Adventurous Women

Jamaica Inn   by Daphne du Maurier
After her mother's death, Mary Yellan moves to Jamaica Inn on the British Moor to live with her Aunt Patience. Her mother felt this would be best for Mary, but the Inn holds many secrets and danger. While there, Mary encounters storms, mystery, smugglers and murder.

African Queen   by C.S. Forester
It is World War I, and missionary Rose Sayer's brother is killed. She sets out on the African Queen, a 30-foot, leaking, flat-bottomed riverboat, with a hard-drinking British sailor. The two sail through German Central Africa in an attempt to avenge her brother's death.

Burn Factor   by Kyle Mills
Quinn Barry is a low-level employee at the FBI who desperately wants to become an agent. She thinks she has a chance when the new database program she's developed finds a DNA link between five grisly murders. However, instead of getting a promotion she finds herself demoted, caught in the middle of a conspiracy, and the victim of numerous life-threatening "accidents'" while searching for the secrets of these murders.

Ahab's Wife   by Seter Jena Naslund
This is the story of Una Spenser, the wife of Captain Ahab from Melville's Moby Dick. Una, a heroine with an adventurous spirit and superior mind, flees her family home in Kentucky and heads to New England. While there, she disguises herself as a cabin boy and works on a whaling ship. After she survives a horrible shipwreck, she returns to the mainland and pursues more cerebral interests, including literature, transcendentalism and the abolition of slavery.

The Eight   by Katherine Neville
A young novice during the French Revolution risks her life to keep a jeweled chess set that Moors gave Charlemagne, and in the 20th century, a computer expert and a chess master try to solve its mystery.

Queen of the South   by Arturo Perez-Reverte
When she discovers that her boyfriend Guero, a Mexican drug smuggler, has been killed by rivals and that she is the next target, Teresa Mendoza must give up her old life and become a member of a dark and deadly world in order to survive.

The Unlikely Spy   by David Silva
This spy thriller, set in World War II, is loaded with action. Catherine Blake is working as a volunteer in London hospitals during the war effort; however, this is just a cover. Blake is actually a top-level Nazi spy who will stop at nothing to help the Nazis win the war.

All-True Travels and Adventures of Liddie Newton  by Jane Smiley
In Quincy, Illinois, Liddie, 20, marries abolitionist Thomas Newton and goes with him to Kansas, but when Thomas is murdered, she disguises herself to get revenge.