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!
The Third Gate
Under the direction of famed explorer Porter Stone, an archaeological team is secretly attempting to locate the tomb of an ancient pharaoh who was unlike any other in history. Stone believes he has found the burial chamber of King Narmer, the near mythical god- king who united upper and lower Egypt in 3200 B.C., and ... Read more
Analogue
Legally-sanctioned LSD is employed at a unique hospice to treat anxiety and depression in the terminally-ill. When a drug variant is secretly introduced, two men with brain tumors find they are inexplicably cured. But a disturbing side effect comes along for the ride and how each man handles it makes all the difference. $2.99 on ... Read more
Free: Hushabye (A Kate Redman Mystery: Book 1)
A missing baby. A murdered girl. A case where everyone has something to hide… Free on Kindle. ... Read more
Free: Paper Phoenix: A Mystery of San Francisco in the ’70s
“Wickedly delicious… What makes (Thompson’s) book so particularly wonderful is the way it accomplishes the detective novel’s covert mission of urban analysis and social criticism.” -San Francisco Examiner “(Thompson) knows how to create that sense of place which is so important to any novel, but particularly to crime fiction; her characters are believable men and ... Read more
Warren Lane
When a troubled woman hires the wrong man to investigate her philandering husband, she finds out he’s up to much worse than she suspects. Suspenseful and richly plotted, Warren Lane is a page-turner whose vividly-drawn characters just can’t stay out of trouble. $0.99 on Kindle and iBooks.... Read more
Hellen Back
Jennifer Luck is off to college and finally getting away from her crazy-ass mother and that attic room. Only, Jennifer is about to discover there are monsters that lurk not only under beds and inside of closets and attic rooms, but monsters that dwell within the darkest places, unforeseen monsters, like crazy-ass mothers. When students ... Read more
The Stolen Twin
As a child, Kit’s twin sister Cat disappeared, never to be heard from again. Until one dark, twisted Halloween night. But is it really Cat? Or is it someone else playing a sinister and deadly game? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Missing Mona: A Tommy Cuda Mystery
“Klingler presents his craftiest yarn to date, summoning the pulpy spirits of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.” –Kirkus Reviews (Featured Review) As Tommy looks squarely at his next decade his smartphone convinces him the time is ripe for a change. So he hits the road. He immediately meets a damsel in hitchhiking distress named Mona. ... Read more
The Wind Guardian
With the help of an inside man, a group of determined terrorists siege a nuclear power plant, intending to spread radiation into the wind and wreak havoc on neighboring cities. The only thing standing in their way are two misfit security guards, Cameron Taylor and Grace Baker, whose romantic escapade temporarily takes them off the ... Read more
All In: The Globe Trot Shuffle (Thriller)
A story of four United States Marines who make a discovery in a mansion during the Iraq Invasion. They stash it, and have to come back years later. One of the Marines is now a contractor, and gets locals to help him and his friends get their discovery back. Then they have to travel to ... Read more
Free: SPARKS
Much too often we find ourselves wondering how a character is born. What made them into the hero they have become? What made them such a nice guy or girl? How did they become such a villainous monster or mass murderer? This novelette gives off a few sparks of the flame that ignited two explosive ... Read more
Measure of Danger
Kade Sims was a successful army intelligence officer until his hypomania disorder and impulsive behavior resulted in his discharge. Forced to adapt to a sedate civilian existence, he’d all but given up on a life of service. That is, until opportunity—and an FBI agent—knocks on his door. The FBI believes Kade’s unique talents make him ... Read more
Dark Illusion: A Psychological Thriller
Dark Illusion is an intense, surprising, absolutely captivating psychological thriller about a young, driven NYPD Detective, Sharon Davis, and her mission to catch a ruthless serial killer who disfigures the victims’ beautiful faces before killing them. Sharon’s pursuit of the elusive killer leads her to the glamorous fashion world, soon to reveal its own ugliness, ... Read more
Fragmented
