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 Ledger & the Letter Opener
A fundraiser. A sudden blackout. And a murder no one saw coming. Willie Wilder came to Grandview for a quieter life, not to investigate a body found backstage at the Community Center. But when a simple review of old bookkeeping ends in murder, Willie and her coffee-fueled Queenager friends are pulled back into the kind ... Read more
Free: Glass Half Broken
Annie knows she’s different. A child genius with crippling social anxiety and a compulsion for self-harm, Annie blames herself when her dad runs off. As she matures, her grief is reignited each time someone she cares about mysteriously disappears. When she finally discovers the shocking truth, Annie’s next move could mean life or death. Free ... Read more
The Lies We Inherit: A Novel of Memory and Madness
Elise Scott did not inherit a grieving family. She inherited a machine. Behind the polished walls of Scott wealth lies something colder than scandal and far more dangerous than money: a private architecture of leverage, buried truths, coerced silence, and bloodline rot passed down through generations. What begins as inheritance quickly becomes initiation when Elise ... Read more
A Familiar Problem
When Phoebe Larkin inherits a boarding house for magical familiars, a grumpy raven, and a handwritten note that says “You see things,” she figures the hardest part will be learning the business. Then her first familiar client’s owner disappears, and the cat won’t stop growling at the friendliest person in the room. Two of the ... Read more
No Return Address
When a pet carrier appears on Phoebe Larkin’s porch at four in the morning with a young red fox curled trembling inside, she assumes she’s facing another puzzle from Harrowby Harbor’s quiet community of practitioners. But the fox’s vigilance at the window isn’t grief for a missing owner — it’s fear of the man who’s ... Read more
Free: Falling Into Magic
What if you fell into an enchanted world and met a magical family you never knew you had? Discover the magic beyond the mirror in this unique and fascinating cozy mystery series. ~~~ Nominated for BEST BOOK in the Cozy Escape Awards ~~~ When Hayden was a child, she lost her cat. Adults told her ... Read more
Free: Shifting and Shenanigans
When this club selects a book, magic happens. They are whooshed inside the book and become the main characters as the mystery comes to life. It is exhilarating fun – until they realize they can’t get out until they solve the crime and reach The End. In every book journey they are excited to meet ... Read more
The First Week
After an EMP cripples the grid, Linda and her friends are thrust into a world without power, cars, or communication. As chaos spreads, their only chance of survival lies in a mysterious desert observatory tied to her family’s past. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
EMP Pulse and Ash
One month into the collapse, Rob and his dog, Captain, have lost almost everything, but not their hope. Together, they are fighting their way toward a hidden prepper homestead, a place where life can start again. In the world of EMP survival and post-apocalyptic struggle, hope is the fuel that keeps them alive. $0.99 on ... Read more
Free: Escape to Osprey Cove
An unusual find in the secret compartment of Doug’s new Corvette will change lives forever. Doug and Catherine came from two different worlds—hers was full of privilege and wealth, while his was one of poverty and envy. Their worlds collide. And the result is a spellbinding mystery of love and betrayal, full of twists and ... Read more
The Haunting of Sorrow’s Leap: a Contemporary Gothic Ghost Thriller
Ellen Marx used to talk to the dead—now they’re ghosting her. With her psychic gifts on the fritz, she’s been demoted to hawking discount crystals at third-rate paranormal conventions. But when she inadvertently solves a supernatural challenge at New Jersey’s Hooky Spooky Convention, she catches the eye of the event’s reclusive sponsor: a washed-up horror ... Read more
A Trial of Innocents
A child lost. A secret buried. A trial that will change everything. When a pregnant woman is brutally attacked and left in a coma, a shaken town demands justice—and fast. Police arrest the last person seen with her: a nonverbal special-needs man caught at the scene. To the public, it’s an open-and-shut case. The media ... Read more
These Reincarnators Are Sus! Sleuthing in Another World: Vol. 1 Sinner in the Holy City
Sleuth out the reincarnators. Retrieve their jeweled eyes. Stop this world’s destruction. That’s Ailn’s reluctant mission—except he’s not really Ailn. He’s an impostor: a detective from another world who can’t even remember his own name.”You took my memories, and expect me to do you a favor?””Taking them away was my favor, Mr. Detective. Some endings ... Read more
Kill Switch
