Women Spy Thrillers

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.

The 1940s, Washington, DC. Government girl Louise Pearlie has a new job inside the OSS - the Office of Strategic Services: recruiting German prisoners of war for a secret mission inside Nazi Germany. It’s a big chance for her, and Louise hopes she can finally escape her filing and typing duties. With the job comes two new colleagues: Alice Osborne, a propaganda expert, and Merle Ellison, a forger from Texas who just happens to speak fluent German. But when the three arrive at Fort Meade to interview the first German POWs to arrive there, their mission is beset by complications.

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?

Das Festnetz-Telefon klingelt, als sie am Fenster steht und ihren Enkelkindern zum Abschied winkt. Agneta hebt den Hörer ab. "Geiger", sagt jemand und legt auf. Agneta weiß, was das bedeutet. Sie geht zu dem Versteck, entnimmt eine Waffe mit Schalldämpfer und tritt an ihren Mann heran, der im Wohnzimmer sitzt und Musik hört. Sie setzt den Lauf an seine Schläfe - und drückt ab. Als Kommissarin Sara Nowak von diesem kaltblütigen Mord hört, ist sie alarmiert. Sie kennt die Familie seit ihrer Kindheit.

Un viaje de rutina de un político europeo a los Estados Unidos se va a convertir en el origen de la mayor conspiración político criminal de la historia reciente. Najla, una joven desilusionada con el sistema, tras la injusta muerte de su marido, va a luchar por lo que la ley no le ha dado: justicia. Con la ayuda del joven abogado Alejandro Novely y del hacker "Bicho", Najla emprende su particular forma de venganza, como la única forma de conseguir justicia, sin sospechar siquiera cómo van a cambiar sus vidas cuando descubren.

February, 1586. When the queen’s spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, learns that Ursula is to visit her relatives in Devon, he asks her to find out what has happened to two of his local agents, who have been strangely silent recently. On arrival in the small Devon village of Zeal Aquatio, Ursula discovers that both spies in question have met with mysterious - and fatal - accidents. Or is there more to it than that? What did the two spies find out that got them killed?

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.

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?

During the Gulf War in 1991, an ancient scroll is found in Southern Israel. Years later, scientists declare it a fake, but an American nun believes it will lead her to the resting place of the Virgin Mary. What she finds seems to possess miraculous healing powers that attract believers and skeptics from across the globe. She also draws the attention of a mysterious Israeli Shin Bet officer determined to retrieve the remains of the “Mother” at any cost. And that is only the beginning....

Tim Donovan is a Catholic priest with a guilty conscience - though not in the way you’d guess. And Katherine Donne is a Parisian socialite who long ago kicked her self-respect to the curb - for good and for ill. And much closer, we have a group of men whose fortunes, graying temples, and positions in life are distinguished and enviable. But their morals? Anything but. And that’s where Evan Reed comes in.

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. Doch dann stößt Atlee auf Spuren einer mörderischen Verschwörung, die bis in die obersten politischen Kreise reicht.

Maddox Kinkade is an expert at managing the impossible. Tasked with neutralizing a lethal bioweapon, she turns to the one person capable of helping her stop the threat of pandemic in time: the love of her life, back from the dead and mad as hell at her supposed betrayal. Recruiting Cole to save millions of lives may be harder than resisting the attraction still burning between them, but Maddox will do whatever it takes...even if it destroys her.

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.

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.

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.

When it comes to finding dirt, Evan Reed is the best in the business. She’s a “dust-buster” - a paid operative hired by political campaigns to vet candidates for national office. She’s also a foulmouthed and cranky ex-Catholic - attempting to raise a 14-year-old daughter on her own. When she is hired to investigate the background of a squeaky-clean and charismatic junior senator who might just be the next president, the last thing she expects to uncover is a murder.

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.