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: A Trap in Paris
After an impressive military and business career, Dr. Gideon Ben Ari is recruited to fight terrorism, to block Iran from developing long-range missiles and nuclear weapons. In this espionage thriller, Gideon fights to stop a sinister, invisible enemy. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Cold Blood
A mysterious disappearance, another baffling case for John Jordan. On Thursday, January 20, 2005, the day of George W. Bush’s second inauguration, Randa Raffield, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of West Florida, crashed her car on a secluded stretch of Highway 98 near the Gulf of Mexico. The location of the wreck was hundreds ... Read more
Where the Wild Roses Grow (Emma Frost Mystery)
With her blankly staring eyes seeming to gaze into the sky, he put a red rose between her teeth and then gently pushed her into the water. She slowly sank into the slow, flowing river. No one ever found her body, and as the years passed, her real name could not be remembered, so she ... Read more
GIRL DIVIDED
They think she’s a monster, but she’s their only hope… In a divided nation, 14-year-old Jetta belongs nowhere. Her face is split right down the middle: half-black and half-white. The non-white residents of her New Orleans camp call her a demon. The white oppressors who took over during the 2nd American Civil War have called ... Read more
Free: Track Down Iraq
Brad and his hardened Marine veterans take on ISIS terrorists in the shattered trenches of Iraq. Brandon Murphy a former Force Recon Marine is now a contracted mercenary for an organization known as Belus. Belus has been covertly hired by the U.S. to assist Iraqi forces in the 2016 battle to retake Mosul. When Brandon ... Read more
Me Too
Sometimes, the biggest lies are the ones we tell ourselves. Casey hasn’t been able to look best friend Linda in the face for two whole weeks. Not since Linda blurted out a secret that chilled her to the bone. Now Casey has just days, if not hours, to get her house in order before her ... Read more
Roadkill (Double Barrel Mysteries)
Blake and Shelby Gunner are in the middle of a life-changing decision when murder and mayhem threaten to derail their plans. Staying at a dilapidated Bed and Breakfast in a tiny port town along Lake Superior, Blake, a former cop, is drawn into an old mystery fraught with danger. Shelby, actress and Shakespeare bibliophile, knows ... Read more
The Miss Fortune Series: Bayou Christmas (Kindle Worlds Short Story)
There’s a new agent in town and she’s determined to turn Louisiana upside down. While Agent Harrison takes a Christmas vacation, Agent Pretty stirs all sorts of trouble. And those closest to Fortune could represent an imminent threat. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Miss Polly had a Dolly (Emma Frost Mystery)
Not for the faint-hearted… Miss Polly had a dolly. A beautiful daughter that she called her Baby Doll. Every day she dressed her in cute outfits and brushed her hair before they went outside to show off to the neighbors. On the playground, one day her Baby Doll talked to a boy, and for one ... Read more
Murder & Spice and Everything Nice
Ivy Bloom returns to Cape Cod to start the next chapter of her book-loving life. She and her sister Gigi are turning the rambling old mansion they’ve inherited into a bookstore. It was working out great right up until the moment that the leader of a local religious cult turned up dead in the driveway. ... Read more
Free: Umbrella Man (Supernatural Thriller)
In your dream, no one can hear you scream. When the body of the teenage boy, Julian Long, is discovered in the Green Swamps of Florida, the citizens of Bushlake know the city will never be the same again. Julian was popular, loved by all, and the circumstances of his death are more than strange. ... Read more
Lurking on the Precipice
