Women Spy Thrillers

In Paris wird eine junge Bankangestellte auf offener Straße erschossen, in Bologna stirbt ein ranghoher Mitarbeiter desselben Instituts bei einem Anschlag...

How far will a candidate go to become president? Erica Sparks - America's top-rated cable-news host - is about to find out. Mike Ortiz is a dynamic war hero favored to win the White House. Standing by his side is his glamorous and adoring wife, Celeste. But something about this seemingly perfect couple troubles Erica. Is Celeste really who she seems? And most importantly, what really happened in that squalid Al-Qaeda prison where Mike Ortiz spent nine months? But more than the nation's future is at stake.

Horatio Leavenworth is a New York merchant whose material wealth is matched by his eminence in the communityand reputation for good works. He is also the guardian of two striking nieces who share his Fifth Avenue mansion. Mary, her uncle's favorite, is to inherit her uncle's fortune at his death. As this mystery opens, that lamentable event has just occurred. Leavenworth has been shot to death and circumstances point to one of his young wards.

Als Hauptkommissar Paul Regen im Isartal ein formalingetränktes Bein findet, ist er alarmiert: Bei der letzten Kriminologenkonferenz wurde von zwei ähnlichen Fällen in England und Italien berichtet. Zwei mögen Zufall sein, drei niemals. Agent Solveigh Lang und ihr Team finden im Lauf ihrer Ermittlungen heraus, dass sie es mit einem Serienmörder zu tun haben, der sich ein besonders perfides Spiel ausgedacht hat.

È la Vigilia di Natale quando la Santa Sede è scossa da un terribile lutto. Monsignor Claude de Beaumont, Curatore dei Musei Vaticani, muore gettandosi nel vuoto. Eppure la sua è solo la prima di una serie di morti misteriose nel mondo dell'arte, sulle quali dovrà far luce l'ispettore Sforza. Non è affatto chiaro cosa abbia spinto l'anziano religioso a togliersi la vita, né cosa si nasconda dietro ai delitti che si susseguono nei giorni seguenti.

Kay Hamilton, the beautiful, fearless, and audacious DEA agent who went rogue in Rosarito Beach, has paid the price for her subversive behavior. As Viking Bay begins, Kay has been fired by the DEA and needs a job to support herself and her teenage daughter. Kay moves to Washington D.C. and connects with the Callahan Group, a shadowy quasi-governmental agency with an enigmatic agenda. For her first mission, Kay is told only a few facts.

The Cutaway draws you into the tangled world of corruption and cover-up as a young television producer investigates the disappearance of a beautiful Georgetown lawyer in this stunning psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Paula Hawkins and Gillian Flynn.

Chi si nasconde dietro la società segreta che controlla i destini del mondo? Nel giorno dei funerali del primo ministro italiano, ucciso in un terribile attentato, il cadavere di un uomo con uno strano tatuaggio sul petto viene rinvenuto sotto un ponte ai piedi di Castel Sant'Angelo. L'indagine, affidata al pubblico ministero Lorenzo Fossati, si svolge in un clima surreale e sotto fortissime pressioni politiche, mentre nel partito di maggioranza cominciano le lotte per l'elezione di un nuovo leader.

Der gefährlichste Computervirus der Welt gelangt in die Hände eines russischen Top-Terroristen, genannt "Das Biest"...

As such things are measured in Washington, Denise Burke has everything a woman of wit could want: two hip kids able to look after themselves; a marriage constructed to allow maximum mutual leeway with a husband smack in the center of Clinton's inner circle; and a high-profile lover. Plus, she's a best-selling author of several true crime books. But when death strikes close to home, Denise becomes a woman with a big-time problem.

After falling in love and making a quick exit from her nine-year career in the USAWMD (United States Agency for Weapons of Mass Destruction), ex-spy Sally Sin does her best to become Lucy Hamilton, a stay-at-home mom in San Francisco. No one, not even her adoring husband Will, knows about her secret agent escapades - chasing no-good masterminds through perilous jungles, escaping evil assassins, and playing dangerous games of cat and mouse with her old nemesis, Ian Blackford, a notorious and dashing illegal arms dealer.

Il potere è nelle loro mani. Un grande thriller. Firenze. Si è scatenato il panico nella prestigiosa casa d'aste Paolini: è appena esplosa una bomba e il salone ha preso fuoco. Un gruppo di paramilitari, approfittando della confusione, si introduce nei sotterranei del palazzo e si impossessa del misterioso lotto 302, custodito in un grosso baule di alluminio. Contemporaneamente, Andreas Henkel, agente del Servizio Segreto Vaticano, si trova a far fronte a un evento scioccante e imprevisto.

Sie verwenden kein Telefon, kein Internet, keine Banktransaktionen. Niemand weiß, wer sie sind, sie hinterlassen keine Spuren. Sie sind ein Phantom. Solveigh Lang von der Europapolizei ECSB und Kriminalhauptkommissar Paul Regen vom LKA Bayern sind auf der Jagd nach einer Gruppe gewaltbereiter Terroristen, die sich allen modernen Ermittlungstechniken entzieht. Sie müssen ihre Arbeit vollkommen neu erfinden. Und dabei dürfen sie keine Zeit verlieren, denn der nächste Anschlag steht unmittelbar bevor.

Laura is a young intern in Washington, D.C., working for handsome and likable Congressman Hal Gannon. Laura falls for the charming Gannon, but when she catches a stewardess at Gannon's apartment, she vows to destroy him. Private investigator Robert Brixton is a former cop who has also worked for the FBI. When Laura goes missing, Brixton is hired by Laura's family to gain insight into the case that the police might have missed.

Rachel and her partner, Detective Raul Santino, might not believe that the Department of Homeland Security is responsible, but the rest of the country does. As tensions mount and the city begins to burn, Rachel learns that none of her usual investigatory techniques apply—for the first time in her long career as a cop, finding the bad guys might not be as important as learning why they wanted the public to rise up against their own government.

The Agency has charted Ko Min-Jung's progress for years until it finally extends her a formal invitation to join their ranks of elite recruits. Ripped from her family, plucked from her familiar Pyongyang lifestyle, Ko is thrust into Academy existence. Her handlers are determined to wield her into an efficient, professional agent, equipped to protect North Korea from a wide array of threats and foreign aggression.

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.