Thrillers

Thrillers

Has the need for thrills lead you to our page to download free and discounted thriller ebooks? You’ve come to the right place. Satisfy your thrill seeking bones for bestselling thrillers in this category, and never pay more than what you should. We routinely feature the best authors of thriller ebooks, and they always promote their ebooks to you--for free or for a discount. 

 

Definition of "Thriller Genre": The thriller genre is very broad and can be difficult to define.  However, the focus of a thriller ebook is typically on action, danger and suspense.  The genre can be broken into an almost infinite number of sub-genres, including action thrillers (think Clive Cussler ebooks), romance thrillers, psychological thrillers (think Psycho by Hitchcock), science fiction thrillers, and spy thrillers, just to name a few.  Common elements can include car chases, gun shoot outs, explosions, or in the case of psychological thrillers, the elements of danger can be related to the mental manipulation of characters by other characters.  It is an expansive genre, and one of the most popular at eBookHounds.

 

Some examples of the best thriller authors and ebooks of all time: Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code), Robert Ludlum (The Bourne Identity), Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain), John Grisham (Time to Kill), John D. MacDonald (Cape Fear); James Patterson (Kiss the Girls).  As you can see, ebooks in the thriller category vary widely in their substance, and the sub-genres can almost be considered genres of their own!

DAKAR: The End (The Puppets of Washington Book 4)

by Lavina Giamusso

THE RESTLESS CHASE IS COMING TO AN END, BUT NOT BEFORE ALL THE MYSTERIES AROUND AMADOU SAVOI, RICHARD GILMAN AND CARMINE ARE SOLVED.

ALL THE PIECES ARE COMING TOGETHER. NOW THEY ARE GETTING CLOSER TO THE PUPPETEER, THE CLOSER THEY GET THE MORE DANGEROUS IT BECOMES. THE PUPPETEER IS PREPARED TO STOP THEM AT ANY COST.

...is arrested for a drug running operation that he was trying to expand from Nouakchott to Bamako. Although Richard Gilman was supposed to have died at the hands of Johan Van Burren, the man reappeared as an undercover agent working for…

Together with Abdul Rasheed, Steve Foster, a.k.a. Richard Gilman were the puppeteer’s first two puppets. They raised havoc for him, while ensuring that the drugs the DEA or CIA confiscated in Africa were channeled back to his main cache in Senegal.

Somebody has stumbled on the identity of The Puppeteer quite by accident. When Talya and Samuel in Angouleme in France get the news, they can finally go home. Will Talya and Samuel reach the CSIS in Ottawa safe and sound to reveal what they have discovered?

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Purified

by Brian Robert Smith

“There’s no use trying to escape. You’re miles from anywhere. You have no clothes, no food, no money... You’re dead, Mason.”

Mason Bushing died over a year ago, but his life was saved through an unauthorized experiment with a drug called Purify. When he awakens in a strange place, all Mason wants is his old life back. His plans change after he discovers his wife is more interested in the insurance money than seeing him alive. His best friend doesn’t believe his story, and after he almost kills his wife’s new boyfriend, fraud and assault charges loom.

When a detective is assigned the case, his suspicions are raised by lies, disturbing coincidences, and related homicides. Mason becomes his prime suspect, and he’s forced to run again.

Imagine having to run from someone who saved your life. Imagine everyone thinking you’re dead, and waking up to questions, accusations, conspiracies and murder. What would you do if you were Purified?
 

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The Anonymous Signal

by Erec Stebbins

NO FORGIVENESS. NO FORGETTING. EXPECT IT.
The global financial system is in chaos. World leaders have been compromised. An unstoppable computer virus eats through the Internet.
They are Anonymous. They do not forgive. They do not forget. Expect their signal.

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Alive and Killing (David Wolf Book 3)

by Jeff Carson

Just for a day, Colorado Sheriff David Wolf trades slogging through murky meltwaters and even murkier small-town politics for an overnight camping trip in the wilderness with his son.

But when a man with fresh burns turns up on their trail, falling from the heavy load in his backpack and running wild from something, Wolf suspects his father-son camping trip may have just taken a turn for the worse.

Unfortunately his instincts are spot on, and Wolf is forced into action with the last person he wants by his side in a deadly battle — his only son.

When news of their disturbing episode travels through the valleys, local FBI agents want to take over Wolf's investigation, hoping to halt murder and corruption originating 7,000 miles away in Afghanistan. Wolf ignores the FBI's order to stand down, even if the case involves a matter of national security. Not when his son's safety is at stake.