Cameron Quinn is caught in a web of deceit. Protecting her brother from being framed for a murder places Cameron in untold danger. When the real killer diverts his attention to her, she has nowhere to turn, especially not to the man she shared one unforgettable night… who now is trying to put her brother ... Read more
The Girl in the Ice (Detective Erika Foster Book 1)
When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of ice in a South London park, Detective Erika Foster is called in to lead the murder investigation. The victim, a beautiful young socialite, appeared to have the perfect life. Yet when Erika begins to dig deeper, she starts to connect ... Read more
The GingerBread House
Set in a small town during the 1900’s, The Gingerbread House is a Romance/Mystery grounded in nostalgia, mirth, and true love. When a journalist comes home from Europe to take over the town newspaper from his sister, he becomes infatuated with the local people and their stories. From an orphaned young girl to a threatening ... Read more
Free: The Chemtrail Conspiracy Set (Mystery)
Are we being poisoned? Those fluffy white trails crisscrossing the sky–some say they are simply water vapor frozen into crystals. Others say they are deadly chemicals, some of which are for military defense, and others to control the weather and the world’s food supply. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Hide and Seek
LAPD Detective Skinner and his partner investigate the kidnapping of the wife of the mayor of Los Angeles, who also happens to be a federal prosecutor. The case threatens the core of one of the world’s most famous cities. An internal power struggle, false leads, meddling media, the victim’s own family, and Jake’s personal struggles ... Read more
The Devil’s Bridge
A strange presence saves a soldier’s life. The payoff may be the life of his lover unless he can outwit it. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
California Gray
A beautiful artist fleeing Minneapolis with a broken heart, and a San Diego detective with a broken life, find themselves pitted against a manipulative and cunning murderer in a life and death struggle that will define who they are… and ultimately challenge their will to survive. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Drop (A Harry Bosch Novel Book 18)
Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two.DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime ... Read more
Red Velvet Cupcake Murder
This summer has been warmer than usual in Lake Eden, Minnesota, and Hannah Swensen is trying to beat the heat both in and out of her bakery kitchen. But she’s about to find out the hard way that nothing cools off a hot summer day like a cold-blooded murder. . . Features over Ten Cookie ... Read more
Rock with Wings (Leaphorn and Chee Mysteries)
Navajo Tribal cops Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, investigate two perplexing cases in this exciting Southwestern mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Spider Woman’s Daughter. Doing a good deed for a relative offers the perfect opportunity for Sergeant Jim Chee and his wife, Officer ... Read more
Free: WANNA GET LUCKY?
A young woman plunges from a Las Vegas sightseeing helicopter, landing in the Pirate Lagoon in front of the Treasure Island Hotel in the middle of the 8:30 Pirate Show. Almost everyone writes her off as another Vegas victim. But, Lucky O’Toole, head of customer relations at the Babylon megacasino, smell a rat, though she’s ... Read more
Free: Cold Fear
In the remote, rugged corner of Montana’s Glacier National Park known as the Devil’s Grasp, little Paige Baker of San Francisco disappears with her dog, Kobee, while on a camping trip with her family; or so her mother and father have told authorities. A multi-agency task force launches a massive search as Paige fights to ... Read more
Free: Marriage Can Be Murder (A Baby Boomer Mystery)
Empty-nester Carol Andrews is thrilled when daughter Jenny announces her engagement. She’s dreamed of planning her daughter’s wedding since the day Jenny was born. But with only two months to pull together a destination wedding on Nantucket, Jenny insists on hiring Cinderella Weddings to organize the event. Father-of-the-bride Jim objects to the cost, and Carol ... Read more
Free: Calamity Jayne (Calamity Jayne Mysteries)
Tressa Jayne Turner has had it up to here with the dumb-blonde jokes and a childhood nickname that’s harder to get rid of than her favorite pair of cowboy boots. Thanks to one Rick Townsend, Iowa Department of Natural Resources officer, local hottie, and general pain in Tressa’s behind, everyone knows her as “Calamity Jayne”. ... Read more