An earnest young runaway vanishes. Was she harmed? Or is she hiding and stalking to fulfill a secret pursuit? Disappearances and attacks on the colorful residents of Mountain Quail Gardens, a neighborhood in the desert outskirts of Las Vegas, intrigue 20-year-old Pari Malik. She rents the same casita where the runaway lived and evanesced. $0.99 ... Read more
Messandrierre
Sacrificing his job in investigation following an incident in Paris, Jacques Forêt has only a matter of weeks to solve a series of mysterious disappearances as a Gendarme in the rural French village of Messandrierre. But, as the number of missing persons rises, his difficult and hectoring boss puts obstacles in his way. Steely and ... Read more
Free: Track Down Series
TWO HEART-STOPPING ROLLER COASTER RIDES! Enjoy the first two page-turners in the Brad Jacobs Thriller Series! Fighting to save those he cares most about, retired Force Recon Marine Brad Jacobs blazes a trail of devastation through the deepest jungles of Africa and the rugged backcountry wilderness of Alaska. Over-flowing with so much breathtaking action, adventurous ... Read more
When the Killing Starts
Days before the Winter Olympics are scheduled to begin, host country South Korea learns of a planned attack from the north to coincide with the Games. With no details supplied by the now-dead informant, a joint U.S./South Korean team must race the clock to discover the rogue nation’s plot and prevent a potential disaster. Along ... Read more
The Smallest Creatures
A young man agrees to help a woman return from New Orleans to Nashville. But tensions soon arise between the pair, and he realizes it is not going to be an easy road trip. Things quickly go from bad to worse when he is pulled over by highway patrol and the woman begins to act ... Read more
Free: Assignment Denver: The Case of the Eccentric Heiress
Travel writer Jae Lovejoy was looking for an interesting twist to spice up her article about Denver. What she found was murder. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Flight of the Tarantula Hawk
Realtor Carla Simon has her first showing in nearly eighteen months. Recovering from a nervous breakdown, she arrives at the bank-owned foreclosure well ahead of her prospect. When her buyer pins her against the wall, it turns out to be the last house she’ll ever show. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Sacrificial Lam
When Lam Corso receives a death threat at the university where he works, he thinks it’s a joke. When his home is broken into, he refuses to see any connection to the threat. But when the violence escalates, he can no longer deny the obvious truth. Someone wants him dead. Having spent his life working ... Read more
The Big Chill
The Big Chill is book three in the Amazon #1 Sam Smith Mystery Series. Each book in the series contains a complete story and can be read as a standalone. Set at Christmas, and with a snow storm gripping the city, someone is out to murder private detective Samantha Smith. Using her wits and skills ... Read more
Free: Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Emma Frost Mystery)
In the middle of the night, Alberto Alonzo sneaks out to play at the casino with his mother’s credit card in his hand. The next morning he is gone, and no one knows where he is and, for his family, a real-life nightmare unfolds. Emma Frost is with her family on a cruise in the ... Read more
Purified (Mystery)
Fallen from grace, former ADA, now PI, Beck Oldman, will stop at nothing to find the killer of young girls and to find her client’s missing daughter. When the two cases intersect, her powerful client exacts psychological war against her as his need to find his daughter is fueled by greed and murder, not fatherly ... Read more
‘Tis the Season
Detective Noah Daugherty, dressed as a mall Santa, races to catch a purse snatcher, nor realizing a jewelry store is being robbed behind him. Noah blames himself when his partner is shot and vows to bring the thieves to justice before the real Santa make an appearance. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Apartment 412: Enter at your own risk!
