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!

RATS

Joe Klingler’s award winning techno-thriller is filled with fierce writing and fully fleshed out characters. It explodes from the remnants of a war long past to headlines of Washington secrets masquerading as corporate incompetence when two modern-day warriors face off. Both accustomed to winning. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Handyman

Twenty-six-year-old Joshua Clayton is on a lavish vacation in Paris with his parents, his gorgeous fiancé and her parents. He soon discovers a terrible betrayal, driving him to leave. Putting distance from them while he sorts through his emotions, he accepts a temporary job as handyman for an elderly woman, Paulette Lapierre, in a small ... Read more

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Never Smile at Strangers (Strangers Series)

When nineteen-year-old Tiffany Perron vanishes without a trace, the residents of rural Grand Trespass, Louisiana, launch a desperate search to find her. But few clues are unearthed, and before long another young woman disappears.As locals continue to vanish, residents begin to discover that they might not know those closest to them as well as they ... Read more

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The Girl With No Past

A gripping psychological thriller for fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. Leah Mills lives a life of a fugitive – kept on the run by one terrible day from her past. It is a lonely life, without a social life or friends until – longing for a connection – she meets ... Read more

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Three, Four … Better lock your door (Rebekka Franck, Book 2)

INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLING SCANDINAVIAN MYSTERY It was supposed to be a night of fun, pleasure, lust and pain for Susanne Larsen when she agreed to meet with a stranger from a S&M chatroom. She met him for dinner that later led to casual, anonymous sex at the hotel-room at the local inn. But someone else showed ... Read more

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Emma Frost Mystery Series vol 7-9

3 International Bestselling Mystery Novels. EASY AS ONE TWO THREE: Mads and Signe are very young when they get married. They are ready to take on the world starting with their honeymoon to Egypt. Two years later, Mads is in a coma and Signe has vanished from the face of the earth. Meanwhile, Emma Frost ... Read more

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Free: The Price of Innocence

In the decade since their younger sister’s death, James and Ian Lawrence have drifted apart – James to pursue a steady but humdrum career as a CPA in Kansas City, Ian to go adventuring off to Leipzig, Germany, for his doctorate in economics. But when Ian mysteriously disappears while researching the economics of organized crime, ... Read more

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The Prettiest One: A Thriller

When Caitlin Sommers finds herself alone in a deserted parking lot with blood on her clothes and no memory of the past few months, it seems like one of the nightmares that have tormented her for years…but it’s all too real. Desperate to learn the truth about where she’s been and what has happened to ... Read more

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Don’t Try to Find Me

When a fourteen-year-old runs away, her parents turn to social media to find her—launching a public campaign that will expose their darkest secrets and change their family forever, in this suspenseful and gripping debut for fans of Reconstructing Amelia and Gone Girl. Don’t try to find me. Though the message on the kitchen white board ... Read more

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Free: Who Murdered Garson Talmadge

Matt Kile, ex-cop and ex-con, current smart-aleck, and a neighbor of Mr. and Mrs. Talmadge has built himself a comfortable career writing mysteries. Garson Talmadge sold weapons to Saddam Hussein, then moved out of France, came to America and married Clarice, a woman half his age. When Clarice is arrested for murdering her husband, Matt ... Read more

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Rebekka Franck Series Box Set: vol 1-3

“I’m a fan of Scandinavian crime and this was an enjoyable set of stories. Rebekka Franck is a journalist separated from her PTSD husband, living with her father and daughter in a small regional town. In each of the novels she investigates serial murders that have taken place ultimately placing herself in danger. Add a ... Read more

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Free: Skully, Perdition Games

She can’t run fast enough to escape her past. The beautiful wife of an aspiring politician vanishes from her home and police discover a gruesome crime scene. But things may not be as they seem, and the woman’s dark past could hold the key to her strange disappearance. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Double Mayhem (A Seekers Mystery)

Doris, a reclusive engineer, goes on a blind date, kills a syndicate hit man, acquires a psychic child, and gets recruited by the NSA for a single, simple mission. What could possibly go wrong? She is not a super spy, she is not a trained assassin, she is someone real and much more dangerous – ... Read more

