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!
The Plot is Murder
Samantha Washington dreamed of owning a mystery bookstore and writing British historic cozy mysteries. She finally follows her dreams, but when a shady realtor is killed in her backyard, the police suspect her. Aided by her feisty grandmother and an enthusiastic ensemble of colorful retirees, Sam has to find a killer before her story ends. ... Read more
Leaving Oklahoma
Rush Kilmer left Oklahoma for a fresh start. Now, he’s missing, and his girlfriend, Gen, couldn’t care less. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Black Frost (Emma Frost Book 13)
From Multi-Million-Copy Bestselling author Willow Rose comes the next chapter in the #1 Bestselling Emma Frost Mystery Series. Emma Frost is tied up in a murder mystery that seems out of this world. When a young girl disappears one night from the park, then turns up again the next morning in a different place on ... Read more
Free: Blackout
Three men have been killed in the UK and USA in one morning. The deaths take place thousands of miles apart, yet are connected by an event fifteen years ago. Before long, young cop Sam Archer and the Armed Response Unit are drawn into the violent fray. And there’s a problem. One of their own ... Read more
Free: The Adventure of the Notable Bachelorette – A New Sherlock Holmes Mystery
THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOTABLE BACHELORETTE. A NOBLE ENGLISHMAN ASKS SHERLOCK HOLMES TO HELP FIND HIS MISSING AMERICAN WIFE. THE NEXT DAY, HE IS DEAD AND HIS WIFE CHARGED WITH MURDER. A blue-blooded snobbish English lord comes to 221B Baker Street. His much younger wife, a beautiful, independent American, has vanished and he knows she ... Read more
I See You
I see you. As Paxton launched into his new endeavors, he finds himself in the sights of a serial killer. Forced to play a part in the killer’s deadly games. Paxton enlists the help of his friend, FBI agent Blake Wilder. But when she gets caught in the killer’s trap. Paxton must do everything to ... Read more
Haunted
Three deaths, an invisible weapon and a deadly plot. Roumoult Cranston’s life is never boring. He either invites trouble, or it finds him. This time his best friend Dr. William Sterling is at the heart of investigating three suicides that he believes are ingenious murders. Everyone thinks he is crazy, including Roumoult. But when William ... Read more
The Legend of Ollie Daniels
If an entire population is mind-controlled, would you end the world to erase the sins and blood-soaked pavement? Or leave the world in peace as it rains ashes of what used to be? $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Lou Prophet: The Complete Series, Volume 1
Lou Prophet’s life as a bounty hunter has taught him one rule: You don’t stop riding till the job is finished. He is determined to show the outlaws that justice doesn’t always wear a badge. Join the bounty hunter as he searches for a gorgeous showgirl, chases down a brutal gang, escorts a Russian noblewoman ... Read more
Free: 12
What would you do with the last 12 hours of your life, if only you knew? The novel 12 follows 12 people through the last 12 hours of their lives before they all end up at the cafe where a mass shooting occurs. 12 hours. 12 lives. Who lives? Who dies? Free on Kindle.... Read more
Anything for You
When Nicolette Winchester’s daughter is involved in an accident that leaves a classmate dead, Nic panics and does the unthinkable — she hides the body. It’s the only way to protect Ella’s future, her Juilliard scholarship. But keeping this secret is harder — and more deadly — than Nic expected. Especially when the anonymous text ... Read more
The Trusted
Imagine if Bond and the X-files had a love child? The Trusted is that off-spring. It’s an intoxicating, heart-pumping fusion of espionage and thought-provoking sci-fi all rolled into a fast-moving story of gorgeous spies and villains, twisty politics, steamy sex, ruthless revenge, fascinating realms and eye-popping tech. The Trusted is the first book in a ... Read more
A Touch of Defiance
An anti-government party called the Civil Resistance Movement is growing in popularity as tension mounts between police and civilians. The head of the CRM, Leo Frazier, has his own racist agenda which is unknown to his followers. FBI Agent Nick Bracco and team must track down Frazier and his group of zealots before the MLK ... Read more
Carolina Dance
They took his peace and quiet. He’ll pay them back in fists and bullets… $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Pistols and Poinsettias
Steve isn’t celebrating Christmas…he’s trying to survive it. Blind PI Steve Smiley loathes Christmas—too many memories. When his partner secures an invitation for them to teach at a mystery writers’ conference in Miami, what promises to be a welcome early December escape turns into a tidal wave of mysteries to solve. Steve and Heather walk ... Read more
Free: Bones in the Wash: Politics is Tough. Family is Tougher.
