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!
No Bee Haven
No Bee Haven is a high-stakes military thriller of loyalty, corruption, and courage, when the cost is everything. When PFC Virginia Hornet—a loner with deep trust issues—joins the Army, she believes it will be a stepping stone: earn her college money, serve her time, and get out. But the greatest danger she faces isn’t the ... Read more
Black Velvet
Theo Holmes, a direct descendent 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 a beautiful AI robot, PAM, Holmes’ team tackles contradictory DNA evidence and a bizarre connection to Elvis Presley. This contemporary ... Read more
Uma’s Head: A Novel
In the dangerous world of Southeast Asia’s illicit antiquities trade, a curator’s search for a missing colleague uncovers a decades-old conspiracy—and a stolen artifact that could unravel it all. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Enigmata: The Watcher from Within
October Night is determined to get her life back on track as she recovers from a severe bout of depression that saw her dealing with a spiteful, antagonistic voice in her head, all the while losing the connections with her loved ones. Lucas Wendig has a mission, though some might say an obsession. His life’s ... Read more
An Eternity to Burn in Hell
An Eternity to Burn in Hell is a dark, multi-layered crime thriller that explores the devastating consequences of trauma, revenge, and the failures of justice. The novel follows the intersecting lives of five women known as “Aphrodite’s Ladies.” Each woman is shaped by a harrowing past of abuse, addiction, and survival through sex work, but ... Read more
Free: Delicious Death: A Gaslamp Ghost Mystery Volume 2 (Madame Chalamet Ghost Mysteries)
Thwarting an assassination wasn’t on the menu. Elinor’s holiday is nearly ruined when a poisoner targets the king, and what’s even more irritating? Tristan Fontaine, the Duke de Archambeau, thinks to solve the case before she can! Between dead husbands and noble boors, Elinor snoops through wardrobe closets, determined to put Tristan in his place. ... Read more
Misdirection of Betrayal
Tina Miles is a reclusive, disgraced Australian Federal Police Officer, barely holding her life together. When she is dragged back to the trauma she’s been desperately hiding from, she must face the past she’s buried and decide if she’ll fight for a future, she no longer believes she deserves. $3.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Mr Jones: A Gripping Psychological Thriller
‘An enthralling, chilling novel by a master storyteller… You won’t be able to put this book down!’Reader review Ben is a single father struggling to protect his daughter from a threat he cannot see or understand. Ten months after the mysterious disappearance of his wife, Ben is overwhelmed by his responsibilities to eight-year-old Imogen. But ... Read more
Surviving the Silence
The EMP hit like a bomb nobody saw coming. One moment Stephanie was welding steel and kissing her twin daughters goodnight. The next, the world was pitch black and screaming. She spent fifteen years erasing every trace of her prepper childhood so her girls could have birthday parties instead of bug-out drills. Now those drills ... Read more
Free: Tune Up (Detective Qigiq Book 2)
On their second case, Qigiq and Kandy are loaned to the Traffic Division to investigate an early morning hit-and-run. By a motorcycle. The victim is an elderly Asian woman. Witnesses suggest all “accidents” aren’t created equal. Then the Captain delivers a new assignment: an affluent Bay Area lawyer is missing. The man’s wife stomps into ... 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
The Max Quinn Thriller Series Complete Box Set
From courtroom gambits to midnight stakeouts, safe houses to snow-swept plateaus, Max Quinn faces a tightening noose of betrayal, buried agendas, and a rebellion ready to burn the rulebook. When a single keystroke wipes out global debt and throws nations into chaos, Max must risk everything to protect her son as the world tilts toward ... Read more
Rose Dhu: A Novel
A highly regarded surgeon has gone missing. Will the search for her whereabouts tear a community apart? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Death in Driftless Hollow
A blizzard traps Mara Keene and five strangers in a remote Wisconsin retreat. When hidden traps begin to surface in the surrounding woods, it becomes clear someone is hunting them. In a storm where no one can leave, the killer may already be inside. $4.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Year I Lived Twice: A Time Loop Mystery
‘I loved everything about this book, which drew me in from the first page and kept me hooked throughout…’Reader review READER’S FAVORITE AWARD WINNER 2024MANYBOOKS BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR JUNE 2024 When Jason loops back in time, he thinks he can save his brother’s life – but the past is not so easily rewritten… ... Read more
The Novel: A Collection of Stories that will make you ask
A collection of short stories that are full of adventure, intrigue, suspense and mystery. You will not want to put it down until you are done. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Body at Blackwell Lake
She hates her power to detect missing things. When it leads her to a dead woman, can she smoke out a killer before she’s the next one to disappear? Cora Gilbert wishes she weren’t a finder. Constantly overpowered by her strange ability to locate other people’s lost items, the lonely adoptee worries she’ll never have ... Read more
Edge of the Blackout
When the power grid collapses, Shelly grabs her gear and heads into a world spiraling into chaos. No phones. No rescue. Just survival. With danger around every corner and a criminal brother by her side, she must fight to stay alive or be swallowed by the darkness. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Redemption Post Mortem
When a recently deceased soul is offered a chance to escape Oblivion, he must locate the lost Book of Remedies—an ancient text of miraculous healing power—before Demons use it to turn Earth into Hell. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
China Conquers Polynesia
America’s Navy has been the undisputed leader in the Pacific since WWII. Now, China plans to change that. By conquering French Polynesia. A nuclear weapon lost during one of dozens of French nuclear tests has been discovered there by rebels. Who will use it to force France out of Polynesia. On their own, the rebels ... Read more
