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: Ghost of a Chance
Welcome to Holmestead, England, where an American ex-pat, an archaeologist, and murder turn this picture postcard village upside down. Maggie Mulgrew runs The Ash Leaf, an antique shop in the quaint village of Holmestead, England – which has nothing to do with Sherlock, thank you very much. She sells her goods to disappointed tourists, and ... Read more
Flashback
Sarah has a gene that allows her to remember everything that happened to her ancestor. A DNA test brings her to the attention of a man who offers her a chance for a better life. But unknown to her, he wants to harvest her memories for profit. Increasingly brutal experiments culminate in a finale that ... Read more
Don’t Lie to Me
When twelve-year-old Sophie Williams went on a Girl Scout summer camp, she never returned home. Three months later, her body is found inside her sleeping bag in the most frequented area of Cocoa Beach, and the town is outraged. The girl isn’t just any child. She’s the town’s most beloved surf idol, and it was ... Read more
A Gift for Murder
Greed, jealousy, and anger often lurk below the surface of trade shows and business exhibitions, but murder isn’t usually on the program…. For fifty-one weeks of the year, Heather McNeil loves her job as assistant to the director of the Washington DC Market Show Center. Misplaced shipments, feuding exhibitors, and malfunctioning popcorn machines are all ... Read more
Leap
It was one of the greatest breakthroughs in human history. An achievement that stunned the world. And it was only the beginning. $0.99 on Kindle... Read more
Unspeakable Grudges
A puzzling series of murders collides with a messy big-money divorce in this taut, vivid mystery set in the dramatic mountains of the Southwest. $3.99 on Kindle... Read more
The Children of Abydos
There hasn’t been a century when he wasn’t hunted…. Doctors want to study him. The military wants to weaponize him. And his old foe wants to sell him to the highest bidder. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Starsight Project
She can see the past. The present. The future. And some people are willing to kill to get their hands on her. Free on Kindle.... Read more
What Ever Happened to Mr. MAJIC?
On the day of her mother’s funeral, twenty-three-year-old Grace Maxwell discovered the man who raised her was not her biological father. Instead, her “real” father was a best-selling self-help author and a world famous “Guru to the Stars.” Known as Mr. MAJIC for the miraculous impact his books and seminars had on millions of people, ... Read more
The Jack Reacher Cases (Books 1-3)
A USA Today Bestselling Series! Set in the Jack Reacher universe by permission of Lee Child. Book One: A HARD MAN TO FORGET. Former FBI agent Lauren Pauling met Jack Reacher in THE HARD WAY, the 10th Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child. Now, Pauling investigates the murder of a man with ties to Jack Reacher. ... Read more
Free: Boulevard Dreams
In this cleverly and darkly funny noir set in the smoky world of 1958 San Francisco, a down and out private detective, Joe Nails, experiences a series of surrealistic yet disturbing dreams, in which his once best friend from high school days, Mark Tamlyn, pleads for his help, before turning a gun to his head ... Read more
A Fool’s Circle
Kate Sanders has suffered many years of physical and mental abuse at the hands of her abusive husband Alan, and convinces herself that she is only holding the family together for the sake of her eight-year-old daughter. If it wasn’t for her best friend Jill Reynolds, she would have taken the suicide option a long ... Read more
Free: The Dim-Witted Hitman
Dimmie (short for Dim Wit) O’Malley, is a naive hitman who has never been out of New York City, trapped in a life he didn’t choose. The mob boss sends him on a luxury cruise to murder the former mob boss, on the run from Witness Protection. With one misstep, both lives hang in the ... Read more
The Last Apostle
A terror of a wholly new kind is winding its way through the backstreets and crime networks of New York City; a culmination of decades of unrest, an unholy alliance of age-old grudges, and a newly-sophisticated syndicate of evil which promises to spread fear and mayhem throughout the country and its governmental forces. How will ... Read more
The Celtic Cross Killer
There’s a serial killer on the streets of Brooklyn. The victims’ throats are slashed. A Celtic cross is carved deep into their backs. Is the cross the signature of a psychopath? A recidivist who will strike again? Or is it an isolated attack? Someone knows the killer’s identity. Private Investigator, Antonio Pecarro and his ex-NYPD colleagues race to ... Read more
Twisted Truth
It’s hard to defend yourself when you have memory lapses, and everyone thinks you are crazy. Journalist, Megan Roach, is given a story by an old man in a nursing home that could make her famous. When her carefully constructed life starts to unravel, she is forced to confront her childhood demons and the possibility ... Read more
Bula Bridge
A page-turning suspense thriller that will keep you reading. The exciting sequel to War Party that readers have been asking for. $0.99 on Kindle... Read more
Buying Time
A down-on-his-luck attorney is unwittingly drawn into a perilous web of greed, blackmail and murder. $0.99 on Kindle... Read more
Free: Deadly Dancing
Fans of Janet Evanovich will love this fun dive into the criminal underworld with feisty sidekicks and hilarious encounters. It’s mystery, romance, and comedy all rolled up into one nail-biting, laugh-out-loud adventure. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Siege of Lightning
Years before NASA planned to travel to Mars, and before the International Space Station ever reached orbit, the future of America’s space program hung in the balance. In this exciting alternate-history novel, the technicians at NASA hoped to create a fail-safe shuttle in the wake of the CHALLENGER disaster. With the brand-new space shuttle ... Read more
Free: The Ghost of Marlowe House
