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 Ballad of John Walker
What happens when unchecked power and authority accuses you of a crime? How would you fight it? Who could you turn to? The Ballad of John Walker is a chilling read about the dangers of unaccountable power in the hands of others and held over you. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
By the Book
No good deed goes unpunished as Gracie Andersen, owner of Milky Way Kennels learns. Who knew offering hospitality and volunteering at the library would land her in a murder investigation? A valuable Civil War knife, one very frozen body, some “funny” accounting, and a mysterious stalker are adding up to big trouble for the Deer ... Read more
Free: The Former World
Twenty-one year old Beth Powers is fed up with living in the tiny, gossip-fuelled village of Little Forest and resolves to escape to London with best friend, Veronica Summers. That is, until the body of Beth’s colleague Emma Harris is found in the nearby woods, setting off the small community’s well-oiled rumour mill. Beth soon ... Read more
THE VILLA IN ITALY
This enchanting, tightly woven historical mystery follows four troubled people who find hope and redemption in the seductive sunlight of an Italian summer. Italy, 1958. None of the four strangers summoned to the magical Villa Dante on the coast of Liguria knew Beatrice Malaspina. Yet she named them in her will: Delia, an opera singer ... Read more
Mojado
When Mexico’s bloodiest predator invades the Navajo Reservation it’s up to Charlie Yazzie to take charge, but can he catch a killer before the killer catches him? No one knew what a really bad man was… Now they do!... Read more
Red-Line: The Shift
Her fate… Sarah Randolph believes she’s just an ordinary woman, at least until the day she meets Ramsey—a mysterious man who tells her that not only is she not ordinary…she’s not even human. Depends on him… John Sherlock Ramsey, an Earth-born Eudoran, is a Protector. He’s assigned to help Sarah complete her Shift, a period ... Read more
Death in Nostalgia City
Nostalgia City theme park re-creates a small town from the early 1970s in every detail, but when rides are sabotaged and tourists killed, an unlikely duo is persuaded to investigate. Lyle Deming is an ex-cop, now driving a Nostalgia City cab because he’s tired of dealing with violent crime and its sad victims. Kate Sorensen ... Read more
Free: Bone Wires
A thrilling mystery set in the same world as the Wonderland Cycle, Bone Wires is a grim trip into the streets of the empty future. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Dane Curse
In this mix of DC comics and Mickey Spillane we follow Dane Curse, a former villain turned PI, as he investigates the mysterious murder of the world’s greatest superhero in order to save Gold Coast City. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Cicada Spring (Mystery)
* A 2015 Readers’ Favorite Award Winner * * A 2015 IAN Book of the Year Awards Finalist * * A 2015 Kindle Book Awards Finalist * * B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree * On a warm May evening in the spring of 1979, the people of Heartsridge, Massachusetts, are living the American dream. Families are gathered ... Read more
Poison Bay: Wild Crimes #1
A broken heart leads television reporter Callie Brown to take the crazy step of leaving the big city and good coffee for a reunion with a difference: a 10-day hike into New Zealand’s most remote and savage mountains. By the time she understands the expedition’s true purpose, old secrets are baring their claws, and it ... Read more
Found, Near Water
When Rena Sutherland wakes from a coma to find her daughter missing, she’s distraught. When she discovers that no one has alerted the authorities, she’s frantic. With no one else to turn to she clings to the victim support officer assigned to her case. Can Christine Emmett help Rena through the turmoil created by her ... Read more
Vardin Village
George is just a regular teenager living in a small, quaint town except he’s broke, nearly homeless and his mom took off with her loser boyfriend. It takes a village to raise a child but not so much when you have to keep it a secret and the bully quarterback hates your guts. $0.99 on ... Read more
Emma Frost Mystery Series (vol 1-5)
Get five chilling page-turners from a bestselling author in this newly released box set. It includes the first five installments in Willow Rose’s popular mystery series about the author Emma Frost and her friends and family on Fanoe Island in Denmark. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: In the Shadows
