Women Spy Thrillers

Topping her best-selling success with Alvirah and Willy, in The Lottery Winner, America's queen of suspense introduces a new sleuthing couple, Henry and Sunday, an ex-president and his young congresswoman bride. Henry Parker Britland IV is wealthy and worldly - a beloved former president who, still youthful, is enjoying early retirement. His new wife, Sunday, is beautiful, smart and 17 years younger than he, and has just been elected to Congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her the darling of the media.

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.

My wife just shot our waiter between the eyes when he came in with breakfast! But, he had it coming to him as he had a gun on the tray and was going to give us eggs Benedict with a Glock! Join Marsha and I as we work really hard to protect the Sea Empress and her passengers from threats from every direction. There have been so many shots taken at this ship by terrorists that the cruise line thought their business would sink. That is why we were hired to provide security.

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.

Divided into three books, Security Through Absurdity is the story of corporate shenanigans, an uneasy home life, and a quixotic presidential campaign. These situations propel Jocelyn through a believably bizarre journey and into dangerous psychological territory. In a matrix of life-threatening situations, she is forced to question the very fabric of her Gen-X American upbringing. Bubbles Will Pop is the second book in Jocelyn's journey.

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.

Un thriller tra le macerie della Seconda guerra mondiale in cui nulla è dato per scontato; un gioco di specchi orchestrato come nelle migliori spy storySarajevo, 1943. Mentre la Jugoslavia è dilaniata dalla guerra, una giovane e bellissima fotografa - vera e propria eroina per il suo popolo - e un ufficiale tedesco vengono rinvenuti brutalmente assassinati. Assegnato al caso è il capitano dell'intelligence militare Gregor Reinhardt, già detective della polizia di Berlino, poi allontanato dai nazisti.

Sarah and Brad's home was invaded, and Brad ended up in the hospital. Sarah decides they need to move when he gets out. However, while she is at home that evening, a few grizzly people barge into the apartment, saying they are going to paint it. Sarah can't understand this and decides they were sent by the people who invaded their home before.

The jockey, the wealthy owner, the veteran trainer: one by one they die. All players in the high-stakes world of horse racing - and all complicit in its terrible sins. By making them pay, one killer earns the chance to make his point…while the mastermind behind it all draws closer to the fatal finish line. San Diego CSI Holly Jennings has seen enough violence in her career to know the difference between a killer bent on revenge - and a killer bent on chaos. She knows there’s more to these murders than meets the eye.

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"...

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.

Somewhere on the South African veld, 1901: At the height of the Boer War, a doctor at a British concentration camp conducts a series of grim experiments on Boer prisoners. His work ends in chaos, but two children survive: a boy named Benjamin, and a girl named Tessa. One hundred years later, a disgraced young police constable is reassigned to the sleepy South African town of Unie, where she makes a terrifying discovery: the body of a woman, burned beyond recognition. The crime soon leads her into her country's violent past.

È notte fonda quando un bagliore accecante illumina la notte di Torino: la cappella del Guarini è in fiamme. Basta poco perché la tragica notizia si diffonda in tutto il mondo: la Sacra Sindone è andata distrutta. Quattro mesi dopo, in una Roma assolata e caotica, uno scandalo travolge il Vaticano: il colonnello Weistaler, comandante della Guardia svizzera, viene brutalmente assassinato il giorno del giuramento delle nuove reclute.

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.