A quiet Southern California town terrorized by a suspected serial killer after two women are shot dead at a senior housing complex. After two residents are murdered and several are reported missing, two undercover detectives move in. However, they soon get sidetracked when they discover something even more sinister is happening on the building’s fourth ... Read more
Free: AT Bay
Not all murders are equal. Will this one twisted murder be more than Alex can handle? Unable to decipher her family issues, Alex still has her theories on the bizarre case. And they are solid. Can Alex catch the killer before her life disintegrates? At the most stressful point in her life, with everything going ... Read more
Careful Little Eyes (Serial killer thriller)
Ian Marks is terrified of ghosts. Especially of the one that has just moved into his shed in the back yard of his house in New Orleans. Everyone else thinks he is just a drunk, but when his girlfriend is killed at night by a man with an axe, he knows he was right to ... Read more
Better Not Cry
He stalks you when you’re sleeping. He kills when you’re awake… Reporter Rebekka Franck is ready to escape the headlines for a relaxing holiday with her family. Small town Cocoa Beach, Florida seems like the perfect getaway for sunny days and silent nights. At least, until a boy’s dead body is found stuffed in the ... Read more
Free: Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die
A fast-paced, spine-chilling mystery from an International bestselling author. We all know that high school reunions can be a daunting and sometimes horrifying experience. Well, for Emma Frost that is exactly what it becomes when she is invited to meet with all of her old classmates at a desolated hotel in the most Northern part ... Read more
The 12 Slays of Christmas
Featuring Abby L. Vandiver, Judith Lucci, Amy Vansant, Colleen Mooney, Amy Reade, Nell Goddin, Colleen Helme, Kim Hunt Harris, Larissa Reinhart, Cindy Bell, Summer Prescott, Kathryn Dionne. Twelve new, never-before-published, Christmas-themed cozy mysteries in a boxed set from twelve, bestselling cozy authors. And, we are donating the proceeds to help animal rescue shelters and pets ... Read more
The Christmas Contest
The Scots didn’t celebrate Christmas for 400 years and the village of Taye is about to make up for it! Hoping for a relaxing holiday and a chance to solidify his relationship with Angela, Duncan finds himself in the middle of numerous contests, ancient Hogmanay traditions, misunderstandings, and a jewel theft. Will Duncan win the ... Read more
Free: Seven, eight … Gonna Stay Up Late
A hair-raising thriller from an Amazon Bestselling Author! She thought she could keep it a secret. Just fourteen years old, Amalie thought she could take off and go to the festival with her best friend without anyone knowing it – without her parents finding out. She thought she was safe when she met a man ... Read more
Free: Once Again: An Inspirational Novel of History, Mystery & Romance
When Professor Merrideth Randall’s handsome colleague asks for her help with his genealogy she’s reluctant to get involved. Brett Garrison far too attractive for her peace of mind, and everyone knows dating a co-worker at a small college is career suicide. But how can she resist when she has a computer software program that virtually ... Read more
The Question Lies on Varick Street: A 22-Minute Novel
Math professor Anita Chapel is missing, leaving a string of numbers as clues to her whereabouts. Her niece, Tracy Fuller, and her boyfriend search for her. But where is the professor leading them? And who is the mysterious man in a red sweatshirt? The answers, and the question, lie on Varick Street. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Careful Little Eyes (7th Street Crew Book 4)
Careful Little Eyes is the highly anticipated fourth installment of Willow Rose’s popular series revolving around the Cocoa Beach friends who call themselves the Seventh Street Crew. It’s a creepy story bound to make your skin crawl and tug on your heartstrings at the same time. Like only Willow Rose can serve it. $0.99 on ... Read more
A French Quarter Violet
Officer Violet Babineaux is called to the scene of a suicide where she finds her childhood friend Charlotte Labarre lying on a blood-soaked couch with a gun in her hand. Violet believes she could have prevented her suicide with a simple call. While placed on administrative leave, guilt drives her to investigate on her own, ... Read more
Free: The Tenth Cycle
For thousands of years, the truth about human history has intentionally been suppressed and exploited. Will Daniel Rossler and Dr. Sarah Clarke be allowed to uncover the real and true message? As they come closer to the truth, skepticism out of the academic community is replaced by evil and malicious adversaries, dumping them into a ... Read more
Without Curtains
A chance for closure, a new love, and revenge. When her father dies, he leaves Rebecca a box of personal items. But it is more than it seems. Rebecca has just inherited a few family secrets…and one murder mystery. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
A Burning in the Darkness
Who would you sacrifice everything for? A BURNING IN THE DARKNESS is a compelling crime drama and poignant love story about a devoted man who must confront the painful legacy of his war torn childhood when he is wrongfully accused of murder. Michael Kieh’s struggle to prove his innocence leads him on a charged journey ... Read more
Purified
Fallen from grace, former ADA, now PI, Beck Oldman, will stop at nothing to find the killer of young girls and to find her client’s missing daughter. When the two cases intersect, her powerful client exacts psychological war against her as his need to find his daughter is fueled by greed and murder, not fatherly ... Read more
Cluster Faux
Three lives collide when a local woman goes missing, catapulting a detective, a state trooper, and a motor vehicles supervisor into an intricate game of cat and mouse. In a struggle between reputation and redemption, how far will each man go to save himself? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
