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: Flippers, Blades and Murder (Apple Creek R-Park Department Mysteries Book 1)
Newly single mom forced back to hometown. Council member murdered at new job. Will she crack the case or become the next victim? Margaret is freaking out. Moving back to her mother’s home as a newly single mom while taking the Recreation and Parks director position in Apple Creek wasn’t part of the plan. Things ... Read more
Free: Black Tides
A quest to find a fabled pirate treasure, uncover a legendary lost colony, and solve the secrets of piracy’s Golden Age. At the soaring height of the Golden Age of Piracy in the year 1717, a young boy takes to the high seas with a ragtag gang of marauders to seek his fortune. His mentor ... Read more
Free: The Mist: Books One and Two
The ancient land of Batu is on the verge of extinction. Its villagers have been driven to the top of frozen Mt. Hua to escape the evil shroud that is stealing the souls of their children. Bohai, the teenage shaman, knows his people’s only hope lie with three teenage friends living 1000 years in the ... Read more
The Cure
Kat Beckman is a survivor. A harrowing IED attack in Afghanistan has left Kat with debilitating PTSD, even though everything else in her life seems normal. It’s not something she talks about. Never. The secrets from her time overseas have stayed there. It’s better that way… or at least she thinks so. One day, visiting ... Read more
Fifteen Years Later
Dylan, an adolescent outcast, must navigate the disappearance of her friend in the aftermath of a humiliating party. Years later, as an adult, she must reconcile the events of her difficult youth with what she uncovers about the night of the disappearance. Despite her efforts, one question seems impossible to answer: why, only now, has ... Read more
Catastrophe at Killdeer Cay
Emma Finch is on a well-deserved vacation with her boyfriend. Everything is smooth sailing until Emma boards a tender to the picturesque island of Lapis Rock. While waiting to arrive in paradise, one of the seven passengers on the boat is murdered, and the captain is forced to stop at an abandoned island. Stuck until ... Read more
Love at the French Station
Desperate in Barcelona, Laurie helps a stranger in exchange for airfare back home to New Orleans. She is given a simple task, but an error in timing throws her life into chaos. Joshua, a hot, young American drifter she meets, takes pity on this beautiful girl and helps her navigate the pitfalls of life on ... Read more
Shelter Beyond the Wires
Lawless towns, deadly gangs, and no safe haven—will Kat make it home? When a solar flare cripples the world’s power, trucker Kat is stranded miles from her daughter, with no food, no shelter, and no safety in sight. Small towns have turned lawless, and Kat must fight through brutal obstacles to reach her little girl. ... Read more
The Wrongful Conviction of Oscar Pistorius
Just when the world thought Oscar Pistorius’ meteoric rise to Olympic glory and international celebrity had terminated abysmally in prison, Brent Willock’s scientific perspective reopens this gripping narrative for an astonishing re-view. Oscar’s spectacular assent to fame ground to a screeching halt in the wee hours of Valentine’s Day, 2013. Hearing a sound emanating from ... Read more
All June Left Behind
Bestselling Author of Flat Out Lies and The Dime Box, an Amnesty International Book Club novel. Ray had it all—a loving relationship with his wife June, a busy farm, and two beautiful grown children. Until the night June was shot on their fortieth anniversary during a botched robbery at a restaurant. Two years after June’s ... Read more
Chase Baker and the Hunt for Nazi Gold
War is Hell! But Stealing Nazi Treasure is Pure Gold! Adventurer Chase Baker is back in action. He, along with the beautiful daughter of a New York City pawn shop owner, fly to Europe to uncover a stash of Nazi gold estimated to be worth over $1.5 billion dollars. How are they going to do ... Read more
Gate 76
A detective in the mold of Bosch and Reacher tracks down the last surviving witness to a major crime – a troubled woman who doesn’t want to be found. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Bottom Floor Book 4
Welcome to Book Four of this time-travel series. You have already been through more time portals than we knew existed as we follow Jonathan and Denise through some thrills and drama and suspense. More to come in this book so look out for the twists and turns that you have come to enjoy. Remember Jonathan ... Read more
Full Circle
Ten years ago, rookie cop Jane Rieger helped put away a hit-and-run driver with testimony that sealed his fate. Now, a decade later, Homicide Detective Sergeant Jane Rieger-Franklin confronts a ghost from her past. The same man—or someone strikingly like him—has reappeared, lurking in plain sight. And this time, he’s not fleeing. He’s hunting. As ... Read more
Lucky Shot: A Classic Western Adventure
U.S. Marshal Branson Pike must escort reckless bounty hunter Lucky Bones across New Mexico to testify. With killers in pursuit and a reporter chasing a deadly smuggling story, alliances shift fast. When the smoke clears, who’s really on your side? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Where the Grid Ends
