This book selection was updated on July 11th, 2026.
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Free: Losing Lenore : A Tommy Cuda Mystery

Winner 2026 Best Mystery Pacific Book Awards. Tommy escapes a life of text messages by chasing his grandad’s dream of cruising Route 66 in a Barracuda. A fortune teller’s tarot card, a Cadillac in hot pursuit, a sex crime, and a deep family secret hop in the car beside him. So, Tommy does what any good private eye would do when the stakes are high and he’s running out of time. Protect the client. Follow the money. “He’s[Tommy’s] the kind of character an actor would build... [Read More...]

An Abrupt Departure

Welcome to Bleeding Hearts Valley, a standalone series of interconnected thrillers in one twisted midwestern suburb. A mystery from USA Today Bestselling author, P.D. Workman that will keep you turning the pages! An abandoned apartment holds deadly secrets. When Graham Hall, owner of “Hall it Away” junk removal services, steps into an abandoned apartment, he expects to take out the trash—literally. But what he uncovers is anything but garbage. What he finds sends chills down his s... [Read More...]

Storm Warning: A Sonny Marshall Thriller

Sonny Marshall, a gifted saxophonist with a past haunted by violence, lives his life between soulful nights on stage and the quiet discipline of martial arts. But when a friend’s chance sighting reopens the cold case of a girl kidnapped seven years ago, Sonny is drawn into a darkness that melody can’t touch. His unofficial investigation pulls him from the neon glow of jazz clubs into a sinister underworld of child exploitation and ruthless criminals. With the police investigation stalled, S... [Read More...]

Storm Damage: A Sonny Marshall Thriller

The deadliest threat in California doesn’t come with a warning—it slips into your system, rewires your mind, and turns you into a killer with a smile. When a banker opens fire at Folsom Flea Market, Detective Kat Hastings catches the case—but takes three bullets before she can stop the carnage. Now she’s in the ICU, the victim of a drugged-up killer. That night, during a gig, Sonny Marshall watches helplessly as his band’s guitarist collapses mid-set, brought down by a dru... [Read More...]

Free: The Screaming Echo of Death

In this mystery novel, Dart is a private detective whose life is falling apart. Driven by guilt, unable to see the path ahead, he stumbles awkwardly forward. Suddenly he is confronted by two deaths. A boy hires him to discover why a woman walked into a bay and never stopped before killing herself. Then Dart’s ex-wife desperately needs his help in dealing with a murder. Facing twists and dangers, Dart must seek to heal himself before he can save those who desperately need his help. Free on Kin... [Read More...]

Vice & Virtue

Some secrets are buried so deep, it takes a skeleton to unearth them. When a construction crew demolishing an old warehouse uncovers human remains hidden beneath the floorboards, Detective Sergeant Ben Winters knows someone went to great lengths to make sure those bones were never found. Before he can learn whose skeleton it is, Parker City is rocked by something far more urgent — a cop killer is on the loose. Three officers gunned down in cold blood, and Winters and his partner Detective Tom... [Read More...]

Protect & Defend: A Suspenseful Military Thriller

FOR THOSE TAKEN, HE’S THEIR LAST BEST HOPE. Former Army Ranger and FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader Jacob St. Christopher has always operated within the law. That’s about to change. Start reading book #1 in a 5-book series of action thrillers and join Jacob as his career takes an unexpected turn…toward becoming an elite UNSANCTIONED hostage rescue specialist. $2.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Vigilante Priest

Father Tony is a once-popular New York priest with family ties to the mob, and is troubled with the secrets he holds – torn by what is right and wrong. Eddie Rodriguez is a tough NYC cop with a serious chip on his shoulder, and a hilarious way of expressing himself. And he can tell when the stuff is about to hit the fan. Vigilante Priest is a gripping thriller that addresses a serious issue, and while this may seem ominous and heavy, it is written with a bit of comic relief. Buy Vigilante... [Read More...]

Stars and Six-Shooters

A clerical mix-up leaves Yale astronomer Theodore Pembroke wearing a tin star in Moon Creek, a lawless town that’s already buried three marshals. Armed with probability charts and an unshakable faith in science, Teddy fights crime like no lawman before — trapping outlaws in contraptions and confusing desperados into surrender with physics lectures. But the corrupt mayor wants the peculiar new marshal gone. With a sharp-eyed deputy, a saloon-keeping doctor, and a laundress who knows ever... [Read More...]

The Closing Window: A Novel

A thirty-nine-day war between the United States and Iran ends the way modern wars end now: not in surrender, but in a memorandum. The guns go silent. The money is promised. The world exhales. Buried within the language of the peace are nineteen words that quietly abandon the people who believed the bombing meant deliverance. In Washington, a small policy institute that has spent its life describing the world decides, for the first time, to act on it, and learns that the line between analysis an... [Read More...]

