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!
DARKLANDS PARANOMAL (The Chronicles)
This book is like no other containing 90 QR codes to scan to hear real spirits speak right off the pages! A few bonus videos, one of a bound possessed clown forced to make a toy spin! Some of the things ghosts say will shock you- Use earbuds or headphones to isolate the voices as ... Read more
New Australia
America has annexed Greenland as our 51st state, only to drill for oil in its vast Arctic reserves. To do so inexpensively, polarizing President Franklin Hale establishes a prison camp for free prisoner labor. David Parnell has a thriving business and devoted family but is sent to the camp–New Australia–under false pretenses. Can he survive ... Read more
Freddy Ferguson
From Book 1: A mysterious woman fleeing an unknown terror boards the wrong plane at San Francisco International and disappears into the heart of the country. Freddy Ferguson, a troubled detective with a violent past, believes she’s the last living witness to a crime that has captivated the nation. Sifting through the wreckage of her ... Read more
The Hiding Girl (The Emily Calby Series Book 1)
Twelve-year-old Emily Calby was a good girl from a good family in rural Georgia. She loved softball, her little sister, and looking up words to get her allowance. Then two men came and murdered her family. Only the killers know she escaped. On the run, surviving by wits and instinct, she meets an unlikely mentor ... Read more
Year of the Seahorse
The name is Tong. James Tong. 008. A Silicon Valley billionaire wants CRISPR seahorses out of Beijing’s Hospital 503. Fee: sixty-six million. The cunning rabbit keeps three warrens. Misaki Tanaka has other ideas. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Grid Zero
Plunged into a prolonged blackout by back-to-back hurricanes, America’s East Coast suffers sweltering heat, lack of food, and the beginnings of civil unrest. As Empire Energy struggles to repair its storm-damaged grid, it discovers a bigger problem: sophisticated malware has been ravaging its internal control network for weeks. As power returns, the human toll of ... Read more
The Debt
‘A muscular, suspenseful crime thriller about consequence and the long shadow of obligation.’ BestThrillers.comMichael Kramer, an eighteen-year-old talented martial artist, is blamed for the accidental death of his best friend James Basset. Sentenced to five years for involuntary manslaughter, Michael is forced to navigate a prison system where race dictates every opportunity and every threat. ... Read more
Blood Red Deceit
Forensic expert Ridge Warner saves his fiancée’s life, but the blood that keeps her alive exposes a secret that turns their wedding countdown deadly. In Woodland Park, Colorado, a murdered pastor, a desecrated church, and a hidden explosive pull Ridge into a case where every answer leads deeper into betrayal. Ridge can read evidence. The ... Read more
Free: Murder and Pancakes
FREE – Stand-alone or in the series, you’ll love this cozy mystery. Small-town murder with amateur sleuths you can’t get enough of. Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Collapse Code
When an EMP plunges Charleston into silence, paramedic Lisa fights to save lives as the city unravels. With Dylan at her side, every step toward her family’s farm means facing looters, violence, and impossible choices. Survival demands more than skill, it demands sacrifice. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Finding Brody
Violet visits the sticky heat of the South to help her best friend find her missing husband. Her last case involved missing ChapStick, but she’s all Fiona has, since the sheriff abandoned the case. However, as the clues add up, she realizes everyone is a suspect, including her own friend. Perfect for fans of small-town ... Read more
An Eternity to Burn in Hell
An Eternity to Burn in Hell is a psychological revenge thriller centered on women who have survived trauma, abuse, addiction, and the brutal realities of sex work, only to find themselves hunted by a predator determined to drag their buried past back into the light. As a killer driven by rage, righteousness, and the Devil ... Read more
The Empty-nesters Cozy Mystery series
A clean, humorous cozy mystery series featuring a sharp-witted amateur sleuth, small-town secrets, and birding adventures gone wrong. When widow Peg Howard starts a birding group in Pensacola to cope with empty-nest syndrome, she doesn’t expect to find herself solving murders. But with a keen eye for detail and plenty of time on her hands, ... Read more
Hornet’s Nest
