Women Spy Thrillers

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.

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.

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.