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!

Free: Who Shall Live

Carolyn Geduld

Four-year-old Eva is abducted by her grandmother from a Jewish Community in Indiana and raised in the forest. As an adult, she becomes “First Woman,” leader of the Woodland Cooperative, a haven for those escaping the pandemic—including the handsome schemer, Larry. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: The Broken Kingdom Book 1: The Scorching Desert

Brysen Taylor

A group of Exiles enact war against their government to save their fellow Citizens from horrible experimentation. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Blood in the Bayou

C.M. Sutter

On her first assignment since her promotion to SSA status in the Serial Crimes Unit of the FBI, Jade Monroe and her new partner, Lorenzo DeLeon, are tasked to southern Louisiana, where disturbing discoveries have been made. Human bones have been found in numerous sites deep in bayou country, and the locals aren’t too excited ... Read more

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Half-told Truths

Amy O Lewis

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Killer in the Photo

Annette Mark

Defying a direct order, undercover British NCA agent Kate St George, tracks down her best friend’s killer, only to uncover a sinister terror plot with far-reaching consequences for Britain and Thailand. With time running out, Kate devises a clever but risky plan to neutralize the killer. She puts her body on the line but discovers ... Read more

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Husband for Rent

Kristina Gallo

Viktorija is working in an office sponsored by Government and helps migrants with asylum applications. Her ex-husband Boris tries to maintain their connection after the divorce, and she wishes to be rid of him. While on her lunch break, Viktorija meets Jamal, a waiter who is a migrant from Algeria, and befriends him. Jamal lives ... Read more

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Free: A Face in the Night

Ray Kessler

In his remarkable debut novel, Ray Kessler takes the reader on a roller coaster ride through recent German history. He masterfully moves between past and present timelines, weaving fictitious events with historical facts. Kessler creates a tale of mystery, intrigue, and suspense with a possible paranormal twist. Set in Berlin in 2000 and during the ... Read more

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Shifting and Shenanigans: Magical Mystery Book Club Book 1

Elizabeth Pantley

Paige and her joyful Aunt Glo have learned that the home they inherited comes with a magical library. They put together a book club group of loveable kooks to explore the magic. They’ve recovered from their first book journey, and they all agree on their next book which takes place on a cruise ship bound ... Read more

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The Sign of Death

Callie Hutton

USA Today bestselling author Callie Hutton returns with her second Victorian Book Club mystery, in which Lady Amy and Lord William sleuth the death of a teetotaler who took a fatal dunk in the drink. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Firefall

JD Lasica

What happens when a teen hacker uncovers a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of the White House? Covert ops specialist Kaden Baker and 16-year-old Scorpion take on powerful forces who will stop at nothing to prevent them from revealing the truth. Will they be in time to stop a doomsday weapon before it’s unleashed ... Read more

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Murder in the Atchafalaya

Jim Riley

Author Riley does a first-rate job of steeping the reader in the milieu of South Louisiana and Cajun mores. From murders at mudbug fests to menacing mosquito swarms to monumentally malevolent snake pits, he puts the heat and humidity on every page. He’s also adept at weaving a spider-webbed plot that is both intricate and ... Read more

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Free: The Lamb

J.E. Clarkson

When city detective Kate Monroe endures a bitter break up, her only option is to relocate back up north to the town of her birth, Barnsworth. She soon finds that her detecting skills are in demand, as a mysterious serial killer stalks Barnsworth’s streets seemingly picking victims at random. Who is this faceless killer and ... Read more

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Free: Miss. A and Johnny’s European Escapade LONDON: Femme Fatale Rescue Diaries

Silver Vixen

Femme Fatale is admired and despised simultaneously, and so are average middle-class dads. Finally, Johnny had peace and stability in his life; wife, kids, and even God on his side. However, when his charitable work fell into the hands of criminals, it all devolved. He was a wanted man, his family disgraced and nothing up ... Read more

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The Practical Navigator

Chris Crowley

From the decks of the world’s finest yachts to the beds and boardrooms of some of the most powerful people in America to an electrifying courtroom trial in a dying coastal town, The Practical Navigator steers a course through its own labyrinth . . . a whirlpool of obsessive sexuality, murder, and despair. $7.99 on ... Read more

