Top Free Mystery Kindle Books

Whether you prefer to read cozy mysteries or detective crime novels, you’ll find great books among our top 300 free Kindle mystery books.

Bodies, Baddies, and a Crabby Tabby

Free
Cozy Mystery
4.3★ 2500+ ratings

When members of an English village start getting bumped off at an alarming rate, empty-nester Megan Fallon finds herself at the heart of an investigation that has her suspecting everyone.

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Deadly Secrets

Free
Mystery, Suspense
4.3★ 7500+ ratings

Mapleton, Colorado’s police chief, Gordon Hepler, would rather be on the streets than behind a desk dealing with budgets and the town council, but he promised his late mentor he’d accept the position.


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Redemption Lake

Free
Mystery, Suspense
4.4★ 5000+ ratings

Tucson, Arizona. Matt Garrison is harboring two terrible secrets: his involvement in the drowning death of his cousin, and a night with his mom’s friend, who ends up dead.

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A Fresh Beginning & Murder

Free
Cozy Mystery
4.3★ 2500+ ratings

Starting over in a new town can be a daunting task – especially for Claudia Porter when she becomes the prime suspect in a mysterious murder.

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Meet Me at Jimmy’s Arcade

Free
Mystery, Historical
4.3★ 40+ ratings

Bakersfield, 1990: Local high school student Bebe-Lynn Sanders is missing. Her last appearance was outside the popular hangout, Jimmy’s Arcade, but no one knows where she went or what happened.


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Chaos in the Countryside

Free
Cozy Mystery
4.2★ 400+ ratings

In the cozy countryside of Moss Hill, life couldn’t be more idyllic for half-elf/half-human Cari. But healing humans and fae folk proves challenging at times, especially when secrets begin to unfold.

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Finding Sarah

Free
Romance, Mystery
4.3★ 2500+ ratings

Being robbed at gunpoint wasn’t part of Sarah Tucker’s business plan. Neither was falling in love with the detective who arrived to solve the case.

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A New Prospect

Free
Mystery, Suspense
4.4★ 2500+ ratings

After retiring to Tennessee, Sam Jenkins gets that fish-out-of-water feeling. Sam becomes a cop again and is thrown headlong into a murder investigation and a steaming kettle of fish, down-home style.


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The Dead Letter

Free
Mystery, Historical
4.2★ 100+ ratings

Set against the political turmoil of the Reconstruction Era, this novel is a fascinating historical document, a pioneering work of genre fiction, and a mystery with a cleverly satisfying conclusion.


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A Dead Man and Doggie Delights

Free
Cozy Mystery
4.2★ 1000+ ratings

In Baker Valley, Colorado, Maggie May Carver’s grandpa is accused of murder–a crime he may well have committed–and now she finds herself in the role of amateur detective.


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Secrets of the Greek Revival

Free
Mystery
4.2★ 2500+ ratings

Ellen and her friends hatch a plan to renovate an 1860’s Greek revival in San Antonio. Although Ellen isn’t one to believe in ghosts, she comes face to face with something inexplicable in the attic.

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The Academy: Introductions

Free
Mystery, Romance, Teen
4.4★ 2500+ ratings

When her family moves to a new school district, Sang quickly bonds with a group of nearly perfect boys. At the mysterious Academy they’ve sworn allegiance to, she discovers these friends are far from normal.

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Steal Away

Free
Mystery
4.3★ 1000+ ratings

A con woman has to stay one step ahead of a master criminal and a handsome detective if she’s to avenge her beloved grandmother’s death.


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A Scandal in Boohemia

Free
Cozy Mystery, Paranormal
4.4★ 100+ ratings

Indigo Eady can’t live on Ramen noodles forever, so she jumps on the first offer. The job is to go undercover at a theatre, find a ghost thief, and cross him over. Easy! Until an actor is murdered.


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City of Prey

Free
Mystery, Historical
4.4★ 1000+ ratings

In the rough streets of 1920s New York City, 34-year-old Ava Gold, a widower and single mom, claws her way up to become the first female homicide detective in her precinct.


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Out of Time

Free
Mystery, Science Fiction
4.0★ 1000+ ratings

Detective Sean McMillan has a unique ability to travel back in time through his dreams, so finding evidence and solving crimes should be easy. But the future is not set, and nothing in life is certain.


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