Free: A Whale of a Murder: A Venus Bixby Mystery

Why is this July 4th cozy mystery described as fun and frothy? Because … On the morning of her 50th birthday party, VENUS BIXBY stumbles over orange platform shoes in the gardens of the whaling museum and breaks her thumb. When it’s discovered the shoes are attached to the dead body of the manager of the museum’s gift shop, Venus becomes both a suspect and a sleuth. Will she sing and dance at her party, or will she and her thumb be hauled off in handcuffs? Includes a playlist so you can s... [Read More...]

Echoes of Fortune: The Search for Braddock’s Lost Gold

Young Washington hits theaters July 3, 2026. Andy Serkis plays General Braddock. Read the untold story of what really vanished on Braddock’s Road. Winner of the 2025 PenCraft Book Award for Best Thriller. Can one man change his past with the discovery of a lifetime? “A diverting tale of an exciting, harrowing quest for a centuries-old fortune.” – Kirkus Reviews Driven by obsession, Jack Sullivan has lost nearly everything chasing a secret buried for centuries in the chaos of war. Le... [Read More...]

Together On Our Own

After a patient’s unexpected death, an emergency medicine resident develops an unhealthy attachment to the hospital’s new AI system. But when she’s drawn to a fellow resident, questions about the tragedy pull her back into the real world. Together, they uncover signs the death may not have been an accident. A slow-burn medical romantic suspense written by a practicing ER physician. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Free: Cemetery View: A Novel

When a shocking discovery unearths an old secret, can Stella expose a killer? Abandoned by her mother ten years earlier, Stella Ingman returns to her childhood home to help her father clean up after a flood. But she’s horrified when repairs to the backyard swimming pool reveal her missing parent’s hidden corpse. Plunged into the depths of guilt and refusing to see her father as the number one suspect, Stella focuses on solving the gruesome crime. But hunting a murderer in the tight-knit sma... [Read More...]

The Last Ship

Thomas Seville spent years making sure his family could survive the end of the world. Then the end came while they were separated. Now his boat is stocked, his instincts are sharp, and his family is out of reach. Around him, fear is spreading through the marina, and the first men willing to kill for a way out are already making their move. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Free: Murder in the Shade of Crimson

Days after her sister’s tragic end, Ireland Matthews stumbles across a troubling letter. Several weeks later, Ireland crosses paths with a man seeking the truth about what really happened to her sibling. Suspecting someone close to Ireland is involved, the man enlists Ireland’s help to prove it. Initially, Ireland refuses to believe or help the man, but then decides to jump on board after realizing secrets have been kept from her and lies have been told. Free on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

EMP Shadow Fall

He was the man on the mountain with more ammunition than the county sheriff’s office, a shortwave in his kitchen, and a pantry stocked to feed four people for a year. The whole mountain laughed at him. Then the EMP hit. Now the whole mountain was coming to Dutch’s gate. Lilly had come home to a dying father, a furious twin sister, and a family still broken by the years she’d been gone. Her sister had spent those years running the still alone, hauling wood up the ridge, and changing their ... [Read More...]

In the Serpent’s Shadow: Where Power Breeds Poison (The Rouke Correlation Book 1)

He was hired to find the leak. He didn’t know he was the bait. Caleb Rourke thought returning to Washington was just another job — a routine security audit for a biotech giant, triple the usual rate, quick in and out. Then he found a ghost in the code: a decade-old encryption signature from a heist he was supposed to have buried forever. And a name he never expected to see again.When Caleb’s ruthless aunt Vivienne — Washington’s most formidable power broker, days from conf... [Read More...]

The House Obedient

From Angela R. Key, author of the Amazon bestselling psychological thriller The Lies We Inherit, comes a colder, sharper return to the Scott family world. What began as revelation becomes rule. After Richard Scott’s death, Elise Marian Scott does not inherit comfort. She inherits control. At Ashdown, the family estate that once trained everyone around it to obey, Elise locks down access, strips old assumptions of power, and begins uncovering the hidden architecture beneath the Scott name: sea... [Read More...]

Free: Better to Have Lost

For some, love has only one side. Elliot can’t drink enough to drown out the memory of Stephanie—the woman who chose anything better than him. Then he learns she’s engaged to a rising district attorney — a man marked for death. The hit is already in motion—ordered by the powerful Lucio Corbucci crime family. And Elliot hears about it from the man sent to make sure it happens. A tailspin of emotions reopens old wounds and new possibilities. Should he warn them? Try to stop it? Or let f... [Read More...]

Pitch Black: A Psychological Survival Thriller

The most dangerous traps don’t stop you from moving forward — they turn you into a part of their mechanism. J. wakes up trapped in an unknown underground environment, with no explanations and no obvious way out. Forced to quickly grasp the rules of a game he never chose, he must make decisions under extreme pressure, in a space that tests both his physical and psychological limits. Every step forward becomes a direct confrontation with darkness, isolation, and his own survival instincts. A ... [Read More...]

