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!
Through Many Fires
America is under siege. Terrorists smuggle a nuclear bomb into Washington D.C. and detonate it during the State of the Union Address. In nearby Bethesda, Caden Westmore watches as the city burns. Driving away from Washington, he learns that another city has been destroyed and then another. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Solitary Bee
After the forced sale of her family’s orchard, nineteen-year-old Epke is torn between a peaceful guerrilla gardening movement and a militant Earth Liberation Front cell group. As the cell members become increasingly volatile, Epke instigates an action toward the orchards’ new owners who are Frankenfruit researchers. Will she risk everything for one night of retribution—including ... Read more
Free: Without Curtains
Rebecca Douglas returns home for her estranged father’s funeral and discovers he has spent the last eight years trying to solve the mystery of her mother’s brutal murder. With the help of a childhood friend, handsome and complicated, Troy Adams, Rebecca decides to pick up where her father left off. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Devious Revenge
They ruined her life. Wrecked every chance she thought of being happy. Raped and abused, they used her. Hannah Blackburn knew she would never make it out of that town alive. She learned to live in it with the monsters that ruined her. All she ever wanted was to be loved. Why wasn’t that enough? Throwing herself into ... Read more
Free: To Swallow the Earth
Winner 2016 International Book Award (and Laramie Award finalist). To Swallow the Earth (New Adult western, suspense) A man and a woman, each searching for missing family members, clash amid a Nevada silver rush scheme that leaves both unsure who to trust—and scrambling to stay alive. What if you came home after a journey and ... Read more
Free: In Dulce, Disturbed…And Four More
Beaten to death by his teacher, a young native boy is found by the side of the road in Dulce, New Mexico. Cinnamon, an investigator, joins her pal Burro to face down the school and the teachers and solve the first crime in this mystery series. Cinnamon also collects the first clues to the lost ... Read more
The Trojan Project
A peaceful night is disturbed as a strange light rises from behind the Cheviot Hills, and a green mist descends across the valley. Its swirling tendrils, seeming to bear a life of their own as they snake across the land, can only be an omen of something sinister and evil. When Sarah’s husband fails to return ... Read more
Free: Cream Puff Murder
Ashley Adams has a lot going right for her until a guest ends up dead at one of her catering events and she is forced to solve the murder before her business reputation is completely ruined. Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Seventh Word
The First Word came with Cain, who killed the first child of man. The Third Word was Pharaoh’s instruction to the midwives. The Fifth Word was carried from Herod to Bethlehem. One of the Lost Words dwelt among the Aztecs and hungered after their children. Evil now hides behind starched white masks. The ancient Aztec demon ... Read more
Free: An Explosive Time
Dealing with stolen circus elephants, pit fighting alligators, and man eating pigs are a walk in the park for Detective Crombie. However, it’s when the Celtic Cousins get involved that the explosions really start. When a circus elephant goes missing on Detective Inspector Crombie’s watch, he immediately thinks of Wren and Rhyllann, who have to ... Read more
The Sin
Murder was a very rare crime in Sikeston, Missouri. But then, Leah Graves, the victim, was a very rare woman. She was the town everything: beauty, athlete, scholar, Cotton Bowl queen, spoiled brat, and royal bitch. Even her daddy, the richest, most powerful man in town couldn’t control her. Leah knew at a young age how ... Read more
Free: Lowcountry Punch
After one of the worst nights of his life, DEA Agent T.A. Reddick leaves Miami for Charleston, SC, hoping a return to his roots will heal a wounded heart and the guilt of killing a friend. The sleepy and sultry city of Charleston is filled with echoes of the Old South: genteel playboys, society debutantes, ... Read more
Magical Cool Cats Mysteries (Boxed Set)
Cat sleuths find clues as intoxicating as catnip. Without missing a nap, cat sleuths help their humans, 1920s detectives, solve mysteries. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Price of Justice
