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!
A River of Lies
When his girlfriend, Jillian Russo, washes up on the shore of the Merrimack River in Essex County, Massachusetts, Carmen Vaughn immediately finds himself the main suspect in her murder investigation. Desperate, he turns to his college professor and former criminal prosecutor, Timothy Pickering, for help clearing his name and figuring out what really happened. Against ... Read more
DEVIL’S DAWN: A Gripping Serial Killer Thriller (A Grant & Daniels Trilogy Book 2)
Sarah Latham is the epitome of an all-American sweetheart. She’s a cheerleader with good grades, a judge for a father, a homemaker for a mother, and a reputation that makes everyone else look like devils. But after being kidnapped, something triggered inside Sarah and she’s no longer made of sugar and spice. Acting Chief of ... Read more
Free: The Cure
Kat Beckman is a survivor. A harrowing IED attack in Afghanistan has left Kat with debilitating PTSD even though everything else in her life seems normal. It’s not something she talks about. Never. The secrets from her time overseas have stayed there. It’s better that way… or at least she thinks so. One day, ... Read more
A Grave Misunderstanding: A Simon Grave Mystery
Who is/are the killer(s)? How did he/she/they get out of the locked room with the trophy, kill the victim, and return unnoticed by others in the room? These and other questions, including the limits of logic and the meaning of life, are posed and perhaps even answered in this quirky, near-future mystery. Yes, there are ... Read more
Buried in My Past
She’s desperate to stop the panic attacks. But the truth won’t set her free… Jamie Kendal sees life through the bottom of a bottle. After surviving assault and betrayal, she is forced back to her hometown to care for her mother. Not long after her return, she’s plagued by terrifying slivers of memories from the ... Read more
Free: Unintended Target
By USAT bestselling author D.L. Wood: Unsuspecting photographer Chloe McConnaughey is hunted across the Caribbean after her computer-hacking brother makes her the only link to stolen information killers are desperate to recover. Her only ally is Jack, a mysterious stranger who is as dangerous as he is charming. Is he her savior or part of ... Read more
Free: George Ross: Building the Regulators
This book follows George Ross from his first days on his own as a young adult, through his struggles building the bike club that he had always dreamed of running. As a successful businessman and entrepreneur that he becomes, George sets an example for Jackson Traynor, Billy Jennings, Don Ferguson, and the other boys who ... Read more
Free: A Simple Kill
Emily Wyatt wants to save the world. Or at least take some seriously bad guys down. But with a chip on her shoulder and betrayal in her past, she might be her own worst enemy. Fresh from military life, she’s haunted by the loss of her hero father who she looked up to all her ... Read more
Murder at the Bingo Hall
Bingo can be deadly. When Priscilla Hatfield slumps over dead, just as she’s about to yell “bingo,” her two best friends and bingo buddies suspect she’s been murdered. When the police confirm their suspicions, these two quirky amateur sleuths jump into action. Can these feisty bingo-dabbing seniors find the killer before they become the next ... Read more
Across a Dark River in Palermo
Author Domenic Marinelli’s latest novel introduces us to Henry O’Shaughnessy as he takes a trip to Palermo, Italy and uncovers quite the gruesome details about his new vacation spot. What he finds there is likely to change him and get him to recall the events and cases that shaped him as a cop and now ... Read more
All In
Jim Ericssen, a whitehat (mostly) hacker, loses his anonymous, loner lifestyle when he crosses swords with a powerful, alien artificial intelligence burrowed deep into the internet. To get his life back, he must work with the government to defeat it and save humanity. $4.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Escape to Osprey Cove
What Doug finds in the secret compartment of his new red Corvette will forever change both his and Catherine’s life. Doug and Catherine come from two different worlds. Catherine’s world is one of privilege and wealth. Doug grew up dirt poor and full of envy of others who had the things that he wanted but ... Read more
Free: Tapas, Carrot Cake and a Corpse
What happens when small-town murder meets a big-hearted cafe owner? St Eves is a town where residents leave their doors open all day so that neighbours can pop in for a cup of tea and a chat. No one’s ever too busy for a cup of tea and a chat in St Eves. But when ... Read more
