Books like Smilla's Sense of Snow
When Isaiah, a six-year-old Greenlandic boy in her Copenhagen housing block, falls from a roof, Smilla Jaspersen, who reads snow and ice as other people read print, sees from his tracks that he was running from someone.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
A disgraced journalist and a young hacker investigate the disappearance of a woman from a wealthy Swedish family, uncovering decades of violence hidden behind respectability.
The Constant Gardener
Tessa Quayle, the young wife of a British diplomat in Nairobi, is found murdered by Lake Turkana, and her quiet husband Justin, who never asked about her work, sets out to learn what she found.
The Bat
Harry Hole, a brilliant, self-destructive Oslo detective, hunts killers while fighting his own demons.
Gorky Park
Three bodies are found frozen under the snow in Moscow's Gorky Park, their faces and fingertips cut away, and Arkady Renko, chief homicide investigator of the Moscow militia, suspects the case is one the KGB would rather he dropped.
The Man from Beijing
After nineteen people are massacred in a remote Swedish village, a judge related to one of the victims follows the trail back to nineteenth-century railroad labour in America and forward to modern China.
Black Water Rising
In 1981 Jay Porter, a struggling Black lawyer in Houston who was once a student radical, takes his pregnant wife on a cheap birthday boat ride on the bayou, hears gunshots, and pulls a white woman out of the water.
Jar City
An old man is found battered to death in his basement flat in Reykjavík, with a note on the body that reads 'I am him', and Inspector Erlendur, finding no motive, starts digging into the dead man's past.
Briarpatch
Benjamin Dill, a Senate investigator, goes home to his southern city for the funeral of his sister, a homicide detective killed by a car bomb, and starts asking questions.
The Spectator Bird
Joe Allston, a retired literary agent in California, reads aloud to his wife from the journal of a trip to Denmark they took twenty years before, and old secrets come back.
March Violets
In Berlin in 1936, with the Olympics about to open, Bernie Gunther, a police detective turned private investigator, is hired by a steel magnate to recover a diamond necklace stolen from the safe of his daughter and son-in-law, who died in a fire.
Good Girl, Bad Girl
Cyrus Haven, a forensic psychologist in Nottingham, is asked to assess Evie Cormac, a girl found hiding in a secret room six years ago who can tell when people are lying, while he helps the police with the murder of a teenage figure-skating star.
The Ice Princess
Back in the fishing village of Fjällbacka to settle her late parents' house, writer Erica Falck is among the first to see her childhood friend Alex, found frozen in a bath with her wrists cut, and with local detective Patrik Hedström she starts to doubt it was suicide.