The wife of the commanding general at Ft. Leavenworth is found beheaded at the Arabic word for “Dust” is scrawled in blood above her bed. A military judge is charged with the murder. Only one lawyer can free him, but it will cost him everything. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Cold River Running
Cold River Running is the third book in the critically acclaimed Cold River Series. This book begins a storyline that continues for two more books, with characters introduced in Cold River Rising and Cold River Resurrection. When the electricity goes off nationwide due to an unknown cause, the people fight for survival to find food, ... Read more
Free: Maniacal
Sleepy little North Bend just woke up. The newly promoted Sergeant Jade Monroe, and her partner, Detective Jack Steele, have just been informed of an unidentified male body found at a local lake. The town is in an uproar. The victim was nearly decapitated, and murder simply doesn’t happen in North Bend. As more bodies turn up, ... Read more
Erin Solomon Mysteries, Books 1 – 5
The bestselling, “thoroughly addictive” 5-book Erin Solomon mystery serial in a single volume! Investigative reporter Erin Solomon travels to Maine to look into an alleged cult suicide with a haunting connection to her own past. Each book delves more deeply into the tragedy, inextricably drawing Erin and her fellow investigators into some of the darkest chapters ... Read more
Dev Haskell Private Investigator (Vol 1-3)
Volumes 1-3 in the Dev Haskell Private Investigator series. Russian Roulette, Mr. Swirlee and Bite Me in their entirety. The first three novels in the wise cracking, back slapping, babe magnet Dev Haskell series. $0.99 on Kindle. ... Read more
The Harmony Scroll
Stella Hunter must find the Harmony Scroll that history claims is capable of removing the Peacetaker curse. Last time the scroll was seen was in the port of Trieste, being loaded on to a ship more than a thousand years ago is not a deterrent. Nor is the fact the ship never reached its destination. $0.99 ... Read more
The Romanov Legacy
Natalie knows that Nicholas II, the last Russian tsar, left behind a secret bank account. But no one believes her because she’s been diagnosed with schizophrenia…until a Russian spy kidnaps her, claiming she’s the only one who can lead him to the treasure. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Sugar Daddy’s Baby
One interaction, a bizarre story, an hour in Marley’s life change everything. She discovers Cockaigne, a mythical-turned-real paradise where everyone gets whatever they want. She jeopardizes everything to experience it and gets more than she bargained for. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
No Reason to Hide
Navajo cop Jessica Akee finds the body of a young male sprawled in the weeds behind a convenience store on the Reservation. What at first looks like just another gang killing is a far more disturbing murder. On loan from the Phoenix PD, top cop Charlie Stone partners with Jessica to find the killer. She ... Read more
Free: Call It Treason
Foreign campaign money has corrupted the White House and an enemy agent of influence is advising the president to go to war in Syria. One man has a chance to prevent America from another costly war in the Middle East. His name is Drake, but time is running out for him to identify the traitor ... Read more
Double Mayhem
This top-rated action thriller romance introduces the Seekers Mystery Series and Doris Watson as a unique heroine. She is not a super spy, not a trained assassin. She is someone real and much more lethal, a smart woman pushed into a corner. Recruited to stand in for a secret agent look-alike, Doris Watson is told ... Read more
Free: A Haunted Murder
Lin Coffin has returned to the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts to make a new start in life. When someone close to her becomes a suspect in a murder, Lin uses all of her skills to unravel the mystery, even her ability to see ghosts. Free on Kindle.... Read more
ICE
“A gripping novel that combines archeological, historical, scientific, and romantic elements to create a thrilling, strong story. Authentic characters, all-too human relationships, adventures and mysteries transport readers into past, present, and future events–a wonderful discovery for this reader, who cannot wait for more!” -The Columbia Review. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Magic Mirror
SACRE BLEU! THEY KILLED A MAN FOR A MIRROR! Florida transplant Georgia Lee Maxwell doesn’t take to Paris at first, despite the fact that she’s at least leaving a no-good man and a hated job as a society editor. Now she’s a Paris correspondent, thank you very much… $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Dark Seed