Dave Martin travels to France to care for his ill grandmother, only to find out she had an ulterior motive for getting him there. He’s angry, but tries to make the best of the situation. And then he meets a lovely young French woman, who is clearly hiding something. As a former Chicago detective turned ... Read more
The Gold Club
Sahara Ltd., a mega-conglomerate with stratospheric sales, has a growing community of enthusiastic, go-getter employees. But these employees don’t have the best interests of their company at heart. Through a private VIP club—formed within the very walls of the corporation—they skim assets, scam the company, steal clients and pocket the profits. The CEO and his ... Read more
Reparation: A Supernatural Cult Thriller
From award-winning author Laine Cunningham comes a novel based on the spiritual world of the Lakota Sioux. Out on the prairie, the wind tends to pluck restless souls from their graves. Aidan Little Boy learns this when he visits the Native American-style peyote church his sister has joined. Aidan hopes that the minister’s reputation as ... Read more
Free: Body Magnet
Nurse sleuth Reece Carson is annoyed when crime solving interrupts the birth of her nephew. Family comes first. When her deceased parents become fodder for gossip, she springs into action dodging the DA’s special taskforce and local detectives to follow clues her parents left behind. She realizes a killer who skated from justice eighteen years ... Read more
Free: Mayhem Takes a Dare
Marisa Adair is shocked when Sarah, a beautiful stripper with a vicious boyfriend, disguises herself as a mild-mannered teacher and gyrates her way into an online group and Marisa’s inner circle of friends. As her kindhearted friend Brandon falls for Sarah’s fake persona, as well as other fake parts of the young dancer, Marisa frantically ... Read more
Breaking Measures
On the fast track to international success, acclaimed concert pianist Leila Cates is close to achieving her dreams. But her path to certain stardom comes to a crashing halt when the body of her boyfriend, a world-renowned conductor, is discovered on the eve of her New York debut. When rumors about their relationship surface, Leila ... Read more
Anamnesis (Mystery)
When Ethan Knight wakes up on Alki Beach in Seattle, he has no memory of the last four years, and only fragments of his early life. Disoriented and experiencing drug withdrawal, he quickly finds himself assimilated into a life of crime. Unable to go to the police for help, Ethan abandons any hope of remembering ... Read more
Birth of an Assassin
Set against the backdrop of Soviet, post-war Russia, Jez Kornfeld is transformed from wide-eyed recruit to avenging outlaw. Amidst a murky underworld of flesh-trafficking, prostitution and institutionalized corruption, the elite Jewish soldier is thrown into a world where nothing is what it seems, nobody can be trusted, and everything can be violently torn from him. ... Read more
Free: Louisiana Longshot – Miss Fortune Mystery #1
CIA Assassin Fortune Redding is about to undertake her most difficult mission ever–in Sinful, Louisiana. Forced off the grid, she never expected to be this far out of her element. Posing as a former beauty queen turned librarian in a small, bayou town seems worse than death to Fortune. Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Chimera Sequence
Cole McBride makes a chilling discovery while investigating a mysterious disease causing the deaths of endangered mountain gorillas in war-torn central Africa. When a humanitarian aid hospital nearby diagnoses a disturbingly similar human case, the former Special Forces veterinarian knows he must figure out how to stop this outbreak from spreading–before it blows up into ... Read more
Free: “If… Dangerous Waters” (Short Story)
Alena’s life has all the ear markings of a happy and successful life. Enter Madame Psychic Orso. With her pathway changed forever, Alena’s newfound fears take on a life of their own. Probing dangerous new avenues she will discover something different than she’d expected. Can she recover? Will she even want to? Free on Kindle.... Read more
Allegiance
Jackson Quick is a reluctant hero. He doesn’t want to be one. He wants to spend time with his ridiculously hot girlfriend, drink beer, listen to music, and rub elbows with power brokers. But when the Governor of Texas tasks him with a secret mission, he agrees and unwittingly involves himself in a conspiracy that ... Read more
The Wrath of Jeremy
