Women Spy Thrillers

Prague in the 1950s is a city of numerous small terrors, of political tyranny, corruption, and surveillance. There is no way of knowing whether one's neighbor is spying for the government, or what one's supposed friend will say under pressure to a state security agent. A loyal party member might be imprisoned or executed as quickly as a traitor; innocence means nothing for a person caught in a government trap.

Catherine Ling is one of the CIA’s most prized operatives. Raised on the unforgiving streets of Hong Kong, she was pulled into the agency at the age of 14, already having accumulated more insight and secrets than the most seasoned professionals in her world. If life has taught her anything, it is not to get attached, but there are two exceptions to that rule: Her son, Luke, and her mentor, Hu Chang.

Her narrow escape from blue-eyed assassin Tom Booker has made former data analyst Dani Britton question all of her choices-like trusting "good guys" who carry badges. On the run and haunted by the government-sanctioned massacre of her coworkers, Dani finally settles in remote Redemption Key, Florida, at a bar where strong drinks and shady deals are the norm.

Israelis and Palestinians cooperate to make a difficult situation worse. Good people, doing bad things for the best of reasons. A complex murder investigation of a complicated set of murders starts when an Arab collaborator's body is found by a collapsed wall in the new Israeli settlement of Oranit. His death is hushed up and the body burned by the Palestinian villagers who hated him.

When the shadowy circumstances of a relative's death are brought to light, Jane and Lila are plunged into the recesses of an underground drug operation with links to a burgeoning fascist movement. The Pool sisters have gone into business together: a down-home if unequal P.I. enterprise. That...

Hollywood influencer and super-secret spy Poppy Fields is finally taking a well-deserved vacation with her partner Thor. A woman. A man. A private Greek island. What could go wrong? When a storm washes six teenage girls onto the island, trouble comes knocking. The men who trafficked the girls will do anything to get them them back, including killing Poppy and Thor.

In rural McCown County, Missouri, a young pregnant woman is found beaten to death in a trailer park. The only witness to the murder is Ivy, her six-year-old daughter, who points to her mom's boyfriend - father of the unborn child. County prosecutor Madeleine Thompson promises the community justice, and in the Ozarks that can mean only one thing: a death sentence. When Madeleine's first choice for cocounsel declines to try a death penalty case, she is forced to turn to assistant prosecutor Elsie Arnold.

Army Intelligence reservist Kat Caldwell is teaching Arabic at a military college in Virginia when the order comes: retired spy chief Dick Morrow needs to find a CIA informant who has slipped away from his handler in Spain and may be heading to Morocco.

A Washington psychiatrist is killed in a hit-and-run on the street in front of his office. Suspicion quickly focuses on one of the doctor's patients, and Mackenzie Smith is called in to defend her. Then information emerges that links the slain shrink to a highly secret CIA mind-control project.

Bea Abbot and her husband have been running a highly successful domestic agency for many years, but when he falls ill and dies, she is pressured by her MP son and novelist daughter to retire. Bea is so tired from the long years of nursing her husband that all she wants is peace and quiet, and to have her pretty early Victorian house in Kensington, London, all to herself. What she gets is a couple of young lodgers with troubled backgrounds and an old friend banging on her door, asking for help.

Annika Bengtzon gilt unter ihren Kollegen als tough und unbestechlich. Sie liebt ihre Arbeit als Reporterin. Als sie zur Villa des Politikers Ingemar Lerberg gerufen wird, betritt sie eine andere Welt: wertkonservativ, traditionell und gediegen. Auf den erfolgreichen Geschäftsmann wurde ein Anschlag verübt. Für die Journalistin ist er kein Unbekannter, denn ein durch die Presse hochgeputschter Steuerskandal hatte Lerberg zum Rücktritt gezwungen.

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

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.

With one mysterious e-mail, Bobby Kungenook - the teenage hockey phenom living undercover and guarding part of a revolutionary scientific breakthrough - realizes someone else shares his secret. The sender summons Bobby from New York to a rendezvous in radioactive Japan. There, with the help of Bobby's guardian, Nadia Tesla, the two will forever alter mankind's destiny.

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". Ein Anschlag, der bis gestern noch undenkbar schien, steht unmittelbar bevor - mitten im Herzen Europas. Special Agent Solveigh Lang von der europäischen Geheimpolizei ECSB verfolgt seine Spur, bis ihre Einheit selbst zur Zielscheibe wird.