Lieutenant Virginia Hornet is on a suicide mission to save a love she thought she had left in her past in this tense, breakneck thriller by Army veteran and award-winning author Victoria Montes. Ginny Hornet thought the hardest part of her past was behind her—until a murder case lands on her desk and pulls her ... Read more
91 Seconds
From the world of the #1 Amazon Urban Fiction hit The Monster Besides the Silence comes the newest installment in the Wolf Gospel Universe: a hard, fast, pressure-loaded street novel about hunger, loyalty, fear, and the deadly math of bad decisions made too quickly. 91 Seconds follows Augustus “Ock B” Jenkins, a man pushing forty ... Read more
Grid Burn
A massive EMP plunges Los Angeles into chaos. Trapped in a penthouse, Cassy must use her military training to protect her sister and survive fires, looters, and a city collapsing into darkness. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Guardian
“Nevada Guardian, April Parks, pleaded guilty to 6 felony charges, including the exploitation of an older person, theft, and perjury, and was sentenced to 16 to 40 years.”– KNTV The Guardian is gripping fiction — inspired by crimes against the elderly, which occurred and are occurring in the U.S. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Magical Mystery Book Club: Box Set #1-3
A cozy mystery adventure with an enchanted library and a clever talking cat! 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 ... Read more
I Choose Violence
Every year, thousands of children disappear into networks that exist only because powerful people protect them — politicians, judges, investigators quietly told to look elsewhere. Sixty-seven pages of one such ledger fall into the hands of three people the system has already failed: a soldier whose niece was on the list, a quiet European who ... Read more
Free: Tune Up (Detective Qigiq Book 2)
Two seemingly unconnected incidents—a missing lawyer and an elderly hit-and-run victim—lead Qigiq and Dreeson to a vintage motorcycle café, a million-dollar yacht, a cliffside confrontation, and a musician named Mylin. Young. Attractive. And illegal. “Once again the author succeeds in spinning his story so well that readers can’t help but keep turning the pages to ... Read more
Free: The Serpent’s Bridge
Mexican immigrants are being murdered by a serial killer across Los Angeles, and Detective Anaya Nazario is determined to stop it. As the body count rises, she uncovers a disturbing pattern linking the victims and realizes the killer is targeting people the system ignores. Forced to work with FBI Agent Blake Huxley, Nazario races to ... Read more
Free: A Fiery End (A DI Fiona Williams Mystery): Detective Mystery
Time to discover a brilliantly twisty mystery series. A tradesman is set alight in his vehicle on an isolated road. His daughter is missing. And time is running out. “I was on the edge of my seat and couldn’t read fast enough.”“Totally riveting.”“Superb murder mystery and police procedural.” DI Fiona Williams is a driven detective ... Read more
The Second Law: Lynn Dayton Thriller #3
*Quarterfinalist, mysteries and thrillers, The BookLife Prize, 2019 *First Place Award, Best International Thriller, Texas Authors, 2019 *Finalist, Action/Adventure category, National Indie Excellence Awards, 2020 *Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition, 2023. “Spirited characters, both good and bad, populate this engaging, often surprising thriller.”—Kirkus Reviews “9.5/10.0: plot engages from the first page . . . tension ... Read more
A Touch of Deceit
The Gripping Thriller That Launched The Award-Winning, Bestselling Series! FBI agent Nick Bracco can’t stop a Kurdish terrorist from firing missiles at random homes across the country. The police can’t stand watch over every household, so Bracco recruits his cousin Tommy to help track down this terrorist. Tommy is in the Mafia. Oh yeah, it ... Read more
Black Velvet
Theo Holmes, a direct descendant of Sherlock, is called in by the San Diego and Las Vegas police departments when eerily similar homicides of the homeless occur in each city. Assisted by Delaney Watson and PAM, a beautiful AI robot, Holmes and his team tackle DNA evidence that contradicts eye witness statements. There’s also a ... Read more
Frontier Series
Set beneath the vast skies and unforgiving landscapes of Montana, the Frontier Series follows Deputy U.S. Marshal Danny Coogan—a former Afghanistan veteran and Montana Fish and Game officer who keeps finding himself caught between violence, loyalty, and the hard truths buried in rural America. What begins as one man’s search for a quieter life in ... Read more
DARKLANDS PARANORMAL
Not only will you be pulled into some of the most haunted and active places investigated through great storytelling, but this book is also the only one of its kind, containing 90 QR codes to scan as you read through to hear the ghosts/spirits speak right off the pages! There are also a couple of ... Read more