The EMP hit at 6:47 AM on a Tuesday. By Wednesday, the first fight broke out at the gas station. By Thursday, the grocery store was picked clean. By Friday, Jenna realized no one was coming to save them. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Lightning: A gripping and action-packed sci-fi thriller
When a genetic experiment at a secret Arizona military lab goes sideways, the research subjects escape. Adam Barnett, an Army major, and woman rancher have gotten wind of the danger. Each holds a piece of the puzzle. Can they put their heads together before it’s too late? Only a remarkably smart dog has the full ... Read more
Dear AI, I Killed Her: 16 Sessions About the Dead Girl in a Blue Dress
A serial killer confesses to an artificial intelligence across sixteen sessions. Chester LaRue is a modern-day serial killer. One night, he gets a call on his mobile from a dead woman telling him to kill his girlfriend. In an attempt to understand why he got this call, he feels compelled to confess his crimes. He ... Read more
Pants on Fire: A Texas Private Investigator Mystery
When poisoned food kills a restaurant customer, PI Iris Raines is hired to find the saboteur. Instead, the trail leads to cartel money, corporate warfare, and a conspiracy someone will kill to protect. Iris has made a career exposing lies—but this time, the truth might just get her dead. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Booked For Murder
Grace Appleton hears every secret in her Turtle Island salon. When a body turns up at the town bookstore, gossip becomes clues. With her cousin Danny in tow, Grace dives into a web of secrets to catch a killer. A charming seaside cozy mystery full of small-town intrigue. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Getting Close
A contract killer who never leaves a trace. A corrupt cop who wants to use him as a weapon. Callan McWard is a hitman with a conscience. He only accepts contracts to eliminate the worst of the worst and sticks to that code with unwavering conviction. He has a reputation for keeping a crime scene ... Read more
Chasing the Chameleon
When a drug cartel gives Dallas defense lawyer Cash McCahill an ultimatum, he must make the choice to betray his client or face death. After a cartel places a bounty on the head of Dallas criminal lawyer Cash McCahill, he hides in plain sight by hiring a surgeon to give him a new face and ... Read more
Twelve Years Gone (A Detective Emily Tizzano Vigilante Justice Thriller Book 1)
Twelve years gone…Sarah Schmidt went out for a hike a month before heading to college on a cross-country scholarship. She never came back. In the twelve years she’s been gone, the local police have done little to help the family, leaving them with the desperate knowledge that Sarah could still be alive, somewhere, somehow… The ... Read more
Secret Sister
What if the person haunting you… had your face? Faye Mathis has spent her life writing bestselling novels about identical twins who solve crimes together. But after she’s diagnosed with early-onset dementia, her world begins to blur around the edges. Then a shocking photograph goes viral. It shows Faye wandering half-naked through the streets in ... Read more
EMP Silent Grid
Her mother prepared for the end of the world. Everyone else prepared for tomorrow. Then the power grid failed. When an EMP plunges the nation into darkness, Megan is stranded eighty miles from her children. The only thing standing between them and a collapsing world is their grandmother, a former spy who spent decades preparing ... Read more
A Touch of Defiance (A Nick Bracco Thriller Book 5)
From Award-Winning author Gary Ponzo comes another thriller ripped right out of today’s headlines! An anti-government party called the Civil Resistance Movement is growing in popularity as tension mounts between police and civilians. The head of the CRM, Leo Frazier, has his own racist agenda which is unknown to his followers. FBI Agent Nick Bracco ... Read more
The Circle In The Snow
When a beloved schoolteacher is found posed in the snow with her mouth filled with ice, the isolated Wyoming town of Frostwood insists it’s a tragic anomaly. Investigator Rowan Pierce knows better. The staging is deliberate. The fear in the victim’s final notes is real. And the deeper he digs, the more the town pushes ... Read more
Free: Mash Up (Detective Qigiq Book 1)
Join Fairbanks native Qigiq and Kandy Dreeson of the SFPD as they’re thrust into the most complex crime of the decade. Mash Up is a riveting ride through cyber-crime, fast cars, sexy women, guns and explosions. “Klingler’s new thriller is a ride into the dark side of computers and comedy…definitely has a Quentin Tarantino-feel to ... Read more
The Last Survivors
They were locked up for a reason. The EMP didn’t care. Now George Cannon, the man who put half of them there, is the only thing between his family and the most dangerous prison break in American history. $4.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Murder By The Book