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Free: Blood Orchids

Hawaii is palm trees, black sand and blue water—but for policewoman Lei Texeira, there’s a dark side to paradise. Fast-paced crime mystery with a touch of romance, readers call Blood Orchids “un-putdownable!” Free On Kindle.... Read more

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The Good Neighbor

From a phenomenal new voice in suspense fiction comes a book that will forever change the way you look at the people closest to you… Shadow Cove, Washington, is the kind of town everyone dreams about—quaint streets, lush forests, good neighbors. That’s what Sarah thinks as she settles into life with her new husband, Dr. ... Read more

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Free: Closure: Jack Randall #1

When a prominent lawyer is shot while waiting at a suburban stop sign it sets off a nation-wide manhunt for an elusive killer. Special Agent Jack Randall of the FBI finds himself appointed to track down and stop the shooter. Not by his superiors, but by the killer himself. As more bodies fall the shooter ... Read more

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The Chihuahua Affair: A Dog Lady Mystery

One woman is dead. Another is missing. A 12-year-old girl might be in danger. Is a four-pound Chihuahua really to blame? Chief Randy Sorensen and the Redbud Area Dog Rescue ladies are on the case in this fun, fast-paced mystery. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Blind Eye

After enduring years of infidelity and a painful divorce, Rachel Davis has finally reclaimed her life. Gorgeous, intelligent and now with a tenacity to survive whatever life throws at her, Rachel feels better than she has in a long time. With two wonderful children, a successful career and a newfound strength, life is good. At ... Read more

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Where the Wild Roses Grow

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

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Seven Amish Thrillers, $2.99 Each (Today Only)

New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo delivers an electrifying thriller in which Chief of Police Kate Burkholder must confront a dark evil to solve the mysterious murders of an entire Amish family.$2.99, Today only! Browse more $2.99 thrillers by Linda Castillo, today only.... Read more

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Winterkill

A beautiful reporter and a charming rancher are caught in a web of mayhem, murder. . .and lust. Reporter Sawyer Cahill returns home to Cheyenne, Wyoming to report for the local television station. But leaving behind the coverage of San Antonio’s gangland murders only lands her in the middle of a wave of ritualistic animal ... Read more

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Emma Frost Mystery Series (Vol. 1-3)

Crazy deal! Get three chilling page-turners from a bestselling author for ONLY 99 CENTS! The box set includes the first three installments in Willow Rose’s popular bestselling mystery series about the author Emma Frost and her friends and family on Fanoe Island in Denmark. Includes ITSY BITSY SPIDER, MISS POLLY HAD A DOLLY and RUN ... Read more

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The Tide

Captain Dominic Holland and CIA operative Meredith Webb discover the most terrifying threat to mankind they’ve ever faced—a genetically engineered biological weapon called the Oni Agent that can turn men into monsters. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Desert Heat

Navajo Witchery. Human Treachery. Social worker Jordan Bia finds a child who escaped her captors and a life in the sex trade, but four other girls from her small Mexican village were not so lucky. Smugglers hide their human cargo in the hoodoos of a remote canyon on the reservation—a place the Navajo shun, fearful ... Read more

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Free: Due North (Butterscotch Jones Mysteries 1)

Welcome to the Gulch… funny things happen in the middle of nowhere. Butterscotch Jones thought that living in the far north provided enough peril to contend with until a private plane crashed outside her hometown of McIntyre’s Gulch, Manitoba, Canada. The treasure inside the plane soon attracted both the RCMP and the Russian Mafia. For ... Read more

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Free: Tahoe Blue Fire

TAHOE BLUE FIRE is about a series of brutal murders at Lake Tahoe that may be connected to a priceless artifact from the Italian Renaissance. The prime suspect is former pro football player Adam Simms who is suffering Traumatic Brain Injury from his days on the gridiron. Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna can’t tell if Simms ... Read more

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There’s No Place Like HOME

What is the worst that can happen? Maria and Jonas Boegh asked themselves that very question when deciding to sign the papers for their new house. It might be expensive. They might be in over their heads a little financially, but they were never happier than on the day they moved in. Everything was perfect. ... Read more