Free: Goliath
In 1931, during its maiden voyage, the British Airship Goliath mysteriously disappears without a trace. Hidden deep inside is a secret that could change the world. Present day, in The Philippines, an attempted kidnapping draws historian Jennifer March and former soldier Ryan Mitchell into a deadly race to find the Goliath before a mysterious figure ... Read more
Lies in Bone
Told by a whip-smart girl named Frank, the award-winning novel, LIES IN BONE is fueled by family secrets involving love, murder, and the truths worth lying for. In the face of her worst fears, Frank must uncover her family’s dark past if she wants to keep her sister Boots from the hands of The State. ... Read more
Free: How to Fake an Irish Wake
It’s been a rough year for 26-year-old Mags Murray. First she learns that her dad isn’t her biological father, a secret her mother took to her grave three years earlier. Then her beloved Irish grandmother passes away at Christmas while Mags is visiting her from the States. Now Mags must host her grandmother’s wake and ... Read more
Crush
Many romantic books are made for people longing for unconditional love and a happy ending. But there is only one written for single people stating that dating and finding the One isn’t that simple. On the other hand, that doesn’t mean all this searching can’t be a lot of fun, though. Part of this ... Read more
Find Me in the Dark
The daughter of a notorious serial killer, turned homicide detective, hunts a killer in a picturesque small town in upstate New York. As Harlow begins to piece together fragments of evidence in the town, another female student is found in the thawing snow and Harlow knows that she is hunting a twisted serial killer. With ... Read more
Free: Finding You
Blair has a deadline. A scary one. Track down and hand over a magical mystery object she has never seen before and doesn’t know a single thing about… or face the might of the town’s Supernatural Mafia! Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Ferret
LDS elder Louie Kimble is going into witness protection. After surgery to fix an unfortunate resemblance to a domesticated animal, he is given a new name and history and relocated to South Jersey. Then one bright Saturday morning, there is a knock on his front door. His visitor will bring back his past, and change ... Read more
Dolphin Bay Cozy Mysteries Boxed Set 2
A heartwarming cozy mystery series about family, friendship and a crusade for justice. KINDLE UNLIMITED – THREE COZY MYSTERIES + CUPCAKE RECIPES + EXCLUSIVE BONUS CONTENT Recently widowed Anna Butler has finally realized her lifelong dream of opening a cafe. She may even have found love. But the local mayor is still on the warpath ... Read more
Deadly Games
A serial killer is playing deadly games with local students… and the only prize is murder in this thrilling British crime novel starring DCI Whitney Walker and Dr. Georgina Cavendish. Deadly Games is book 1 of a 12-book series. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Reluctant Coroner
Blood is thicker than oil–until murder is involved. Fenway Stevenson doesn’t want to return to the coastal town where her estranged father is practically king. But the death of her mother draws her back home–and the murder of the county coroner draws her into a deepening conspiracy. As the body count rises and all signs ... Read more
Free: Innocence Taken
Two dead girls, another one missing, and a secret that will rip a tight-knit community apart. As Lt. Damien Kaine searches for a sadistic killer, a disturbing pattern emerges. The more he digs into the community’s history, the more missing girls he finds. The case takes a frightful turn, and what he uncovers will haunt ... Read more
The Silver Lake Murder
Blake Rivers and his girlfriend Rose left Silver Lake for New Orleans a few years ago, he swore he would never come back. Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans has caused a separation between Blake and Rose. He has been looking for her in New Orleans for months. He knows it’s a long shot but thinks ... Read more
I Am Justice
Introducing Justice Winters, an amateur detective juggling secrets, friends, and danger in the tradition of Veronica Mars. Justice Winters is doing her best to live like an ordinary college student, keeping all her secrets—past and present—buried deep. Even Cadence, the friend she calls “sister,” doesn’t know how Justice earns the cash to cover rent, much ... Read more
Cold Iron
She feels frozen in place. Until a pair of prison escapees descends on her hometown… If you like chilling secrets, desperate searches, and snowbound investigations, then you’ll love Alex Blakely’s icy page-turner. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Woman in the Waves: A Driftwood Mystery
