Women Spy Thrillers

If any day calls for a soothing glass of wine, it's today. One moment, Capitol Hill lobbyist Karina Cardinal is having a heated discussion with Senator Harper, who just torpedoed her latest health care legislation initiative. The next, after a cryptic remark, the senator is dead at her feet. Hours later, she's still so rattled she wakes to a freezing apartment because she forgot to close her back door. Or did she?

Kommissarin Zara von Hardenberg ist die beste Profilerin bei Europol. Weil sie sich alles merkt, alles entdeckt und alles voraussieht. Das Dumme ist nur: Sie kann keine Regeln brechen. Als ein junges Mädchen bestialisch ermordet in der Felsenlandschaft Marseilles gefunden wird, spürt Zara, dass weitaus mehr hinter diesem Verbrechen steckt. Sie kennt nur eine, ihr dabei helfen kann, die drohende Katastrophe aufzuhalten: ihre Zwillingsschwester Zoë - eine Killerin der korsischen Mafia, deren einzige Grenze sie selbst ist.

Crystal Moore's good friend Ron Drake is a shoo-in for governor of Texas. Two members of the opposition camp believe their candidate's only chance is a political dirty trick that will sink Drake's backing. They execute an elaborate hoax. But something goes terribly wrong and a man is killed. And things only get worse from there as the perpetrators try to eliminate loose ends.

Emma Sköld in Lebensgefahr. Die Polizistin Emma Sköld ist tot, getötet von Kollegen, denen sie auf die Spur gekommen ist. Zumindest glaubt das alle Welt. In Wahrheit hat Emma den Anschlag überlebt. Zusammen mit ihrem Vater will sie nun dem Polizeichef von Stockholm das Handwerk legen. Gunnar Olausson sieht sich auf einer Mission; er will das Land von Bettlern und Migranten säubern. Emma aber braucht Beweise. Da gerät sie an Soraya, eine junge Frau, die den Mord an einem Bettler beobachtet hat und seitdem vor Gunnar auf der Flucht ist.

Chicago Special Agent Annie Marino examines the case of a dead young woman who possesses a tattoo Annie has come across before - that of bloody bear claws. Several deceased women with the tattoo have turned up over the past few years, all suspected of being involved in a vast human trafficking operation. Annie’s neighborhood friend, Jason Ward, is a young writer engaged to be married into an upper-class family from a posh Chicago suburb. Jason believes his future brother-in-law, a war veteran, is definitely a bully - but does he also have ties to the Russian mob?

Specialpolis Rebecka Born är avstängd från Sektionen för särskilda hot (SSH) för sin hantering av ett internationellt traffickingfall. Medan hon utreds av sina överordnade får hon ett anonymt tips: Något står inte rätt till med en grupp ensamkommande flyktingbarn. Rebecka avfärdar samtalet. Hon har lämnat in sin polisbricka och är dessutom upptagen med sitt röriga privatliv. Men när ett snarlikt tips inkommer från en källa som tidigare visat sig pålitlig väcks hennes nyfikenhet och oro. Vem har tagit de försvunna barnen?

A body. A sacred national park. It's classified.... Park Ranger Dana Madison isn't a homicide detective anymore, or is she? Singled out by the President to investigate a string of mysterious deaths in the country's national parks, Madison has no idea why she was selected, or why she's leading an unlikely cast of characters in a frantic search for answers. When the chase leads her deep into the Rocky Mountains, Madison discovers potential motives that shock her.

Las obsesiones de Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa se dan cita en este escalofriante thriller contemporáneo: los intereses financieros de las grandes potencias empresariales, el pasado como mapa para el presente, la acción y la intriga a través de una trama internacional. Irina Dogonovic ha crecido en la Roma de postguerra. Bien posicionada en el ámbito empresarial y con el contacto de varios cardenales de la curia vaticana, recibe el encargo de investigar un proyecto secreto originado por los nazis, un proyecto que podría revolucionar las finanzas de todo el planeta. Su aventura no ha hecho más que comenzar.

The 1940s, Washington, DC. Government girl Louise Pearlie is asked to review the file usage of a missing analyst from the Office of Strategic Services - the United States’ wartime intelligence agency - only to learn he’d drowned in the Tidal Basin days before. The OSS confirms it was an accident, and Louise is sent back to her regular job in the file rooms. Her time spent investigating Paul Hughes at least has one positive outcome, though: Louise meets a young woman in the OSS Reading Room, who asks her to join her “salon".

