Women Spy Thrillers

Special Agent Sam Jameson is having a bad week. People are trying to kill her. That would be business as usual in the counterespionage world, except that it’s the good guys who have her in the crosshairs. Will a ruthless mercenary, a hapless American traitor, and a dead man’s cryptic clue hold the key to Sam’s survival? As the noose tightens around her neck, Sam must uncover a brutal and deadly conspiracy before she becomes its next victim.

Wenn die Verbrechen der Vergangenheit ihre Schatten in die Gegenwart werfen, ist Cold-Case-Expertin Maria Just gefragt. Polizeihistorikerin Maria Just bereitet eine Ausstellung über ungelöste Mordfälle im Polizeimuseum von Kopenhagen vor, als mitten in der Stadt der Generalsekretär des Roten Kreuzes auf bestialische Art ermordet wird. Die Polizisten Mikael Dirk und Frederik Dahlin ermitteln bei ihrem ersten gemeinsamen Fall unter hohem Druck von Presse und Politik.

Wenn die Verbrechen der Vergangenheit ihre Schatten in die Gegenwart werfen, ist Cold-Case-Expertin Maria Just gefragt. Polizeihistorikerin Maria Just bereitet eine Ausstellung über ungelöste Mordfälle im Polizeimuseum von Kopenhagen vor, als mitten in der Stadt der Generalsekretär des Roten Kreuzes auf bestialische Art ermordet wird. Die Polizisten Mikael Dirk und Frederik Dahlin ermitteln bei ihrem ersten gemeinsamen Fall unter hohem Druck von Presse und Politik.

In this brief crime novel, set in the days of Lincoln's presidential election, a man responds to a cry for help from a woman who lives in the same block of apartments. She claims that a ring has been stolen from her finger and asks the man to assist her in recovering it.

Ole, dole, doff... Det har etsat sig fast för alltid i Atlee Pines minne kidnapparens fasansfulla ramsa när han valde mellan sexåriga Atlee och hennes tvillingsyster Mercy. Mercy blev bortförd, Atlee skonades. Hon återsåg aldrig sin syster igen. Tre decennier efter den fruktansvärda natten arbetar Atlee Pine för FBI:s Arizona-avdelning där hon ensam ansvarar för Grand Canyon. När en turist försvinner spårlöst djupt inne i Grand Canyon kallas Pine in för att leda utredningen. Det visar sig snart att turisten inte rest till Grand Canyon för att beundra det dramatiska landskapet.

FBI-agenten Atlee Pine söker efter sin kidnappade tvillingsyster Mercy. Utredningen leder henne till New Yorks undre värld. När Atlee Pine är nära ett genombrott råkar hon av misstag sabotera ett tillslag som leds av amerikanska arméns kriminal­utredare John Puller. När Pine och Puller gör gemensam sak upptäcker de en koppling mellan maffian och en konspiration riktad mot nationens hjärta. Samtidigt som de tvingas riskera allt för att skingra dimridåerna kring konspirationen kommer Atlee Pine allt närmare sanningen om Mercy. Men den kommer inte utan ett pris.

Life is good for Kit Marshall. She's a staffer in DC for a popular senator, and she lives with an adoring beagle and a brainy boyfriend with a trust fund. Then, one morning, Kit arrives at the office early and finds her boss, Senator Langsford, impaled by a stainless steel replica of an Army attack helicopter. Panicked, she pulls the weapon out of his chest and instantly becomes the prime suspect in his murder.

Den 62-åriga kriminalinspektören Solbritt Andersson och hennes man Rune har förverkligat sin dröm och köpt en sommarstuga på Singö i Roslagen. Av en granne får de höra talas om Singömordet, som skett på den närbelägna marinbasen 1986, strax efter att Olof Palme mördades. Trots att anläggningen var välbevakad lyckades gärningsmannen försvinna utan ett spår, och mordet är ännu ouppklarat. Under sin semester kan Solbritt inte låta bli att göra egna efterforskningar. Sökandet efter sanningen sätter igång hänsynslösa krafter, beredda att göra allt för att hindra henne.

En våldsam brand utbryter en höstnatt i husvagnar och tält på Singö camping, där en grupp romer bor. Kriminalinspektör Solbritt Andersson, som är utlånad från Stockholm till Norrtälje polisstation, och hennes kollega Lena Karlsson leder utredningen. Förövarna har inte lämnat några spår på platsen, bortsett från att de har sprejmålat en brun triangel på en vägg. Snart står också en gård på norra Singö i lågor. Finns det ett samband mellan mordbränderna?

