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!
Ribbons of Death
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’s cutting a bloody path across the continent. One snowy evening, a stranger with a horribly scarred face stomps on the porch of Stella Hunter’s house, ... Read more
Free: Dark September
It is late September, and Anna Kiehl, a student of anthropology and a single mother, does not return from her evening run in the forest. The next morning, she is found dead. She is naked, her throat is cut, and there is a bouquet of poisonous hemlock on her chest. Police inspector Daniel Trokic is in ... Read more
California Triangle
While working on a secret anti-ballistic missile program, Dr. Gideon Ben-Ari becomes swept up in a passionate affair and a sinister web of espionage involving the Israeli Mossad, FBI, and Iranian Revolutionary Guards. How can he know whom to trust? See price on Kindle.... Read more
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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
Black Jack
Welcome to the Blackwood House. Enter if you dare. In Savannah lies a house about which is said that all who have ever lived there have gone insane. When Kimberly and Joseph inherit the house from an unknown aunt, they don’t know the house’s murderous history. They move in and soon a series of strange ... Read more
Free: Eleven, Twelve… Dig and Delve
Everybody hates Mondays. This Monday is particularly bad for the residents on Blegevej in the Northern part of Denmark. Just before eight o’clock Monday morning, the entire neighborhood sinks into the ground in a matter of seconds when a giant sinkhole opens up underneath it. Rebekka Franck is visiting a dear friend when she is ... Read more
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It is 1941. The country is on the edge of war. In New York, three men are murdered. The detective Charlie Singer is drawn into the case after rescuing a young woman being attacked in Central Park. With Katie Walker, his partner, Charlie deals with a famous gossip columnist, an organization devoted to fighting Hitler, ... Read more
Free: The Silent Gene
Preliminary tests convinced billionaire biotech scientist Andrew Moody that he had found the key to immortality, so he broke with protocol and activated the same gene in a human subject. The sickness that followed was expected, but then came the other changes. The person’s lifespan was extended to tens of thousands of years, but collateral ... Read more
Abduction
They kidnapped her family. The ransom: 16 billion dollars. As she searches for her abducted daughter and husband, a woman uncovers a conspiracy masterminded by a top U.S. government official hell-bent on becoming one of the world’s richest people. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
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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 ... Read more
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Recently diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, Maddie Malone retreats to small-town Kenowa. Instead of peace and stability, Maddie finds emotional turmoil: her heart is conflicted between her childhood sweetheart, and a suave older man, the new doctor in Kenowa. Then, at a dinner party in her honor, her uncle is found poisoned by a cup of ... Read more
Enchanted Ruse
Four monumental hurricanes ravage the Florida coast as an equally tempestuous family drama brews. In spite of his parents’ best efforts, Carter Manning’s personal life spirals into an abyss of depression. His increasingly acerbic sense of humor seems to be wrecking a much-hated career in car sales. Since the death of beloved his fiancée, Jennifer ... Read more
Fatal Obsession
This fast-paced medical thriller delves into the controversial questions about cutting edge research. The subject of a secret experiment, the child Sophie Kendrick is carrying may be a mutant or a miracle. Either way, it doesn’t matter to Sophie. All she cares about is keeping her baby out of the clutches of Marcus Chaney, who ... Read more
Morbid Thoughts
Aaron Walsh is a psychopath. For years he has kept that fact hidden, but one bad day is about to bring it all out into the open. When Jane Flannery walks into his computer repair store, he becomes obsessed. He wants to know every detail about her life. Unfortunately for Jane, Aaron has everything he ... Read more
Free: Random Lucidity
Silver Medal Winner – 2015 eLit Book Awards “A remarkable narrative with no wasted chapters.” – Portland Book Review A struggling literary agent believes he hits it big when he discovers a mentally challenged man scribbling a world-class murder mystery into ragged notebooks in the park. Ignoring all of the red flags about this man ... Read more
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When mourners gather in the village of Lower Gladdock the grave is found to be already occupied. The victim is soon linked to a tragedy that tore the village apart five years ago and is handed over to the Bexford police to solve. Detective Sergeant Guy Poole is hoping to put his traumatic past behind ... Read more
Dead Cold
On the hunt for a complex serial killer, vigilante detective Emily Stone must face her most daring case yet. Stone’s proven top-notch profiling skills and forensic expertise may not be enough this time. With one last-ditch effort, Stone dangles someone she loves as bait to draw out the killer. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Rebekka Franck: Vol 1-3
It’s the stuff of a living nightmare… Three bone-chilling tales from a bestselling author’s popular mystery series about the journalist Rebekka Franck and her friends and family. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Mommy Dearest
A Spine-chilling Horror novella from the Queen of Scream Do you really know your mother-in-law? We all know a relationship with your mother-in-law can be quite tricky from time to time. We jokingly call them things like Monster-in-law. However, sometimes, there is actual truth to that joke, isn’t there? Some of them do act like ... Read more
Free: Emma Beware
Where is extraordinary athlete and student, fourteen-year-old Emma Mae Davenport? She vanished without warning. Four of her friends, dubbed Warriors for Emma and armed with cyber-techno skills, discover nefarious doings. The police are stumped. Will Emma be found in time to celebrate her 15th birthday or will she remain missing? Read this action-packed, thrilling novel ... Read more
Vanished: A Luca Mystery – Book 2
Obsession can be deadly. That’s what Dom Stewart discovers when his buddy, Phil, goes missing. Dom has long coveted Robin, Phil’s beautiful wife, … is it time for him to step in? Detective Luca is also dazzled by Robin; even while acknowledging she may be involved in Phil’s disappearance. Luca struggles with his heart as ... Read more
