Women Spy Thrillers

Middle-aged bookkeeper Aydan Kelly never wanted to moonlight as a spy, but she doesn’t have a choice. Working with computer networks in a secured building sounds safe, but it turns out the job’s a killer - literally. When Aydan’s trusted co-worker is shot while committing an apparently treasonous act, Aydan embarks on a secret mission to clear his name.

Hot-tempered and a warrior to the bone, Shannon is the most daring of "Merlin's Mauraders." Her assignment: stop the fiendishly cruel assassin who is targeting a top British ballistics expert's family. Marshalling her intelligence, fighting skills, and weapons is easy. Being forced to work with the rakishly handsome Russian spy she loathes is something else.

Black ops specialist Aubrey Sentro may be one concussion away from death. But when pirates seize the cargo ship she’s on, she must decide whether to risk her life to save her fellow passengers. Sentro’s training takes over, and she’s able to elude her captors, leaving bodies in her wake. But her problems are just getting started. Her memory lapses are getting more frequent, symptoms of serial-concussion syndrome. As she plays a deadly game of cat and mouse with the pirates, she pushes herself to survive by focusing on thoughts of her children.

In "The Westminster Murders," alliances will be tested, scandals will surface, and the line between politics and personal vendettas will blur. As the clock ticks, Camille and her unlikely comrades must unravel a web of deceit before the halls of power claim another victim.

In the throes of WWII in Port Braythwaite, Cornwall, British radio operator Eleanor "Ellie" Hayes intercepts a mysterious distress signal from the USS Reliant, a U.S. Navy ship with no official record. Drawn into a web of espionage, loss, and secrets, Ellie finds an unlikely ally in Captain James "Jack" Calloway, a U.S. Navy officer also investigating the signal.

Special Agent Sam Jameson is having a bad week. People are trying to kill her. That would be business as usual in the counterespionage world, except that it’s the good guys who have her in the crosshairs. Will a ruthless mercenary, a hapless American traitor, and a dead man’s cryptic clue hold the key to Sam’s survival? As the noose tightens around her neck, Sam must uncover a brutal and deadly conspiracy before she becomes its next victim.

In 1985, four American musicians—members of a New England-based klezmer band that focused on Yiddish music—landed in Moscow. With little training in espionage, they risked their freedom and their lives to smuggle information to and from the West under the watchful eye of the KGB and to help...

Una furgoneta blanca se abalanza sobre centenares de transeúntes en las Ramblas de Barcelona, asesinando a quince de ellos. Pero lo que nadie puede saber en ese momento es que, a pocos metros de allí, una joven llamada Nuria Badal acaba de tomar una dramática decisión que cambiará irremediablemente su vida y el futuro de todo un país. Quizá para siempre.

Todo comienza el diecisiete de agosto de dos mil diecisiete, a las dieciséis horas y cuarenta y ocho minutos. Una furgoneta blanca se abalanza sobre centenares de transeúntes en las Ramblas de Barcelona, asesinando a quince de ellos. Pero lo que nadie puede saber en ese momento es que, a pocos metros de allí, una joven llamada Nuria Badal acaba de tomar una dramática decisión que cambiará irremediablemente su vida y el futuro de todo un país. Quizá para siempre. Redención es un thriller perturbador y trepidante, diferente a cualquier otro.

When a Russian submarine launches a Kalibr missile that cripples a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Black Sea, the world teeters on the edge of war. The official story? Engine failure. Smoke on deck. Routine repairs. But deep inside Washington’s shadows, something darker is unfolding. Sarah Mendoza, a sharp and unrelenting investigative journalist, receives a classified folder from an anonymous source—one that exposes a terrifying truth: concealed Russian missile systems, disguised as civilian shipping containers, have already been smuggled onto American soil.

Wenn die Verbrechen der Vergangenheit ihre Schatten in die Gegenwart werfen, ist Cold-Case-Expertin Maria Just gefragt. Polizeihistorikerin Maria Just bereitet eine Ausstellung über ungelöste Mordfälle im Polizeimuseum von Kopenhagen vor, als mitten in der Stadt der Generalsekretär des Roten Kreuzes auf bestialische Art ermordet wird. Die Polizisten Mikael Dirk und Frederik Dahlin ermitteln bei ihrem ersten gemeinsamen Fall unter hohem Druck von Presse und Politik.

