Women Spy Thrillers

Cutout: a third person used to conceal the contact between two people. A pawn. They were partners - lovers in a business where betrayal is a heartbeat away. CIA analyst Caroline Carmichael lost her husband, Eric, when his plane was blown out of the sky by an elite group of terrorists known as 30 April. Now her dead husband has surfaced among those responsible for an explosion that rocks Berlin - and the brutal kidnapping of the US Vice President. Uncertain of Eric’s motives and loyalties, the Agency plays its last, best card: Eric’s wife - the Cutout.

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.

Seit dem Tod ihres Vaters hat die korsische Mafiosa Zoë endgültig alle Brücken zu ihrer Zwillingsschwester Zara abgebrochen – denn die Europol-Profilerin ist für diesen Tod verantwortlich. Als Zoë vom Oberhaupt der korsischen Mafia auf einen schwer bewachten Goldtransport angesetzt wird, scheint das ein äußerst lukrativer Job zu sein. Was die Killerin nicht weiß: Ihr Boss wird vom arabischen Clanchef Shokran Al-Hamsi erpresst, dessen Bruder dank Zoë im Koma liegt. Jetzt ist Al-Hamsi mindestens so sehr auf das Leben der Mafiosa aus wie auf das Gold.

Sophia’s mane of silver hair gives her the look of a mystical warrior, a female not of this world. Some colleagues defend her, others are jealous, most fear her, yet everyone respects her abilities. An ace sharpshooter, she’s called on for the most difficult cases. Her uncanny ability to remain cool under duress makes her the perfect person to rescue the twins of the frantic governor whose rejected husband intends to make her suffer. Problems begin when a cocky hero hits on her in the marketplace. Why her?

Congressional staffer Kit Marshall is excited to attend a historic event displaying the contents of Abraham Lincoln's pockets the night he was assassinated at the Library of Congress. The next day, a senior librarian is dead and several invaluable artifacts are missing.

Karina Cardinal's Saturday starts out with a bang, and it's not the home renovation marathon she's watching on HGTV. It's the FBI banging on her door, hunting for a fugitive. As if she could easily hide one in her modest condo. Especially one named Mike Finnegan.

Rosa and Esther march through downtown Detroit in August 1968 to protest the war in Vietnam. When a bloodied teenager reports that mounted police are beating protesters a few blocks away, the young women hurry to offer assistance. They try to stop the violence, but an officer is injured and the sisters are arrested. Rosa sees an opportunity to protest the war in court. Esther has an infant daughter and wants to avoid prison, which means accepting a plea bargain and testifying against her sister.

When Rebecca Laurelson is forced to leave her post as a trauma surgeon in an east African field hospital, she arrives at her aunt’s house on the Indian Ocean and is taken into the heart of a family she has never met before. It’s a world of all-night beach parties and constant cocktail receptions, and within its languorous embrace her attraction for her much younger cousin grows. But these gilded lives and their fellow white Africans on the coast are under threat - Islamist terror attacks are on the rise and Rebecca knows more about this violence than she is prepared to reveal.

There's power in stories. And power comes at a price. Detective Cora Gorderheim has found the man who strangled the Wayward storyteller. But he was just a small part of a much bigger tale. Someone powerful ordered a murder on Cora's patch. That someone still lurks in the shadows. But as she continues her investigations, Cora is warned not to pry into the great and the good of Fenest. Too stubborn to know better, Cora keeps digging and begins to piece together a conspiracy that reaches from the gutter dwellers of the Union of Realms right to the top: the Chambers.

There's power in stories and this is a story of power. Dead bodies aren't unusual in the alleyways of Fenest. Muggings, brawls gone bad, debts collected - Detective Cora Gorderheim has seen it all. Until she finds a Wayward man with his mouth sewn shut. As Cora pieces together the dead man's story, she's drawn into the most dangerous story in the Union of Realms: the election. All she wants is to catch the killer, but nothing is that simple in an election year.

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.

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?

Actress Adelaide Banks is swapping her native New York for London to spend Christmas with her widowed Aunt Rose. Rose wrote in her note that she was off to Paris for a few days and would be back in time for Addy's arrival. But when Addy reaches Rose's Knightsbridge address, no one's home, and she has two unexpected callers....Where is Rose, and what has she got herself entangled in? Dragged into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse on the snowy streets of London, Addy finds herself navigating a dark underworld of ruthless assassins, rogue agents, and international crime.

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.