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!
Surreal Absurdity
Charles Pierce has some bizarre situations in Dallas to navigate in Surreal Absurdity. He desperately needs a guardian angel to watch over him. Jamie Simon is arrested for theft and murder after trying to poison Charles because she held him responsible for her husband’s death. Charles does not want to relive the demons of his ... Read more
Free: Circling The Drain
Two deadly enemies play cat-and-mouse across L.A., one cop – one serial killer. One’s a violent schizophrenic who hears voices – the other’s a serial killer. Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Dark Heart of Night
While pursuing a prostitute whose johns keep winding up dead, newspaper reporter Cass Green and photographer Hugh McNeill uncover a nest of intrigue. A young lawyer’s suicide, activities of the German American Bund, and a Stalinist eliminating Trotskyite traitors are just a few of the stories they pursue through the streets of 1937 New York. ... Read more
Calculated Murder
If you love Agatha Christie or Sherlock Holmes you will love this! Lawyer and businessman, Roumoult Cranston is notorious for solving bizarre cases. For him, the scandalous murder of millionaire playboy Garner Moss by a rich ex-model holds no interest. But fate intervenes when Roumoult becomes a prime suspect and is drawn into the tantalising ... Read more
Texas Dead
The body of a respected financial analyst is found dead in an alley downtown Corpus Christi, the fifteenth murder of the year. Classy detective, Mackenzie Michaels, known as Maxie, a celebrity for her stellar track record of solving murders, as well as her pure Texan charm, is on the scene with her partner, Detective Kobe ... Read more
Magical Renovation Mysteries
Join Clementine as she tackles her business, love life, and wacky family in this hilarious magical cozy mystery series. Southern gal Clementine Cooke is busy. The house renovation business she runs with her best friend in the small town of Peachwood, Alabama, is thriving. That is until Clementine discovers her partner dead, encased in poured ... Read more
Free: Innocent in Las Vegas
A cupcakes-and-crime caper! When cupcake-loving croupier Tiffany Black investigates the death of a casino owner, she finds herself uncovering a web of deceit – secretive suspects, corrupt casino henchmen and a bodyguard with a mysterious past. Over 3500 rave reviews – click here to learn why readers love this mystery! Free 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
KOMPROMAT
Erica Warner is a button-down cyber analyst for Homeland Security. Despite her high-security clearance and swank D.C. address life is pretty ordinary, until she receives a mysterious parcel. Turns out Ric, a sexy soccer fan with whom she had a weekend fling, was actually a government operative. He sent her a zip drive that holds ... Read more
Free: Off Chance
Lukas Mueller knows something is off. He just can’t pinpoint it. His girlfriend goes missing, he goes searching, and the NSA comes investigating. When his mentor, Pho Nam Penh, disappears, Lukas’s nightmare get worse. Lukas goes from suspicious to suspect overnight. With Penh’s diabolical ambitions exposed, Lukas makes a career choice that will alter his ... Read more
The Money
Henry Krakow, loving husband, devoted dad, and lawyer for the down-and-out, tries to help a single father keep his two kids, but Henry’s good deed takes a wrong turn, and he has to fight for his family through an underworld of corrupt power brokers, Ukrainian mobsters, homicidal pole dancers, rap buskers, internet revolutionaries, and more…$0.99 ... Read more
ShadowCast
Dakota Kilroy, a 28-year-old investigative journalist, is haunted by the unsolved disappearance of her best friend, Maddy Montgomery who went missing at the age of fifteen. When financial difficulties force her to move back home to Santa Monica, CA, she cannot take the unanswered questions anymore. Determined to find out what happened to Maddy, Dakota ... Read more
Harry Starke: The Genesis Files (The Genesis Files Boxset Book 1)
Three riveting crime stories you’ll not be able to put down. It all began one dark, rainy night in Genesis. Harry Starke had quit the police force only a couple of weeks earlier and was driving a lonely road when he encountered a young girl soaked to the skin and frightened. He picked her up, ... Read more
Sapphire Lake
“Micah Gray knows what it’s like to die. For the past year, she’s grappled with her new, unexplainable gift: she can experience other people’s deaths. Any encounter with a dead body, even a picture of one, will send Micah into an all-encompassing hallucination, giving her a first-person perspective of the deceased’s last moments. Luckily, she’s ... 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
The Memory Bell
Grace Penner’s safe haven crumbles when a body is found outside of town. Gifted the memory bell, a family heirloom, from her grandfather’s will, Grace’s excitement is soon squashed when the bell gets broken right after she receives it. While gluing the pieces back in place, she discovers three are still missing. Determined to find ... Read more
Derailed
When a single mom of a deaf daughter inherits her father’s PI business and aims to prove that a young woman’s death wasn’t an accident, she finds herself on a crash course with her complicated family and a killer determined to keep the truth hidden. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Lover Girl
Sammy, ‘Lover Boy’ Vivino, the retired legendary hitman, answers his doorbell to find a beautiful young woman at the threshold. Unfortunately, the silenced pistol aimed at his heart quickly dashes any hope for romance. For this woman is Angelica Fortuna, a conflicted, wisecracking assassin, nicknamed l’angelo della morte – The Angel of Death. Her father, ... Read more
Ready to Die
The FIFTH Sam Leroy thriller! In the middle of the night, a woman reports her husband missing. Soon after, his body is found by the side of Mulholland Drive, killed by a single bullet through the head. When an adult movie executive is found shot, execution-style, LAPD Detective Sam Leroy and his partner Ray Quinn ... Read more
One Kingdom Under Heaven
In the year 2029, China attacks the United States. Retired Navy SEAL Malcolm Kwong survives the attack. His family does not. Vowing revenge, Kwong puts together a team to help him kill the President of China and leads them into China’s Taklamakan Desert. Together, they will either prevent a world war, or start one. $0.99 on ... Read more