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Free: Rose Hill Mystery Series Three-Book Collection: Books 1-3

Pamela Grandstaff

Rose Hill has one traffic light, one patrol car, and one cold-blooded killer. When rich and rotten Theo Eldridge is murdered, Police Chief Scott Gordon has a town full of suspects and the unrequited love of his life, Maggie Fitzpatrick, meddling in the investigation. If you like cozy mysteries with romance and humor, you will ... Read more

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Evil Follows

Lynn Stout

It should have perished in the fire. Instead, she’s being stalked by evil. Anna still suffers from the traumas of her childhood. So she takes solace from fond memories of an imaginary friend who helped guard her mind from the horrors. But when a worried voice whispers increasingly persistent warnings in her head, she fears ... Read more

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Free: The Shaman’s Gift

Peggy Overbeck

Emily Henderson walks out of the West End Steak House and begins a journey that destroys her marriage, leaves her teetering on the brink of insanity, and may well cost her life. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Hill of Secrets

Michal Hartstein

Dark secrets are revealed in a quiet Israeli suburb after the bodies of one family are found. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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The Guardian

Peter Ralph

“Private, professional Nevada Guardian, April Parks, pleaded guilty to six felony charges including the exploitation of an older person, theft, and perjury”– Darcy Spears, KNTV, 5 November 2018. Parks was imprisoned for 16 to 40 years. The Guardian is a work of fiction inspired by real-life events. Its genesis is crimes against the elderly, that ... Read more

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Apocalypse (The Harry Starke Novels Book 13)

Blair Howard

An elite Iranian military unit. A missing tactical nuclear weapon. An aging Vietnam vet with a taste for violence. It began when an FBI informant was brutally gunned down outside a soccer stadium. A tactical nuclear weapon has gone missing somewhere in the Middle East and is thought to have been smuggled into the United ... Read more

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MIDNIGHT SUN: An Alaskan Romantic Suspense (A Grant & Daniels Trilogy Book 1)

Charlotte Raine

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

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Monroe Doctrine: Volume I

James Rosone & Miranda Watson

It was called Jade Dragon……and it threatened to destroy the West. Was an attack on the U.S. imminent? In a lab deep in the heart of China, a brilliant engineer had a breakthrough. It was the most powerful AI ever created. Ma Young believed the Jade Dragon could solve the world’s most dire challenges. There ... Read more

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Free: Run For Your Life

C. M. Sutter

With the weekend right around the corner, Homicide Detective Mitch Cannon is looking forward to Saturday night. It isn’t often he has a date, and this one will be particularly interesting. His new friend Liza is beautiful, edgy, outspoken, and somewhat odd. But Mitch’s usual Friday-morning phone call to his mom sets the wheels in ... Read more

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Arbitrary and Capricious

Jim Lively

Retired attorney, Sanders Pierce would rather spend his time painting in his art gallery, but when a former colleague, now general counsel of a major information technology asks him to investigate an improper disclosure of client information, he cannot resist. He insists he will abide by the standard of law, which could expose the firm ... Read more

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Free: THE RIDDLE OF THE DUNES

James Andrew

A woman is killed near the beach. There is little evidence. But the crime bears the hallmarks of several similar murders some time ago. The trouble is that the man supposedly responsible was sent to the gallows… Set in the aftermath of the First World War, THE RIDDLE OF THE DUNES is an intriguing murder ... Read more

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Free: When the Pages Burn: Part 1 – Inheritance

Werner Pool

Ethan can make people forget…for the right price of course. The catch is, he is slowly losing his own memories. After a botched job, Ethan is on the run with a young woman named Skylar. As they find themselves in a deepening hole of secrets, cover-ups, assassins and powerful enemies, Ethan and Skylar will have ... Read more

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Evie Parker Lady Sleuth Mysteries Books 1 & 2: 1920s Historical Cozy Mysteries: House Party Murder Rap & Murder at the Tea Party