In this stomach-dropping, action and suspense packed third installment of the David Wolf series, Wolf partners with a beautiful FBI agent to bust an inter-continental conspiracy threatening anyone who has the bad enough luck to stumble on it.

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On The Black: (A CIA Mystery Suspense Thriller)

by Theo Cage

A CIA MYSTERY BLACK OPS THRILLER.


One of the most decorated covert agents in U.S. history, Burroughs Rice, has been “on the black” for ten years, deep under cover and running for his life from some of the world's most dangerous power brokers.

When a mysterious government agency stumbles onto the ex-agent in the wilds of Washington state, they force Rice to deal with a terrible secret. What follows is a harrowing road trip across the American heartland with Rice at war with an army of International mercenaries, an organized crime family, and an ultra-violent biker gang.

Complicating his mission is a young hitchhiker he rescues, and a trauma nurse who becomes an unwitting ally.

ON THE BLACK comes to a surprising climax in the nation's capital - an armed showdown in one of the country's most famous national treasures.

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Dangerous Intentions (His Agenda 2)

by Dori Lavelle

My name is Haley Macknight, and I've finally escaped my marriage from hell. But my husband, Jude Macknight, has murder on his mind. He will stop at nothing to get me back. Even from a distance, he's controlling the course of my life. It's only a matter of time before he finds me. Before he kills me.

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From the moment I'd entered Jude's life, he had managed mine. He'd ordered me, albeit with the illusion of gentleness at first, to do what he wanted. He'd molded me into the kind of woman that fit into his life. I had offered him my freedom in exchange for security, and then love. Freedom was a high price to pay, but one often finds that out too late.

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The Survival of Thomas Ford

by John A. A. Logan

THE SURVIVAL OF THOMAS FORD

Thomas Ford is the only survivor of the car crash which killed his wife. He is also the only witness who would be willing to identify the young, reckless driver who caused the crash. But the driver has no intention of ever letting himself be identified, not to mention what his father’s intentions are…or those of his girlfriend, Lorna, the hospital cleaner.

The young driver’s father is Jack McCallum, the powerful entrepreneur who has built a housing empire, McCallum Homes, on the high hills surrounding the city. Jack has his own dark secret to protect, as well as his business edifice to hold onto. There is no way in the world that Jack McCallum will ever let anything threaten the future of McCallum Homes.

Robert Ferguson, the passenger who was with the young driver on the day of the crash, curses himself for ever getting into the car. He watches carefully to see what the universe will do about it all, and he thinks he can hear the gears and chambers of the universe’s engine, rolling terribly towards them, out of the future, and he knows he can’t cope with that, not even if he takes his medication.

In the end, destiny will pull them all far out of the city, some of them to the moonlit hillside, where white butterflies and mysterious gas fill the air, and wild cats wrap themselves around cold trees. Jack McCallum’s trusted Polish foreman, Lanski, will recognise the place from the folklore-wilderness of his own childhood, a place where death can come stalking in the form of a white wolf, but perhaps also redemption can appear, for those like Thomas Ford who seek it.

In any case, the young driver has it in mind to take his destiny into his own hands now, which will soon lead to the life of a second young woman hanging in the balance, awaiting salvation or destruction, perhaps only the Fates, or the wind that blows through the trees, know which.

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Escape, A New Life

by David Antocci

After saving a drowning man during a savage storm, Abby wakes up in a tropical paradise in a fight for her life.  She has no idea how she got there, and notices changes in herself that she cannot explain. Haunted by unsettling dreams of her past, she meets up with Eric, and together they set out to escape. Standing in their way is a madman, and his band of willing followers, with a mind set on murdering their unwelcome visitors. An eccentric hermit who has been living there for years offers them refuge, but they must deny his generosity. Escape is their only option.  Yet, they discover this deceptive paradise is harder to leave than they had ever imagined.  One mystery leads to another, until their escape throws them into even greater danger as Abby’s frightening past finally catches up with her.  Her escape is only the beginning.
 

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Children of the After: Awakening (book 1)

by Jeremy Laszlo

It has been six months since their father locked them in the security vault with a promise to return. But he never came back. With supplies running out and vital life support systems failing, Jack, Samantha, and Will have no choice but to ignore their father’s warnings and leave the vault. With no knowledge of what befell the world outside, or what they might expect once the door is opened, they find themselves in a world they do not recognize.

Thrust into the remains of the world they remember, how will they survive on their own, not knowing what or who else remains amongst the ruins?

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The Assassin's List (The Adam Drake series Book 1)

by Scott Matthews

The assassin's list
"This book rated 5 stars because of the fast moving pace and believability."
Amazon Reviewer - May 2, 2015

THE ASSASSIN'S LIST is a headline-current thriller that pits a civilian hero against a cell of homegrown jihadi assassin's. Adam Drake must fight alone, when our PC-correct government won't assist him, to prevent the first assassination on a long list of American VIPs.