The Third Call (The O’Connells Book 2)
Romance and suspense collide in this pulse-pounding read! NY Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart brings you an emotional O’Connell family novel that is both “Gut-wrenching & Riveting.” A small town. A scared little girl. A man with a gun. A small cabin deep in the woods. This book was a wonderful story.” ... Read more
The Medina Device
2020 PenCraft Award Winner – Crime Action Thriller 2020 Maxy Awards – Best Thriller Former Navy SEAL Cameron Lyle is transitioning to life as a husband, father and government contractor. But his thirst for adventure has driven him to a secret life of high-stakes crime that has gained the attention of the FBI. When a ... Read more
Free: My Sister’s Detective
Eric Slater returns to Point Road to be told that his best friend’s suicide may have been murder. Angela Jeffries, the beautiful and broken obsession of his youth, begs him to investigate. Maggie Jeffries, the little sister he barely remembers, agrees to help. As their relationship turns romantic, the pair follow a trail of murder ... Read more
Free: Killer Cruise
Cruises, killers and laughter! On her very first cruise, Adrienne is dealt with a few shocks – from an over-the-top cruise director, to VIP passengers who think too highly of themselves. Even worse, her best friend is accused of murder! Can Adrienne solve the mystery before it’s too late? Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Possessive (Merciless World Series)
From USA Today bestselling author Willow Winters comes an emotionally gripping, standalone, contemporary romance. It was never love with Daniel and I never thought it would be. It was only lust from a distance. Unrequited love maybe. He’s a man I could never have, for so many reasons. That didn’t stop my heart from beating ... Read more
Payback Jack
1989. East Texas farmer, Smith Driskill, incites a media circus and political uproar by executing death row inmates and then refusing to fight for his own life once captured. Why is Driskill determined to die on death row, and why have so many people pledged to stop him? Smith Driskill is dying to prove a ... Read more
Free: Crime Beat Girl
A girl is dead. A boy is locked up. Can Debbie Bradley discover the truth before more lives are lost…maybe even her own? Free 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
The Darkness: A Gripping Psychological Thriller
“The Darkness” is a twisted psychological thriller that will quickly pull you in and refuse to let you go. The puzzle of what is happening will keep you guessing until the very end when you will be blindsided by the truth. Twelve people enter the darkness. Who will survive? $0.99 on Kindle... Read more
Promises of Murder
Sheriff Steele + the FBI + a love interest + a serial killer = a fight for their lives. Can Sheriff Steele identify the killer before it’s too late? $0.99 on Kindle... Read more
The Arrogant Wolf
A murder on a boulevard of Los Angeles turns out to be life-changing for Jared Walker, the senior detective of the LAPD. When he makes his first move on the blowhard killer and makes him run from his apartment, the killer makes a comeback with mind-boggling games to take revenge. The serial killer is an ... Read more
Above the Law (Billy Jo McCabe Mystery Book 5)
His crime was unforgivable, but the law protects him. If an alleged crime is reported to you, but no victim can be found, has a crime been committed? This is exactly the question Billy Jo McCabe asks Detective Mark Friessen when an anonymous woman approaches her and tells her about an unspeakable crime taking place ... Read more
Faux Friends
Chantal Pouliot, of the Quebec police force, is relegated to mind-numbing desk duty because of a case that went wrong six months earlier. A break comes her way in the form of a white-collar cyber-crime case, something she hopes will help restore her status as an undercover detective. The downside is having to collaborate ... Read more
Scramble: A Perfect Recipe For Math, Murder, and Revenge
This genre-bending urban thriller tells the story of three residents of St. Louis as they fight their way to a better life. Little do they know that one fateful night, their destinies will converge when they all have a craving for Della’s special-order eggs… and no one will ever be the same. Le’Angelo Brooks’ parents ... Read more
Keep Me In Your Heart (The Friessens Book 32)
A Friessen family celebration turns tragic when the marriage of one daughter is preceded by the heartbreaking loss of another. “This story is one that will stick with me for quite awhile. It is raw, gritty and the stuff of nightmares for those who are parents or part of a close knit family like the ... Read more
OFF GRID: How Long Can They Hide From The Surveillance State?
From the halls of D.C. to the remote shores of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, OFF GRID is a wild ride through a dystopian near future of mass surveillance. In the wake of a global calamity, the economy collapses. The Feds respond by wielding every power of the Welfare State to control the populace. A key tool ... Read more
Free: Moneyman (Meriwether Files Book 1)
Can one elite SAS trooper stay alive long enough to uncover a spy at the heart of the London political establishment? British Intelligence is counting on it. “Played out on the Canary Island of Tenerife, this well-written action-suspense thriller is impossible to put down.” Avid Reader. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Such a Good Girl (Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Book 9)
FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas faces a devious plan in multi-million-copy bestselling author Willow Rose’s blood-rushing thriller of murder and revenge. A girl falls from the penthouse floor of an apartment in Washington, D.C. Media Mogul Richard Wanton owns the apartment and is seen standing on the balcony when the girl falls. He is accused of ... Read more
Free: Dungeness and Dragons: A Driftwood Mystery
In a book that Kirkus Reviews describes as “A page-turning addition to a series and a chilling but enjoyable read,” a Native American police officer in a small Oregon town battles a Russian crime czar whose sexual trafficking and drug-dealing lead to a shocking global conspiracy. Free on Kindle.... 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
