Women Spy Thrillers

It's Lex's first day back at work after maternity leave. She worries about the separation from her daughter as she leaves her with the nanny - but it's normal to worry, right? But Lex isn't a 'normal' mother. She's an elite-trained killer who works for a covert department within Her Majesty's Secret Service. She's just been given the assignment of her life, but can she juggle motherhood with the life of an assassin?

A dazzling, compassionate and deeply moving audiobook from one of world literature's rising stars. A mesmerising literary novel, Questions of Travel charts two very different lives. Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works for a publisher of travel guides. Ravi dreams of being a tourist until he is driven from Sri Lanka by devastating events. Around these two superbly drawn characters, a double narrative assembles an enthralling array of people, places and stories.

In 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. Four years later, Ruth Macallister receives a postcard from the estranged twin sister she hasn’t seen since 1940. Since that one catastrophic summer in Rome, as war was engulfing Europe and Iris was falling desperately in love.... Within days, Ruth is on her way to Moscow, posing as the wife of Agent Fox in a precarious plot to extract her sister from behind the Iron Curtain.

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.

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.

"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.

Cutout: a third person used to conceal the contact between two people. A pawn. They were partners - lovers in a business where betrayal is a heartbeat away. CIA analyst Caroline Carmichael lost her husband, Eric, when his plane was blown out of the sky by an elite group of terrorists known as 30 April. Now her dead husband has surfaced among those responsible for an explosion that rocks Berlin - and the brutal kidnapping of the US Vice President. Uncertain of Eric’s motives and loyalties, the Agency plays its last, best card: Eric’s wife - the Cutout.

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.

Le charme est leur meilleure arme, la ruse leur indéfectible alliée. Rien ni personne ne résiste à l'Escadron Volant. Catherine de Médicis est la seule à croire Nostradamus qui a prédit la mort de son époux, Henri II. Lorsque la prophétie se réalise, celle qui était une femme délaissée et une reine effacée est propulsée au premier rang. Déterminée à traquer le meurtrier du roi, elle crée l'Escadron volant. Qui se cache derrière cette mystérieuse escouade d'espionnes ? Quatre demoiselles d'honneur aussi sensuelles qu'intelligentes.

It's been two short weeks since her harrowing experience in the mountain cabin, and former Homeland agent Sam Jameson is still a long way from okay. She's spent the time driving aimlessly, alone and anonymous, trying to make sense of her ordeal. Those unimaginable words - "Yes, Madam Facilitator" - echo in her memory for the 1,000th time as she happens upon a beautiful, traumatized, and nearly naked young woman fleeing for her life in the midnight cold. Hours later, Sam finds herself in the Philadelphia police commissioner's office with his blood on her hands.

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.

In Kris Calvin’s debut mystery, One Murder More, a beautiful legislative aide is found stabbed to death in California’s Capitol building. Maren Kane, a lobbyist for a fledgling Sacramento-based toy company, is in the midst of a legislative fight that could make or break her career. She doesn’t have time for a coffee break let alone involvement in a murder investigation.

I take the moral high road…most of the time. Righting wrongs where no justice exists. I do it efficiently as I do in all things. In life. In death. And in love. My sniper dot targets the red-hot bookshop owner as the one. He’s the one, all right…the one that steals what no one else can…my heart. He lies. He cheats. He steals. And so do I. We’re the perfect match. Only trust isn’t part of the equation. But when an assassin faces a life-or-death choice…love doesn’t stand a chance. Dive into an elite assassin organization dedicated to leveling the score…one kill at a time. ...

Each morning, Emily Kendrick runs on the hard-packed sand of St. Augustine Beach. She runs to clear her mind and heal her heart. From the widow's walk of the house perched high on the dunes, a man trains his binoculars on Emily. One early morning run, he sees tears spill down Emily's tanned face. She stumbles and falls, crumpling into a heap in the sand, and doesn't get up. A lone runner reaches Emily's side.

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.

In this brief crime novel, set in the days of Lincoln's presidential election, a man responds to a cry for help from a woman who lives in the same block of apartments. She claims that a ring has been stolen from her finger and asks the man to assist her in recovering it.

En un lugar de la costa cuyo nombre no se menciona, viven cuatro hermanas que cocinan como ángeles mientras escuchan relatos fabulosos e inventan manjares exquisitos en su restaurante de fama universal. «Las hermanas Gourmet», la nueva novela de Vicente Molina Foix, empieza con la irrupción de un joven curioso en ese mundo de mujeres solas, tan solicitadas como exigentes

تدور الأحداث حول فتاة سعودية تدعى .. روان .. تقرر الهرب من قصة حبها الوحيدة التي أفسدتها القبيلة، وذلك بالانضمام إلى سكن الطالبات الجامعي لإكمال تعليمها، فتجد نفسها بأنها قد هربت إلى أحضان سماسرة لتنظيم إرهابي خطير ! ..

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.

December, 1948. Officer Kitty Wheeler is a member of the Women Police, responsible for 'upholding the moral virtue' of Adelaide's at times unruly and amorous citizens. Patrolling Somerton beach one night, Kitty and her partner spot a man leaning against the sea wall, apparently drunk. It's late, they're tired, and they leave him to sleep it off ...