No power. No law. Just the fight for survival. When an EMP wipes out power, chaos takes over. Dr. Annabelle Wheeler is trapped in a psychiatric hospital overrun by violent inmates. Across the city, Hazel, Lucy, and Katherine are kidnapped by a ruthless gangster. With no power or law, two ex-Marines race through a crumbling ... Read more
Free: West End Justice (A Detective Morgan Foster Vigilante Justice Thriller Book 1)
Everything in Detective Morgan Foster’s life is a secret…Living in West End, West Virginia wasn’t part of the plan, but the murders of her husband, Peter, and her partner, AJ Roth, have sent her into hiding. For a while, everything seemed to be fine, but two dead bodies at her waitressing job tell another story…Unable ... Read more
Free: A Totally Killer Wedding
It’s 1985, and Beckett Monahan is working as a church secretary in her small hometown, where she has one ear on the local grapevine and the other on the rotary phone. She’s working a wedding when she stumbles upon the best man’s dead body. Investigating hijinks ensue as Beckett scrambles to clear her aunt’s name ... Read more
Secret Police
Inspired by contemporary geo-politics, World War II technology and style, and the major personalities that have shaped nations since the dawn of civilization. Secret Police is a thrilling political drama set in a world of power, betrayal, and blackmail. Brendan, a mild-mannered government worker, is forced into helping Jackson, a ruthless operative, with political assassinations ... Read more
Free: The Suicide Detective
On a mission to capture a ruthless Al Qaeda terrorist, Sergeant Amber Downing is captured and Razor, her military working dog is injured and left for dead. Special Forces teams make heroic attempts to rescue her, but the enemy is deadly and cunning. Despite his injury, Razor never gives up on his beloved master. After ... Read more
The Ambition
An entertaining, sexy, cat-and-mouse crime thriller set in the cosmopolitan city of Toronto’s building industry. Driving ambition propels John Cippione to expand the business he inherited from his father too quickly, but big industry players conspire against him. Can John win the fight, and at what cost? “A riveting story of high-finance business deals, Italian ... Read more
Free: Project Echo
When government auditor Lila Reyes arrives in Echo Town, she finds a place that isn’t on any map and shouldn’t exist. The streets are too perfect, the residents too polite, and the bells that ring through the town stop everyone in their tracks. There’s no phone signal, no internet, and no way to call for ... Read more
Dark Days Ahead
Chaos erupts in New York City when an EMP shuts down all power, transportation, communication, and critical infrastructure. Tom Stryder and his family are caught in the middle of the attack, and Tom summons all his skills to rescue his family from the dangerous city before they’re forever trapped in New York. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Paladin’s Deception
Bound by destiny, hunted by darkness. I never asked to be a Viator—gifted with the powers of the angels and destined to protect humanity from the shadows. I definitely didn’t ask for a mate bond to someone I barely remember. Now, I’m being hunted by the Paladin Order’s ruthless leader, a man who will stop ... Read more
Fade to Blue: A Fast-Paced Medical Thriller with a Sharp Twist
“Filled with vivid characters and a fast moving plot.” — BookLife, Editor’s Pick “An engaging medical mystery, after which the plot becomes a swiftly paced thriller.” — Kirkus Reviews Sarah has a wonderful boyfriend and a great career, but she’s about to snap. Eager to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease and spend more time ... Read more
The Town That Shouldn’t Exist: The Complete Trilogy
All 3 books of the thrilling horror series in one ebook bundle! Trapped in a town surrounded by an endless blizzard, a group of people struggle to survive while looking for a way home. To make matters worse, something stalks the streets at night, killing the residents one by one. And it’s hunting more and ... Read more
Kentucky Blood (The Kentucky Blood Series Book 1)
A GRIPPING, DARK SOUTHERN SAGA. In a 90s-era Kentucky fueled by sex, drugs, and violence, the Cunninghams will stop at nothing to find The Temple, a place of unimaginable wealth and glory. To unlock its secrets, they imprison victims in their garage, each kidnapping leading them closer to their coveted prize. “We’re gonna find it, ... Read more
The Bottom Floor: Jonathan and Denise have a wild ride through the portals of time
Jonathan West gave a very moving and beautiful eulogy for his dear friend Kathryn Kramer at the Manfred Methodist Church in Newton. The twenty-one-year-old college student felt a very special bond with the 101-year-old great grandmother and matriarch of the Kramer family. Now she was gone, and he missed her dearly. If only he could ... Read more
Free: The Weasel: Psychological thriller. Mystery. Suspense.
