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: Palm Beach Nasty (Charlie Crawford Palm Beach Mysteries Book 1)

Tom Turner

Burned out NYC homicide cop, Charlie Crawford, heads down to the Sunshine State to take it slow. But before long, he’s got a brutal murder and a long list of suspects: a billionaire with a thing for young girls, a creepy bartender with a sketchy past, and right in the middle of it all, his ... Read more

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Free: The Foundation Game, Beginning

Brenda Kempster

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 in this series introduces the characters Margo Maxwell and her nemesis Jonathan Ross in a ... Read more

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The Foundation Game, Transactions

Brenda Kempster

The Foundation Game, Transactions is Book3 in a political and financial “Third Sector” thriller series. Activities of the Global Trust Foundation collide with past entanglements of the Zenkon Foundation. Margo Maxwell and Jonathan Ross discover that they may have been forced into deeds affecting national security. Transactions involving money laundering implicate pharmaceutical executives and covert ... Read more

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The Blue Macaw

Ricky Ginsburg

Exotic birds stuffed with millions in diamonds are the first play in Chinese control of the NFL, not to mention an unsolved murder. Officer Valarie Garibaldi, cancer survivor and heir to her cop father’s legacy, seizes an opportunity to fulfill his dream and earn her gold detective’s badge. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Tracker

Leslie Georgeson

I’m a trained killer. An expert tracker. I’ve done despicable things. My soul is damaged. My body impaired. That’s what happens when you are a soldier for The Company. I was discharged a year ago. Now I am a dreg. Worthless. With a bounty on my head. I’ve become a creature of the night, hiding ... Read more

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Free: FIFTY

Eldon Kellogg

Amanda Langford was ecstatic. The CIA hired her as an analyst, and she could start paying off her student debt. Then they gave her a file to review, and her life changed forever. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Nothing Good Happens After Midnight

Jeffery Deaver

The sun sets. The moon takes its place, illuminating the most evil corners of the planet. What twisted fear dwells in that blackness? What legends attach to those of sound mind and make them go crazy in the bright light of day? Only Suspense Magazine knows… Teaming up with New York Times bestselling author Jeffery ... Read more

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Good, Bad and Pure Evil

Conrad Jones

A cold case investigation into the disappearance of thirteen-year-olds, Christopher Deeks and Ewan Birley, who vanished in the early nineties, opens up old wounds, old lies and a botched investigation into the very heart of the church. DI Alan Williams and the Major Investigation Team find themselves chasing a murderer while trying to contain the ... Read more

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The Clerk’s House

E.G White

Cat Sinclair, an actress, returns to her estranged mother’s house after her sudden death. In this rural Lincolnshire village, Cat gets pulled into a very different world and makes friends with people who will change her life forever. Secrets from the past collide with a present threat putting Cat on a very dangerous path. $2.99 ... Read more

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MOA

A.M. Holloway

A serial killer targets FBI agents. Once the killer is identified, his deadly intentions become more obvious. The killer will not stop until Mac is in his crosshairs. With her partner by her side, can FBI Agent Mac Morris stop the killer before he guns her down? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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The Dome

W.F. van der Hart

Climate change has ravaged the planet faster than expected. In this harsh and inhospitable world, Dylan Myers, a young, bright scientist, embarks on a seemingly impossible quest; the search for his biological parents. This proves to be a daunting task in this hazardous and toxic world infested by crime, evil, poverty and hunger. He puts ... Read more

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The Case of IBM 386 PC: A Detective Story for Techies

Jim Grep

A nostalgic story set in the early years of IBM PC. Some programmers decide to have fun solving interesting computer bugs entirely by logic and deduction. They take turns narrating an interesting problem story from their past that others try to solve by thinking like an armchair detective. The team gets a thrill hunting down ... Read more

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The Adventures of the Island Boy And the Mysterious Black Box

Max Shepherd

This extraordinary new adventure novel introduces a new hero, Alex Foxx. The thriller, the first in a series, will blow the lid off of long-rumored government coverups and promises to be the most surprising book of the year. Watch for the planned blockbuster movie to follow. Young Alex finds a small black box sealed with ... Read more