Bones in the Wash: Politics is Tough. Family is Tougher, set during the 2008 presidential campaign in New Mexico, is one part political thriller, one part family soap, and one part murder mystery. Ambitious Albuquerque Mayor Tomas Zamara, charged with delivering the state’s five electoral votes for John McCain, is directed to shut down voter ... Read more
The Holy City Murders: A Duke Dempsey Mystery
Duke Dempsey is a private investigator in 1938 Charleston, SC. Thrust into the case of a lifetime when the Vatican comes calling and hires Duke to find an invaluable relic. Charleston is also hit with the mysterious murders of a prominent priest of St. Patrick’s Cathedral and a local cop. Duke is forced into a ... Read more
Free: Exodus ’95
Claire may be a step away from recovering the most powerful artifact in human history: Moses’ Biblical staff, which her dying neighbor found and hid in the Arabian desert twenty years ago. But his startling revelations have got her entangled in a global race with ruthless fanatics who want to get to the artifact first. ... Read more
Idol Worship
The serial killer industry remains lucrative. Crime shows, slasher movies, podcasts, clickbait. Serial killers are everywhere…especially in the world’s collective psyche. So what news anchor wouldn’t seize the opportunity to interview a still at-large psychopath? Especially one as infamous as The Mayberry Murderer. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Patent Pending and Death
Fiona Fleming is back, and, just her luck, the bodies keep piling up! Happily married and diving into her new career, Fee finds herself once again embroiled in the heart of mysteries she can’t seem to stop solving. At least this time she’s actually legit. Acting as a local investigator for her co-owned Fleming Investigations ... Read more
A Destiny to Die For (Book I)
Angelita grabs at a chance to get out of the favelas when she finds a huge cache of heroin. Money becomes no object, so much so, it seems too good to be true. It is! The drugs belong to the cartel. See price on Kindle.... Read more
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? A series of deadly shootings. An outbreak of stolen cars. When journalist Debbie Bradley returns home to St. Louis, the summer crime wave has started. And she’s in the center: A witness, ... Read more
Free: The Evelyn Project
If the present can change the past, what will happen to us if we make a mistake? Well, you are about to find out. “Luzzatto has spun a fast-paced tale that keeps the reader guessing…” Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Side Hustle
Hard work is murder! Is a big real estate deal behind the death of a personal finance blogger? Two homicide detectives work to uncover the truth. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Double Image
A politician’s kidnapped child is returned unharmed, but Executive Protection Officer Kenna Devlin discovers information suggesting the child who was found is not the same child who was taken. Now, in the midst of a political campaign, she’s desperately looking for a kidnapped child no one else believes is missing. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Generalissimus
Joseph Stalin is miraculously resurrected in contemporary Moscow only to find himself in a country ruled by corrupt officials and oligarch clans. Shocked by what he sees, the ex-dictator decides to restore the USSR and so tries to reintegrate himself into society. With the help of a zealous supporter, Stalin reaches out to the masses ... Read more
Remember My Name
Dark and twisted secrets mar Shane Coulter’s skin, and darken his fragile heart. Yet he keeps his nightmarish truth hidden from all those he holds dear with a smart mouth and abrasive attitude. His first love, Callan Reid, refuses to accept Shane’s tough exterior. Convinced something truly horrific lurks beneath Shane’s defenses, Callan vows to ... Read more
Free: Take Me Out the Back
A mass shooting in a nursing home rocks a southern Indiana town. The ripple effects afflict emergency workers, the nursing home staff, town officials, and the friends and families of the victims—both immediately and for weeks and months thereafter. Chillingly, those murdered often appear as ghosts, plaguing family members. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Operation Underpants