“When Darkness Repents, Heaven and Hell Collide” From the age of twelve, doctors have told Jeremy Daven that his visions of terrifying beasts and bloody revelations are the result of a debilitating mental illness. If only they were right. As the adolescent reaches adulthood, his ‘schizophrenia’ intensifies; it seems he can’t even eat breakfast without ... Read more
To Swallow the Earth
Silver rush Nevada: What if you came home after a journey and your family was no longer there? What if someone else was living in your house, running what you used to manage—and trying to kill you? Could a beautiful woman be behind it? Wade Forester has to stay in the shadows. His father has ... Read more
Free: Redbud: A Dog Lady Mystery
Secret pasts, rescued dogs, buried treasure, humor, danger, tears. You’ll find all in Redbud: A Dog Lady Mystery. Judy Barnes tries to escape her tragic past by researching her ancestors in Redbud, Nebraska. But her new life is one she couldn’t have imagined. Soon it also includes murder. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Killing Chase
Chase Hampton’s release from prison comes with several strings attached, strings that have him feeling like an FBI puppet. Chase must deftly navigate the narrow path between his new master and his family if he’s to save the country from chaos. Sometimes, second chances aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Idaho: A (dark) love story
When failed Portland painter Owen Reed runs into his best friend’s new wife, his life takes and unexpected turn towards murder in this taut thriller, set in the beautiful Northwest and in the tawdry mansions of Beverly Hills. This contemporary noir is written in the tradition of James M. Cain and Patricia Highsmith. Free on ... Read more
The 56th Man
A former member of Saddam Hussein’s Special Security Force arrives in Richmond, Virginia. Under the name of Ari Ciminon, he sets up house on the James River. The house was purchased for him by the U.S. Marshals Service, which is responsible for watching over him while he supplies intelligence to CENTCOM. Because he is fluent ... Read more
Cool Heat
The former DA’s investigator, Sydney Jesup, is on a one-woman crusade against the most powerful and dangerous mogul in the Lake Tahoe Sierras. She will not stop until he’s brought down along with everyone else who is connected to him. Her crusade will enlist a former border patrol agent, Marco Cruz, who can’t seem to ... Read more
Free: “If… Second Chance”
Shona’s life is turned upside down after she encounters Psychic Two Moons, Medium. Rick seems to be part of the equation for a happy life, but is he? A seemingly carefully laid out future may not always be in the cards. What Ifs will unfold; a reality where the possibilities can be good or very, ... Read more
Veronica Mars – the TV series: The Junk Shot
Sunny Johnston plans to skip bail ahead of a Grand Theft Auto charge. Her father does not want to lose the fifty thousand he put up as bail, so he contacts Neptune’s most famous teen detective and asks her to find his missing daughter. As Veronica Mars searches for the missing girl, she finds a ... Read more
The Secret of Crybaby Hollow
Recently wounded while on duty as a city police officer, a young woman retreats to an isolated Blue Ridge mountain cabin to recover. Soon she meets a county sheriff’s deputy, and together they begin to discover there’s something all too real and sinister behind a local superstitious folk legend. (Mystery/Romantic Suspense) $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Lady Justice and the Conspiracy
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. Are the chemtrails really part of a clandestine government conspiracy? ... Read more
Affected
Eight years ago, there was no World Government. There were no agents, no carts. The fear of a nosebleed did not exist. Then came The Affection—an incurable disease that ran rampant across the planet, killing off roughly 60% of the human population. Two years later—with order in shambles and governments all over the world in ... Read more
Deadly Eyes
SEMI-FINALIST FOR THE BEST INDIE BOOKS OF 2012 AWARD Murder and mayhem suddenly invade the lives of Cuff and Rosie, laid-back lovers in their Caribbean paradise, entangling them in the crosshairs of an unknown stalker whose relentless pursuit knows no bounds. If you enjoy mysteries set in exotic locales, then don’t miss DEADLY EYES with ... Read more
Smoking Ruin
Minneapolis gumshoe Marta Hjelm has had enough. After years in investigations, she’s burned out and ready to quit the business. But like a bad penny, who should turn up but her philandering ex-husband, with a job that’s too good to turn down. Against her better judgement she dives into the world of high-end advertising, where ... Read more