When he was helpless to prevent a young woman in a white gown from being swept out to sea, he could imagine nothing more horrible–until he found a severed arm on the beach with a two-carat diamond ring on the fourth finger. Free on Kindle.... Read more
MIDNIGHT SUN: An Alaskan Romantic Suspense (A Grant & Daniels Trilogy Book 1)
Wyatt, Alaska is a place of family, beauty, and unspeakable tragedy. A couple of years after Aaron Grant lost his wife and daughter in a fire, one of his daughter’s best friends, Sarah, is kidnapped. After spending the last two years as the town drunk, he reluctantly investigates the kidnapping along with the ambitious FBI ... Read more
Soldiers of Freedom
SOLDIERS OF FREEDOM is the true story of the 1944-1945 War in Western Europe and the final Allied struggle to conquer Nazi Germany. The story is told through the eyes of William McBurney, a tank gunner in the 761st Tank Battalion, the first African-American tank unit in U.S. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
A Fiery End (A DI Fiona Williams Mystery) by Diana J Febry
Driving home late at night, DI Fiona Williams comes across a vehicle engulfed in flames. The driver is at the wheel, oblivious to the inferno surrounding him. There is no explanation for why the vehicle was on the road or why the quiet tradesman was murdered in such a macabre way. The only witness to ... Read more
Blood of Like Souls (A Julie Madigan Thriller Book 1)
Julie Madigan’s career with the New Mexico State Police ended in the puddle of blood on the floor when she survived having her throat cut. But a year of recovery left her desperate to hide the scars and to escape her past. Blood of Like Souls is the first novel in a medical and psychological ... Read more
Offenbunker
The Russians have never stopped challenging the US as the dominant world power. Deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains, during the Cold War, the United States constructed a top-secret bunker housing a ballistic missile. The CIA, U.S. military intelligence, spies, double agents, the KGB, Stasi secret police, and assassins engaged in a dangerous contest of ... Read more
Immortality: This is Probably a Novel
If a stranger said to you, “Let me take you to the world’s best kept secret,” would you go? Chester was not given the choice and he’d much rather be with Kate, the woman he loves and has left behind. In fear of his life, he is hiding in a remote cabin in New Zealand, ... Read more
Free: Maniacal
Sleepy little North Bend just woke up. The newly promoted Sergeant Jade Monroe, and her partner, Detective Jack Steele, have just been informed of an unidentified male body found at a local lake. The town is in an uproar. The victim was nearly decapitated, and murder simply doesn’t happen in North Bend. As more bodies ... Read more
Secrets of the Chimes
The unsolved murder of New England Professor Jackson Lawrence in the venerable Hendley Library draws the attention of Lawrence’s replacement, untenured professor Jeremy Nichols, who seeks more specialized academic clues to solve the mystery and whose own life, past and present, is filled with complications, including his involvement with the unhappily married Elizabeth Ellertson and ... Read more
The Patriot Oath
AND HE THOUGHT BEING IN THE MARINES WAS TOUGH … After twenty-four years, Special Forces legend Josh Kavanagh has retired from the military. But now that he’s home, he’s finding that everyone has a different understanding of his motivations, and realizes that there are some wounds no amount of time can heal. Josh’s traumatized sister, ... Read more
Contempt
After spending five years in jail for a murder he didn’t commit, lawyer Thane Banning agrees to take on a case defending a former inmate against the same DA who put Thane behind bars. The last time he played by the rules in court, he landed on death row. This time he’ll have to break ... Read more
Free: Fire and Rain
“Casey Jones joins the ranks of smart and gutsy heroines… Don’t miss her.” —Janet Evanovich Casey Jones is a big-hearted, smart-mouthed PI whose dirt-poor Florida upbringing and a short stint in prison has left her few illusions about life. Now an unlicensed PI in North Carolina, she’s started a new life. But when a job ... Read more
Free: A Suspicious Suicide
Mr. Sami Khan, a private detective, starts living in a haunted house from where a girl committed suicide recently. Kate, a mechanical engineer committed suicide because of being mentally unstable upon living here. Khan, a man of science and truth, takes upon the case, for not believing ghosts. Khan starts taking rarified air as he ... Read more
