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!
Perplexity
What happens when a mistake from the past threatens to derail the future? Retired pro football player Jim Pepperman is about to lose everything to the secret he’s locked down for eleven years—that he got into a bar fight with a stranger and might’ve left him for dead. It doesn’t really matter that it was ... Read more
Makeup & Murder
Who knew selling lipstick was so deadly? Beauty consultant Ziva Diaz is a girl boss who doesn’t back down from anyone. When she’s attacked inside a client’s home and wakes to find a dead body, she gives up the safety of selling lipsticks for the dangerous role of detective. With suspects piling up, a killer ... Read more
Deceived By Truth: A Murder Mystery with a Twist
Detective Jeremiah Banks is known for bringing murderers to justice. When a mysterious young woman is brutally murdered in her apartment, he is called to the scene to find out why. This one is not an ordinary killing. Whoever committed this savage act of violence is a monster, and Banks will do whatever it takes to ... Read more
WITH FULL MALICE: A Deadly Vigilante Thriller of Twisted Justice
What if, as a good citizen, you wait for justice, but it never comes? In this thriller, a deadly secret society executes its own form of justice, and the hits are so diabolically clever no one even suspects it’s murder – until a traumatized food critic stumbles onto the scene. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Wicked of the Christmas Past
Deck the halls with wows of wicked! A romantic getaway to a posh spa with her devastatingly sexy boss seems like a Christmas miracle to FBI special assistant Amanda Meyer, but when you work for the bureau’s Paranormal Cases Division, disaster never takes a holiday. Bestselling author Carina Christien is dead, her apparent suicide covered ... Read more
Free: New Corpse in Town
FBI agent Cookie James is enjoying her extended leave from the agency on Secret Seal Isle, managing her quaint inn and flirting with the oh-so sexy-handyman, Dylan Creed…until her sixty-year-old mother goes skinny dipping and is almost drowned by a corpse. A phone call to the sheriff should mean the end of Cookie’s involvement, but ... Read more
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This is a historical mystery set in New York. The world’s greatest mystery writer accuses one of the heroes of murder.... Read more
Duty and Betrayal
In 1962, the Western powers’ leading scientists meet in London for a conference. A notorious Nazi war criminal is after an attendee from NASA who once worked on Hitler’s rocket program. But CIA agent Jack Stein will stop at nothing to protect him. Meanwhile, Stein’s loyal friend and intelligence source, Spencer Hall of MI5, is ... Read more
Emma Beware
14yo Emma stalked through mysterious texts-vanishes. Missing 48 hours before anyone realizes she’s missing. Four of her friends armed with cyber-techno skills firm Warriors for Emma and discover copious doings. Police are stumped. Where is Emma? Has she been kidnapped? Is she hurt? Will Emma be found to celebrate her 15th birthday or will she ... Read more
Free: BANKLAND
A vengeful madman escaped from federal prison. A suspected terrorist group that robs L.A. banks with flamethrowers. In a race against time, a legendary FBI agent is forced to rob three banks in three hours or never see his daughter again. Special Agent Loomis Coogan of the FBI Bank Robbery Squad has spent his career ... Read more
A Tale of Two Times
According to the front-page photo in the (New York) Daily News, my father was “Murdered Gangland Style.” I was three years old. Time-travel back to 1961 as I embark on an adventurous mission to save my father, mother and my 2017 existence from the mob killers that seek to bring our lives to ruin. $0.99 ... Read more
Eden Wakes
What if the world we live in is a lie? What if reality is just a thinly-veiled illusion? Kayla Odachi is a 16-year-old orphan bouncing around the foster system since her mother died seven years ago under suspicious circumstances. Odd occurrences have been plaguing Kayla ever since. Preoccupied with these mysterious forces, Kayla was wholly ... Read more
Double Image
Executive Protection Officer Kenna Devlin is looking for a kidnapped child no one else believes is missing. Kenna is always assigned to guard the Governor of New Jersey’s infant son. She longs for something more challenging – until the day Andrew is kidnapped on her watch. When he’s found unharmed, no one is more relieved ... Read more
Wickedly Ever After: Halloween Hijinks
Ghosts just want to have fun… As the new Mrs. Rowling, life is supposed to be easy for former FBI Special Assistant Amanda Meyer. Marriage to her drop dead gorgeous boss Rick is everything she dreamed of, unfortunately she can’t sleep, and she can’t even blame the ghost of his late stepmom Clara for popping ... Read more
Free: Blood on the Ground
Israel Police investigator who fights the Internet porn industry is involved in a forbidden affair with a Palestinian woman. A romantic thriller that weaves political realities in the Middle East into a gripping drama. Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Defendants
While Ermeline was passed out, her date carved his name in her breasts. Later, he is found murdered. Ermeline is arrested based on circumstantial evidence because she had motive and opportunity. She hires Thaddeus, who makes his criminal lawyer debut defending his first murder case in this intense courtroom drama. In The Defendants, John Ellsworth ... Read more
Free: The Tenth Cycle
For decades scholars have been saying that the truth about human history will be found inside the Great Pyramid of Giza, but up till now no one has ever been able to find it. Those who tried have been ridiculed and persecuted. Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Golden Years of Virginia Morgan
DHS Agent Ashley Scott is having a midlife crisis, wondering if it’s time to retire. In Hoboken’s park along the mighty Hudson, she witnesses an assassination. She becomes involved with a journalist who had been going to interview the victim regarding a scandal in a nursing home where the woman worked. Ashley and the journalist ... Read more
The Scarry Inn
Convinced they are the victims of a sick, practical joke, Heidi and her three friends are resigned to spending the night at The Scarry Inn, even though the atmosphere is anything but welcoming. Surely the owners, Dick and Thelma Scarry, are simply trying to drum up business for their new motel by terrifying the guests. ... Read more
Free: Vangie Vale And The Murdered Macaron
Vangie moved to Montana to stay under the radar…especially the police radar. So when a box of macarons from her new bakery show up at the scene of a murder, she needs to stop the small-town rumor mill from landing her on the front page. Can’t have that. You’ll love this new spunky sleuth. Free on ... Read more
Free: Judgment Call (Suspense Thriller)
Andy Gibbons had been sentenced to life in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. After ten years inside he had abandoned all hope and resigned himself to the fact that he would remain there for the rest of his life. But the fact that Andy has admitted defeat and thrown in the towel didn’t ... Read more
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
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. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
What The Hex?
