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!
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
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Sword Princess
Victorian romantic mystery in the humorous vein of Jane Austen. The Great Detective has more in store for his landlady’s niece than washing jars and labeling specimens: pistol shooting, fencing, boxing, and Jiu-Jitsu. This she can master, but Mirabella Hudson must face the greatest horror of all: Miss de Beauvais’ Finishing School for Distinguished Young ... 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
Free: The Chihuahua Affair
One woman is dead. Another is missing. Is a 4 lb Chihuahua really to blame? Looks like a job for Chief Randy Sorensen and the dog lovers at the Redbud Area Dog Rescue. This is the second book in the Dog Lady Mystery series. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Red Stick One
When senior wildlife officer is murdered in the field the half-Indian boy he raised, now grown and also a wildlife officer, takes off his badge to embark on a cross-country search for the killer. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Right Hand Man (Trouble in Paradise)
In Trouble in Paradise, the continuing adventures of the Right Hand Man, Alexander Cusard goes undercover for the first time to investigate the Executioner’s next target. But when he makes a fatal error, he must be prepared to do the unthinkable. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Kill Fest
Former CIA Operative turned freelance assassin Aurora Constantine is young, attractive and outstandingly deadly. For two years her insane appetite for professional murder has led her down a dark path of petty contract killings for unhappy spouses. Her lifestyle of drink and carnage is only grounded by the love of her sister Athena and girlfriend ... Read more
Free: Trudy, Madly, Deeply
After human lie detector Charmaine Digby scores a job as the County Coroner’s new investigative assistant, the unthinkable happens—a doctor reports the suspicious death of Trudy, a family friend and one of several elderly patients at the hospital whose heart mysteriously stopped. With no physical evidence of foul play, Char’s on the case, much to ... Read more
Einstein’s Secret
Struggling scholar Jacob Morgan believes that history is wrong about Einstein’s last message. Now, he’s discovered a clue that leads him to an impossible discovery: time travel. And so begins Jacob’s desperate quest, one where history is not only changeable—it’s changing. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Hit the Road Jack (Jack Ryder Book 1)
New engrossing mystery series from the Queen of Scream: Bestselling Author Willow Rose. Ben is supposed to be in school. It’s Monday morning but his parents are still asleep after a night of heavy drinking. Ben waits patiently, even though he knows he is missing out on today’s field trip to the zoo. But, when ... Read more
Hunt for the Enemy
Hunt for the Enemy is the breathtaking and action-packed finale to the bestselling Enemy series of thrillers featuring agent Carl Logan. All three books in the Enemy Series are just $0.99 through February 29.... Read more
Emma Frost Mystery Series vol 1-5
Ready for 3 Bone-chilling tales in Emma Frost series? Just $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: New Orleans Mourning (Skip Langdon Mystery Series)
MURDER, MARDI GRAS–AND MORE SECRETS THAN BEADS… It’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and civic leader and socialite Chauncy St. Amant has been crowned Rex, King of Carnival. But his day of glory comes to an abrupt and bloody end when a parade-goer dressed as Dolly Parton guns him down. Is the killer his aimless, ... Read more
The Byzantine Connection
As national newspapers report of a Fountain of Youth in Detroit’s St. Hedwig’s Cathedral, Carter is only too aware that all is not as it seems—despite witnessing the so-called miracles with his own eyes. Forty-eight hours later, as he emerges from life-saving surgery, Carter realizes that this is no miracle, but a deadly force preying ... Read more
Free: A Dyeing Shame (Myrtle Clover Mysteries)
Some beauty secrets are more dangerous than others… When Beauty Box beautician Tammy Smith is discovered with a pair of hair shears in her back, there are suspects and secrets aplenty in her small Southern town. Octogenarian Myrtle Clover, bored by bingo and bridge, is intrigued by the crime…and her neighbors’ secrets. But discovering, and ... Read more
