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!

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When technophobic widow Tawny Lindholm receives a baffling new smartphone as a gift, a dashing stranger helps her navigate its mysteries. But while romancing her, Kahlil Shahrivar is actually a terrorist who drags her into a plot to sabotage the power grid by cyber-attack on Montana’s Hungry Horse Dam. Soon the Feds are chasing her, ... Read more

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Running Blind

Lisette Kristensen

Baleigh Burgess was trapped. Her world spun out of control the night her partner/lover was gunned down. Facing prison on trumped up drug charges, she was forced to go undercover to find the killer. She wasn’t prepared to face her suspects, her old gang, she once ran with back in the day.Faced with her morals ... Read more

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Free: Easy Like Sunday Mourning

When single mom Maggie Hayes decides to try dating again, a cute video game-designing nerd seems like a safe bet….Until he becomes the prime suspect in a murder. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: The Bethlehem Star

A secret held for thousands of years is about to be revealed. Sylvia, an Italian reporter, is sent on an assignment to review the situation in the West Bank, which has been occupied by Israel for the past 50 years. But a fateful encounter changes her life irrevocably when she discovers ancient artefacts that reveal ... Read more

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The Feathers (Paranormal Mystery)

Thomas Carpenter – dead for 100 years – returns in 1978 to avenge his murder. When Detective Brenda Shapira discovers the first victim in the historic Garden District, the beginning of 1978 will be anything but ordinary. As she unravels this long ago mystery steeped in New Orleans history and the Yellow Fever epidemic, Brenda ... Read more

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It is Paris, 1949. 27-year-old American detective and heiress, Slim Moran, is hired by a British spymistress to find Marie-Claire, a spy long presumed dead. Slim soon realizes that scores from the last war have not been settled. She races to find out what happened to this deeply troubled lost spy because if Marie-Claire is ... Read more

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Free: It’s About Time

Benjamin Franklin Digital Award SILVER HONOREE! A mysterious time travel conspiracy is about to unfold. Angela Mercy, a highly trained elite bodyguard, tragically fails her chief assignment: protecting the life of the country’s leading quantum physicist. Her life is about to change, as someone else is taking over her future. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Squall

A winter squall forces bush pilot Tom Stokes into the middle of a drug deal gone bad, jeopardizing his life and the lives of his wife, son, and unborn child. A fast-paced thrill ride with a surprise around every corner. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Married to the Mossad

Shalva Hessel

Sally relocates to London with her beloved, Jerry. She soon realizes that he is an active Mossad agent. She joins missions as part of his cover. Sally discovers a fraudulent plot, and uses all she learned during her time undercover to face her enemy. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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The Nomad’s Premonition

Georges Benay

Eric Martin is desperate to forget his past, one that almost cost him his future. Three years ago, he discovered that the investment firm he worked for was run by a terrorist organization determined to get its hands on a predictive algorithm that promised unsurpassed success in global financial markets. Although he was able to ... Read more

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Ninth Cycle, Antartica

JC Ryan

In November 2002 a special U.S. Navy SEAL team is sent to Antarctica to locate and rescue a film crew that has become lost. No trace of them is found, except for film footage of strange artifacts buried under the ice. Everyone who saw the film is warned to never talk about what they have ... Read more

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Aunt Lucie’s Legacy

An incredible story of a legacy set in south-west France. Humor, suspense and treasure hunting. Aunt Lucie is a real pain in the neck. While she wasn’t exactly a saint when alive, now that she’s dead, she’s making life even more miserable for her family. Her will is crystal clear: to collect the inheritance, nephews ... Read more

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Offenbunker

A top secret bunker deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains. A silo housing a ballistic missile. Cold War super powers the United States and the Soviet Union are engaged in an intense “arms race” build up of nuclear weapons and face off for control as the fate of the free world hangs in the balance. ... Read more

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Nominate THE LOST SPY for publication and you could get a free copy of it

Lost someone in WWII? Call Slim Moran. It is Paris, 1949. 27-year-old American detective and heiress, Slim Moran, is hired by a British spymistress to find Marie-Claire, a spy long presumed dead. Slim soon realizes that scores from the last war have not been settled. She races to find out what happened to this deeply ... Read more

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Free: Dark Water

A betrayed assassin is the only hope to stop cyberwar from crippling America. Deep under the blue waters of the Eastern Seaboard hides a deadly secret, and the enemy know about it. They have arrived, and will stop at nothing to unleash mayhem. Only Dan Roy, ex Black Ops warrior, stands in their way. This ... Read more

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Bullets of Palestine

Two agents. Two opposing sides. Israeli Agent Shai is dispatched to eliminate a terrorist threat. To succeed in his mission Shai must win the trust of Palestinian Agent Ramzy who will help him gain access to the infamous and dangerous Abu Nidal. Shai is under orders to kill Ramzy when the mission ends. Instead, they ... Read more

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A Child is Torn (Whitley & Keal Mystery Book 1)

When dependable Evan Madison fails to show up for work, police are dispatched to his home. His ten-year-old son, Brad, is discovered inside, unharmed and seemingly alone. He is stoic, sitting in front of the television playing his favorite video game, Super Mario—and he’s covered in blood. Veteran Police Officer Marty Keal is the first ... Read more

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Trojan

White House cyber expert Victor Walker was rushed by secret service agents to the home of the vice president, where he lay dead with his home-based classified laptop breached. The assassination was followed immediately by the complete meltdown of all defense armament systems. Star Wars, Air Force One and Doomsday Briefcase, were all rendered useless. ... Read more

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Free: Half-Cut

A killer uses a symbolic haircut to brand his victims and avenge a forty-year-old tragedy in this detective thriller. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Realm of Shadows