Anna lives a picture-perfect life as a school principal, wife, and mother—until a strange animal repeatedly crosses her path, sparking an eerie obsession. For a year, the furry creature appears like clockwork… then vanishes on her 40th birthday, only to seemingly reappear as a new teacher at her school. When tragedy strikes Anna’s friends and ... Read more
DARKNESS IN DAKOTA
Cal Denton isn’t your typical FBI agent—he’s a convicted felon turned federal asset. Pulled from an undercover Detroit case, he’s sent to rural South Dakota to investigate the brutal murder of a local sheriff. Disguised as a ranch foreman, Cal digs into the town’s secrets while growing dangerously close to the victim’s widow. The deeper ... Read more
The Prepper’s Final Stand
After an EMP plunges Chicago into chaos, podcast host Stephanie must escape with her brother and a stranger. With violence rising and supplies vanishing, trust becomes deadly. Will they make it out before the city falls completely? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The House of the Damned: Sin & Deceit (The House of the Damned Trilogy Book 1)
Some cages are gilded. Others are built from lies. Georgia was raised to be the perfect wife—a dutiful daughter, a vision of grace, a sacrifice for the family name. When she is wed to a wealthy but unfeeling man, she resigns herself to a life of quiet obedience… until a chance encounter ignites a forbidden ... Read more
The Samuel Pepys Mysteries
The Samuel Pepys Mysteries bring Charles II’s England vividly to life in the company of the famous diarist, Pepys, and his unlikely inquisitors: Abigail Harcourt, a printer’s daughter with a brilliant mind, and Jacob Standish, his loyal and sharp-eyed protégé. Witty, atmospheric, and rich in historical detail, the Pepys Mysteries are also fiendishly plotted – ... Read more
The Client: A Domestic Psychological Thriller
Natalie thought she had it all: a loving husband, a cozy home, and a thriving career as a freelance editor. But when her biggest client vanishes without a trace, her carefully constructed world begins to unravel. Left with mounting debt and shattered confidence, Natalie clings to David, her charming and supportive husband, for strength. As ... Read more
Who Okayed This?! The Riveting Life of Grant Davis
“THE DIARY OF A MAN AT DEATHS DOOR!” “Who Okayed This?! The Riveting Life of Grant Davis,” as seen on ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX, is a thriller penned by the internationally acclaimed author P.E. Barrington. This gripping novel is dark and gritty, inspired by true events. Grant Davis’ story has captivated the literary world, ... Read more
Operation Storm’s Eye
An enemy arises, able to destroy any part of the world with their new weapon, creating powerful storms and natural disasters. But after losing a fellow team, Alpha team know all too well what’s at stake. Using their high-tech armoury, they must travel the globe in search of leads, assault a submarine, take control of ... Read more
Pacific Northwest Cozy Culinary Mystery – Complete Series
Books 1 – 6 Complete Series with a bonus prequel short story. Lily Pine recently moved to a cozy peninsula town in the Pacific Northwest. Her plans to open a bayside restaurant and start a new life are hindered when she is unexpectedly swept into a murder mystery. Can Lily make new friends in this ... Read more
Free: Black Dog Escape
“What have I done?” Navy SEAL Jack Thibideaux thinks as he stands over the shepherd girl he has just accidentally shot high atop a snow capped peak in Afghanistan. Thus starts Jack’s perilous journey to save the girl, and himself. With the Taliban close behind, Jack fights his way down the mountain to rescue the ... Read more
Free: FLEE (A Nomad Thriller Book 2)
FLEE, Klingler’s high-stakes thriller, opens with a rush of adrenaline as Damon’s partner is infected with a pandemic encircling the planet: no cure and a 51-day death cycle. As the clock ticks down, Damon gets ever closer to a reality that seems impossible to believe—and even harder to stop. “A must-read conspiracy thriller.”—Pacific Book Review ... Read more
Breakwater Bay: Put-in-Bay – Chincoteague – The Congo – Madagascar – Somalia – Antwerp (Emerson Moore Book 19)
A deadly secret buried in the jungle. A race against time across continents. A reporter with everything to lose. Investigative journalist Emerson Moore thought he was headed for sun-soaked relaxation on a diving trip to Madagascar. But when he crosses paths with a smooth-talking, down-and-out British reporter, everything changes. Sucked into a shady rescue mission ... Read more
