Engelstalige politieke thrillers

1. Laura Shepperson

The Heroines

The Sunday Times bestselling Greek retelling now in a beautiful paperback package

1. Freya Berry

The Dictator's Wife

A dictator's wife, overthrown and awaiting trial, pleads her case to a young female lawyer, while also drawing her into a tangled web of lies and dark, dangerous secrets. This dazzling and devastating debut is a Lead Launch for Headline Review.

1. C. J. , Sansom

Dark Fire

'C. J. Sansom's books are arguably the best Tudor novels going' - The Sunday TimesWinner of the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, Dark Fire is the second thrilling book in C. J. Sansom's number one bestselling Shardlake series, perfect for fans of Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory.England, 1540. Out of favour with Thomas Cromwell, Matthew Shardlake is intent on keeping a low profile in the courts. But his involvement with a murder case, defending a girl accused of brutally killing her young cousin, brings him once again into contact with the King's chief minister - and a new assignment.The secret of Greek Fire, the legendary substance with which the Byzantines destroyed the Arab navies, has been lost for centuries. Now an official of the Court of Augmentations has discovered the formula in the library of a dissolved monastery. When Shardlake is sent to recover it, he finds the official and his alchemist brother brutally murdered - the formula gone.Now Shardlake must follow the trail of Greek Fire across Tudor London, while still trying to prove his young client's innocence. But very soon he discovers nothing is as it seems . . .This is the second novel in C. J. Sansom's gripping historical series. It is followed by Sovereign, the third book in the series.

1. Maja , Lunde

The History of Bees

1. Paul , Boor

An Ellipse of Skin

It's the winter of 1969-70, the nation is bitterly divided over the war raging in Vietnam, and Dr. Joe Cansoni, a bright young pathologist-in-training at Boston's premier Harvard teaching hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), is examining a routine skin biopsy under his microscope. Joe learns that this patient, a renowned anti-war activist, has died suddenly and unexpectedly-autopsy reveals a brain turned to mush! Looking again at that seemingly harmless skin biopsy, Joe is stunned to see tiny worms burrowing deep into blood vessels . . . he seeks out his old high school crush, Boston Globe reporter Kate McCannon, for help. Joe and Kate uncover a nationwide plot to assassinate anti-war protestors, then find themselves as targets. Is our own government behind it? Evading all peril, they must find a solution, and through their hunt for the killers, Joe wins Kate's heart and comes-of-age as a scientist. AN ELLIPSE OF SKIN is a real-science thriller, an American Science Thriller of the Vietnam era, written by a scientist. The author, Paul Boor, M.D., is a pathologist, scientist, and professor at the oldest medical school west of the Mississippi, in Galveston, Texas. AN ELLIPSE OF SKIN explores how one must overcome the destructive influences of war, and one's own human frailties, to become a scientist. There is an international component of AN ELLIPSE OF SKIN; the novel is set in the years of the Vietnam War, when antiwar activity rattled the United States and the world with massive and violent antiwar demonstrations, the Invasion of Cambodia in 1970 by the U.S. military, and the Kent State Shootings. The Cambodian genocide of 1978 is a key plot element of the novel. That horrific genocide claimed over 1.5 million victims, under the cruel rule of madman Pol Pot. Today, skeletal remains buried in 23,745 documented mass graves in Southeast Asia bear witness to what is known as The Killing Fields.

1. Jacqueline , Friedland

Breathing Under Water

"A touching novel about unexpected connections and found family. Leo's growth and change are paramount, and he feels like a real person, not a token." --Kirkus Reviews A Zibby Owens Most Anticipated Book of Summer 2026 The current is threatening to pull them under. Berry thought she had it figured out--juggling her vice principal role while raising her sixteen-year-old autistic son, Leo. But when a promotion opportunity collides with her family's deepest needs, she must confront whether she's been fighting the wrong battles all along. McKenna is drowning. Between caring for her grandmother with dementia, losing her swimming scholarship, and facing homelessness, the college student's carefully constructed world is crumbling. Her only lifeline? Teaching swim lessons to children with autism--including Leo. As these two women's paths converge in the most unexpected way, they discover that sometimes the people who need saving the most are the ones who end up saving you.