Books like The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Hospitalised and on trial, Lisbeth Salander finally takes down the secret Swedish intelligence cell that built its cover by covering for her father across her entire life.
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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.
Absolute Power
Luther Whitney, an ageing master burglar, is hiding in the vault of a billionaire's Virginia mansion when he watches the President of the United States and his Secret Service agents take part in a woman's death, and then finds himself hunted for what he saw.
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.
A Time to Kill
A small-town Mississippi lawyer takes the case of a black father who killed the two white men who raped his daughter, and the Klan starts showing up in the parking lot.
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.
Pieces of Her
On her thirty-first birthday, Andrea Oliver watches her mother Laura, a calm small-town speech therapist, stop a gunman in a Georgia diner with cold precision, and the video that spreads online sends Andrea across the country to learn who her mother used to be.
Forfeit
James Tyrone, a racing journalist caring for his paralysed wife, looks into the death of a colleague and finds a racket in racing tips.
The Poet
Jack McEvoy, a crime reporter in Denver, sets out to write about the apparent suicide of his twin brother, a homicide detective, and finds other police deaths across the country that look the same.
Shall We Tell the President?
A young FBI agent in Washington has six days to stop a plot to assassinate the President of the United States, after a tip-off suggests that a senator is involved.
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.
Six Four
Mikami, a former detective moved to press director of a provincial police force while his own teenage daughter is missing, is caught between the force, the reporters and a commissioner's visit tied to Six Four, the botched 1989 kidnapping of a seven-year-old girl.