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Find Similar BooksONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The thrilling first book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series featuring Lisbeth Salander: “Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry punk heroine and a down-on-his-luck investigative journalist, and you have the ingredients of Stieg Larsson’s first novel” (The New York Times). • Also known as the Millennium series Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption. Look for the latest book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, The Girl in the Eagle's Talons!
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Tana French
Like Larsson's Harriet case, it builds a patient investigation around a buried, unresolved disappearance and a tight-knit group with secrets of its own. French's slow, atmospheric prose will suit readers who enjoyed the methodical unravelling.
Scott Turow
A legal thriller where a respected insider is drawn into a murder inquiry and the truth is slowly exposed through records and testimony. Readers who liked the journalist's careful digging will appreciate its courtroom-style precision.
Thomas Harris
A determined investigator works alongside a damaged, brilliant outsider to track a killer, much as Blomkvist teams up with Salander. Its chilling psychological tension will appeal to readers who enjoyed the darker crimes.
William Ritter
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