Sonia Parin

Lighthearted 1920s cozy mysteries with a cast of unique and quirky characters tackling mysteries in country estates, villages, and the bright lights of the roaring twenties. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Philanthropists Series

Mary Alford

  From USA Today bestselling Author Mary Alford comes The Champion. Dr. Aaron Carson’s once promising career as chief of surgery has gone up in flames because the mistakes of his past remind him of the lives he’s failed to save. First his best friend in Afghanistan, and then his wife. Running away from his ... Read more

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A Spirited Vengeance

Clare Lockhart

A stand-alone paranormal, cozy mystery with twists you won’t see coming! An OCD twin from a parallel universe, a meddling ghost, and a desperate plea for help means Quinn has her hands full. When a friend shows up with a mysterious man and a vow to leave her abhorrent husband, Quinn must decide how far ... Read more

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Lies We Never See

Michael Lindley

The Amazon #1 bestselling “Hanna and Alex” series starts here with this twisting and emotional saga of love, betrayal, murder and hardfought deliverance set in the Low Country of South Carolina. Charleston attorney Hanna Walsh finds herself facing down a dangerous stranger when her husband is murdered and she’s suspected of hiding millions in stolen ... Read more

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Celtic Force: a novel (The Celtic Force Series Book 1)

Tony Kennedy

The year is 1964, and the Irish Republican Movement is actively participating in guerrilla warfare with British forces and the government, manipulating politicians in Ireland, the United States, and Australia into supporting their cause. Nothing is off-limits. The vast tentacles of the Irish involvement move from Dublin through time to Northern Ireland, England, the United ... Read more

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Dogs, Dalliances, and Death

Sandra Baublitz

Woof! Paw, canine detective, sniffs out a dead man in the fridge of the bakery his owner’s friend, Jac, is planning to open. Worse, Jac’s dad knew the man and is now suspected of his murder. It’s up to Paw and his owner to trail the clues to the killer. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Brothers Brown & Gray

Gary Glass

They say everybody has a double. What if yours is hunting you? A cynical detective. A dangerous beauty. Estranged twins, one a recluse, the other a playboy — at least one of them insane. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Murder: Secrets Among Colleagues

Shauntey James

Prestigious faculty members at Mill Run University vie for a position to work on a national grant that will make a difference in all their careers. Secrets, lies, and cutthroat resentment stemming from graduate school dominate tenuous relationships between faculty, administration, and students, especially as tensions rise with an impending sexual misconduct hearing. What length ... Read more

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M. Jonathan Lee

A story with a twist revealed on the very last word, which will change your view of everything you’ve just read. Samuel’s mother vanished when he was in his teens. His brother, Tom, found her wedding ring on the kitchen table along with the note. While their father pays the price of his mother’s disappearance, ... Read more

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Haunted by the Innocent

Chris Phipps

Rookie detective Dee Callender is assigned to work a puzzling crime scene alongside Matt Coleman, who seems intent on destroying her credibility and forcing her out of the unit. Then Dee’s real problems begin, bringing back ghosts from her past and forcing her to make choices she never could have imagined, nd that will change ... Read more

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Soldiers of Freedom

Samuel Marquis

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. history. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Washington Prophecy

Robert Rapoza

Army Ranger turned Archeologist Nick Randall battles a former Spetnatz agent seeking a relic which could give him the power to destroy the governments of Western Civilization. It’s a deadly race to see who can find the artifact first. Randall must prevent the rogue agent from starting World War III as the fate of the ... Read more

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Free: Blood Revenge (A Seekers Mystery Book – 3)

Sam Berretti

Someone put a hit out on Doris and Della Jamay. No surprise considering what they had done – the men killed, the money taken. They’d have to go after them. A little psychic girl tried to warn the two about “eagles, monkeys, and dragons,” but nothing could prepare them. They flew to Paris but landed ... Read more

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Free: Greed

C. M. Sutter

Washburn County Deputy Amber Monroe is following in the footsteps of her sister, Jade. She devours everything she can during her detective training in hopes of being promoted soon. Living in small-town USA has its advantages, like a sense of security, and disadvantages, like being close to Milwaukee and its crime. Washburn County has become ... Read more

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