Women Spy Thrillers

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.

Debbie has had quite a crazy few months. First, there was the missing money, which led to her making her husband leave because he wouldn't tell her why he'd taken that much out of their joint account; then, she found Judy, a friend she used to work with murdered! Don't even get her started on her mother trying to fix her up, and somehow, even in her 40+ years, she was being pursued by multiple men, when for the past twenty years, no one gave her a second glance. Something is definitely up, and Debbie has taken it upon herself to figure out what is going on with all the secrets and to bring ...

Judy's dead. Herman's dead. Debbie can't trust anyone, not even her husband, Ed. What's a stable housewife who finds her life in utter chaos supposed to do? And why, after twenty-plus years of marriage, are men coming out of the woodwork, wanting to date her? Debbie is confused, but she's not going to give up now. She feels like she's about to figure out what's going on, but maybe a date or two wouldn't hurt. She could consider them part of the investigation, right?

When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months, she was the most celebrated woman in the city. As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan, she bewitched the era's richest and most powerful men. But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hari's lifestyle brought her under suspicion. In 1917, she was arrested in her hotel room on the Champs Elysees, and accused of espionage.

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.

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.

Suspense. Action. Mystery. This electric thriller keeps you page turning all the way to the heart-stopping ending. AMAZON #1 BESTSELLER Rookie Reece Cannon is driving down an old town road, wishing for some action on another uneventful patrol. You know what they say about being careful what you wish for. Suddenly, the rookie is forced to save a woman from her fiancé. Reece races to find the truth and bring the liars to justice. Caught in a web of deceit, she has to stay one step ahead of the double agents, the abductors, and the man who will stop at nothing to shut her down. There’s ...

Narrowly surviving a terrorist attack in Paris, Stephanie Patrick finds herself pursued ruthlessly by a faceless enemy, her identity stolen from her. To give herself a slim possibility of escape, she seizes a hostage: Robert Newman. But is their encounter really just chance? Hunted from Paris to Vienna, Stephanie and Newman are forced together to survive. Yet the more she learns, the closer Newman seems to be to the heart of the conspiracy. Stephanie becomes sure of only one thing: that the answers will lie with the person who she knows only as The Third Woman.

New York, 1939 Giddy Brodsky knows she’s lucky to have a job as a cigarette girl at a Manhattan jazz club, but she dreams of opening her own beauty shop and lifting her family out of poverty. The Brodskys have lived cheek to jowl in the Lower East Side tenements since they came to America nineteen years ago, fleeing a deadly pogrom in their Russian village. But they continue to face prejudice. Yet Giddy is focused on the future—until she recognizes one of the Cossacks who irrevocably changed her life and the past comes flooding back.

Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences. Gus Voorhees is a pioneer in the advancement of women's reproductive rights and a controversial abortion provider in the American Midwest. One morning as he arrives at his clinic, he is ambushed by a hardline Christian, Luther Dunphy, and shot dead. The killing leaves in its wake two fatherless families: the Voorheeses, who are affluent, highly educated, secular and pro-choice, and the Dunphys, their opposite on all counts.

Women Spies: A Novel of Remembrance of Mata Hari, Mary Bowser, Noor Inayat Khan, Nancy Wake and other Strong Women of History is a historical fiction that uses the "grandmother's chair" method to recount the very real histories of famous and infamous female spies down through the ages. The story begins with Lannie (a fictitious character) watching a mysterious neighbor moving in next door. Her grandmother (also fictitious) collects stories about spies.

Jamaica, 1980. A general election is in the offing. The left-of-centre People's National Party stands a chance of winning a third term of radical social reform. Ties with Russia and Cuba will likely be strengthened. The IMF will be shown the door. The powers that be in London or Washington are not prepared to countenance any of that. Not at all. Unfortunately, the only person available to address the situation is someone the Brits would rather not acknowledge. At just 25, Ruby Parker and MI6 have a fractious shared history.

Paris, 1929. For Harris Stuyvesant, his current assignment is a private investigator's dream - he's getting paid to trawl the cafés and bars of Montparnasse, looking for a pretty young woman. The missing person in question is Philippa Crosby, a 22-year-old from Boston, whose family have become alarmed at her lack of communication. As Stuyvesant follows Philippa's trail through Paris, he finds that she is known to many of its famous - and infamous - inhabitants, from Shakespeare and Company's Sylvia Beach to the surrealist photographer Man Ray. But when the evidence leads Stuyvesant to the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Montmartre, his investigation takes a sharp and disturbing turn.

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.

Der neue Thriller der Krimipreis-Trägerin. Ein Kopf in einer Plastiktüte vor dem Büro, dazu ein erschossener Geschäftsführer. Mit der NGO "Interni" stimmt deutlich etwas nicht. Und nichts ist lästiger für eine wohltätige Stiftung als schlechte Presse. Fürchtet der Lebensmittel- und Fleisch-Tycoon Wellinghofen, der Hauptmäzen der "Interni", und schickt seine Mitarbeiterin für besondere Fälle, die sich gerade Eve Klein nennt, nach Zürich zum Stiftungssitz.

In einem Stockholmer Park werden die Leichen eines Polizisten und einer syrischen Frau entdeckt. Die Ermittlungen der Polizei konzentrieren sich zuerst auf den Mord an ihrem Kollegen. Doch als Vanessa Frank hinzugezogen wird, gewinnt der Fall neue Brisanz, denn die Tote war ihre Ziehtochter Natasja. Was wusste sie wirklich über die junge Frau? Vanessa ermittelt und gerät mitten in die Vorbereitungen eines Terroranschlags. War Natasja daran beteiligt? Zusammen mit Nicholas Paredes macht sich Vanessa auf die Suche nach der Schläferzelle.

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.

When a justice of the Supreme Court is killed by the police officer assigned to protect him, the country is shocked. Hayley Chill’s superiors suspect the assassination is part of a major conspiracy. In Maui, where one member of the Supreme Court owns a vacation home, a busload of children is taken hostage with the justice’s death as ransom. Together with a deputy US marshal, Hayley embarks on the monumental task of rescuing the children while also protecting the justice. But with danger around every corner and no one to trust, has Hayley finally bitten off more than she can chew?

Television correspondent Alix Phillips dodges bullets and breaks rules to bring the most important news to the world. Working alongside cameraman Ben Chapman, a deeply private ex-Navy SEAL, Alix revels in the risks and whirlwind pace of her work. But her latest assignment puts her at the centre of an explosive story that will reshape many lives, including her own: investigating damning allegations involving the Vice President of the United States.

La novela que continúa la saga de las espías salteñas que Elsa Drucaroff iniciara con éxito en La patria de las mujeres. La aristocrática Loreto Sánchez de Peón y su ayudante, la liberta Benita, que ya han demostrado sagacidad y valentía en arriesgadas misiones de inteligencia a favor de Güemes y del movimiento independentista patriota, enfrentan aquí un desafío aun mayo.