The Fallen Cabin
After a massive blackout traps her deep underground, Quinn begins a harrowing journey through dark tunnels and flooded ruins. With the world above silent and broken, she must push past pain and fear to survive. But what waits on the surface may be even worse. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Cinderella Must Die
A kidnapping. A kidnapper who brings books to his captive. And a family history marked by secrets, silence, and psychological violence. These elements shape the story that will define Eva Santiago’s life and push her toward a future she never planned. Free on Kindle.... Read more
To Serve Justice
The explosion wasn’t meant to kill just two people—it was meant to send a message, and DEA agent Dillon Rains was the one forced to read it. When a pipe bomb explodes in a Miami park, killing a mother and her young child, DEA explosives expert Dillon Rains is thrust into a case that threatens ... Read more
The Last Powered City
Everyone thinks Mary is just a mom. They’re wrong. When an EMP kills the grid and chaos erupts, she’ll cross a burning city to reach her daughter… even if it means unleashing the woman she spent fifteen years hiding. Some skills you never forget. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Vampires and Villains
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
Free: Genies and Gibberish
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
STOLEN
Lily Aldrich is kidnapped as leverage in a revenge scheme against her powerful father, Warren—only to discover he won’t pay, negotiate, or even report her missing. Roman Vance, driven by years of loss and fury, took Lily to force Warren’s hand, but Warren’s indifference turns the plan to ash. Trapped together, Lily and Roman find ... Read more
The Retirees: Retirement has never felt so deadly
Welcome to the idyllic yet eccentric retirement community of The Ocean’s Edge—where retirement has never felt so deadly. Disco is dead, there’s a serial killer on the loose, the coffin dodgers are solving cold cases, and only the neighborhood cat knows where all the proverbial bodies are buried. When sharp-tongued sugar heiress Diana is ousted ... Read more
Unconscious Impulses
A mother experiences violent sleepwalking episodes after moving into a high-rise apartment, but has no memory of her actions once she wakes up. Her boyfriend is caught in the middle as he tries to unravel the truth behind this sudden, strange behavior and whether she poses a real threat. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Cult Stalker
Paris 1974 A notorious California cult, shattered in a spectacular drug-fueled bloodbath, has resurfaced in the heart of Paris—and they’re planning a new massacre that could bring the City of Light to its knees. Undercover CIA operative Jean Jones is the only one who knows the truth, but when she’s framed for the brutal murders ... Read more
Free: The Friday Edition (A Samantha Church Mystery, Book 1)
Snow isn’t the only thing falling in Denver, Colorado, on Christmas Eve. When a brilliant young district attorney plunges to her death from a high-rise balcony, the police call it suicide. Her sister, reporter Samantha Church, calls it something else—murder. Determined to uncover the truth, Samantha follows a trail of evidence linking the DA to ... Read more
The Resident Murder (The Resident Thriller Series Book 1)
Modern dating can be such a killer… True-crime enthusiast, Dr. Kylie Saunders, is two years into an arduous medical training program in New York City, which leaves her with little time for romance. Until she meets Dr. Blake Weathers. A fellow resident with an intense passion for neurosurgery, devilishly good looks, and irresistible charm, Blake ... Read more
Ghost Mortem: A Cozy Mystery with a Ghostly Twist (Haunted Everly After Mysteries Book 1)
Dead exes don’t text… but they can haunt. Everly Dupree’s fresh start takes a sharp turn when her high school ex-boyfriend turns up dead—and his ghost refuses to leave her alone. He won’t rest until she solves his murder. She won’t rest until she’s rid of him. But in a small town like Mooselick River, ... Read more
Teeth of the Dragon
CIA Agent Dave McClure is going to face the biggest and most deadly challenges of his career. First, in Jerusalem and then in Japan… In this nail-biting thriller, the CIA is struck by several threats at once. First, several abduction attempts are made on US Embassy employees in Jerusalem. CIA Agent Dave McClure is sent ... Read more
Free: Missing Mona: A Tommy Cuda Mystery
“Klingler presents his craftiest yarn to date, summoning the pulpy spirits of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. The setting of Chicago rattles from the page in lines such as, ‘The buildings held noise and exhaust fumes around me like a torture chamber.'” –Kirkus Reviews (Featured Review) As Tommy looks squarely at his next decade his ... 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. In a busy outdoor market, an ordinary woman is assassinated in broad daylight. Twelve years later, the killer is back with a new target—and a mysteriously sinister employer… Sophie Allard has spent her ... Read more
The Regression Strain
On a cruise sailing across the Atlantic, Dr. Peter Palma expects to treat passengers for minor ailments. But a vile affliction pits loved ones against each other and fills the morgue with bodies. As the ship races toward New York, humanity’s fate hinges on Peter’s deteriorating judgment…but sometimes, primal urges are impossible to resist. The ... Read more
Grasping Smoke
After her husband is murdered, Celeste has only one goal: revenge. With her twin sister by her side, she follows a trail that leads straight into obsession, violence, and fractured truth. Nothing is as it seems—and some reflections should never be trusted. $4.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Day the World Went Quiet
Molly’s first day back at school. Madison’s first time letting go. Then the lights went out… and America died. Now highways are graveyards. Cities burn. And a mother must cross hell itself to reach her daughter before it’s too late. In a world of EMP survival and post-apocalyptic struggle, hope is the fuel that keeps ... Read more
After the Pulse
An EMP strike shatters the nation. Keith flees biker gangs, his daughter is trapped in mall rubble, and his wife fights through burning streets. Their only hope is Eddie’s off-grid mountain homestead. Survival, family, and chaos collide in this explosive thriller. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
