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: PsycheDeliah: A Novel
Can a Billion Dollars and a Secret Psychedelic Drug Make Men Stop Raping? Paul is a privileged but sensitive white male whose life is turned upside down when Deliah, his struggling mixed-race wife, suddenly disappears. Divorce papers arrive shortly, but with no explanation and no way to reach her, Paul can’t move on. Finding her ... 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
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
Trust Misplaced
Paul Dodge is no stranger to the dark side of crime. As a parole agent and a member of the local Sex Crimes Task Force, he knows what depravity lies in the shadows. But when an investigation into a local sexual predator leads him to a photo of a judge’s daughter and another young girl ... Read more
Free: The Dark Tunnel to Murder
Ethan Brady’s son is Chief of Police in a small town. The police make an arrest but remain confused about the killing. Ethan investigates the widow of the victim, a lawyer who wants to make a deal, and other suspects. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Blood in the Bayou
FBI agent Jade Monroe heads to Louisiana where human bones have been found deep in bayou country, and the locals aren’t too excited about the FBI poking around. A helpful hunter offers to break through that barrier for Jade, but a bone-chilling blindside ensues. A dangerous cat and mouse chase through the swamp is just ... Read more
Who’s Killing All My Old Girlfriends
Charlie North visits his old girlfriends for a story in his blog. After each visit, somebody murders the old girlfriend. Charlie quickly became the top suspect with cops in LA, Chicago, and Miami. Desperate, Charlie investigates the first murder. To help him, he hires a private detective, Reggie Parker, the daughter of a retired LAPD ... Read more
Harbor City Homicide
Early morning. The concrete forecourt of a Los Angeles motel you wouldn’t check your family into. The owner, a man with a past who was planning a particular future, has been shot in the back. Career detective Helen Freitag’s investigation of the murder takes her into the underworld of LA’s gangs, as racial tensions and ... Read more
Cradle
When pigeons fall from the sky and farmers start dying in South China, Dr. Tina Walker, a world expert in the H7N9 flu strain, knows that the world is out of time. Tina lives in Athens, Greece, raising her family while trying to end a toxic affair. Now she must race against the clock to ... Read more
The Stars Forgot Us
Fifteen-year-old Jacob Kelly would love to go back to simpler times. Before his parents’ divorce and the onset of his older brother’s schizophrenia. But when he returns to his hometown, things feel off. After a series of strange occurrences in his new house, Jacob fears the house is haunted, or even worse, he is losing ... Read more
Free: Witch Charm (A Mackenzie Coven Mystery Book 4)
Lexie and Luna are going back to school. A witch is dead and if Lexie doesn’t find the killer soon, she risks ending up in a roasting pit. It could be worse and it is…the Lauriston Academy for Ladies & their Feline Companions has a dress code: White dress with puffy sleeves. Feline Companions: non-optional ... Read more
The Adventure of the Murdered Midwife
A dead midwife. His mother accused of the murder. Can Sherlock solve the case before she hangs? A sudden call back to the family estate only weeks into his first term at Eton, puts Sherlock’s nerves on high alert. When he learns his mother has been accused of murder, he’s pushed to solve the crime ... Read more
Risky Bisqueness
Juli’s job is to make sure the Soup of the Day delivers…a daily dose of magic that is…But there’s Murder afoot in Veil Falls. Before she knows it, Juli is on the case, chasing baddies, finding clues, and whipping up the right magical recipes to save them all. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Mother
After The Lamb absconds taking D.C. with them, Kate Monroe and Detective Inspector Halifax are tasked with tracking them down and investigating the shady operations surrounding “The Blazing Crucible”. Soon they discover far more than they bargained for, as The Lamb finds themselves in as much trouble abroad as they are at home. Free on ... Read more
Free: The Prometheus Man
The Prometheus Man is a thriller about last remaining frontier in the world: ourselves. The story begins as a manhunt for a serial killer and explodes into a race to uncover an experimental program that would rip apart humankind. Inspired by Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein, The Prometheus Man is about characters going all the way ... Read more
The Die Back
Ritual death. Young life. Can the one woman from the outside curb the bloodletting liturgy? Dakota Jones lives and breathes the strange. Unorthodox and willing to follow clues no matter where they lead, the forthright private eye is relentless in her pursuit of the truth. So when a member of a remote society off Tasmania’s ... Read more
Across a Dark River in Palermo
Layer by layer, brick by brick, author and journalist Domenic Marinelli builds quite the story in his latest novel…one that’ll keep you guessing and turning those pages as quickly as you can. Join Henry O’Shaughnessy as he takes a trip to Palermo, Italy and uncovers quite the gruesome details about his new vacation spot. What ... Read more
A Quiet Wife
Nelia is haunted by her past… Suburban mom and successful lawyer, Nelia Caruso lives a charmed life with her husband and kids in the affluent New England town of Laurelville. But her life comes crashing down when a new couple moves into town. Alexis and Craig Morton are the perfect suburban couple. They are also ... Read more
THE RING (The In-Between Series, Book 2)
From the International Bestselling author, Sagar Constantin comes the second book in the addictive IN-BETWEEN series. Angela returns to Earth to search for and find the last two members of a group called the Ring. Together, the Ring can access crucial knowledge that the world desperately needs. Each member has unconsciously carried a piece of ... Read more
WHITE CROW: How Those in the Afterlife Saved Those Left Behind
When Claire LaRue, an evidential medium, arrived in the small north Alabama town of Sheffield, she could have never predicted the perilous, life-altering events the future held for her and her twelve year old daughter. Her gift of bringing forth verifiable evidence from those across the veil brings indescribable joy and enlightenment to loved ones ... Read more
