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!
Tales from the Beaumont House (Spooky short stories)
What do a psychic, a family of four and a computer programmer have in common? Unfortunately for them, they reside in the Beaumont House apartments. What appears to be a serene, picturesque apartment complex is actually an otherworldly reality consisting of the supernatural, the strange and the unimaginable. From horror and sci-fi toTwilight Zone-type fiction, ... Read more
Skin
The Lawrence brothers expected to have a normal Christmas holiday—that is, until a storm traps them inside their home and downs a local power line. Tensions rise as the temperature plummets, and their true feelings start bubbling to the surface: addiction, remorse, depression. It’s not long before they realize that although trapped and isolated, they ... Read more
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, Texas 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
FREE: THE ASSASSIN’S LIST
A political thriller, as current as today’s headlines, about homegrown terrorists trained to assassinate the leaders and VIP’s in America. A master terrorist is sent to America with 25 million to recruit angry criminals who converted to Islam and train them as assassins. In the last days before the first kill on the assassin’s list, Adam ... Read more
Bloody Mess : The Crimson City Tales
When Detective Saint gets to close to the crime lord in Crimson City, the criminals decide to hit Saint where it hurts most. It’s a full on war on the streets of the city. Will Saint be able to take down the crime lord in this action-packed thriller? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free Crime Fiction: Carnies and Wildcats: Ulciscor
Murder and Revenge in the Deep South In November 1980, one week after the crosstown competitors squared off for their last game of the season, someone raised the stakes beyond the realm of petty vandalism and theft and committed a cruel, monstrous act. The carnival was in town with its rides, games, and sideshows and ... Read more
The Pits
The day Captain Kramer, USMC, rescued a lonely pup off the streets in Afghanistan proved the turning point in both their lives. For Kramer it meant the filling of a great void left by the loss of his own lifelong buddy, Rusty; for the pup it meant a whole new identity as Corporal Shadow, a ... Read more
Where Secrets Reside
In the troglodyte village of Reynier, France, gendarme captain, Pascal Goddard, has his hands full, trying to identify the toddler who was abandoned on the hillside outside of town and figuring out who killed the girl’s mother and left her in one of the caves. The first suspect is an outsider who moved to Reynier ... Read more
Ten Times Guilty
Bravery or rage? Tossing on the sweat-soaked cot at three in the morning, Tracy felt nothing but anger. She kept seeing Karr, leaning against the cottonwood tree in the park, arms lazily folded as he watched her. The scene repeated over and over like a warped video. He’d even flipped a cocky little salute as ... Read more
Too Cute to Kill
A family Christmas celebration at the Fort Caspar Museum is an unlikely setting for murder, but when a body is found on the grounds, accidental detectives Jake and Emma Rand are plunged into a world of secrets – secrets that will rock their Wyoming city to its core. With the police investigation stalled, they must ... Read more
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Dive into over 40 best-sellers from Nora Roberts, James Patterson, Maya Banks, and more. Just $0.99 to $2.99 today only (7/25).... Read more
2012: The Fifth World
The ancient Maya were wrong. The world didn’t end in 2012. Something happened, though, something which may have started humanity on the path to destruction. The stolen nukes and the presidential kidnapping were bad enough, but the real danger lies not in what was destroyed. The real danger lies in exactly who survived. $0.99 on ... Read more
Trout Fishing For Bodies
Private Detective Roosevelt wants to leave crime behind and go trout fishing. Pea Brain, his snide and not so normal guardian angel tells Roosevelt to go bar hopping – trout fishing could get him killed. But what does Roosevelt catch in the high mountain stream, not a trout, but a naked lady with a bullet ... Read more
Free: Wolves Behind You
Wolves Behind You is the new suspense thriller from California author Carrie Wexford. The Cappallettis, a powerful Mafia family, battle a rival clan for control of L.A.’s dangerous underworld. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Diamonds and Cole