In Hamburg sterben Menschen, die der Umwelt schaden. Jede und jeder könnte das nächste Opfer sein. Ein sensationeller Fall für das Hamburger Ermittlerduo Erdmann und Eloğlu von Erfolgsautor Hubertus Borck. Ich sehe, was du tust. Dafür wirst du bestraft. Eine Frau stirbt qualvoll bei einem Brand in einem Müllkeller. Kurz vor ihrem Tod entdeckt sie eine geheimnisvolle Botschaft über sich an der Decke: »Ich sehe, was du tust«. Einige Wochen später verbrennt ein Mann in einem Bordell auf der Hamburger Reeperbahn. Der Jurist, der für Gerechtigkeit kämpfte, setzte gegen das Unkraut in seinem Garten regelmäßig Chemie ein.

Five detectives across five states are dead, victims of an assailant known as the Judge. As the murderer cuts across the country, the FBI invites Sam to be a part of the investigation. Sam is a county cop with an unsettled past and an uncertain future. She’s also a talented investigator with a knack for catching serial killers. Her skill set makes her an asset to the Bureau. It also marks her as a target.

In her work with a clandestine government agency, Aydan Kelly stumbles across a shadowy consortium of scientists whose members are selling classified information for personal profit. Aydan wants to report them, but there’s a small complication: Her supposedly dead husband...isn’t. He wants to rendezvous with her, but he could be working with the consortium. If she rats on the scientists, her husband will die. But if she doesn’t, the consortium will kill her....

Set in 1949 Paris, Slim Moran runs the Pitchipoi Agency with her Nazi Hunter boyfriend, Daniel. Their specialty: to find those lost in the last war. After a couple of easy cases, business has ground to halt, and Daniel has just gone on another manhunt this time to find the Nazi Butcher of Lyon, Klaus Barbie. Slim is bored until a British spymistress asks her to find a missing woman spy long presumed dead.

The year is 1861, the eve of Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration. For Kate Warn, the first female private detective in American history, the only assignment tougher than exposing a conspiracy to assassinate the new president is training her new mentee, Hattie MacLaughlin, in the art of detection. The two women’s mission to save the president takes them from the granges of rural Maryland to the heart of secessionist high society, and sets them on a collision course that could alter the course of history.

Ein Terror-Anschlag erschüttert San Sebastián. Das Ziel: die Sommerakademie von Friedensnobelpreisträgerin Ashrami Rafiki. Die Opfer: über 1.500 junge Frauen aus aller Welt. Mit dieser schrecklichen Vorahnung schreckt Terror-Profilerin Zara von Hardenberg aus einem Alptraum hoch. Die beste Profilerin von Europol kann sich jedes Detail merken, entdeckt jeden noch so kleinen Hinweis und ahnt die nächsten Schritte ihrer Gegner voraus - doch sie kann keine Regeln brechen. Und um einen solchen schrecklichen Anschlag zu verhindern, werden legale Mittel nicht ausreichen.

Nachdem Sara Nowak das Netzwerk der Stasi-Mitarbeiter in Schweden auffliegen ließ und einen Bombenschlag in Deutschland verhindert hat, werden die Ereignisse von den schwedischen Geheimdiensten unter den Teppich gekehrt. Sara will sich an das Schweigegebot halten, doch dann wird ein Ex-Spion ermordet, der sie wenige Tage zuvor vergeblich um Rückruf gebeten hatte. Obwohl sie an ihrer neuen Stelle in der Kriminalpolizei bereits genug mit einer Mordserie in der Unterwelt zu tun hat, lässt ihr schlechtes Gewissen sie erneut in der Spionagewelt herumstochern.

La extraña desaparición de un avión en la ruta Bogotá y Medellín desencadena una serie de inesperados acontecimientos en la primera novela del guionista y director Dago García. Victoria Albornoz es una reconocida reportera que decide investigar el caso cuando descubre que Roberto, su amante, era uno de los pasajeros; Lorenzo Pieschacón es un policía en decadencia que por azares del destino queda implicado en el caso, y el pastor Martín Quiñonez, pierde el avión e intenta capitalizar el hecho a su favor.

Three sisters raised in Michigan follow completely different pathways. The oldest, Nettie, threw away every advantage she had when she was still in her teens, and her mystified parents and siblings watched in horror as she spent years in squalor and degradation. Middle sister Ruth fell in love with a wealthy man and now has a life beyond all the dreams she spun in the cramped, upstairs bedroom of their parents’ old farmhouse.