Best Free Mystery Books of 2026
Here are the 20 most popular free Mystery ebooks on Free-eBooks.net for 2026, ranked by reader rating and download volume — every title is free to download.
Last updated: January 29, 2025
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Streetwalker
K. E. Ward | Mystery
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Maggie "Star" Faulkner is a prostitute who walks the streets of Cincinnati until one night, her best friend, Darlene is found hanging dead from a cord wrapped around a fire escape. She meets Sam, the friendly police officer who encourages her to leave the life of prostitution and Garrett, whom she suspects might be the killer. This is a...
Ivory Towers
Joseph R. Doze | Mystery
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In private detective Clayton Lane's world, the glass is always half-empty, and it's usually half empty of cheap whiskey. When a timid little man walks into Lane's office hoping to find his runaway wife, Clayton assumes it will be much of the same old thing; a wife hitting the sheets with another man and a brokenhearted husband left behind. What...
Blood Blossom
Daryl Hajek | Mystery
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A soap opera-style suspense-thriller about two sisters and their mysterious mother as they engage in a battle of wits over an estate.
Irony (Book 1) The Animal
Robert Shroud | Mystery
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Detective Reginald Thomas Williams was on the fast track to promotional success. Now, subsequent to the shooting, he is a man barely holding on. His wife left him. He’s two steps away from being a full blown alcoholic, and there is a serial killer nicknamed The Animal loose on Bay City’s streets. Can he hold it together long enough to get his...
Daisy and Bernard
Nick Aaron | Mystery
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In the summer of 1989 the Iron Curtain is unraveling and Daisy Hayes has just gone on pension. But then she is summoned by the police to testify about a baffling and gruesome murder. During the ride to New Scotland Yard, the blind lady reflects that, though she knows nothing about this case, it will be hard to prove her innocence without...
Dream Rider
Wilf Voss | Mystery
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What starts as bad dreams leads to changed personalities, bullying and finally death in this supernatural novella - Caroline Gibbs a young riding instructor, loved by all of her friends changes after a series of nightmares which seep from her dreams into reality. It is a race against time to get back her life and save those around her. What she...
The Last Soldier Standing
Timothy J. Ryan | Mystery
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An intentional terrorist named Martinez, has vowed to kill former commander of the eighty-six airborne platoon, senator Jefferson Anderson and reveal sins that the platoon committed during the D-day invasion. FBI agent Dennis Paterson and his new partner Craig Holloway are assigned to impede Martinez's wrath. Unpronounced to the agents, Martinez...
Office of the Dead
Brother Bernard Seif | Mystery
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A tapestry of monasticism, medicine, and murder. Woven together in the style of a contemporary Brother Cadfael adventure as seen on PBS. If you enjoy monastic murder mysteries in the spirit of the famous Brother Cadfael PBS series, you will delight in Office of the Dead. The action takes place in contemporary times, rather than the middle ages...
Public Enemy Hud Hudson
Gary Whitmore | Mystery
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Hud Hudson was born and grew up and events turned him to a life of crime. So after a stint in prison, he formed his own gang. They went around and robbed banks and jewelry stores during the Golden Age of Bank Robberies. But history reported that Hud Hudson and fellow gang member Ester Walker died during a farm house explosion in 1934. Forty-four...
2020 - A Simply Divine Mystery (About God, Country and Terrorism)
Lee Raudonis | Mystery
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Would the United States be a better nation if governed according to the beliefs of America's Christian majority? Would a majority of Americans support a constitutional amendment the make the New Testament the basis of all civil law and to change the country's name to The Christian Republic of the United States of America? Not possible? The...
Night Prayer From the Office of the Dead
Brother Bernard Seif, SMC, EdD, DNM | Mystery
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A centuries-old cycle of fear and death spans China, Europe, and America, and it falls upon the shoulders of a simple Christian monk and his companions to break that spell. Sixteenth Century France bursts into life for Twenty-first Century Brother Francis O’Neil through ancient parchments that have mysteriously come into his hands in...
Crown the Villain - Volume II: Bullet and Blade
D. Sharon | Mystery
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By 2045, the autonomous country of Alataria is a place plagued with crime, corruption and greed.Everyone wants something.Those smart enough get to have it.The rest either die or live a miserable life.Now that the main players have made their first move, the game becomes much more intense. Arkaneh is now on his way to catch the traitor with the...
Sound of Solitude
Vrajesh Dave | Mystery
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The story of Amaya, a Japanese girl who reached Mumbai due to emergency flight landing that changed her whole life.
Aaricia and the Noland Army
Richard Shekari | Mystery
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An epic tale of adventure that features Aaricia; a young woman having being betrayed by a loved one, lost her family and her home, must find a way to raise an elite army to help reclaim all she’s lost. Bestowed with a remarkable gift to communicate with a rare kind of beast, and armed with a handful of mercenaries, she must rise to face the...
Vespers from the Office of the Dead
Brother Bernard Seif, SMC, EdD, DNM | Mystery
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The magical island of Kauai Hawaii provides a fragrant setting for readers to join Abbot Francis as he continues along his spiritual path while ministering as a Clinical Psychologist & Doctor of Natural Medicine. His captivation with Chinese medicine and meditation we know well from earlier entries in this Office of the Dead series of ecumenical...
ROMA - Volume ID
The Roman Memoir | Mystery
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Here is to drum beaters and the musician who have guided my lessons in education
ROMA - Volume IC
The Roman Memoir | Mystery
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For all zoo keepers around the globe, who do their job well, because they love it.
ROMA - Volume IB
The Roman Memoir | Mystery
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For the hard working crew at Harvard University, and The French Louvre, I give my thanks
Shaunessy and a Literary Death
Edward Drobinski | Mystery
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Veteran NYC Police Detective Tom Shaunessy is now more or less comfortable in his relocated New Mexico home. In his second major case in Vista de la Feria, a significant and popular local author is found dead. The Medical Examiner quickly rules it a suicide, of which the author had previously discussed and wrote about, officially ending the...
ROMA - Volume IA
The Roman Memoir | Mystery
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For the New United States of America, and To the Republic Of the People which was Made By The People, For the People’