Micheal Maxwell has found a niche in the mystery suspense genre that gives a readers an every man hero, short on vices, long on compassion, and a sense of fair play. The Cole Sage series departs from the usual, heavily sexual, profanity laced norm and gives readers a character driven, story, with twists, turns, and ... Read more
Free: Corner Blitz
It’s a missing person’s case, but it’s not just any person. The daughter of a prominent politician is gone, and it’s right in the middle of a tight re-election battle. The investigation must be kept quiet. But when the case evolves into murder, everything changes and a scenario emerges where things are just not what ... Read more
A Secondhand Life
After receiving a heart transplant from a young murder victim, Mia Germaine is plagued by horrifying nightmares. Are they clues to solving a murder case, or grim phantasms leading her further into danger? More than a page-turning thriller, “A Secondhand Life” weaves a tale of second chances and reclaimed dreams as this taut, refreshing story ... Read more
The Pact
What really happened to Tom Kelly? Navy Commander Celia Kelly is a strong woman of faith and valor who lost her husband. As she seeks to unravel the mystery of his disappearance, a Navy SEAL mission sucks her into murder and conspiracy. Is the conspiracy related to Tom Kelly’s disappearance? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Mind If I Come In (Mystery)
A vampire, a psychic, and a turtle–oh my! Book 1 in the Kat Parker cozy mystery series. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free Mystery: Scraps of Paper
A widow starts a new life in a small quaint town full of quirky characters and in renovating her new home finds “scraps of paper” that make her suspect two children and a woman went missing from the house…30 years ago. Are they just missing or were they murdered? In trying to solve the mystery ... Read more
Free: Hometown Secrets (Linda Darby Mystery)
“I sat down yesterday and read Hometown Secrets from cover to cover. I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN!!! David Bishop has this gift of intertwining the characters, developing seemingly simple people into complex characters and he keeps you guessing as to who’s doing what, with whom, in a small town.” — Customer Review. Free on ... Read more
Free: Play Dead (Allie Babcock Mystery)
After Allie Babcock sets up shop in Boulder, her first client is a despondent collie whose previous owner apparently took her own life. But Allie soon suspects murder–and figures her canine client was a witness to the crime. Allie is quickly on the case when a second murder stops her investigation. Before making another move, ... Read more
The Origin of Dracula
“The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.” —William Faulkner Between mourning the recent loss of his wife and trying to raise his young son alone, librarian John Grant is barely surviving. And then he receives an anonymous letter promising a terrible revenge—retribution for a childhood sin John had thought long forgotten. The threat couldn’t ... Read more
Murder in Calico Gold
Kelly and her husband, Sheriff Mike, take a trip to the small town of Calico Gold, California, after his elderly Aunt Agnes calls and tells him she needs his help and expertise. The day after Mike finds out Aunt Agnes has made him the sole beneficiary of her large estate, including the Robertson Ranch and ... Read more
Free Thriller: DELIVERANCE
John Marshall is an ex-SAS soldier. He hears that his ex-girlfriend Sarah is in danger. He wastes no time getting to her. He doesn’t know, however, that he is being followed by an armed trafficking ring, and it is a race against time to get to her. Marshall must use all of his training to ... Read more
WASHINGTON DC: The Sadir Affair
FINDING OUT THE TRUTH AND MAKING JUSTICE, COULD BE MORE THAN A CHALLENGE WHEN THE TRUTH IS FABRICATED BY A MIND AS CALCULATIVE AND RUTHLESS AS THE PUPPETEER’S Secrecy, traps and manipulation at a secret service level are used to cover the shooting of Talya Kartz, and on the other hand to help the man ... Read more
The Vesuvius Isotope
From the ancient ruins beneath Mount Vesuvius, a two-thousand-year-old document has emerged. It is the only text ever attributed to the ambitious, inquisitive, and cryptic last pharaoh of Egypt… When her Nobel laureate husband is murdered, biologist Katrina Stone can no longer ignore the secrecy that increasingly crept into his recent behavior. Her search for ... Read more