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Today Only: Best Sellers by David Baldacci and James Patterson, $3.99 Each

12 books by David Baldacci and James Patterson, two of top selling masters of the mystery genre, $3.99 each. (12/26 only.)  Browse the sale.... Read more

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Night of the Coyote

Two people murdered. Two suspects lynched for the murders. To some in Lockwood, this passes for justice . . . but not Ethan Ramsey. A high-stakes murder mystery on the American frontier. In 1875, two young Sioux are lynched in Lockwood, Wyoming by a makeshift posse for a crime they may or may not have ... Read more

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City of Echoes (Detective Matt Jones Book 1)

On Detective Matt Jones’s first night working Homicide in LA, he’s called to investigate a particularly violent murder case: a man has been gunned down in a parking lot off Hollywood Boulevard, his bullet-riddled body immediately pegged as the work of a serial robber who has been haunting the Strip for months. Driven by the ... Read more

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Sleeping With the Enemy

Deskbound CIA technician Anna Mercer yearns for excitement in her job and her love life. She gets both when she’s recruited to a special division of the Agency. Anna must learn to use her wits AND her curves on high-level missions that involve intimacy with dangerous targets. Complicating matters is Ryan Demarco, a fellow spy ... Read more

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Picture Perfect

Michaels serves up a heart-pounding romantic thriller in which what starts out as an adventure turns into an ordeal. Pediatrician Lorrie Ryan is looking forward to taking her young hemophiliac nephew, Davey, camping while his parents fly to Florida. The family has been under FBI protection because Davey’s father is testifying for the prosecution in ... Read more

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Face of Betrayal (Mystery)

While home on break, a seventeen-year-old Senate page takes her dog out for a walk and never returns. The resulting media firestorm quickly ensnares television reporter Cassidy Shaw, Federal Prosecutor Allison Pierce, and FBI Special Agent Nicole Hedges. Together, these life-long friends call themselves The Triple Threat—a nickname derived from their favorite dessert as well ... Read more

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Killer Gourmet (A Savannah Reid Mystery Book)

Plus-sized P.I. Savannah Reid and her pals at the Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency know a thing or two about fine dining. But when murder shows up on the menu, it’s time to go back to the kitchen. Today only, $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs Mysteries Series)

Private investigator Maisie Dobbs receives her first assignment from the British Secret Service in A Lesson in Secrets, the eighth book in Jacqueline Winspear’s award-winning mystery series. Sent to pose as a junior lecturer at a private college in Cambridge, she will monitor any activities “not in the interests of His Majesty’s government.” When the ... Read more

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Random Lucidity

Silver Medal Winner – 2015 eLit Book Awards “A remarkable narrative with no wasted chapters.” – Portland Book Review “Adair’s characters are engaging – with the malicious and gorgeously depicted Rita being particularly memorable.” – Literary Fiction Book Review “It’s impossible to read Adair’s work and not scrutinize our own dreams and aspirations to answer ... Read more

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Secrets Of The Serpent’s Heart

Where do you hide a mysterious artifact that has the power to change the course of history? You scatter clues to its whereabouts across the entire planet. Five objects buried beneath the rubble of lost civilizations point to the hiding place of a powerful relic called the Sage Stone. Adversaries vie to claim the prize ... Read more

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Viral Intent: Terror in New Orleans

An unidentified virus in the CCMC Emergency Department is killing dozens of people, a horrific death of a popular politician in the French Quarter has the NOPD hopping, and internet chatter suggesting the unspeakable has chilled the hearts of law enforcement all over the world. Read how Alex and Jack learn to play well with ... Read more

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Blurring the Line

Fiction and non-fiction. Reality and make-believe. Can you draw the line between the two? Do you know where real horror starts? Blurring the Line is a collection of 20 horror short stories by some of the best writers around, plus 10 non-fiction articles to make you think twice about the world we live in – ... Read more

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Confessions of a Murder Suspect

James Patterson returns to the genre that made him famous with a thrilling teen detective series about the mysterious and magnificently wealthy Angel family . . . and the dark secrets they’re keeping from one another. Today only, just $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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