Women Spy Thrillers

Rosa and Esther march through downtown Detroit in August 1968 to protest the war in Vietnam. When a bloodied teenager reports that mounted police are beating protesters a few blocks away, the young women hurry to offer assistance. They try to stop the violence, but an officer is injured and the sisters are arrested. Rosa sees an opportunity to protest the war in court. Esther has an infant daughter and wants to avoid prison, which means accepting a plea bargain and testifying against her sister.

I never thought I’d be half of a crime-solving duo...working with a famous talking cat. Country legend Benson Bridges is missing a rare guitar that he’s used to write four decades' worth of hit songs. Duke, his old hound dog, is the only one who witnessed the crime. That’s where Persephone and I come in. Now we’re on our way to Nashville to find the guitar.

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.

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.

💀 She taught herself the art of death—and built a business no one dared cross. Until someone crossed her. Sugar Cane is the world’s most lethal assassin—swift, silent, and untraceable. For years, she’s made her living erasing other people’s problems. But now she has become the problem. Someone has blown her cover, and the hunter is suddenly the hunted. On the run and out of allies, Sugar must unravel a web of betrayal to expose the puppet master pulling the strings. Enter Frank—enigmatic, dangerous, and maybe the only man who can keep her alive. But trust has never been ...

The Russian Woman is the first book in a series featuring Michael Thorne. Colonel Anya Volkova is a patriot who loves her country. She works in the Russian Ministry of Defense, where she's an important part of Moscow's machinery of war. She's more or less content with her ordered life, until things start to fall apart. Her younger brother is sent to fight in Syria. Her boss wants her for his mistress, and if she doesn't give him what he wants, her career is finished. She discovers a secret plan for a first strike on America. She has to stop it from happening, but what can she do? Michael ...

No one knew that Betty wore corrective lenses until she showed up for Sunday coffee wearing a very thick pair of warped-lensed dark brown plastic-framed glasses. She’d contracted an eye infection resulting in one of her eyes becoming a beady little eye. At coffe, her cousin, Roger, accidentally spilled the beans regarding him dating someone named Pat. Unable to squash their curiosity, wanting to learn more about this mysterious Pat person, Aggie and Betty followed Roger to a day spa in Palm Springs. That was when Aggie received a dreaded phone call from her archnemesis.

Sophia’s mane of silver hair gives her the look of a mystical warrior, a female not of this world. Some colleagues defend her, others are jealous, most fear her, yet everyone respects her abilities. An ace sharpshooter, she’s called on for the most difficult cases. Her uncanny ability to remain cool under duress makes her the perfect person to rescue the twins of the frantic governor whose rejected husband intends to make her suffer. Problems begin when a cocky hero hits on her in the marketplace. Why her?

Deep Fake is the 10th installment in the million-selling Sam Jameson series. What will former Homeland agent Sam Jameson do with Capstone? What happened to Brock James? Will Sam and Brock ever reconcile? Deep Fake has your answers!

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.

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.

When Elise Golden goes in for a cornea transplant, the last thing she expects to come out with is a psychic eye! As she recovers from surgery, she begins to realize that she can see things she couldn’t see before. Ace Aunt Elise lives in a cozy small-town courtyard with her 20-something niece Val, who is recovering from an untimely stroke. When Val’s wheelchair is stolen, Elise realizes she’s in a unique position to investigate which of their neighbors played a hand in the theft.

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.

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.

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.

La tensión del Brexit y los ataques terroristas que han sembrado el miedo en Europa, han convertido la capital británica en un nido de culebras. Los agentes Laine y Ponce viajan a Londres para colaborar con el MI5 inglés, en un extraño robo organizado de criptomonedas. Cuando dan con la primera pista de quién puede estar detrás, un atentado bomba pone sus vidas en juego. Laine descubre que les han ocultado la verdad. Una operación clasificada. Un trabajo sin terminar.

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.

Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett is called to the scene of an aircraft to help deal with an erratic passenger. She figures out that he’s got anterograde amnesia, and can’t form new memories. For every cryptic clue he is able to drag up from his memory, Jo has to sift through a dozen nonsensical statements. Suddenly a string of clues arises, something to do with a deadly biological agent, a missing wife and son, and a secret partnership gone horribly wrong.

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.

2022 READERS’ FAVORITE AWARDS – HONORABLE MENTION 2022 KILLER NASHVILLE SILVER FALCHION AWARD – FINALIST 2022 BOOK EXCELLENCE AWARD – FINALIST 2022 B.R.A.G. MEDALLION HONOREE 2022 LITERARY TITAN – GOLD AWARD WINNER 2021 PARIS BOOK AWARDS – HONORABLE MENTION The world’s oldest bank is in trouble, and CIA operative Louise Moscow wants to save it. In her new adventure, Louise is investigating the most unlikely of suspects, her own father, who is a top-level attorney defending a Russian Master of the Dark Arts. Her investigation becomes a race to discover an ancient and mysterious...