When crime author Emma Jenkins agrees to swap genres with bestselling romance writer Tom Pearce, it’s supposed to be a publicity stunt—nothing more than a battle of egos played out on air. Emma will write romance. Tom will write crime. Simple! And then a body turns up. As fiction and reality begin to blur, both ... Read more
Slimbies Girl
When the Slimbies outbreak began, the warnings sounded like just another emergency broadcast. A few bad reactions. A precaution. Nothing to fear. But in one small Delaware home, just before Christmas, everything falls apart. Evan brings home a frightened puppy to brighten the holiday, unaware that the world has already begun to die. By morning, ... Read more
Miles from Mercy
They sent the kids to the woods to fix them. Then the EMP hit, and the woods became something else entirely. Harmony has eight troubled teenagers, three days of food, and zero contact with the outside world. The rules don’t apply anymore. The teens know it. She knows it. And whatever is stalking the edges ... Read more
Free: An American Spectacle
Caige’s shocking thriller spotlights hypocrisy and the devastating effects of overturning Roe. “Raw, ruthless, unsettling.” (BookLife). When his wife dies in a back-alley abortion, a vengeful husband turns a politician’s “family values” brand into a livestreamed reckoning. “Impassioned.” (Kirkus) “Riveting. Reflects the violence in American politics. Recommended.” (Midwest Book Review) Free on Kindle.... Read more
Shadowed Doorstep: Book 1 – The Shadowed Files
After fleeing her abusive partner, Steph makes a desperate choice to protect her newborn twins, leaving them on a stranger’s doorstep in rural Australia. But her violent ex isn’t finished with her. As his criminal associates close in, a quiet farmer is thrust into the mix, and a relentless detective begins searching for the missing ... Read more
The Third Estate: Secrets of the Manor
When a brilliant young pilot uncovers a deadly conspiracy, she becomes the next target in a game she never agreed to play. Sophie Allard has spent her life earning her wings at one of the military’s most elite academies. But when her estranged father dies in a mysterious explosion at their family estate, Sophie’s world ... Read more
Dark Winter
When an EMP strike plunges the country into chaos, off-grid homesteader May Bloom must survive a collapsing world and find her missing sister before it’s too late. As panic spreads and systems fail, May’s quiet town becomes ground zero for a disaster no one saw coming. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
To Confront Shadows : Miami DEA Mystery Series – Book Three
When DEA agent Chuck Tiles learns that someone is hunting Leeza Placek, the woman he loves, the case turns personal—and deadly. A violent attack and a staged crash reveal that Leeza’s past holds secrets someone is desperate to keep buried. As Chuck digs deeper, the investigation uncovers old loyalties, unresolved guilt, and a conspiracy that ... Read more
To Catch a Spy
“A worthy sequel to the classic.” — Harlan Coben Estate approved sequel to the novel To Catch a Thief by David Dodge and 1955 Academy Award-winning film by Alfred Hitchcock It’s been a year since John Robie, notorious Riviera jewel thief, proved his innocence by catching a copycat burglar. And it’s been a year since ... Read more
Reap the Whirlwind
A small band of humans escaped death to fight a silicon monster, a super computer that is self-aware. Traveling across America, they seeks the computer’s CPU. But how do you destroy a computer that controls all the other computers in the world as well as law enforcement, military and politics? This is a must read ... Read more
Free: Death Apnea: No Tears For Black Girls: Case Files
When Kiki’s mother dies and is processed as “Jane Doe” despite having ID, investigative journalist Samantha Paul recognizes a deadly pattern: Black women systematically erased by hospitals. A team exposes a century-old pipeline—medical racism hidden behind paperwork. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Ready Left. Ready Right.
When 911 needs 911, they call Rescue Flight. A newborn isn’t breathing. Her mother is bleeding out. A hiker is minutes from death. When Rescue Flight launches, death has a formidable enemy. Back at base, a ruthless administrator could destroy the crew before they land in this gritty medical thriller about the true cost of ... Read more
The Forgotten Ghost of Whispering Woods: A Summer Mystery of Friendship, Secrets, and a Ghost Who Refused to Fade
1968 When summer break begins, five friends set out to build a secret clubhouse deep in Whispering Woods, a place surrounded by rumors of a lingering ghost. What starts as an innocent adventure quickly turns into something far more mysterious when the children discover the ghost is real. The spirit belongs to Pearl, a distant ... Read more