War Hero
This is a story of an air force pilot who was assigned the job of attacking the enemy territory to destroy their war potential. He did the job well, but while returning the tail of the plane was hit and he was compelled to bail out. From the jungle where he landed, he was caught ... Read more
You Only Live Once
James Flynn believes he’s an expert shot, a black belt in karate, and irresistible to women. He’s also a heavily medicated patient in a Los Angeles psychiatric hospital. Flynn believes his locked ward is the headquarters of Her Majesty’s Secret Service and that he is a secret agent with a license to kill. When Flynn ... Read more
Free: Death at The Detroit
Sleuth Madeline Donovan arrives in the sleepy, undeveloped city of St. Petersburg, Florida for a needed respite. The luxurious new hotel where she is staying, The Detroit, provides more than expected when a murder is committed, and all the visitors hold dark secrets. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Gryphon
A series of books following the dangerous misadventures of Griffin Mannock, a blind reclusive war veteran with extrasensory abilities. The Gryphon Found finds him homeless and on the radar of a London serial killer. In The Gryphon Home, he protects friends and family from unknown killers. In The Gryphon Down, he is betrayed, wanted dead ... Read more
Free: Spider Games
Kate O’Brien, a feisty no-nonsense attorney, is on the path to being a legal star. But when the DEA arrests her law partner, it leaves the law firm in chaos. As Kate slowly digs her way out of the damage he has done, what she finds is a ticking time bomb that could lead to ... Read more
Free: Miserable Lies
How many wrongs make a right? Deputy Chief Quentin “Port” Porter is famous for catching the infamous Magistrate Killer, Linus Cole, whose murder spree included his best friend and partner, Miles Tate. Port’s heroics caught the nation’s imagination, inspiring film and television, and skyrocketing his career while making him famous and wealthy. Just one problem ... Read more
Deadly Inheritance
Sometimes what you want most is what you left behind… After her cousin disappeared without a trace, Christina Wade left rural Vermont behind. Nearly a decade later she inherits the family’s historic inn that should have gone to the missing girl. Compelled to return to the place she intended to forget, she must decide whether ... Read more
Time After Tyme
Mr. Tyme is dead, and strange, coded messages have been left in the chapel prayer box on the campus of Bellevue University. When amateur sleuths Kathryn and Cece attempt to decipher the codes, they begin to suspect foul play. But things get dicey when a couple of misguided young girls get wind of the investigation ... Read more
Free: Desert Shock
The shock the Tucson police find in the desert leads Detective Alex Blackhawk on a trail to hidden crimes (Book 6 of 9). In this second Blackhawk File in the 25th century, someone doesn’t want the truth exposed in this murder thriller. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Make It Up To Me
Lisa Granger did the unthinkable. She committed a shocking act of betrayal that no one would dare believe. One year later, there’s a price to pay. And the cost is everything. $0.99 on Kindle.... 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. history. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Louisiana Longshot (A Miss Fortune Mystery, Book 1)
Miss Congeniality meets The Golden Girls in this hilarious mystery set in southern Louisiana. With a price on her head and a leak at the CIA, assassin Fortune Redding undertakes her most difficult mission ever…in Sinful, LA. Armed with her considerable skills and two ladies the locals dub The Geritol Mafia, Fortune decides to solve ... Read more
Free: Trust The Plan
An unnamed narrator embarks on a flight to Dallas to await the return of a dead president. The narrator’s mind slips into a dream-like state combining tales of conspiracies, a former friend turned serial killer, a detective mad at the world, and the mysterious entity named ‘K’ controlling his mind. In a rant against a ... Read more
A Dear Abby Cozy Mystery Collection Books 1 – 3: End of the Lane, Be Still My Heart and The Last Ride
Small-town cozy mysteries filled with humor, fun and the quirkiest characters around: In the idyllic town of Eden, newspaper reporter Abby must uncover who poisoned her boss, find a murderer at the annual picnic fundraiser, and stop a killer before they check more names off their list… $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Jane Doe
A memory wiped clean. A dark past. A faceless killer. Walk the knife-edge of fact and imagination. Watch as the truth comes into focus and a shocking past merges with a horrifying present in, The Jane Doe. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Angels Cry: A Det. Peter Lazarus Case (72nd Precinct Series Book 1)
He’s an undercover cop, and she could blow his cover. The stakes are high in this chilling and suspenseful psychological thriller from USA TODAY bestselling author Tina Glasneck, writing as Rayne MarrowWomen are disappearing; heroin is hitting the streets, and undercover detective Shane Sterns is up against the wall. He must choose to either protect ... Read more
One Fine Mess
All Jules Nichols wants is to off her abusive hubby. But soon the baddies are popping up everywhere, and there’s that darn head in a box. It’s no time to lose her own head. It’s time to show some ovaries. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
A Mountain of Evidence
Read the first book in the Colorado Skies series, before book 2, Half-Told Truths, comes out on April 5, 2022! $0.99 on Kindle... Read more
Free: Dungeness and Dragons: A Driftwood Mystery
In a story described by Kirkus Reviews as “A page-turning addition to a series and a chilling but enjoyable read,” Native American police officer Charley Whitehorse and his partner, Tony Esperanza, take on a vicious Russian crime czar whose sex trafficking and drug crimes lead to a shocking global conspiracy. Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Babysitter’s Secret
A new friendship develops when Chelsea offers to babysit Erica’s new stepchildren, and it almost seems too good to be true until red flags start popping up. By the time Erica figures out who she can and can’t trust, everything has already started crumbling around her. Erica doesn’t know how to pick up the pieces, ... Read more