Free: Project Mnemosyne
After terrorist attacks reshaped the world in which she lived, an orphaned Julianna Brenner was taken to live in the Scholars Compound. When Guardian Costma, the leader of the New Regime, summons Julianna and her friend Declan to assign a new project, Julianna has serious objections to the nature of the project. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Emma Frost Mystery Series (Books 4, 5 & 6)
Ready for three spine chilling Scandinavian crime novels from bestselling author Willow Rose? Ready to be on the edge of your seat? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: In One Fell Swoop (Horror)
Every now and then Mother Nature likes to show us who is boss. On a hot day in June, two groups of campers disappear in the Green Swamps of Florida. The wood is still burning in the bonfire, all their belongings are abandoned, and there is blood at the campground. But not a single body ... Read more
Red Rain
Are you tired of boring novels? Looking for something you can’t put down? Come meet John Hilt. You won’t be able to look away, because John has a problem … He can’t stop killing people … If you like reading about serial killers, grab this novel today! $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Clara Beware
After Clara Davenport is indicted by a Grand Jury on six criminal counts, she stands the trial of the century. The media frenzy ensues and the presiding Judge himself likens this to the trial years ago of a mob boss he was the Judge on. Surprises and secrets reveal past transgressions that lead to murder. ... Read more
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Detective Rachel Carrington is not your average detective. With her outspoken nature and her bad cop routine, she is not making friends anytime soon and that’s what the police department needs when bodies of pregnant women begin popping up in the woods surrounding the little town. Five women turn up missing while four of them ... Read more
Cluster Faux
Dropped on his head the day he was born, Karl Devers enters the world damaged. Smart but troubled, he lives his life—and chooses his destiny—based on tainted memory clusters. Detective Jimmy Rossiter has made a name for himself as a hot-shot investigator at the New Jersey Bureau of Criminal Investigations, closing every case he’s ever ... Read more
The Amendement Killer
That’s the text message Supreme Court Justice Arnold Hirschfeld receives as hearings commence in the U.S. Supreme Court to determine the fate of the 28th Amendment – enacted to criminalize abuse of power on the part of our political representatives. In court to defend the amendment, retired U.S. District Court Judge Cyrus Brooks observes his ... Read more
Rebekka Franck Mysteries Vol 4-6
It’s the stuff of a living nightmare… Get three bone-chilling Scandinavian mystery novels from the Amazon Bestselling author Willow Rose. Each book in her series follows Danish reporter Rebekka Franck as she finds herself in deep trouble… $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Three, Four … Better lock your door (Rebekka Franck, Book 2)
An electrifying novel from a bestselling author. It was supposed to be a night of fun, pleasure, lust and pain for Susanne Larsen when she agreed to meet with a stranger from a S&M chatroom. She met him for dinner that later led to casual, anonymous sex in the hotel room at the local inn. ... Read more
Beyond All Recognition
Experience the non-stop action, suspense and mystery and thrills of the latest in the best selling legal thriller series from the legal thriller author critics hail as: “One of the strongest thriller writers on the scene.” This fast-paced, action-packed legal and military thriller introduces us to 26-year-old Captain Ryan Bennington, in command of a company ... Read more
Free: Itsy Bitsy Spider (Emma Frost Book 1)
Emma Frost inherits a house on Fanoe Island when her grandmother dies. She decides to move there with her family, much to her teenage daughter’s regret. One morning a wealthy old woman in her street is found murdered and soon Emma finds herself wrapped in a mystery uncovering the island’s dark secrets reaching all the ... Read more
Free: The Convenient Escape
To Veronica Baird, escaping from an underground dungeon and racing through the woods, is anything but convenient. Pete Nealey still has flashbacks to Iraq and, with the bottle as his eternal companion, tends to fall off of barstools. But unless Veronica can learn to trust Pete, the slipshod relationship, and her freedom, won’t last…Free on ... Read more
Free: What Hurts the Most
Am I pretty? Imagine being asked that question standing face to face with a killer. What would you answer? While her life is going from bad to worse, journalist Mary Mills receives a phone call from her father telling her that her brother has been arrested for murder. Mary decides to go back to her ... Read more
Woman Scorned
Monica has always watched out for her misfit sister, Lexie. When Lexie finally finds the man of her dreams, she can’t help but think it’s too good to be true. Trevor Sands may be handsome and charming, but Monica doubts he’s right for her sweet, sensitive sister. Her fears are realized when Trevor brutally rejects ... Read more
Vardin Homecoming
Six friends reluctantly reunite eight years after the high school nightmare that shattered their lifelong friendship. New evidence comes to light which obligates all of them to speak up or let a killer go free. As young adults with promising futures, they must risk all to ensure justice. Some aren’t willing to make the sacrifice. ... Read more
Free: Under a Black Sky (Part of the Daniel Trokics Series)
A Thrilling Scandinavian mystery Anchorage, Alaska: A prominent Danish volcano scientist, Asger Vad and his wife and son, are found shot on the outskirts of the city. The killer has placed the victims around a table on which there is a doll house with four small dolls and a pile of volcano ashes. However, one ... Read more
Free: Better Watch Out
He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake. Some kids are scared of the dark, others of monsters living under their beds. Some are even afraid of clowns. None of those things scare Sara. But she is terrified of one man, who comes to her house every year, in the middle of ... Read more
Free: The Fatal Heir
Probation office Gillian Jones survived a car accident that shattered her ankle and her first marriage. Remarried and walking again, her life would be perfect if only she could get pregnant. When Gillian agrees to locate the biological mother of the county commissioner’s adopted daughter, she anticipates enough money to continue fertility treatment, but what ... Read more