When Danielle inherits Marlow House she dreams of turning it into a seaside B & B. Since she’s never visited the property she’s not sure what awaits her in Oregon. She certainly doesn’t expect to find one of the house’s previous owners still in residence. After all, the man has been dead for almost ninety ... Read more
Flight of the Forgotten: A True Story of Heroism and Betrayal
Flight of the Forgotten is the true story of one of the most closely-guarded American military secrets of all time. It is predicated on the author’s other-worldly experience in his all-out effort to solve a fifty-year-old aviation mystery. This book is a living memorial to the Jack B. Ketchum Crew and the author’s late uncle, ... Read more
Surge
One Halloween night during a violent thunderstorm, Michael Drake’s fiancée, Amanda, answers the phone, and a freak lightning surge stops her heart cold, plunging her into a coma. When she awakens, she’s not the same woman Michael fell in love with … not the woman he planned to marry. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Darkwater Lies
Adelaide Fountaine, general manager of the Darkwater Inn, has just returned to New Orleans from a six-month sabbatical in Europe. She’s rested and ready to take on the inn’s busiest season: Mardi Gras. But Adelaide hardly has time to unpack before a jewel heist interrupts a visit from foreign royalty. A priceless tiara goes missing ... Read more
Free: How I Destroyed a Famous YouTuber Within a Few Hours (Confessions)
I ran to the latrines and hid in one of them waiting for all the students to leave. I closed the door and cried so hard that my tears dried up. I felt like time had stopped, but had to wait until the storm calmed down. I only went out after I was sure that ... Read more
Free: All Things Considered
After a nasty, late-night argument, Ryn Davis and her rock-star lover go to bed mad. An insomniac, she takes a single melatonin to sleep and to escape the downward spiral of her life. When she wakes and finds her lover shot to death, she must face police suspicions she’s lying about sleeping through the lethal ... Read more
The Other Side of Elsewhere
When an outsider moves into the Crooked House, people start to disappear. Ret and his friends are determined to solve the mystery before it swallows the entire town, but the evil that lies deep beneath the house threatens to put them in danger more terrifying than anything they could have imagined. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
V.E.N.O.M.
A heart-pounding race to the truth, V.E.N.O.M. weaves through the gauntlet of political corruption, treason, espionage, and murder to become a page-burning thriller debut. $0.99 on Kindle... Read more
Free: Every Reasonable Doubt
Can two top-notch female attorneys put aside their differences long enough to defend the biggest murder case of their careers? Free on Kindle... Read more
Serial Wives
How far would you go to protect your child? Cora loves her convict husband despite – or because of – his bad boy ways. But now that he’s back in her life, she has their daughter to consider. Is a faulty father better than no father at all? Why would a rich girl become a ... Read more
When the Clock Strikes Fourteen (A Blake Meyer Thriller – Book 4)
Supervisory Special Agent Blake Meyer is still attempting to locate a contagion designed to send America to the Dark Ages. In the midst of this mission, Blake’s enemies are becoming trusted allies. His allies are becoming lethal enemies. And as payment for fifteen years of pent up revenge, his family, abducted from their home, are ... Read more
Free: Don’t Speak
The first book in the Jade Harrington series. FBI Agent Jade Harrington searches for the serial killer of conservative radio personalities during a presidential election year. Free on Kindle... Read more
Free: Fields’ Guide to Abduction
When her heart is broken, Poppy Fields, Hollywood IT girl extraordinaire, agrees to a week at the newest, most luxurious resort in Cabo. After all, what’s better than the beach when a girl is feeling blue? But, when Poppy is abducted, she’ll need all her smarts, all her charm, and a killer Chihuahua, to save ... Read more
The American Crusade: A Political Thriller
A power-hungry vice president, a bad batch of shady intelligence, and a sinister plot to destroy Western civilization. The American Crusade paints a grim and often cynical picture of America’s recent past, reflecting the attitudes, politics, and fears that shaped our nation in the new millennium. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Hussar and The Jihad
When you are all that stands between a powerful man and a world of terrorists bent on his death, every minute in public is an interesting one. THE HUSSAR AND THE JIHAD is the gripping account of a special forces soldier protecting his nation’s ambassador when a major terror strike threatens to rip his world ... Read more
The Grass Sweeper God
Being different in America has never been easy; being born different and in the wrong body in Solitude, Virginia in the 1950’s, is brutal. . . $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Dead Girl’s Stilettos: A Bexley Squires Mystery
A playground for the rich and famous, a murdered Jane Doe, and a beloved celebrity. Journalist Bexley Squires might be out of her league when she’s asked to solve one of the nation’s most infamous unsolved mysteries. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Betrayal
Set in 1944-5 and based on true events, Betrayal is book one in the Amazon #1 Ann’s War Mystery Series. Each story in the series can be read as a stand-alone. The series runs to five books and Ann’s story arc will be completed in book five, Victory. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Haunted Girl Walking
Librarian by day? Check. Haunted tour guide by night? Double check. Murderer? Wait just a minute, I don’t care what the video evidence shows you, Ripley killed no one. Right? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Sacrifice
Dr. Christian Hall is a psychiatrist and an atheist. When he is asked to treat a vicious child killer claiming to be the demon Moloch, he sees it as just another case. However, after a series of unexplainable events, he’s forced to consider the possibility of his patient’s diabolic origin. After his daughter is diagnosed ... Read more