Journalist Nick Barnes is plunged into a world of intrigue when he meets a revolutionary scientist who’s learned something he wasn’t supposed to – and pays the ultimate price. Nick and the scientist’s daughter, Morgan, find themselves running for their lives as they uncover the immoral and destructive global plot. This award winning thriller will keep you ... Read more
The Afterlife Series Box Set
Meghan is 16 when she dies. She wakes up on a flying steamboat on her way to a school run by Angels in a white marble castle. On the boat, she meets Mick who has been dead for more than a hundred years but still looks like a teenager. He helps her past the difficult ... Read more
The Downing Street Plot – An Agent’s Revenge
Spencer Hall, head of the British MI5 Security Service, knows it’s no ordinary day when top CIA field agent Jack Stein lurks near his car. He’s right, and when he learns of the looming internal threat, he knows it won’t be business as usual. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Girl from the Sea
For fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, a chilling suspense story of wounded hearts and dark secrets. Washed up on the beach, she can’t remember who she is. She can’t even remember her name. Turns out, she has a perfect life – friends and family eager to fill in the blanks. But ... Read more
Sick to Death
Knowing you’re dying can be murder. When Gage Adder finds out he has inoperable pancreatic cancer, things really start to look up for him. He leaves his soul-crushing job, makes some new friends at his terminal illness support group, and takes up an exciting hobby: Serial killing. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
82 Desire
82 Desire is the EIGHTH book in the Edgar Award-winning Skip Langdon mystery series by Julie Smith. A WIFE’S WORST NIGHTMARE… “I’ll get the car, dear. You wait with the bags,” says the husband. And she waits on the curb at Baggage Claim till doomsday. Turns out the car’s still there. But hubby’s not. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Melt Zone
A mysterious structure is found buried beneath the Antarctic ice. Undiscovered for decades…It should have remained that way. A team of climatologists are sent on a routine expedition to Antarctica to investigate a rapidly melting glacier, where they make a startling discovery… In Europe, a secret Nazi document surfaces which points to a historical government conspiracy, ... Read more
No Reason to Hide…he’s already here
Navajo cop Jessica Akee finds the body of a young male sprawled in the weeds behind a convenience store on the Reservation. What at first looks like just another gang killing is a far more disturbing murder. On loan from the Phoenix PD, top cop Charlie Stone partners with Jessica to find the killer. She ... Read more
Shadows in the Past
When detective Eleanor Starwood is assigned to the case of her sister’s murder, she must rely on her past to solve the mystery. Eleanor is devoted to bring justice to her sister’s death but the killer even knows her every move. Will she find out who the killer is all before time runs out or are ... Read more
Run, Run, as Fast as You Can (Emma Frost Book 3)
Simone Beaumont is having a rough day. She is exhausted. Her baby is crying non-stop, she is in a fight with her husband and hasn’t spoken to him since last night. A big part of her want to just leave everything. To run away from it all. To vanish. She is considering it while putting ... Read more
Wicked Little Secret
Everyone has secrets—ghosts are no exception… Finding her body taken over by a ghost with unfinished business while entertaining a tempting (yet dangerous sounding) invitation from Rick Rowling—her boss—has Amanda Meyer, FBI special assistant and resident ghost whisperer for the Paranormal Cases Division, in a tailspin. Her drag-queen-guardian ghost is acting even stranger than usual, a ... Read more
Corridor Man: Valentine
BETTER CHANGE THE LOCKS. BOBBY DID. Corridor Man: Valentine is a novella. Disbarred attorney Bobby Custer continues to use murder, treachery and perversion in an ongoing effort to increase his personal gains. Ever the charmer, Bobby provides Emily with an unforgettable valentine that up until now she could only dream about. Together they forever mark ... Read more
Transformed Paris
Transman spy Charley MacElroy heads to Paris to help stop a Neo Nazi plot to plant dirty bombs throughout the city. His lover Electra comes along to work on her French, but soon finds herself meeting a group of sinister expats. No sooner does she lay her hands on a suspicious map, than she suddenly ... Read more