Our Secrets to Keep
Three best friends. A lifetime of secrets. Sahar, Riley, and Jenna have been inseparable since middle school—or so they thought. Now one of them is dead, and the investigation begins exposing affairs, betrayals, and buried lies none of them saw coming. The past they thought was behind them is catching up fast. And the truth ... Read more
Free: Ghost Talker: A Gaslamp Ghost Mystery Volume 1
Between possessions and poltergeists, Elinor speaks with the dead to solve mysteries in this Gaslamp fantasy. Historical Fantasy, ghost mystery with a slow burn romance in a completed series with over 800 reviews. Elinor Chalamet’s talent to speak with the dead may have landed her in the soup. Witty and clever, Elinor uses her mediumship ... Read more
The Long Burn
When an EMP kills the grid on Halloween, Lance Cooper races through a city of fire, fear, and violence to reach the people he loves. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Last Hour
When the power goes out for good, chaos takes over. Evelyn Hart, a surgeon haunted by loss, must survive gangs, violence, and betrayal. With only her skills and courage, she faces a ruthless new world where every choice could mean life or death. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Everhaven
I knew something was wrong the moment they locked the door. What I didn’t know was how far the truth would go to stay buried. When journalist Samantha Watkins moves her great-aunt Nancy into Everhaven Memory Care, she tells herself it’s the right decision. The old Victorian mansion turned care home looks comforting enough—until the ... Read more
Free: The Eternity Code
A forgotten legend. A missing scientist. A discovery that could change humanity forever. When gunmen shatter a quiet weekday morning and abduct archeologist Francisco Andrade from his university, authorities turn to his former protégé, Dr. Nick Randall, who’s thrust into a race that spans continents and centuries. What begins as a desperate rescue mission quickly ... Read more
Terminal Moonlight: A Dick Moonlight PI Thriller
Finalist for the 2026 ITW Thriller Award! When a beautiful TV reporter hires PI Dick Moonlight to protect her from Russian gangsters, he’s pulled into a deadly web of corruption, lies, and murder. With killers closing in and no one to trust, survival becomes his only shot at revenge. Fast, gritty, and packed with twists. ... Read more
The Letter Y Murders
When a brutal killing shatters the peace of Boonsboro, the only clue left behind is a single, chilling symbol: the letter Y. Deputy Travis Steele, a battle-tested lawman with a sharp mind and a mission, is tasked with unraveling the mystery before the killer strikes again. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Paris Protocol
Fame was his cover. Now it’s a death sentence. When CIA agent Brad James undercover as a popstar discovers a plot to overthrow the power structure in the United States, he is abandoned by his superiors and targeted for assassination. Can he stay alive long enough to foil the conspiracy, clear his name, and bring ... Read more
Free: The Ex Who Wouldn’t Die (Charley’s Ghost Book 1)
Book 1, Charley’s Ghost seriesUSA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR When Amanda’s lying, cheating, scam-artist husband, Charley, saves her life in a near-fatal motorcycle accident, she can almost forgive him for dragging his feet on their divorce. Then she discovers he’d been dead for several hours at the time she thought he rescued her. And not just ... Read more
The Westcombe Hall Mysteries
The Westcombe Hall Mysteries is a cozy magical boarding school series set at Westcombe Hall — a traditional girls’ school where polished routines and house rivalries conceal an older, stranger magic. Every bell, portrait, locked corridor, and school tradition hides something the governors would rather not know about. Each book is told entirely through the ... Read more
The Ship of Theseus: When Pieces Change, What Remains?
Dr. Amelia Clarke, a renowned philosopher, is thrown into a whirlwind of personal and professional upheaval as she grapples with the age-old question of identity: If something is gradually replaced, part by part, is it still the same? Tasked with restoring a famous historical ship in a groundbreaking preservation project, Amelia confronts both the physical ... Read more
Neighborhood Watch
She wanted safety. She found a controlled community instead. Your new neighbors are watching. For your own good. I thought moving to Serenity Heights would fix everything. After my divorce, the manicured lawns, smiling neighbors, and promise of safety felt like a fresh start—exactly what I needed to rebuild a broken life. But insomnia has ... Read more
