family is out of reach. Around him, fear is spreading through the marina, and the first men willing to kill for ... Read more
Free: Meditation and Mischief
This book club dives (literally!) into the pages of a cozy mystery. This quirky group of brave members must solve the mystery to get out of the book. It’s so much fun – you’ll wish for a book club like this! Free on Kindle.... Read more
Beneath the White Coats
When a celebrated surgeon is charged with murdering a colleague during a routine operation, Miami is stunned. But the deeper Jack Ryder investigates, the clearer it becomes that the real killer may be hiding behind a white coat—and a secret worth killing for. $3.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Black Velvet
Theo Holmes, a private investigator and direct descendant of Sherlock, is called in to help the San Diego and Las Vegas police departments when eerily similar homicides by euthanasia pop up in both cities. Working with PAM, a beautiful AI robot, and Delaney Watson, Holmes and his team realize they are faced with contradictory DNA ... Read more
Free: Murder in the Shade of Crimson
Days after her sister’s tragic end, Ireland Matthews stumbles across a troubling letter. Several weeks later, Ireland crosses paths with a man seeking the truth about what really happened to her sibling. Suspecting someone close to Ireland is involved, the man enlists Ireland’s help to prove it. Initially, Ireland refuses to believe or help the ... Read more
Frontier Justice: A Coogan Mystery (Frontier Series Book 1)
Danny Coogan, a freshly minted Montana Fish and Game Officer and recent Afghanistan veteran, hopes to bury his demons in a simple life in the wilderness around the small town of Darwin. But his life becomes a nightmare when he is shot and left injured and alone in the freezing countryside to struggle for survival. ... Read more
Murder Creek
When journalism student Eve investigates a 20-year-old cold case, she begins to unravel a small town’s darkest secrets… Twenty years ago, Lacey disappeared without a trace … except for her bloody scarf tangled in fallen branches at the muddy water’s edge. What exactly happened the night Lacey Walken went missing at Murder Creek? $0.99 on ... Read more
EMP Shadow Fall
He was the man on the mountain with more ammunition than the county sheriff’s office, a shortwave in his kitchen, and a pantry stocked to feed four people for a year. The whole mountain laughed at him. Then the EMP hit. Now the whole mountain was coming to Dutch’s gate. Lilly had come home to ... Read more
In the Serpent’s Shadow: Where Power Breeds Poison (The Rouke Correlation Book 1)
He was hired to find the leak. He didn’t know he was the bait. Caleb Rourke thought returning to Washington was just another job — a routine security audit for a biotech giant, triple the usual rate, quick in and out. Then he found a ghost in the code: a decade-old encryption signature from a ... Read more
The House Obedient
From Angela R. Key, author of the Amazon bestselling psychological thriller The Lies We Inherit, comes a colder, sharper return to the Scott family world. What began as revelation becomes rule. After Richard Scott’s death, Elise Marian Scott does not inherit comfort. She inherits control. At Ashdown, the family estate that once trained everyone around ... Read more
Free: Better to Have Lost
For some, love has only one side. Elliot can’t drink enough to drown out the memory of Stephanie—the woman who chose anything better than him. Then he learns she’s engaged to a rising district attorney — a man marked for death. The hit is already in motion—ordered by the powerful Lucio Corbucci crime family. And ... Read more
Watching John
A home security technician watches lives unfold through surveillance feeds. When the system fails to protect children, he starts stepping in himself. But justice has a cost, and the more John does for the right reasons, the harder it becomes to know if he should stop. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Pitch Black: A Psychological Survival Thriller
The most dangerous traps don’t stop you from moving forward — they turn you into a part of their mechanism. J. wakes up trapped in an unknown underground environment, with no explanations and no obvious way out. Forced to quickly grasp the rules of a game he never chose, he must make decisions under extreme ... Read more
Free: Genies and Gibberish: Magical Cozy Mystery Book Club #5
Magic, Genies, and a Talking Cat in this Fun Cozy Mystery! Whenever this group chooses a book, magic happens. The mystery comes to life, and they find themselves part of the story. To exit the book and get back home, they need to solve the mystery and reach The End. This time, the club chooses ... Read more