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Free: The Side Hustle

Colin Conway

Hard work is murder! Two homicide detectives investigate the death of a personal finance blogger. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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The Latina President and the Conspiracy to Destroy Her

Joe Rothstein

A charismatic Latina-American heiress is elected President of the United States pledged to lead a popular revolt against the corruption and greed of financial moguls and their lackeys in Congress. A conspiracy of the rich and powerful has a killer agenda designed to stop her. The result: impeachment, murder, assassination. “An unusually deep plot for ... Read more

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Aydin Trammell

R C Ducantlin

Surviving the repeated attempts on their lives, Aydin, and his sidekick Phil, uncover who, and why, someone wants Aydin dead. A civilian operative, Aydin wrote an AI app that turns the phone in your pocket into a targeting sensor for assassinations. Espionage, counterespionage, the international opium trade, high-tech forensics, and a family history of deceit ... Read more

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Free: The Poseidon Files

Michael Rickett

The Poseidon Files is a thriller which takes place on the streets of Liverpool. It’s a story about conspiracies: A top-secret military plot which threatens to weaponize the weather and threaten humanity and another plot to warn the world before its too late. But it all backfires and two women find themselves in the center ... Read more

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Edited Out

Lisa Haddock

Carmen risks her life to bring a child killer to justice. Meanwhile, Julia, tall, athletic, and funny with zero credentials as a lesbian, turns on the charm as she pursues Carmen. The author weaves a story of love, loyalty, and the fight for justice in this engaging mystery-romance. $0.99 on Kindle... Read more

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Death of a Telenovela Star

Teresa Dovalpage

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

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Smell You Later

Noel Cash

Rory Harper, after finding two bodies, solved one murder, but not the second. That was last week. This week, it’s a new job and a kidnapped seven-year-old. $3.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Accidental Lazarus

Kfir Luzzatto

It is sort of annoying having dead people dropping by at all hours… A paranormal detective like Dave Callaghan has already seen everything, but he never expected to find a presumed dead mobster drinking scotch in his armchair. He is definitely unhappy when he (it?) engages him to find out who shot him. But the ... Read more

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The Lies of Our Fathers

Jonathan Mark

Antioch 1098. A Crusader knight saves the lives of a Muslim family. Ankara 2000. An ancient bible is discovered. Iran 2005. A son hunts his terrorist father. Richard Helford, MI6 agent, is searching for his father, a wanted terrorist. A search for the truth will take him from the Greek islands to the deserts of ... Read more

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Deep Flakes Christmas: A Nisse Visit

Joy Ann Ribar

Baker/vintner Frankie Champagne is named coordinator for the Deep Lakes Holiday Festival in the unexpected absences of the town officials. What should be a piece of cake for the confident multi-tasker is a half-baked fiasco when the town is buried by snowstorms, and the official Christmas tree and its delivery truck driver go missing. With ... Read more

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Kamas Trilogy Box Set (Books 1-3): Dystopian Political Thriller

Preston Fleming

The Kamas Trilogy Box Set (Books 1-3) contains the complete text of all three novels in the Kamas Trilogy (FORTY DAYS AT KAMAS; STAR CHAMBER BROTHERHOOD; and EXILE HUNTER) in a single ebook file. Perfect for new Preston Fleming readers. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Betrayed

Joseph Lewis

Betrayed is a contemporary psychological thriller and an exploration of the heart and of a blended family of adopted kids, their relationships to each other and their parents woven into a tight mystery-thriller. A late-night phone call turns what was to be a fun hunting trip into a deadly showdown. $0.99 on Kindle.  ... Read more

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Murder at the MIll

T. A. Belshaw

Murder at the Mill. A Gripping New Cosy Crime Series with a light-hearted touch. January 1939 and the residents of the snow-covered streets of a small Kentish town awake to horrific news. When young Amy Rowlings meets Detective Sergeant Bodkin at the scene of a burglary on the way to work at The Mill one ... Read more

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Society for Paranormals: The Complete Series