Eldon Farrell

Caleb Fine is a changed man. The events of Toronto have left him wracked by guilt and filled with a barely constrained rage. The search for the Toymaker is no longer about justice for him—the killer has made it deeply personal. Now nothing and no one—including the FBI—will stand in his way.In the realm of ... Read more

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Sentinels of the Night

Someone is stalking women, leaving a string of mutilated bodies with a strange symbol carved on the forehead. FBI Tracker Cat Morgan is on the hunt, but even her arcane secrets won’t keep her from becoming his next target. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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A Deep Thing

A.K. Smith

Dive into A Deep Thing and escape to a beach, an island and a jungle. A suspense/conspiracy adventure with over 90% 5 star reviews! Great beach read. What was her husband hiding in the jungles of Mexico? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Listening Eye (Cozy Mystery)

Patricia Wentworth

A deaf woman learns something she shouldn’t, and she asks Miss Silver for protection Paulina Paine was buried under her house during the Blitz. She spent twenty-four hours trapped underneath the rubble, where the silence was absolute as the grave, and only after she escaped did she realize that the bomb that spared her life ... Read more

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Murder On Deck

Against the beauty of an Alaskan cruise, passengers begin taking sick, and it’s not routine seasickness. Jerria suspects they are being systematically poisoned. Can she discover who’s behind the nefarious plan before succumbing to it herself? Come along as Jerria experiences the Great Land day by day in this mild cozy mystery, with descriptions rich enough ... Read more

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Wicked and Haunted

A blissful engagement, a haunted ring, throw in the mother-in-law from Hell… Wedding bells are about to ring for FBI Special Assistant Amanda Meyer and her sexy boss, Rick Rowling, but before they walk down the aisle, Mandy will have to solve a new case for the Paranormal Cases Division…and stop Rick’s estranged mother, Alice, ... Read more

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Free: Optimal Exposure

dan rogel

A group of world-traveling photographers loses two of its members in unexplained circumstances. When the son of one of the victims decides to investigate on his own, he retrieves disturbing discoveries revealing unknown information about his late father. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Scared Witchless

Dylan Apel is having one heck of a summer. She knows her hand-made clothing is special, but magical? Discovering that she’s a witch is bad enough, but when Dylan realizes there are folks who’ll kill to possess her witchy powers— that’s enough to make a girl want to hide out in the back of her ... Read more

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Free: Under a Black Sky

Jan Boeje

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 person is missing at ... Read more

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Pretty Hexed

Sara Bourgeois

In the small town of Winterfield, almost everyone is a supernatural. So when stylist Belladonna Nightshade opens her door to see Elspeth Tory’s mansion in flames, her reclusive neighbor’s death is much more than a mystery. Detective Benjamin Carmichael isn’t sure what’s different about Winterfield. New in town, and with no powers to call his ... Read more

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Free: Judge Roth’s Law

A different kind of legal thriller, about a judge with a past. Judge Al Roth has everything going for him–great job, loyal friends, and a beautiful woman who loves him. When a congressman threatens to expose a murder Roth helped commit when he was stationed in Cold War Germany, he stands to lose everything. Roth ... Read more

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Free: The Last Cut

Josh Armstrong

A tired hairstylist must convince a suicidal client to reconsider his evening plans. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Wicked for Hire

Sometimes, the opportunity of a lifetime busts your door instead of gently knocking at it… Medical student Amanda Meyers thought she had her life all planned out until people started dying the moment they touched her. Being cleared of any wrongdoing didn’t stop the medical school from expelling her, and it didn’t rid her of ... Read more

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Trojan

US White House cybersecurity expert Victor Walker was swept away from his wife Helen at the White House ball and rushed by secret service agents to the home of the vice president. The VP lay dead with his homebased classified laptop possibly breached. The dread that top secret intel could now be in the hands ... Read more

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The Death of Innocence

T L Huston

When eleven year-old Johnny Vegas sees his parents gunned down by a crazed drug addict a monster is born. Bye, bye normal life. Consoling him with god has a plan for everyone isn’t helping. Fifteen years later – the man is patient if nothing else – Johnny has his own plan, and there’s nothing god-like ... Read more

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Partially Broken Never Destroyed III

Kayla and Bryan are trying to find a happy medium in their relationship, but people they once trusted continue to put their business in the streets. With all the snitching going on, the wedding they’re planning for may turn into a funeral. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Daddy Darkest

A month after her high school graduation, small-town-girl Samantha “Sam” Bronwyn boards a plane with her best friend, Ginny. Destination: San Francisco. But when Ginny disappears inside an airport bathroom wearing Sam’s letterman jacket, it doesn’t take her long to figure out she was the intended target. Alone in a strange city, Sam’s on a ... Read more

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Free: The Eyes of Abel

Daniel Jacobs

A thriller about journalism. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Roger Charlin and Israeli Airlines security agent Maya Cohen become entwined in a top-secret race against time and powerful international interests. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Survival, Hijacking into Freedom

M. Ben Yanay

The stories of four exceptional heroes merges in the Hungarian front. A gripping and multidimensional view of World War II, read with bated breath. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Marked Masters

Ritter Ames

Laurel Beacham made working solo a personal success story. But closing her last case opened a bigger one and inextricably ties her to Jack Hawkes, who keeps her trust meter firmly in the red zone. The pair leap headlong into a plot getting more dangerous and illusive by the minute. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Tide

An unearthed scientific secret will bring humanity to its knees. Aboard a clandestine ship with unparalleled technology, Captain Dominic Holland commands a crew of skilled covert operatives and talented scientific personnel dedicated to fighting biological and chemical warfare. Their missions have taken them all over the globe to combat sinister plots and dangerous adversaries. But ... Read more

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