It’s 1942 in Washington, DC. Louise Pearlie is now a chief file clerk at the legendary OSS, the precursor to the CIA, and enjoys being an independent working woman despite wartime privations. But a casual friendship struck up with Alessa di Luca, a secretive war refugee, sucks Louise into a dangerous game of mafia bosses, Nazi spies, banished royalty, and Sicilian aristocracy - placing not only her job but her life in jeopardy.

Young widow Louise Pearlie seizes a chance to escape the typewriters and files of the Office of Strategic Services, the United States’ World War II spy agency, when she’s asked to investigate a puzzling postcard referred to the OSS by the US Censor. She heads off to St. Leonard, Maryland, to talk to the postcard’s recipient, one Leroy Martin. But what seemed like a straightforward mission to Louise soon becomes complicated.

On a bitterly cold night in December, 1943, government girl Louise Pearlie and her friend Joe Prager are enjoying a quiet drink in the Baron Steuben Inn, when a bloodstained body is discovered behind the bar. Although the victim had been a regular customer, no one seems to know anything about him. When it turns out there is a link to Louise’s top-secret work at the OSS, she is ordered to find out as much as possible about the murder while keeping the connection secret from those involved, including the investigating police detective.

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.

The 1940s, Washington, DC. Government girl Louise Pearlie has a new job inside the OSS - the Office of Strategic Services: recruiting German prisoners of war for a secret mission inside Nazi Germany. It’s a big chance for her, and Louise hopes she can finally escape her filing and typing duties. With the job comes two new colleagues: Alice Osborne, a propaganda expert, and Merle Ellison, a forger from Texas who just happens to speak fluent German. But when the three arrive at Fort Meade to interview the first German POWs to arrive there, their mission is beset by complications.

Imagine if you had the power to turn anyone into your personal assassin. Would you use it? For the mysterious man known only as The Controller, the answer is yes! He has perfected the ability to turn ordinary men, women, and even children into the ultimate killers, Suicide Bombs who self-destruct after carrying out their deadly tasks.

Das Festnetz-Telefon klingelt, als sie am Fenster steht und ihren Enkelkindern zum Abschied winkt. Agneta hebt den Hörer ab. "Geiger", sagt jemand und legt auf. Agneta weiß, was das bedeutet. Sie geht zu dem Versteck, entnimmt eine Waffe mit Schalldämpfer und tritt an ihren Mann heran, der im Wohnzimmer sitzt und Musik hört. Sie setzt den Lauf an seine Schläfe - und drückt ab. Als Kommissarin Sara Nowak von diesem kaltblütigen Mord hört, ist sie alarmiert. Sie kennt die Familie seit ihrer Kindheit.

There's power in stories. But power can be deadly. Detective Cora Gorderheim is a detective no longer. Stripped of her badge by the corrupt chief inspector, Cora's job now is to protect her sister, Ruth, the new Wayward storyteller. Ruth must tell her tale of the Tear widening if people are to know the truth of what's happening in the Union of Realms. But Lowlander Chambers Morton wants the Wayward to change their election story, and will stop at nothing to achieve this – including murder.

Artemis leaves the remote Greek island she grew up on to start a shiny new life in 1990s London with her British husband, a successful entrepreneur. Finally, she has escaped the ghosts of her past. Until she is found hanging from the stairs of her beautiful family home. Two decades later, the apparent suicide of an heiress uncannily mirrors Artemis’ mysterious death. And when the ensuing investigation uncovers links to a criminal cartel, National Crime Agency officer Madeleine Farrow begins to pull apart the web of deceit surrounding the two women.

En un pequeño y aislado pueblo de la serranía de Cádiz, vive una misteriosa mujer de nacionalidad francesa que ha empezado a escribir unas memorias más que peligrosas. Es la historia de un hombre al que una vez amó en Beirut, años atrás, y de un hijo que le arrebataron en nombre de la traición. Esta mujer es la guardiana del secreto mejor guardado por el Kremlin: hace décadas la KGB infiltró a un agente doble en el mismo corazón de occidente, un topo que hoy se encuentra a las puertas del poder absoluto.