Top Free Mystery Kindle Books

Whether you cozy mysteries or detective crime novels, you’ll find great books among our top 200 free Kindle mystery books.

He said, she said, “Murder”

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Mystery, Suspense
4.3★ 1000+ ratings

Tanja Shepherd is a smart, slightly neurotic ex-FBI profiler. Her husband Joe is a rugged, somewhat broken ex-cop. They run a detective agency and have a baby on the way.


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The Boyfriend Loophole

Free
Mystery, Suspense
4.2★ 750+ ratings

After Charlize resumes her role as a detective, settling into a small-town police precinct, she discovers multiple cases with the same haunting details.


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Murder Notes

Free
Mystery, Suspense
4.1★ 5000+ ratings

As an FBI profiler, it’s Lilah Love’s job to think like a killer. But when a case takes her back to her hometown, a mysterious but unmistakable connection leaves her shaken.


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Broken Paradise

Free
Mystery, Suspense
4.0★ 500+ ratings

Everything changed ten years ago when Jessica disappeared. Jessica’s best friend, Rowan, is finally getting things back on track until a lost child turns up connected to Jessica.


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Sweet Masterpiece

Free
Cozy Mystery, Suspense
4.3★ 5000+ ratings

Samantha Sweet breaks into homes for a living. But when she encounters a dying woman and then a backyard grave at work, the handsome deputy arrives and things get complicated.

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Crouchback

Free
Mystery, Historical
4.5★ 1000+ ratings

April 1284. As a newly widowed lady-in-waiting to a pregnant Queen of England, Catrin never expected to return to Wales again. She is unprepared to be confronted with murder.


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Behind His Eyes

Free
Thriller, Suspense
4.2★ 750+ ratings

When victims turn up drowned near the historic lighthouses of a picturesque East Coast town in Summer, all hope lies on local cop Casey Faith to catch the killer.

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Premedicated Murder

Free
Mystery, Paranormal
4.4★ 750+ ratings

Following her husband’s death, Joanna tries to regain her psychic powers. Fake it until you make it becomes her motto until she’s asked to investigate a murder.


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Peonies and Peril 

Free
Cozy Mystery
4.0★ 500+ ratings

Starting over after her husband’s passing, sixty-year-old Chloe is back in her hometown. When the garden club president is found dead, solving the crime becomes a priority.


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The House of Closed Doors

Free
Mystery, Historical
4.3★ 10000+ ratings

Illinois, 1870. Desperate to avoid marriage, Nell Lillington accepts her stepfather’s decision that her baby be adopted. Until a cell is opened and two small bodies fall out.


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Soft Case

Free
Mystery, Suspense
4.0★ 600+ ratings

When New York City’s most famous man dies suspiciously, Homicide Detective John Keegan must follow a trail of corruption that may just end his career.


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The Avid Angler

Free
Cozy Mystery
4.4★ 400+ ratings

MacFarland is not a detective anymore. It’s not his problem if a killer roams free. He’s just a hot dog vendor.

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Once Gone

Free
Mystery, Suspense
4.3★ 40000+ ratings

A serial killer is out there, his frequency increasing, and the FBI knows that only one agent can crack this case: Special Agent Riley Paige.

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Girl Without a Chance

Free
Mystery, Suspense
4.1★ 2500+ ratings

In a small mountain town, Deputy Sheriff Tara Strong realizes she is up against a killer more diabolical than she could imagine.

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Power in the Blood

Free
Mystery, Suspense
4.0★ 2500+ ratings

A missing mom and a suspicious death force Detective John Jordan out of self-imposed exile in this fast-paced mystery thriller with heart.

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A Mystery in Bloom

Free
Cozy Mystery
4.3★ 500+ ratings

For landscape designer Alice Bloom, plants are more than just her job—they are her passion. But her latest Italian project turns grim when a despised socialite is found dead.


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