February, 1944. Washington, DC. With the war entering its most dangerous phase, Louise Pearlie is thrilled to be reassigned to the London office of the OSS. But in order to take up her new post, she must make a perilous crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in the SS Amelia Earhart. Accompanying her on the voyage to Liverpool is an eclectic group of passengers, including the aloof Blanche Bryant, whose husband, Eddie, died in mysterious circumstances on the ship’s voyage out to New York, three months before.

Staubsaugen, Klo schrubben und nebenbei die Welt retten - ein stinknormaler Tag in Millies Leben. Auf den ersten Blick putzt sich die balkanstämmige Wienerin durch die Haushalte der Oberschicht, doch hinter der Fassade ist Millie Agentin eines internationalen Spionagenetzwerks von Reinigungskräften. Ihr aktueller Auftrag führt sie auf die Spur einer globalen Verschwörung um manipulierte Lebensmittel. So weit Routine, aber warum hat ihre Chefin plötzlich Geheimnisse vor ihr? Und was hat ihr Traummann Max zu verbergen?

When Monique Duchesne sees the police outside her door long after midnight, she fears they are waiting for her. Instead of interrogating her about her past again, they want to talk about her murdered neighbor. A man she barely knew. Convinced the police suspect she knows more than she admits, Monique risks everything to find the killer before her world explodes. The deeper she digs, the closer the killer gets. Is the murder a coincidence, or is someone targeting her?

Prague in the 1950s is a city of numerous small terrors, of political tyranny, corruption, and surveillance. There is no way of knowing whether one's neighbor is spying for the government, or what one's supposed friend will say under pressure to a state security agent. A loyal party member might be imprisoned or executed as quickly as a traitor; innocence means nothing for a person caught in a government trap.

Catherine Ling is one of the CIA’s most prized operatives. Raised on the unforgiving streets of Hong Kong, she was pulled into the agency at the age of 14, already having accumulated more insight and secrets than the most seasoned professionals in her world. If life has taught her anything, it is not to get attached, but there are two exceptions to that rule: Her son, Luke, and her mentor, Hu Chang.

Her narrow escape from blue-eyed assassin Tom Booker has made former data analyst Dani Britton question all of her choices-like trusting "good guys" who carry badges. On the run and haunted by the government-sanctioned massacre of her coworkers, Dani finally settles in remote Redemption Key, Florida, at a bar where strong drinks and shady deals are the norm.

Israelis and Palestinians cooperate to make a difficult situation worse. Good people, doing bad things for the best of reasons. A complex murder investigation of a complicated set of murders starts when an Arab collaborator's body is found by a collapsed wall in the new Israeli settlement of Oranit. His death is hushed up and the body burned by the Palestinian villagers who hated him.

It’s August 1861, and her latest assignment could end the bloody Civil War and bring the fractured United States together again. All she must do is win the trust of her captive: Confederate spy and socialite Rose Greenhow. But with Rose well aware of Kate’s working-class background and belief in abolitionism, it seems an impossible task. Worse, Kate has secrets that make her vulnerable, such as her forbidden love affair with a colleague.

Der neue Thriller der Krimipreis-Trägerin. Ein Kopf in einer Plastiktüte vor dem Büro, dazu ein erschossener Geschäftsführer. Mit der NGO "Interni" stimmt deutlich etwas nicht. Und nichts ist lästiger für eine wohltätige Stiftung als schlechte Presse. Fürchtet der Lebensmittel- und Fleisch-Tycoon Wellinghofen, der Hauptmäzen der "Interni", und schickt seine Mitarbeiterin für besondere Fälle, die sich gerade Eve Klein nennt, nach Zürich zum Stiftungssitz.

In her work with a clandestine government agency, Aydan Kelly stumbles across a shadowy consortium of scientists whose members are selling classified information for personal profit. Aydan wants to report them, but there’s a small complication: Her supposedly dead husband...isn’t. He wants to rendezvous with her, but he could be working with the consortium. If she rats on the scientists, her husband will die. But if she doesn’t, the consortium will kill her....

Private investigator Robert Brixton has always hated Washington. Against his better judgment, he decides to stick around and take a job as an agent in a new State Department security agency headed by his former boss at the Washington P.D. After work one day he meets his youngest daughter, Janet, for a drink at an outdoor cafe. Shockingly, a young Arabic woman blows herself up, killing Janet and a dozen others. Seeking revenge for his daughter, Brixton follows the tracks of the bomber to a powerful senator's son.