Women Spy Thrillers

Just weeks before retirement, CIA operative Drenna Steel and boyfriend Trevor Lambert are run off a mountain road by another vehicle. Drenna survives the crash, but Trevor doesn't.

The year is 1861, the eve of Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration. For Kate Warn, the first female private detective in American history, the only assignment tougher than exposing a conspiracy to assassinate the new president is training her new mentee, Hattie MacLaughlin, in the art of detection. The two women’s mission to save the president takes them from the granges of rural Maryland to the heart of secessionist high society, and sets them on a collision course that could alter the course of history.

Nachdem Sara Nowak das Netzwerk der Stasi-Mitarbeiter in Schweden auffliegen ließ und einen Bombenschlag in Deutschland verhindert hat, werden die Ereignisse von den schwedischen Geheimdiensten unter den Teppich gekehrt. Sara will sich an das Schweigegebot halten, doch dann wird ein Ex-Spion ermordet, der sie wenige Tage zuvor vergeblich um Rückruf gebeten hatte. Obwohl sie an ihrer neuen Stelle in der Kriminalpolizei bereits genug mit einer Mordserie in der Unterwelt zu tun hat, lässt ihr schlechtes Gewissen sie erneut in der Spionagewelt herumstochern.

Would you risk your life for total strangers? When she is assaulted while on vacation in Key West, the unforgettable Kate Bowers marshals her skills as a former homicide detective and Army MP. As she hunts down her assailant, she discovers women enslaved in a high-end sex trafficking operation on a luxury super-yacht. That’s only the first complication. The president’s daughter is missing and in mortal danger.

College heptathlete Margaret Crandall is invited to compete for a spot with a secret company to become an elite assassin. While still in the training pipeline, her mentor is murdered attempting to kill the billionaire shipping tycoon, Victor Lars Junius, who is a member of a global criminal empire and attempting to transform himself into the legendary actor Richard Burton.

Three sisters raised in Michigan follow completely different pathways. The oldest, Nettie, threw away every advantage she had when she was still in her teens, and her mystified parents and siblings watched in horror as she spent years in squalor and degradation. Middle sister Ruth fell in love with a wealthy man and now has a life beyond all the dreams she spun in the cramped, upstairs bedroom of their parents’ old farmhouse.

Una violenta esplosione durante la festa di inaugurazione di villa Brandi, una villa settecentesca restaurata grazie al contributo in denaro di un noto mister del calcio internazionale, provoca l`uccisione di quattro persone e il grave ferimento di una quinta. Caterina Ruggeri, capo della locale Sezione Omicidi, presente alla festa insieme al suo compagno e uscita illesa dall`attentato, prenderà in mano fin da subito le redini delle indagini, che vengono però depistate da oscuri personaggi legati da un lato alla massoneria locale e da un altro ai Servizi Segreti.

It's been two short weeks since her harrowing experience in the mountain cabin, and former Homeland agent Sam Jameson is still a long way from okay. She's spent the time driving aimlessly, alone and anonymous, trying to make sense of her ordeal. Those unimaginable words - "Yes, Madam Facilitator" - echo in her memory for the 1,000th time as she happens upon a beautiful, traumatized, and nearly naked young woman fleeing for her life in the midnight cold. Hours later, Sam finds herself in the Philadelphia police commissioner's office with his blood on her hands.

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.

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.

Keine Toten mehr! Mit diesem Vorsatz kehrt Hauptkommissarin Judith Krieger nach Köln zurück. Als Chefin der Vermisstenfahndung, nicht mehr als Mordermittlerin. Vier Jahre lang hat sie auf dieses Ziel hingearbeitet. Doch gleich der erste Tag führt Judith zum Schauplatz eines grausamen Mordes in einem fensterlosen Keller. Hier ist ein seit Wochen spurlos verschwundener Mann qualvoll verdurstet. Die Jagd nach dem Täter bringt Judith an die Grenzen der Legalität und auf die Spur einer zweiten Vermissten. Ist die junge Kolumbianerin Inez ein weiteres Opfer oder eine eiskalte Rächerin?

In the spring of 1914, Nadia Shulkina, the daughter of Russian aristocrats, looks toward a bright future. She has no premonitions of war, let alone the revolution that is about to destroy her comfortable world. Her once-noble family is stripped of every possession, and more terrible losses soon follow. To save what's left of her family and future, Nadia marries a zealous Bolshevik in an act of calculated reinvention.

Die neue große Serie von David Baldacci - mit einer unvergesslichen Heldin! Als Atlee Pine sechs Jahre alt ist, dringt ein Mann in ihr Kinderzimmer ein und entführt ihre eineiige Zwillingsschwester Mercy. Mercy taucht nie wieder auf, Atlee bleibt traumatisiert zurück. Knapp dreißig Jahre später ist sie zur einzelgängerischen FBI-Agentin geworden, die sich ein möglichst einsames Büro nahe des Grand Canyon gewählt hat. Eines Tages wird am Boden der Schlucht ein grausam aufgeschlitztes Maultier gefunden. Ein scheinbar harmloser Provinzfall.

A family in England is massacred, the father left holding the shotgun. PC Lucy Davies is convinced he's innocent. A sleeper agent in Moscow requests an urgent meeting with Dan Forrester, referencing their shared past. His amnesia means he has no idea whom he can trust. An aging oligarch in Siberia gathers his henchmen to discuss an English accountant. It's Dan's wife.

From the author of the acclaimed North of Boston comes a riveting new thriller about an American doctor who travels to Russia to find her estranged grandmother, only to uncover dark family secrets and a dangerous international plot.

Julia Swann, mother of two young boys, is on the phone with her husband, Michael, when the call abruptly cuts out. It isn't until later in the evening when she discovers that something terrible has happened at Penn Station, where Michael was waiting for a train home. Julia races to New York City to look for Michael, her panicked searching interwoven with memories of meeting and falling in love with the husband she's now desperate to find.

Paris Metro is the gripping story of an American journalist compelled to reexamine her convictions as terrorism threatens to engulf her family. It's 2015, and Kit is living in Paris, estranged from her Iraqi diplomat husband and raising their teenage son, Ahmed. When Charlie Hebdo is attacked and a cartoonist friend of hers is killed, and then terrorists storm the Bataclan, Kit's Parisian world is shattered. As she is drawn back into reporting, she begins to suspect that Ahmed may be running with the terrorists.

Only three people can connect a present-day murderer to a serial killer who, fourteen years ago, terrorized a small Siberian town. And one of them is already dead.

When an old man is found dead on the road - seemingly run over by a Hungarian au pair - police investigator Anna Fekete is certain that there is more to the incident than meets the eye. As she begins to unravel an increasingly complex case, she’s led on a deadly trail where illegal immigration, drugs and ultimately murder threaten not only her beliefs but her life.

Dos agentes del CNI son requeridos para asistir a una reunión importante en la Moncloa, con la presencia de la Vicepresidenta del gobierno. Es en la época de reprivatización de la Caixa de Catalunya. El banco de España ha recibido una oferta millonaria, fuera de toda lógica, por la citada Caja. El gobierno quiere saber quién está detrás de la oferta, que ha sido presentada por un fondo de inversiones dirigido por una mujer llamada Gabriela Escobar, que controla una gran Corporación con sede en las islas Caimán.