Free: A Journal of Sin (A Sarah Gladstone Thriller)
A murdered priest leaves behind records of confessional secrets…Secrets someone would prefer he took to the grave. Read the first novel in the Sarah Gladstone series. New British Detective Novel from former British Detective Darryl Donaghue A small town in the English countryside isolated by a severe storm, and a young female officer, alone and ... Read more
Girl Missing
A beautiful young woman’s corpse is found dumped in a garbage-strewn alley. Now laid out in the office of medical examiner Kat Novak is an unidentified body that betrays no secrets—except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a ... Read more
Dancing In Darkness
Priscilla Barnes finds herself in a new job. Her friends and co-workers begin to turn up dead. When she is directly targeted by the serial killer, she turns to Adam Linston for protection. She finds herself developing feelings for the man who already has fallen in love with her. When her situation changes, she finds ... Read more
Free: Cicada Spring: A Novel
On a warm May evening in the spring of 1979, the people of Heartsridge, Massachusetts, are living the American dream. Families are gathered for barbecues. Kids are playing in front yards. Gardens are being kept. Meanwhile, Kara Price stumbles home through the woods, raped and beaten, her life shattered by a wicked act of violence, ... Read more
Past Due
The year is 1937. The infamous Edgewink gang, three of Boston’s most ruthless criminals, travels to Bangor, Maine in search of a quiet place to rest and split their loot. Instead, they find ambush and death, and they and the treasure they had amassed–now lost, if it ever existed–become the stuff of local legend. Seventy-five ... Read more
The House that Jack Built (Jack Ryder Book 3)
Scott Kingston is afraid of monsters. He thinks they’re lurking outside his bedroom window at night when his mother tucks him in. He asks his mother to keep the light on to scare the monsters away. But that light is exactly what lures the kidnapper to his window and the next morning, Scott Kingston is ... Read more
Free: Carrots (A Shelby Nichols Adventure)
Shelby Nichols is an average woman who is married to the only guy she ever fell for. Her life is organized and predictable, revolving around her husband and two children. All that changes the day she stops at the grocery store for some carrots. As the cashier rings up her purchases, a gunman is busy ... Read more
Free: Saints & Strangers (A Sam Warren Mystery)
“Set in Plymouth, Massachusetts and steeped in early Colony history, Saints & Strangers marks the debut in the Sam Warren series: Part Murder Mystery, Part Chick Lit Romance and Part Early American History Lesson.” When a young woman is hanged at Plimoth Plantation just weeks before the Thanksgiving holiday, budding private investigator Sam Warren is ... Read more
Free: Bloody Lessons (A Victorian San Francisco Mystery)
It’s the winter of 1880, and the teachers of San Francisco are under attack: their salaries slashed and their competency and morals questioned in a series of poison pen letters. Annie Fuller, the reluctant clairvoyant, has been called in to investigate by Nate Dawson, her lawyer beau, and the case becomes personal when they discover ... Read more
The Girl You Lost (Psychological thriller)
A sinister and darkly compelling psychological thriller from the No.1 bestselling author of The Girl With No Past. Eighteen years ago, Simone Porter’s six-month-old daughter, Helena, was abducted. Simone and husband, Matt, have slowly rebuilt their shattered lives, but the pain at losing their child has never left them. Then a young woman, Grace, appears ... Read more
The Bone Yard: A Body Farm Novel
The sixth electrifying forensic mystery by author Jefferson Bass (“a fresh voice in the crime novel arena” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer), The Bone Yard is the most gripping installment yet in the New York Times bestselling Body Farm series. Called away from Tennessee’s renowned Body Farm (the real life human decomposition laboratory around which these remarkable thrillers ... Read more
Free: Hometown Secrets (Linda Darby Mystery Book 2)
Hometown Secrets: The long awaited sequel to the first Linda Darby suspense mystery, THE WOMAN, has been released. And Ryan Testler, is back with her again. Memories are funny things. The way they quietly hang around. Linger. Waiting for something we see or hear, or an unexpected event to slam them forward into our consciousness. ... Read more
