Best Free Mystery Books of 2026
Here are the 25 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: July 10, 2019
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Desperate Choices
Jeanette Cooper | Mystery
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Rochelle Rathbone flirts with danger when she accidentally meets Tobias Chandler, Miami drug czar; thus, setting the stage for horrors she never knew existed until after they married. Innocent and vulnerable, she becomes his prisoner. She devises a desperate plan and successfully escapes, despite his threat to kill her if she does. She meets and...
Clearwater Journals
Al Rennie | Mystery
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Joe Holiday, an ex Metro cop, finds himself dragged into an investigation by Mia, an IHOP waitress. The probing they do into the murder of Mia\'s sister years earlier turns into a deadly manhunt with Joe and Mia suddenly becoming the targets of a vicious plot.
After the Facts: An after Coffman Mystery
Vincent M. Lutterbie | Mystery
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The town of Hustle has a new private eye, and his name is After Coffman. His first case, and After is finding it anything but business as usual. He has no client, no money, and too many suspects. In line for After's scalp are drug lords, gun runners, and the Hustle Homicide Department. Each wants a piece of him, but After's greatest foe may be an...
The Death of Amelia Marsh: A Sally Nimitz Mystery (Book 1)
Mary Jo Dawson | Mystery
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In a cozy little Midwestern town where nothing exciting ever happens, Amelia Marsh lies murdered in her own home. When Sally Nimitz discovers the body of her charming eighty-year-old neighbor, she is devastated by how close violence has come to the quiet life she leads as mother, grandmother, and nurse. Though still recovering from the death of...
April at the Antique Alley
Bill McGrath | Mystery
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Book 4 of the Xara Smith Mysteries. All Xara wants is a few days off, and that is why she and her partner Jill are cruising around in a large rental truck doing some antique shopping. The vacation comes to a quick end when the antique store owner is found murdered. Xara helps the police solve the murder and in a thrilling chase scene she rescues...
Dog Robber: Jim Colling Adventure Series, Book I
Robert McCurdy | Mystery
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In the first book of the Jim Colling Adventure Series, Private Jim Colling finds that the post-war German occupation affords opportunities for significant financial gain to a resourceful American soldier with the ability to speak the local language. When Elizabeth Hamilton, a beautiful American civilian, enlists his aid in the rescue of one of...
The Justice Cooperative
Joseph P. Martino | Mystery
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Attacked by a vicious criminal Tom Borden and his wife chose to testify against him. Their testimony helped put him in jail. Now he's out... and he wants revenge. The police won't help. The courts won't help. Where can they turn? The Justice Cooperative.
An Uncollected Death
Meg Wolfe | Mystery
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Broke, friendless, and career in freefall--will solve a murder get her life back on track? An Uncollected Death introduces Charlotte Anthony, a forty-something divorcée, single mother and magazine editor who suddenly finds herself an empty-nester, unemployed, and on the verge of bankruptcy. She gratefully takes the job of editing the journals of...
Hotline to Heaven
Donna Cunningham | Mystery
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This mystery chronicles the adventures of astrologer, Jillian Malone, and Tarot reader, Robert Pierce, friends who--under duress--leave New York City and move to Port Townsend, Washington, to work on a psychic hotline. In Hotline to Heaven, Jillian, who is hoping for peace of mind and romance in her new home, instead finds herself in hot water...
When Nightmares Become Dreams
Bob Miller | Mystery
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It seemed like Vincent, the 7th grade math teacher, was starting out the perfect life. His students at Saint Mary's Middle school adore him and are extremely docile. Eventually Vincent becomes bored with his perfect students and takes a pay cut to teach at a public middle school in the badlands of Baltimore city because he wants a bigger...
Dome of Death
Rigby Taylor | Mystery
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When the director of an Art Gallery in Queensland falls to his death from the central dome, his lover, Peter, unwillingly takes over the job. However, after rescuing a strange young man from a raging sea, Peters investigation of an art swindle puts him in great danger. He is raped and left for dead, but escapes, only to discover that he and his...
Dangerous Dana
Doris Miller | Mystery
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DANGEROUS DANA is a Mystery/Suspense/Thriller about a young gorgeous Caribbean woman living in New York who gets revenge by killing people, living a secret double life as a murderer. Dana is not the kind of person who goes around looking for trouble, but if it happens to come her way or any member in her family’s way, she will become a...