Yesterday Cece Cash came dangerously close to stuffing Derek North into the trunk of her car and dumping his body in the Vegas desert. Then she snapped out of her daydream and realized he wasn’t worth the prison time. As much as Cece hates to admit it, she needs Derek. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Whacked in Whitechapel (A Cozy Mystery)
When a nurse is found murdered in the Royal London Hospital, Cassie think it’s going to be just another one of Violet’s regular old murder cases to solve. But when they find out that the woman was killed by her accomplice, and that he got away with a number of vials containing the Ebola virus, ... Read more
Free: Catalyst
In 1984 a doomsday vault was constructed on a remote island in the Arctic Ocean. Its purpose was to preserve Earth’s genetic history in the event of a global catastrophe. Now, decades later, a second vault has been uncovered. This one resting where no one ever expected. And the problem is…it’s not ours. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Living and Dying in the Rainbow Light
Attorney Elizabeth Shaw stands up to power for a Mexican man she believes to be innocent of the brutal murder of a popular paralegal in a rural Southern county.. She faces down misogyny and racism from the local power structure as well as disturbing evidence that will be hard to overcome in court. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Crazy in Paradise
If you ever put yourself in trouble by picking up someone else’s past, you have to meet Madison Westin. She is a quirky property owner, who recently inherited her aunt’s beachfront cottages in the Florida Keys. But that is NOT all she inherited, as the cottages houses a slew of colorful tenant’s – drunks, ex-cons, ... Read more
Free: Mystic
Trevor Howard, the sheriff of Teton County Wyoming, is contemplating an explosion of cocaine addiction, four structure fires and the murder of a six-year-old boy in his jurisdiction. The boy had a wooden cross penetrating his heart indicating a possible religious connection. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Kind Nepenthe
Rebecca thought she’d find a hippie paradise when she moved to the desolate back hills of Humboldt County. Instead she discovered a nightmare. Kind Nepenthe is a deep examination into the nature of love and greed, lost ideals, and the essence of evil in one of the last frontiers of the American West. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Tune Up, The Secrets of Mylin
Two seemingly unconnected incidents—a missing lawyer and an elderly hit-and-run victim—lead Qigiq and Kandy to a vintage motorcycle café, a million-dollar yacht, a cliffside confrontation, and a musician named Mylin. Young. Attractive. And illegal. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Unravel
Rose Madison is of sound mind, with a sharp focus and a willingness to succeed. At only twenty-three, she’s already won an award for her short story, and has been hailed as the next big thing in the literary world. She’s beautiful, funny, intelligent, and comes from a wealthy and successful family. It’s clear to ... Read more
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Artificial Intelligence: demon or friend, the beginning or the end? The first of a four-book thriller series – Annihilation – that takes the reader along for a deadly ride.... Read more
Free: The Carpet Weaver Of Isfahan
Daniel becomes fixated on locating the legendary weaver of a magnificent carpet. He enters Iran illegally, pursued by a host of spies, and falls in love with the weaver’s daughter. Only a complex international deal can save him from death in Iran. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Murder for One
Who says the dead can’t lend a helping hand? Madge Minor is on a recruiting mission until she connects with an impossible party hostess who is more concerned about her free gifts than a missing guest. Soon after the late invitee makes an untimely entrance, she dies. When Golly Grove’s finest arrive on the scene, ... Read more
The Phoenix Series (The Phoenix Series Box Set)
This is the box set collection of The Phoenix Series – Books 1 – 4. Page after page of thrills and adventure; good versus evil, and a protagonist with a past that grabs and keeps your attention. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Empty Place at the Table
It was just a quick sandwich in the hospital cafeteria… But when she returned to her daughter’s room… Whatever happened to Melissa’s daughter is anyone’s guess. The police seal the hospital doors; a search proceeds but the four-year-old is nowhere to be found. The girl is gone, vanished without a ransom note, without a body ... Read more
Free: Third Time’s A Charm
Halloween LaVeau is the new leader of the Underworld, but before the ink’s dry on her business cards, a mysterious man appears, claiming the title belongs to him. Giovanni St. Clair declares he has proof that he’s the true owner of the Book of Mystics, and therefore, the leader of the Underworld. Halloween has reason ... Read more
The Fourth Monkey
Optioned for both film and television. Se7en meets The Silence of the Lambs in this dark and twisting novel from the author Jeffery Deaver called, “A talented writer with a delightfully devious mind.” For over five years, the Four Monkey Killer has terrorized the residents of Chicago. When his body is found, the police quickly ... Read more
Free: Sam’s Song
Sam’s Song is book one in the Sam Smith Mystery Series, a series that has reached #1 on the Amazon private detective chart on three separate occasions. The series combines psychological mysteries with humour and romance. Each book contains a complete story and can be read as a stand-alone. Free on Kindle.... Read more