Free: Redbud (A Dog Lady Mystery)
Someone is killing the dog ladies! Who would want to hurt these women who help homeless and neglected dogs? This sophisticated cozy mystery is full of laughter and tears, loss and recovery, and an ensemble of engaging characters. Free on Kindle. ... Read more
Free: Green Kills
What would you do if everybody expects you to do the “right” thing, and you think it’s wrong? Ronnie can be a hero. As chairman of the board of a high-tech start-up, all he has to do is sell the company. That is what his partners want, what his fiancée is begging him to do, ... Read more
Mash Up
Disturbed by the death of a suspect in a recent case, Qigiq— Fairbanks detective, motorcyclist, and master knifeman—heads south to partner with energetic, action-loving Kandy Dreeson of the San Francisco Police Department. Their first case immerses them in the most complex cyber-crime of the decade when missing college musician appears in a YouTube video. “Klingler’s new ... Read more
Cross Your Heart and Hope To Die (Emma Frost Book 4)
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 class-mates at a desolated hotel in the most Northern part of Denmark. Soon, she will learn that there was ... Read more
Close to Home
Home Along the shores of Oregon’s wild Columbia River, the Victorian mansion where Sarah McAdams grew up is as foreboding as she remembers. The moment she and her two daughters, Jade and Gracie, pull up the isolated drive, Sarah is beset by uneasy memories–of her cold, distant mother, of the half-sister who vanished without a ... Read more
Free: Armed and Fabulous
All Lexi wants to do is get through the day at her boring temp job with Green Hand Insurance. That’s until she discovers the vice president, Martin Dean, in a pool of blood and herself at the center of an investigation into insurance fraud. Millions of dollars are missing, the chief suspect is dead and ... Read more
Free: The Perseid Collapse
America is on the verge of collapse, in this epic, post-apocalyptic sequel to the international bestseller, The Jakarta Pandemic.On August 19, 2019, an inconceivable attack against America’s infrastructure will unleash a human darkness over the United States–with a vast appetite for chaos and violence. Alex Fletcher, former Marine, will wake to this new world, thrown ... Read more
Mash Up (Mystery)
Mash Up is a riveting mystery ride through cyber-crime, music, romance, fast cars, sexy women, guns and explosions. Follow Qigiq, the Alaskan detective from Klingler’s award winning debut novel RATS, as he joins forces with fast-driving shoot from the hip San Francisco detective Kandy Dreeson to find a missing musician whose roommate receives a freaky ... Read more
Private Vegas
Las Vegas is a city of contradictions: seedy and glamorous, secretive and wild, Vegas attracts people of all kinds–especially those with a secret to hide, or a life to leave behind. It’s the perfect location for Lester Olsen’s lucrative business. He gets to treat gorgeous, young women to five-star restaurants, splashy shows, and limo rides–and ... Read more
Slenderman (Emma Frost Book 9)
Ever heard of Slender Man? They say he is always there. They say he is always watching. A tall guy in a suit and tie, with no face, and arms like tentacles. Some say he is an online myth; others will go very far to prove he is real, so far that they might even ... Read more
Sea-Devil: A Delilah Duffy Mystery
Gutsy, but error-prone, Delilah Duffy returns to the island she loved as a child and hopes to reinvent herself as manager of Beach Read Books. Her arrival sets off a string of disturbing acts of vandalism. The message is clear – everyone wants to see her fail, even members of her own family. When a ... Read more
Brooklyn’s Song
Brooklyn Pierce has just witnessed an attempted assassination, and Detective Song Kai and his partner, Detective Mattice Blake, are on the case.But as the story progresses, sparks begin to develop between Brooklyn and Song, providing the reader with a storyline overflowing with sensuality, compassion and romance amidst the onset of drama, tension, suspicion, deception and ... Read more
Free: Blanche on the Lam
“One of the best fictional detectives conjured up in years,” Library Journal Blanche White is a plump, feisty, middle-aged African-American housekeeper working for the genteel rich in North Carolina. But when an employer stiffs her, and her checks bounce, she goes on the lam, hiding out as a maid for a wealthy family at ... Read more