A Season of Revenge
P. J. Dunn | Mystery
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Description Retired Detective Mac O’Hara returns to the St. Louis Police Department to help solve a murder, only to find out there are four bodies and about to be more. The evidence points to the implications of voodoo and black magic. But, the investigation takes on a new light, when Mac’s wife is kidnapped. Set in 1890's St. Louis, where...
Foreclosed: A Mitzy Neuhaus Mystery
Traci Tyne Hilton | Mystery
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Mitzy Neuhaus is the top selling Realtor in Portland, but even her office is dead in this economy. Foreclosed is the word no homeowner wants to hear and Mitzy is determined to save the incredible mansion on her street from that fate. But with the homeowner desperate to keep Mitzy away from his property and Alonzo, the dangerously hot rival...
Guess What She Did
Ann Rearden | Mystery
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She's a rising star on Wall Street. He needs cash for his startup. She has a boyfriend problem. He's recently divorced. They could do a deal—in more ways than one. Too bad she's playing him. Georgina Graham doesn't relish lying to Dr. Nate Carmichael. But if the ruse works, she'll make a quick score. The deception plunges Georgina deep...
The Gift of Power
Dan McNamara | Mystery
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Avery Perelle, a young boy declared a bastard by his father weaves though 50 years of history emerging as the most powerful, elusive mobster in the world. His involvement in historic events stretch from WWII to Elvis to RFK to Bin Laden. The otherwise obscure murder of a call girl in 2010 becomes a quest for a widowed scientist that...
Chatterton Place: The Inheritance
Patricia C Garlitz | Mystery
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After purchasing a set of china that matched her Grandmothers, Emma Chase finds her world turned up-side down by an inheritance no one knew about. The Chatterton Estate was all she had ever hoped for. BUT AT WHAT COST? Even when the living go to bed, she’s left to struggle with ghost’s and visions and perhaps, she even slips in to the...
Salt on the Nuts
Scott L. Anderson and Anonymous | Mystery
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The call was collected and the caller was hammered on tequila and Mexican Gold. I hadn't heard from Anonymous in almost thirty years but he babbled on like we had just spoken last week. Now he wanted to write a book about his wild and insane life. How he had joined the Navy because he had been running dope on some dude's turf and had been forced...
The Lamp (The Lamp Series, Book 1)
Jason Cunningham | Mystery
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This is Book One of the Lamp Series. THE LAMP is a fast-paced dystopian thriller. They called him Levi the Leveler because of his frightening power. A terror in the boxing ring, most of his opponents didn't make it past the first round. But after a careless decision sends him into exile for seven years, Levi returns to a life in ruins: his...
The Author
T. J. Blake | Mystery
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Four years after his wife and children disappeared, Ryan Milligan decides it’s time to let go of the past and move to a new home on Mulberry Lane. Ryan hoped his new house and peaceful neighborhood would help him to cope better with the pain of losing his family and to continue his search. Whilst settling in and writing his new novel ‘Killing...
Murder Outside Haneyville
Gary Whitmore | Mystery
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Two reporters, Donovan and Jodi, from different areas of the country become obsessed when a 1962 Buick Special was found in Lake Haney by Haneyville, Tennessee. The car belonged to two teens that went missing one summer night in 1970. They both headed off to Haneyville to write a story to discover what happened to the missing teens. During their...
Where's My Hat
Jean Marie Romana | Mystery
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A mysterious lady is missing her necklace. But Private Detective Maxine Peters has bigger problems to deal with. Her hat has been stolen!!! Oh crap! Also, it's the future.
The Holiday Killers
M. K. Staple | Mystery
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The Holiday Killers is about two psychologically damaged, dysfunctional young men who form a bond and set out to satisfy their sick, sexual gratification by kidnapping and raping attractive young women. Strangely, they act out their evil desires around popular holidays. Hidden in their childhood lies the answer to their twisted crimes!
Blind Overlook
J. C. Simmons | Mystery
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In Blind Overlook we find Leicester (pronounced "Lester") doing a favor for an attorney friend and taking a case far removed from aviation. It involves something he knows nothing about, the art world. A beautiful, but an enigmatic young woman who owns an art gallery in New Orleans hires him to travel to Maine, where a body has been found fitting...
Brownies & Betrayal
Heather Justesen | Mystery
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Pastry chef Tess Crawford thought moving from Chicago to quiet Silver Springs, Arizona would simplify her life. That was before she found the body of a woman with whom she had traded heated words the previous night, left her fingerprints on the murder weapon, and came under attack for trying to clear her name. When her cheating ex-fiance shows...
