Women Spy Thrillers

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.

Despite Harper McDaniel’s best efforts, the man responsible for the murder of her husband and son was exonerated thanks to some slick legal wrangling. This blatant injustice has only made Harper more determined than ever to bring down the culprit. Her ammunition? Incriminating information about his olive oil operations in Italy. But the clues that she follows are leading her into the depths of a corrupt plot that is more poisonous and far-reaching than she realizes. And more dangerous, too, because her enemy is prepared for her pursuit.

Chicago Special Agent Annie Marino examines the case of a dead young woman who possesses a tattoo Annie has come across before - that of bloody bear claws. Several deceased women with the tattoo have turned up over the past few years, all suspected of being involved in a vast human trafficking operation. Annie’s neighborhood friend, Jason Ward, is a young writer engaged to be married into an upper-class family from a posh Chicago suburb. Jason believes his future brother-in-law, a war veteran, is definitely a bully - but does he also have ties to the Russian mob?

Specialpolis Rebecka Born är avstängd från Sektionen för särskilda hot (SSH) för sin hantering av ett internationellt traffickingfall. Medan hon utreds av sina överordnade får hon ett anonymt tips: Något står inte rätt till med en grupp ensamkommande flyktingbarn. Rebecka avfärdar samtalet. Hon har lämnat in sin polisbricka och är dessutom upptagen med sitt röriga privatliv. Men när ett snarlikt tips inkommer från en källa som tidigare visat sig pålitlig väcks hennes nyfikenhet och oro. Vem har tagit de försvunna barnen?

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.

A body. A sacred national park. It's classified.... Park Ranger Dana Madison isn't a homicide detective anymore, or is she? Singled out by the President to investigate a string of mysterious deaths in the country's national parks, Madison has no idea why she was selected, or why she's leading an unlikely cast of characters in a frantic search for answers. When the chase leads her deep into the Rocky Mountains, Madison discovers potential motives that shock her.

This astute, entertaining literary thriller features Helena Marsh, an art authenticator hot on the trail of an extorted painting in Budapest, skirting the law to return it to its rightful heir. When wealthy octogenarian Geza Marton hires art expert Marsh to buy back his family's Titian painting, she flies to Budapest to close what she expects will be a reasonably simple sale. But nothing is ever simple in this beautiful, flawed city where corruption abounds. Helena discovers that there are multiple bidders for the painting, including some dangerous Slavs.

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.

They stole her from her family when she was just a little girl. They broke her down and rebuilt her as a weapon. A killer. They trained her to be unstoppable... They succeeded. They raised her to be obedient... They failed. She was a government experiment, a young child stolen from foster care and trained to become a weapon. A killer. Against all odds, Samantha Black found a way to escape that life. With a new name and a fresh face she set out to reclaim the family she once knew.

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.

Loose Lips follows the story of Selena Keller who has just completed a doctorate in Oriental Studies. Living in Manhattan, unemployed, and dismayed by her dull job prospects, on a whim she sends her resume to the CIA. Within weeks she is contacted by a recruiter, who asks her how she would feel about convincing another human being to commit treason.

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.

Las obsesiones de Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa se dan cita en este escalofriante thriller contemporáneo: los intereses financieros de las grandes potencias empresariales, el pasado como mapa para el presente, la acción y la intriga a través de una trama internacional. Irina Dogonovic ha crecido en la Roma de postguerra. Bien posicionada en el ámbito empresarial y con el contacto de varios cardenales de la curia vaticana, recibe el encargo de investigar un proyecto secreto originado por los nazis, un proyecto que podría revolucionar las finanzas de todo el planeta. Su aventura no ha hecho más que comenzar.

"Sultana Roja" es una de las obras cumbres en la dilatada bibliografía de Alberto Vázquez Figueroa. Consta de seis volúmenes, en los cuales asistimos a la evolución de María, una chica cuyo padrastro sacó de la pobreza durante su infancia, y para quien aseguró un futuro feliz... hasta que todo se truncó con su trágica muerte en un atentado. Las ansias de venganza devoran a María, que toma la determinación de encontrar a los culpables y llega al extremo de infiltrarse en la organización que mató a su padre.

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.

The body of a teenage boy is found weighted down in a lake. Karin Muller, newly appointed Major of the People's Police, is called to investigate. But her power will only stretch so far, when every move she makes is under the watchful eye of the Stasi. Then, when the son of Muller's team member goes missing, it quickly becomes clear that there is a terrifying conspiracy at the heart of this case, one that could fast lead Muller and her young family into real danger. Can she navigate this complex political web and find the missing boy, before it's too late?

There's power in stories. And power comes at a price. Detective Cora Gorderheim has found the man who strangled the Wayward storyteller. But he was just a small part of a much bigger tale. Someone powerful ordered a murder on Cora's patch. That someone still lurks in the shadows. But as she continues her investigations, Cora is warned not to pry into the great and the good of Fenest. Too stubborn to know better, Cora keeps digging and begins to piece together a conspiracy that reaches from the gutter dwellers of the Union of Realms right to the top: the Chambers.

Former Budapest cop Attila Feher would really like to see art expert Helena Marsh again, so he arranges a contract for her to determine whether a painting is a copy of a famous Artemisia Gentileschi canvas or the real thing. A simple appraisal becomes a dangerous assignment when usual eastern European gangsters show up and people start dying and the seething corruption that underlies the lost promise of post-Soviet Hungary swirls to the surface. In a race to get to the truth and to outwit her adversaries, Helena and Attila must solve the mystery of the painting’s origins.

"A València apareixen els cadàvers de dos polítics que havien estat involucrats en trames corruptes amb un conseller d’alta volada de la Generalitat, que va fugir a l’altre punta del món abans de ser condemnat per aquests tractes il·legals. Ara totes les sospites recauen sobre l’exconseller que pot haver torn at a fer justícia, però ningú no sap on és. Ni tan sols la seva família. El fill és un aspirant a novel·lista que vol escriure la seva gran obra a partir de la història del pare. La muller és una dona de classe alta vinguda a menys que viu en la inòpia des de la fugida del marit."

In this rousing novel, the action sweeps from the Oval Office to a Navy SEAL assault on a remote Indonesian Island, from the court-martial of an admiral to the impeachment hearings of a peacenik President.