The Ballad of John Walker
What happens to individual rights in a society that is overrun by surveillance? What happens when the power of a security state turns itself inward toward its own citizenry? The Ballad of John Walker is a clarion call for the independent thinker. If everything you had was stripped away, are you really who you think ... Read more
Murder at Cold Creek College
When Sheridan’s colleague is murdered she is assigned to assist the detective and her close friend becomes the prime suspect. As she draws connections between the people in Adam’s life, she realizes many women have a strong motive for murder and her involvement makes her a target. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
A View to Die For
100,000 readers can’t be wrong. That’s how many people have downloaded A View to Die For. Houston’s best selling cozy mystery is about an outsourced software engineer and his dog who try to prove his sister has been wrongly accused of murder. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Saving Babe Ruth
Based on a true story, when burnt-out lawyer and Civil War buff David Thompson learns that the town’s baseball league is about to fold, he gets in way over his head. He becomes torn between saving the league for his son, Christy, along with Christy’s friends and saving his marriage to his wife, Annie. If ... Read more
Arctic Wargame
Arctic Wargame is the first book in the wildly popular Justin Hall spy thriller series, hitting Amazon’s Best Sellers lists in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Canadian Intelligence Service Agent Justin Hall—combat-hardened in operations throughout Northern Africa—has been demoted after a botched mission in Libya. When two foreign icebreakers appear in Canadian Arctic waters, Justin volunteers ... Read more
Free: Flirting With Fire
Massage therapist Liz Williams lives by one rule: never date a client. Look, touch, but don’t fall in love. Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Gateway Through Which They Came
Seventeen-year-old Aiden Ortiz is a Gateway for the dead, but his gift is tested when the Dark Priest threatens to summon his demon brethren from hell. In this first installment of the Gateway series, Aiden will,soon discover where his loyalty truly lies–with the Light of which he was born, or the Darkness that threatens to ... Read more
Free: The Interrogation
What would you do if you were a secret intelligence operative and you were kidnapped by terrorists in Libya? In The Interrogation, see how Justin Hall, the best field agent of the Canadian Intelligence Service, handles this deadly situation. Free on Kindle and iBooks.... Read more
Free: Langston’s Daughters
Kate, Jenny, and Mandy. Langston Lockwood’s daughters. His tyranny drove them away. His suicide draws them home. They inherit his land, his millions, and his mysteries. Meet the women of the Rocking L and the men who come into their lives. Together, they begin the journey to discover the truth about The Lockwood Legacy. From ... Read more
Free: Dog Days of Karma
In search of a detective agency, Constance Twist storms into the Carr—Maah Consulting Agency. Celeste Carr explains that Carr—Maah performs human resources consulting, not private detective work. When Ericka Maah orders Celeste to take Constance’s case, Celeste wonders if her business partner has slipped off the edge of eccentric and into the abyss of the ... Read more
south of good
Forced out of the DEA after twenty years, Hardin Steel , Stainless to his close friends, has managed to get himself elected Sheriff of Cameron County, Texas. Twice divorced, with a bit of a drinking problem, he’s now dating Rory Roughton, a fiery sixth-generation Texan who’s as rich as she is beautiful—and hell-bent on keeping ... Read more
Stake-Out (Paranormal Detectives Book 1)
When a Chicago PD detectives encounters a vampire while on stakeout, his life changes forever. Two years after being kicked off the police force, the same vampire is back again, rampaging Chicago. Det. Danny Mancini is contacted by the beautiful and mysterious Angelica Cross to join the Paranormal Investigative Division of the FBI to track ... Read more
High Seas Honeymoon (Agnes Barton Senior Sleuths Mystery)
“I just can’t get enough of this series. Agnes and Eleanor are the best senior sleuths. If you haven’t read this series,I highly recommend you do.” –Customer Review. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
