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: Black Dog Escape
“What have I done?” Navy SEAL Jack Thibideaux thinks as he stands over the shepherd girl he has just accidentally shot high atop a snow capped peak in Afghanistan. Thus starts Jack’s perilous journey to save the girl, and himself. With the Taliban close behind, Jack fights his way down the mountain to rescue the ... Read more
Free: THE LAST TRIP
A fishing trip has turned into a nightmare. Stranded on a remote Canadian island with a killer, the Trask brothers must use all their skills to survive and uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearances of their fellow anglers. As a storm rages on and the body count rises, Don and Dave realize that this ... Read more
Unmoved: A Lawson from Boston Thrillah’
UNMOVED (adjective) [uhn-moovd] A state of practiced calm. The ability to see danger, sort choices, and act without fear or passion. Lawson’s rule is simple. The best way to avoid conflict—is to avoid conflict. For ten years, Lawson’s life was predictable. The same Boston coffee shop. The same corner booth. The same clean line of ... Read more
Justice
Welcome to St. Louis, where justice comes from the barrel of a gun. When a sadistic gang leader is murdered, Detective Darren Cutright suspects old-fashioned street justice. But when more criminals turn up dead, he discovers a chilling pattern. Someone is hunting the predators the courts refuse to prosecute. And the list of victims keeps ... Read more
Frontier Ghosts: A Coogan Mystery (Frontier Series Book 6)
When a ghost from the past refuses to stay buried, U.S. Marshal Danny Coogan is pulled into a case that doesn’t make sense, and that someone powerful doesn’t want solved. What begins as a routine eviction turns darker with every step. Missing persons with no trail. Bodies surfacing where they shouldn’t. And secrets buried long ... Read more
I’M GOING TO KILL THAT CAT
It’s Fat Tuesday, the day before the holy season of Lent. Father Melvyn breathes in the spring air and murmurs, “Please, God, may I lead your flock well in this time of contemplation and prayer.” Suddenly, a shriek—’ I’m going to kill that cat’—shatters his peace. That scream draws him and Mrs. B. into a ... Read more
Free: The Book of Confessions
You meets Misery in this darkly satirical psychological thriller about obsession, rejection, and revenge. For twenty years, aspiring author Elena Cartwright has collected enough rejection letters to wallpaper her lonely cottage. Literary agent Kate Finlay could change everything, but Elena has stopped submitting manuscripts and started getting closer to Kate herself. As the line between ... Read more
Free: Our Lady of the Overlook: A Gripping Small-Town Murder Mystery (Overlook Trilogy Book 1)
A rookie cop. A chilling cold case. A town with secrets that refuse to stay buried. When Mike Ellis returns home to the Catskills, he’s drawn into a murder that mirrors a tragedy from decades earlier — and the deeper he digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes. What Readers Are Saying About This MysteryIf ... Read more
The Salt Widow’s Key (The Salt Widow Mysteries Book 2)
Every wreck leaves a key to its story. Janessa “Nessa” Douglas discovers a broken brass key among the wreckage after a Nor’ Easter storm as she catalogs for the historical society. The initials engraved on its shaft appear to connect it to the Widow’s Return, a legendary shipwreck said to be cursed. Then, shipwreck podcaster ... Read more
Bad Copy
Oliver trusts his boyfriend Dylan—until gaps in his memory, shifting stories, and a murder close to home begin to unravel their life together. Every answer Oliver uncovers brings another contradiction, and the man he loves becomes harder to recognize. A tense LGBTQ+ thriller about dangerous secrets and the cost of wanting to believe someone. $0.99 ... Read more
The Ghost In The Stacks
A body in the library wall since 1925, still wearing a good suit. Ashwood has called him a thief for a hundred years. He would like a word about that. Librarian Ellie Ward has nine days before the library comes down, and her only witness won’t name his killer. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
False Convictions
“A twisty cat-and-mouse thriller of false identity and creeping suspense. Great for fans of Kate Michaelson’s Hidden Rooms?and Catherine Ryan Howard’s The Nothing Man.” —BookLife? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Heart & Bone
Deep in the Appalachian winter, a brutal ambush at a remote mountain shelter leaves two young hikers dead. For Emma Fisher and her friend Summer, surviving the attack is only the beginning. Somewhere in the whiteout, a man named Jedediah follows them—a man bound to Emma’s past by something she believed had long ago been ... Read more