Unceremoniously dumped in a retirement home by their children, international spies Max and Olivia languish forgotten and waiting to die. After finding a secret message in the newspaper they must escape and travel to the UK with the fate of London and much of the world hanging in the balance. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Treasure Hunting Mysteries
These five fictional short stories are packed with witty adventure and unexpected twists that will leave you gasping for breath? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Code Hunters – A Nicholas Foxe Adventure
A Tablet 10,000 Years Old May Change the World’s Future Nicholas Foxe leads an unlikely team around the world to solve the code. Powerful men stand in their way. It’s a life and death race. An Army Ranger makes a snap decision in the heat of battle. Cave explorers discover a 10,000-year-old tablet with a ... Read more
Edited Out: A Carmen Ramirez Mystery
Carmen Ramirez, 24, a fledgling copy editor, gets her first big break on a retrospective for the anniversary of a brutal child murder. After challenging the inaccurate, homophobic coverage, Carmen is pulled off the project. Undaunted, Carmen searches for the truth — a decision that risks her job and her life. Meanwhile, Julia, tall, athletic, ... Read more
Do No Harm
2020 American Fiction Award winner for Best Medical Thriller Doctors go to medical school to save lives… right? When Matthew Preston was eight, his father was shot and killed in rarefied Pacific Palisades by Ted Nash, a home burglar who happened to be the Preston’s neighbor. Though Nash was sentenced to life in San Quentin, ... Read more
China Bohannon
China Bohannon fled a bad situation and decided to start her life over as a strong, independent woman in the wild and woolly town of Spokane, Washington. China takes on the role of bookkeeper at Doyle & Howe detective agency with her uncle, Montgomery Howe, and his handsome partner, Gratton Doyle. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Foundation Game, Beginning
The Foundation Game. A global web of political and financial deceptive activities concealed under the auspices of a nonprofit, or “third sector” foundation, highlighting the conflicts between the public good and personal quest for wealth and power. The first book Beginning introduces the characters Margo Maxwell and her nemesis Jonathan Ross in a fast-moving thriller ... Read more
The $3 Million Dollar Turnover
In the cutthroat world of professional sports, agent Dave Bolt works behind the scenes to fix his clients’ biggest problems. Officially, he’s a sports agent, representing professional athletes in basketball, football, baseball, hockey—you name it. Unofficially, he’s there to sweep the drugs, corruption, and the sex scandals under the rug. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Death of a Telenovela Star
Teresa Dovalpage’s deliciously twisted novella, set on a Caribbean cruise, showcases the dark—sometimes deadly—side of celebrity. Former Havana detective Marlene Martínez, now happily running a bakery in Miami, has booked a week-long cruise to Mexico and the Caribbean with her niece, Sarita, as the girl’s quinceañera present. Sarita is beyond thrilled to discover that a ... Read more
A Guest to Die For
A New Life. A Dream Business. And A GUEST TO DIE FOR… Daniel Kent has to getaway. He’s lost his job, his fiancée, his self-respect. The accident’s the final straw; Dan needs to make a new life in the sun. As soon as he sees the house, complete with gîte, in the picture-postcard region of ... Read more
Cam Derringer Tropical Thriller Mystery Box Set
THE FIRST THREE BOOKS IN THE CAM DERRINGER SERIES + A Bonus Prequel Enjoy solving crime in the streets of Key West with Cam Derringer. If you love mystery novels with suspense, action, humor, a touch of romance, and characters you’ll want to cheer for, then the Cam Derringer series is for you. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Holly and Holidays, Another Murder
Everyone’s dancin’ and prancin’ at the Pets & Paws Holiday Gala, that is, until chaos breaks out. A festive fundraiser to help the dog rescue turns sinister when somebody salts the tempting spread with something toxic. Although Maddie and most of the other guests are quick to recover, Davis Elder is not so lucky and ... Read more