 

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The Girl From Long Guyland

by Lara Reznik

MEMOIR MEETS THRILLER: Set against a 1969 psychedelic love-in backdrop, The Girl From Long Guyland is shared through the eyes of Laila Levin when decades later, an unsolved murder pulls her reluctantly into her past. A dramatic collision of then and now -- entwining family, marriage, profession and ethics.

Laila enjoys a successful marriage and a thriving career as an I.T. executive in Austin, Texas, but she can't quite shake her lifelong sense of not truly belonging anywhere.

When her company announces a major layoff, Laila finds herself caught between an unscrupulous CEO and her promiscuous boss. Then news of her college roommate's suicide stirs up a dark secret involving three devious friends from her past. One has betrayed a vow, another wants to rekindle their romance, and the third is out for revenge.

Suddenly for Laila, it's 1969 again. She's only seventeen, and she's left her sheltered home in Long Island for college in Connecticut. Amid protests of the Vietnam War, she's tempted by the sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll that rule her generation. Laila gets swept up in a deceptive love triangle with two older locals and initiated into their unethical hippie family. Too late she realizes her search to belong has led to tragedy.

Laila must now juggle the demands of her perplexed husband and her baby boomer past forcing her to make choices that endanger her survival and challenge her conscience.

She learns that the lines between right and wrong are often blurred, and sometimes you have to risk everything to be true to yourself.

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40 Days 40 Nights: A Sgt Major Crane Novel

by Wendy Cartmell

An evil game is in play... does Crane know the rules?
What could be simpler than keeping Team GB safe as they make their final preparations for the Olympic Games on Aldershot Garrison? But when the body of a soldier is discovered and supplies start disappearing, Military Police Detective Tom Crane knows that an altogether more sinister game is in play. As time ticks down, no one knows who the next target will be, or who the player is. But he's there, hiding in plain sight. Far closer than anyone thinks... If you love crime thrillers, this deftly plotted novel from the wife of an Army veteran with 22 years' service, will stay with you long after you turn the final page. 

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Sins of a Priest

by Brian Robert Smith

He dropped the camera and stared at its monitor. The video paused. His face, in lustful pleasure, was frozen on the screen.

Marcus grew up a gangster kid, but now he's a Priest. He's come back home to re-start a 19th century Catholic church that has been completely vandalized. He finds out the community is heavily influenced by Satanism—something Marcus intends on changing, but his past lingers and sin is in his blood.

Jada is a Satanist, and she seduces Marcus. Sex is the result. Jada has a history with Marcus's brother, Louie, involving drugs, money, and murder. She plans revenge against Louie by using Marcus as bait.

Daniel, an old bum who hangs in the streets with goth kids, is the reason for the urban decay; the crime and hate. He's a satanic leader and the church is his palace. When Daniel finds out a new priest has surfaced, he uses Jada to drive Marcus out by exposing the Sins of a Priest.

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AUSTRALIA: The Puppeteer (The Puppets of Washington Book 2)

by Lavina Giamusso

CANADIAN SECRET SERVICES ARE BACKING UP TALYA AND SAMUEL, THEY DESPERATELY NEED TO GET THE PUPPETEER BEFORE THE ALLIED CIA AND MOSSAD DO.
KNOWING ALL THE FACTS IT WOULD BE EASIER FOR SOME TO SILENT THE PUPPETEER, AND THAT WOULD BE THE END FOR TALYA AND SAMUEL.

Talya and Samuel have to find a man – the one they call THE PUPPETEER. Their masters have decided it is the only way for them to clear their names from the accusation of treason against the State of Israel that has pursued them for nearly two years now.
Although Mossad made sure they were cleared of the accusation during a recent trial in Washington, D.C., the director of the Israeli agency still has some doubts as to Talya and Samuel’s innocence. David Bernstein doesn’t like coincidences.
Chased throughout Australia by parties who would rather see them dead, they finally escape to France to find refuge somewhere they will not be found – they hope.

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Blue Coyote Motel (Coyote series Book 1)

by Dianne Harman

Would you take an anti-aging hormone? What if you could keep your youth? If someone you knew was terrified of aging, and you'd invented the hormone, would you give it to them? Even if it meant discovery would cause you to lose your chance of winning the Nobel Prize?