One Night in Tehran: A Titus Ray Thriller
While on the run from the Iranian secret police, CIA officer Titus Ray encounters a group of Christians in Tehran. The battle-hardened agent becomes a believer shortly before being smuggle him out of Iran to freedom in Turkey. Back in the States, Titus learns he’s been targeted by a Hezbollah assassin. Now, while trying to ... Read more
Wreck
Five seemingly unrelated stories become entwined during the course of a single night in this short but effective thriller. It begins with a hold-up and ends with a chase that will claim lives, shatter hopes, and forever change the way we look at strangers. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: A Crabby Killer (Moosamuck Island Cozy Mystery)
How far will the Islanders go protect one of their own? When the body of an ‘outsider’ is found stuffed in the crab boil pot right before the opening of Mooseamuck Island’s annual Crab Festival, the islanders aren’t too worried. After all, outsider business is none of their concern. They just don’t want something as ... Read more
What hurts the most (7th street crew Book 1)
What would you do if your brother were being framed for a murder? Driven by a rightful anger Mary is trying to prove her brother’s innocence. She gets back together with her old high school friends(the 7th street crew) to help solve the mystery of who killed the person they arrested her brother for. $0.99 ... Read more
The Leveling (A Mark Sava Spy Novel)
These days, Mark Sava spends more time in tutoring sessions than in cloak-and-dagger rendezvous. The former CIA station chief of Azerbaijan has settled into the modest life of a professor in Baku…until an assassin makes a brazen attempt on his life in the hallowed halls of the national library. The Azeri government deems Sava, with ... Read more
Free: Still Life With Murder (Nell Sweeney Mystery)
“P.B. Ryan makes a stunning debut with Still Life with Murder, bringing Nineteenth Century Boston alive, from its teeming slums to the mansions on Boston Common, and populating it with a vivid and memorable cast of characters. The fascinating heroine, Nell Sweeney, immediately engages the reader and I couldn’t put the book down until I ... Read more
Lilah
Beautiful and mysterious Lilah arrives in sleepy little Silver Narrows and journalist, Nick Hendricks is soon caught in her spell. When he investigates a string of tragic disappearances from the past he soon realizes there are guilty secrets lurking beneath the town’s cozy exterior and that somehow Lilah is connected. But he’s unprepared for the ... Read more
Hit the road Jack (Jack Ryder Book 1)
Ben is supposed to be in school. His parents are asleep after a night of heavy drinking. When his black Labrador suddenly runs upstairs and comes down with a finger in his mouth, Ben knows he’s not making it to school today at all… $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Dance with the Enemy
“An excellent and action packed story that is hard to put down” Dance with the Enemy is the explosive first chapter in the highly-acclaimed and bestselling Enemy series of thrillers featuring Carl Logan. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Once Gone (Riley Paige Mystery-Book 1)
Women are turning up dead in the rural outskirts of Virginia, killed in grotesque ways, and when the FBI is called in, they are stumped. A serial killer is out there, his frequency increasing, and they know there is only one agent good enough to crack this case: Special Agent Riley Paige. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Night of the Bonfire
Ex-Navy Seal Michael Quinn is called in by the CIA to investigate a key undercover operative’s brutal murder. From the peaceful seaside town of Laguna Beach, the trail leads him across the globe, and into a world beyond anything he imagined. Amidst violent twists and turns, Quinn’s journey takes him from the crowded streets of ... Read more
The Fall and Rise of Peter Stoller
In 1960’s London, British Intelligence agent Peter Stoller is next in line to run the Agency—until he falls in love with cab driver, Charles, and his life goes off the road. When Charles is accused of treason, Peter is guilty by association. Peter manages to extract them both, but the seeds of doubt have been ... Read more
Closer (The Unit 1)
Danger. Intrigue. Suspense. Former Green Beret Michael Cartwright thought he left all that behind him…. That is until he meets Emma. +18 warning – This book is intended for mature audiences. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