Double Trouble: A Texas Private Investigator Mystery
When PI Iris Raines stares into the face of a murder victim who looks just like her, she’s plunged into a deadly vortex of hidden identities and long-buried family secrets. Soon she’s in a race to find a century-old treasure someone is willing to kill to possess. As Iris follows a trail of forgotten histories ... Read more
Free: Born for Revenge (Paxton & Walsh Mysteries Book 1)
Who once was lost now is found. But grace didn’t lead her home. For the last year, the sinister shadow of unsolved kidnappings has haunted Detectives Holden Walsh and Cabe Paxton. Their cold case turns hot when one of the abductees returns, but her traumatized silence only sparks more questions. As the detectives unravel a ... Read more
The Evelyn Project
Inspired by the true story of the author’s ancestor, who died of tuberculosis in 1894. What if the past could be rewritten… one life at a time? When London professor Franco Lorenzi is approached by a mysterious millionaire claiming a distant relative’s life depends on him, curiosity quickly turns into fear. Because the woman they ... Read more
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Some stories don’t end with a kiss. Some women don’t wait to be awakened. Los Angeles is sweltering through Holy Week when a teenage hustler named Kiddy is murdered on Hollywood Boulevard in broad daylight. The investigation pulls Detective Joanna Steele into a conspiracy that reaches from Hollywood’s shadows to the highest levels of power. ... 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
The Last Confession: Murder, Family, Ethnicity, and Justice in a Texas Border Town
A Texas Murder, a Priest and the 60-year Cold Case the Church Couldn’t Bury In 1960, Irene Garza was murdered in McAllen, Texas. The prime suspect was a Catholic priest. What followed was not only a brutal crime, but a 60-year investigation marked by silence, institutional power, and a conviction that would become the oldest ... Read more
Free: The Bestseller
A story 130 years in the making is finally about to be told. John Harrison had always wanted to write fantasy novels. After retiring from a long career in marketing, he finally had the time to pursue the dream he’d carried for most of his life. But an old farmhouse, a forgotten typewriter, and a ... Read more
Free: Bells, Binders and Bodies (Apple Creek School District Mysteries Book 1)
A small-town scandal. A buried secret. And one woman determined to uncover both. Miss Tony Cooper has spent years keeping the school district running smoothly-until everything begins to unravel.When missing funds trigger a quiet fraud investigation, Tony expects long hours and paperwork-not whispers, suspicion, and a growing sense that something isn’t quite right. But when ... Read more
1/6: Will Be Wild
1/6: Will Be Wild is a terrifying alternate history of what might have been on January 6, 2021, and what might yet be on January 6, 2029. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Enigma: The Alchemist’s Legacy
Inside a 400-year-old manuscript lies an alchemist’s secret that could change the world—or end it. TV host Michelle Cruise and US agent Alex Marshall race across continents to uncover it before the wrong people do. Is the formula worth dying for? For fans of Dan Brown, James Rollins, and Steve Berry’s historical mysteries. $4.99 on ... Read more
The Ravens of Whitechapel: Sherlock Holmes: The Animal Cases Volume 1
The Ravens of Whitechapel and Other Curious Cases Sherlock Holmes – The Animal Cases, Volume 1 A missing canary. Vanishing pigeons. Ravens blamed for theft and murder. Horses terrified by a danger no human seems able to see. In this unique collection of Sherlock Holmes mysteries, the world’s greatest consulting detective encounters cases in which ... Read more
Frontier Bounty: A Coogan Mystery (Frontier Series Book 5)
When a brutal escape unleashes a deadly fugitive into the Montana wilds, U.S. Marshal Danny Coogan is sent to bring him back, alive or dead. But the hunt turns treacherous when Danny discovers the escapee has entered the Bob Marshall wilderness, an area roughly the size of Delaware. Forced deep into whiteout conditions and uncharted ... Read more
It’s Personal (Tess Kincaid)
Two-year-old Jack Spinozza disappears from a crowded shopping mall in broad daylight, leaving his parents trapped in every family’s worst nightmare. As Tess and Eddie Spinozza work alongside Detective Rick Sinnard to find their missing son, the investigation uncovers long-buried secrets that refuse to stay hidden. Someone knows exactly what happened to Jack. Someone close ... Read more
The Naked and the Damned