Vered Ehsani

It’s Jane Austen meets Lara Croft in this delightful cozy mystery romp through Victorian Africa. Armed with Victorian etiquette, a fully loaded walking stick, and a dead husband, Miss Beatrice Knight arrives in the small colonial town of Nairobi desperate for a pot of tea and a pinch of cinnamon. This collection brings together for ... Read more

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Free: The Driftwood Mysteries

William Cook

The Driftwood Mysteries are nail-biting suspense thrillers set in a small town on the Oregon coast. Native American policeman Charley Whitehorse and his partner, Tony Esperanza, are all that stand between the residents and the darkness that takes so many forms: a sexual predator prevented from being brought to justice by the Catholic Church’s Seal ... 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 and the first African-American tank unit in U.S. history. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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A Man Out for Blood (The Jack Reacher Cases)

Dan Ames

$10 million to kill Jack Reacher. When the family of one of the richest men in the world is murdered, evidence points to Jack Reacher as the killer. The billionaire puts a $10 million bounty on Reacher’s head. Soon, three assassins are on Reacher’s trail and one of them targets private investigator Lauren Pauling, a ... Read more

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Free: Maniacal: A Detective Jade Monroe Crime Thriller

C.M. Sutter

Sleepy little North Bend just woke up. The newly-promoted Sergeant Jade Monroe, and her partner, Detective Jack Steele, have just been informed of an unidentified male body found at a local lake. The town is in an uproar. The victim was nearly decapitated, and murder simply doesn’t happen in North Bend. As more bodies turn ... Read more

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It Began With a Lie

Michele PW (Pariza Wacek)

A fresh start. That’s what Becca had hoped for. But instead she’s thrust into a past she barely remembers, one that threatens her sanity and her life. Get started with this award-winning series today. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Not Dead Yet (Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Book 7)

Willow Rose

Secrets lead to lies and lies to murder in this pulse-pounding mystery with lots of shocking twists. Has former FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas finally gotten herself in deeper than she can handle? When the body of Nancy Henry is pulled out of the water of Sykes Creek by two local fishermen, they soon realize she’s ... Read more

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Free: A Teacher in the Dumps

Monique Bird

Claire is a seventh-grade science teacher who loves a good puzzle. When a young man is found dead in a restaurant’s dumpster Claire is happy to help her friends. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Suckerfish City

The Brothers Rodemeyer

A cautionary tale of misplaced loyalty and blind obsession from the bestselling writing team, The Brothers Rodemeyer. Like a typical love story, Suckerfish City begins with a drug deal on a porn set. Okay, it’s not Jane Austen, but Shakespeare would have dug this gritty, no-holds-barred, crime-drama. Told from the perspective of a teenage runaway, ... Read more

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Free: Murder and Mozzarella

Carole Fowkes

Claire DeNardo finally has her own private detective agency, DeNardo & Son. The son is her beloved dog, Charlie. Her first client is the wife of a Cleveland power broker who hires Claire to find her missing daughter and to make sure her derelict stepson isn’t guilty of foul play. But Claire quickly discovers her ... Read more

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The Interview: Country on Fire

R Lazarus

As protests, riots, fires, and rampant crime rock the world, Shawn Thomas finds himself in an interview room the morning after the most violent night in Atlanta’s history. APD Detective Vaughn has made it his mission to find out how things escalated the way they did, but when his questioning takes a turn down a ... Read more

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Shallow Ground (Detective Ford Book 1)

Andy Maslen

Detective Ford has a cold-blooded killer to catch. But can he escape his own dark secrets? Barely a month since his promotion to Inspector, DI Ford is called in to investigate the murder of a young nurse and her son in a small flat in Salisbury. There are few clues, and no apparent motive, but ... Read more

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The Secret of The Golden Christmas Cracker

May Quillink

A captivating Christmas mystery novella, set in Victorian London with a dash of danger. This is no ordinary Christmas cracker. And these are no ordinary lovers. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Blood in the Bluegrass

Virginia Slachman

Harper had put the past behind her. Or so she thought. When her sister dies, she returns to the flashy and high-dollar world of Lexington Thoroughbred horse racing and quickly realizes her sister’s death was no accident. Solving her sister’s murder and saving her family’s stud farm will take every ounce of Harper’s wit and ... Read more

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