Blue Coyote Motel is a suspense love story which begins in the barrios of Southern California and spans the globe in such diverse locations as Provence, South America, and the Himalayas. The beautiful Latina, Maria, and her husband, Jeffrey, a scientist fired from a prestigious laboratory, struggle to build a new life in a remote Southern California desert areas as owners of the motel.

Along with the anti-aging hormone, Jeffrey invents a "feel-good" wonder drug to help Maria with her depression. As Jeffrey becomes insane he begins to experiment with the wonder drug. Six wayward travelers, including an alcoholic priest, a couple who own gold mines in Brazil, a depressed widow, a struggling salesman, and a Native American pediatrician find themselves spending the night at the small motel. The next morning they wake up feeling better than ever. Has Jeffrey's miracle drug delivered? Or is the nightmare of addiction only beginning?

Blue Coyote Motel presents an engaging look at the human frailties present in all of us.

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The Unicorn's Daughter

by Norma Beishir

Jaime Lynde would stop at nothing to find the truth...

As a child, she was told her father was dead, but one by one, the lies began to unravel. James Lynde was an operative for the OSS during World War II, and later for the CIA. In 1986, he was still alive and working undercover in Libya. As Jaime followed his trail, a traitor followed hers...and the US prepared to take military action.

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Knight of Betrayal: A Yorkshire Ghost Story Novel

by Karen Perkins

The historical repercussions of a horrific crime reverberate through the centuries as the 12th century ghosts seek redemption and revenge, with no thought for anyone unlucky enough to get in their way.

1170, Canterbury Cathedral.
Four knights break sanctuary to brutally murder Archbishop Thomas Becket for their king, Henry II.

Running from their crime, the four knights - Hugh de Morville, William de Tracy, Reginald FitzUrse and Richard le Brett - flee north to Knaresborough Castle where Morville is overlord. Initially celebrating ridding their king of the pest that Becket had become, they find themselves increasingly isolated as the Church and public opinion turn against them.

2015, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire.
August is feva time - a celebration and festival of the arts. The Castle Players are to perform a play of their own creation: Knight of Betrayal, based on the events leading up to Becket's murder.

Taking the honour very seriously, they work very hard to get into character - but after they experiment with a spirit board, are they channelling more than just the characters of the knights they are portraying?

As the group of friends begins to disintegrate, concern becomes certainty - this is one opening night that will never be forgotten as life in the small Yorkshire market town of Knaresborough tumbles into horror.

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Legal Thriller: Predatory Kill

by Kenneth Eade

If you are a fan of fast-paced, action-packed thrillers that combine corruption and murder with courtroom drama, then 'Predatory Kill' is for you

Rocketing to the top of five paid best seller lists, Book 1 of the Brent Marks Legal Thriller Series has been called a "wild ride" by critics. In it, Kenneth Eade delivers another solid and intricately plotted financial thriller.

A maniacal killer is on the loose. April’s mother is brutally murdered and her father beaten within an inch of his life. Attorney Brent Marks has already paid his dues as a lawyer, having taken his share of divorces and drunk driving cases over his 20 year career, but has finally reached a place in his life where he can take on cases of social importance. What he least expected was for April Marsh's predatory lending case against the big banks for wrongful foreclosure on her parent's home to turn into a murder investigation. As the courtroom drama heats up, the action outside the courtroom spirals out of control.

 

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Once Upon a Lie (A Fitzjohn Mystery, Book 3)

by Jill Paterson

Little did, businessman and entrepreneur, Michael Rossi know that the telephone call he answered on that fateful Friday would be the catalyst for his death, and the subsequent recovery of his body from the waters of Sydney Harbour the following morning.

Recalled from leave to take on the case, Detective Chief Inspector Fitzjohn confronts the first of many puzzles; how Rossi spent the unaccountable hours before he died. This leads him on a paper-trail into a tangled web of deception, jealousy and greed, that unravels the mystery surrounding Michael’s death.

Unaware of her nephew’s fate, Esme Timmons retires for the evening, unsuspecting of the events about to unfold; events that will, ultimately, expose a grim lie, buried deep in the past.
 

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Hijack: A Sgt Major Crane crime thriller

by Wendy Cartmell

TERRIFIED 

Eight hostages, men, women and children, under the control of ISIS terrorists
IMPRISONED
Trapped in a train, 100' above the Yorkshire Dales on a viaduct.
ENDURANCE
Do they have what it takes to stay alive?
Hijack is a hostage situation that plunges the UK Government into its worst nightmare, Will everyone make it out alive? The odds aren't good. Can British police detective Mike Keane negotiate with a psychotic killer? But Sgt Major Crane has a way in - for Billy is in contact through a hidden mobile phone. Will it be enough of an advantage?

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