Some Secrets Get Buried. Others Get Buried Alive. Former prison warden turned private investigator Jack Marconi thinks he’s simply proving yet another case of an unfaithful wife. Instead, he stumbles into a ruthless conspiracy where corrupt lobbyists, Russian mob enforcers, political power, and millions of dollars collide in bloodshed. When witnesses start disappearing and bodies ... Read more
Frontier Vengeance: A Coogan Mystery (Frontier Series Book 4)
Danny Coogan is now working as a US Marshal, and he is within weeks of becoming a father for the first time. During a takedown of a fugitive, he makes a grisly discovery: a body, and it’s the son of someone he knows and works with. Thus begins an off-the-books investigation that leads him to ... Read more
Loose Arrows: A Thriller
“About a mother’s grief, a father’s cancer, and the dangers of Russian machinations, Loose Arrows is an involving . . . entertaining thriller. . . . Strong women, playing against feminine stereotypes, dominate the book. . . . Underlying and coloring the action is a winning, comical narrative voice.” —Foreword Clarion Reviews $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Frontier Marshal: A Coogan Mystery (Frontier Series Book 3)
U.S. Marshal Danny Coogan returns to his roots in Montana to settle in the sleepy town of Darwin with his pregnant wife. But as Danny races into town ahead of an early blizzard, the storms of his past threaten his future. Not only has the ambitions of the Ghost Buffalo Society set some of the ... Read more
Dead Behind the Banners
A glossy promise. A murdered promoter. And a road someone is willing to kill for. When tourism consultant Nora Keene arrives in Salmon, Idaho, selling jobs, visitors, and a bright new future, reserve deputy Hatta McFarlane determines Nora’s backers are vague, her promises are slippery, and the stranger at the back of the council meeting ... Read more
Frontier Outlaws: A Coogan Mystery (Frontier Series Book 2)
Eight months after the showdown with the domestic terrorist group that nearly cost him his life, Danny Coogan, a Montana Fish and Game Officer, faces a new threat to his community—and his career. It starts with a dead steer. Which happens to be near the body of a dead rancher. Both of which are on ... Read more
Frontier Ghosts: A Coogan Mystery (Frontier Series Book 6)
PRE-SALE, RELEASE Nov 1st – When a ghost from the past refuses to stay buried, U.S. Marshal Danny Coogan is pulled into a case that doesn’t make sense, and that someone powerful doesn’t want solved. What begins as a routine eviction turns darker with every step. Missing persons with no trail. Bodies surfacing where they ... Read more
Legacy of Ash (Brotherhood Chronicles Book 1)
They built a cage of fear. Adrian Ward wrote the code to burn it down. When an MIT hacker translates ancient magic into a sentient C++ digital matrix, he triggers a shadow war with the Vatican’s elite hit squads. Dan Brown meets William Gibson in this high-octane cyber-occult thriller. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Fear of Flames: Romantic Thriller
She writes thrillers for a living, but nothing could prepare her for the one she’s living now. By day, Michelle Holdcraft is the quiet woman-next-door in small-town Indiana. But by night, she’s D. Valentine, a bestselling thriller author with a mind for murder and secrets. Her real life? Completely ordinary. Until one unplanned trip to ... 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
No Safe Harbor
Her boat survived the blackout. Now she has to survive everyone who wants it. Hunted through the Atlantic islands after an EMP, Shannon must protect her crew with paper charts, dwindling supplies, and a diesel engine she can’t afford to lose. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Things I Agreed To
Susan Price writes psychological thrillers about women who reclaim control. When her latest novel explodes online, readers insist it isn’t fiction. They are certain it’s confession. A young, charismatic influencer amplifies the theory, framing Susan’s silence as proof of buried truth. But as interpretation turns to expectation, Susan realizes she is no longer the author ... Read more
I WAS WATCHING YOU
City girls Zara, Faye and Heidi return from a rural retreat with a dark secret. They think they got away with it. But they were watched. Just how far will they go to keep their secret…? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Dawn of the Crescent
For four years, an Iranian sleeper cell has lived ordinary lives in Los Angeles while guarding a smuggled tactical nuclear weapon and awaiting the signal that will turn them from neighbors into killers. When that order finally arrives, CIA agent Jack Harlan races to stop the detonation—but the operatives’ greatest obstacle may be the lives ... Read more