DARKLANDS PARANOMAL (The Chronicles)

This book is like no other containing 90 QR codes to scan to hear real spirits speak right off the pages! A few bonus videos, one of a bound possessed clown forced to make a toy spin! Some of the things ghosts say will shock you- Use earbuds or headphones to isolate the voices as you read and be prepared to be blown away… $1.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

New Australia

America has annexed Greenland as our 51st state, only to drill for oil in its vast Arctic reserves. To do so inexpensively, polarizing President Franklin Hale establishes a prison camp for free prisoner labor. David Parnell has a thriving business and devoted family but is sent to the camp–New Australia–under false pretenses. Can he survive cruel conditions to return to his family and escape an immoral government? $0.99 on Kindle ... [Read More...]

Freddy Ferguson

From Book 1: A mysterious woman fleeing an unknown terror boards the wrong plane at San Francisco International and disappears into the heart of the country. Freddy Ferguson, a troubled detective with a violent past, believes she’s the last living witness to a crime that has captivated the nation. Sifting through the wreckage of her past, he begins to understand who she’s running from, and why. Now he must track her down before her pursuers can silence her for good. A modern crime t... [Read More...]

The Hiding Girl (The Emily Calby Series Book 1)

Twelve-year-old Emily Calby was a good girl from a good family in rural Georgia. She loved softball, her little sister, and looking up words to get her allowance. Then two men came and murdered her family. Only the killers know she escaped. On the run, surviving by wits and instinct, she meets an unlikely mentor and protector in ex-gang member Lucas Jackson, who takes her in off the streets of Memphis and teaches her how to survive—and kill. When more tragedy strikes, Emily is thrust into a p... [Read More...]

Grid Zero

Plunged into a prolonged blackout by back-to-back hurricanes, America’s East Coast suffers sweltering heat, lack of food, and the beginnings of civil unrest. As Empire Energy struggles to repair its storm-damaged grid, it discovers a bigger problem: sophisticated malware has been ravaging its internal control network for weeks. As power returns, the human toll of the outage becomes clear. Thousands of elderly and chronically ill citizens have succumbed to the heat. While the public rejoic... [Read More...]

The Debt

‘A muscular, suspenseful crime thriller about consequence and the long shadow of obligation.’ BestThrillers.comMichael Kramer, an eighteen-year-old talented martial artist, is blamed for the accidental death of his best friend James Basset. Sentenced to five years for involuntary manslaughter, Michael is forced to navigate a prison system where race dictates every opportunity and every threat. In this harsh world, trusting someone like Ijal, a drug mogul from a different background,... [Read More...]

Blood Red Deceit

Forensic expert Ridge Warner saves his fiancée’s life, but the blood that keeps her alive exposes a secret that turns their wedding countdown deadly. In Woodland Park, Colorado, a murdered pastor, a desecrated church, and a hidden explosive pull Ridge into a case where every answer leads deeper into betrayal. Ridge can read evidence. The harder question is whether he can read the woman he loves. $2.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Finding Brody

Violet visits the sticky heat of the South to help her best friend find her missing husband. Her last case involved missing ChapStick, but she’s all Fiona has, since the sheriff abandoned the case. However, as the clues add up, she realizes everyone is a suspect, including her own friend. Perfect for fans of small-town secrets and amateur sleuths. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

The Empty-nesters Cozy Mystery series

A clean, humorous cozy mystery series featuring a sharp-witted amateur sleuth, small-town secrets, and birding adventures gone wrong. When widow Peg Howard starts a birding group in Pensacola to cope with empty-nest syndrome, she doesn’t expect to find herself solving murders. But with a keen eye for detail and plenty of time on her hands, Peg keeps uncovering clues others miss—and landing in the middle of dangerous investigations. Set in Northwest Florida, with scenes at Fort Barrancas and... [Read More...]

Hornet’s Nest

Lieutenant Virginia Hornet is on a suicide mission to save a love she thought she had left in her past in this tense, breakneck thriller by Army veteran and award-winning author Victoria Montes. Ginny Hornet thought the hardest part of her past was behind her—until a murder case lands on her desk and pulls her straight back into it. Captain Tom Rivers is accused of the brutal murder his pregnant fiancée. To everyone else, the evidence looks airtight—all Tom needs to do is sign the plea dea... [Read More...]

91 Seconds

From the world of the #1 Amazon Urban Fiction hit The Monster Besides the Silence comes the newest installment in the Wolf Gospel Universe: a hard, fast, pressure-loaded street novel about hunger, loyalty, fear, and the deadly math of bad decisions made too quickly. 91 Seconds follows Augustus “Ock B” Jenkins, a man pushing forty and running out of respectable ways to survive. The jobs dried up. The money never stretches far enough. Family still needs him. Pride still tells him he can hold... [Read More...]