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"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Read-a-likes

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Missing - Karin Alvtegen and Anna Paterson
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/15/2008
ISBN-13: 9781933397863
ISBN-10: 1933397861
Call Number: M ALV
Sibylla's life of anonymity as a homeless woman in Stockholm is shattered when a businessman dies after she spends the night with him, forcing her to turn to her privileged past for help.
Beat the Reaper : A Novel - Josh Bazell
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/07/2009
ISBN-13: 9780316032223
ISBN-10: 0316032220
Call Number: F BAZ
The carefully orchestrated life of Manhattan emergency room doctor and witness-protection program participant Peter Brown unravels in the course of a high-stakes day that begins with a mugging, an elevator encounter with a sexy pharmaceutical rep, and a new patient who knows him from his previous existence.
Heartsick - Chelsea Cain
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/04/2007
ISBN-13: 9780312368463
ISBN-10: 0312368461
Call Number: F CAI
Addicted to pain killers and still bound to Gretchen Lowell, the beautiful serial killer who had abducted and tortured him before turning herself in, even after she is incarcerated for her crimes, Portland detective Archie Sheridan is caught in another deadly duel with a vicious murderer targeting teenage girls, ambitious reporter Susan Ward, and Gretchen herself. 
The Fourth Man - Kjell Ola Dahl
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/18/2008
ISBN-13: 9780312375690
ISBN-10: 0312375697
Call Number: M DAH
Rescuing the lovely Elizabeth Faremo from a crossfire during a routine police raid, Detective Inspector Frank Frolich of the Oslo Police becomes caught up in an affair with her, unaware that she is the sister of a wanted member of a larceny gang, until a young guard is killed during a robbery attempt, Elizabeth vanishes, and he finds himself a prime suspect in the gang's crimes.
The Cruel Stars of the Night - Kjell Eriksson and Ebba Segerberg
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2007
ISBN-13: 9780312366674
ISBN-10: 0312366671
Call Number: M ERI
In the sequel to The Princess of Burundi, Police Inspector Ann Lindell and her colleagues are called in to investigate the disappearance of a local professor, a case that could be linked to the murders of several elderly men.
In the Wind - Barbara Fister
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/29/2008
ISBN-13: 9780312374914
ISBN-10: 0312374917
Call Number: M FIS
Struggling to build a new life following the loss of her job after testifying against a fellow cop, Anni Koskinen becomes caught up in an investigation with ties to the 1972 killing of an FBI agent, her best friend's father, taking on a ruthless FBI agent, a deadly white supremacist group, and the legacy of a radical offshoot of the American Indian Movement as she searches for the truth.
Don't Look Back - Karin Fossum and Felicity David
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2004
ISBN-13: 9780151010325
ISBN-10: 0151010323
Call Number: M FOS
The tranquility of a small, idyllic town is shattered when the body of a teenage girl is found, prompting an investigation by Inspector Sejer that reveals the sinister truth behind the town's quiet façade. 
In the Woods - Tana French
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/17/2007
ISBN-13: 9780670038602
ISBN-10: 0670038601
Call Number: F FRE
Twenty years after witnessing the violent disappearances of two companions from their small Dublin suburb, detective Rob Ryan investigates a chillingly similar murder that takes place in the same wooded area, a case that forces him to piece together his traumatic memories.
Good Night, My Darling - Inger Frimansson and Laura A. Wideburg
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2007
ISBN-13: 9781929355372
ISBN-10: 1929355378
Call Number: M FRI
Translated from the original Swedish, Good Night My Darling is a mystery / thriller about hatred and revenge. Justine is a wealthy woman in her forties, living alone in a big house full of troubled memories of a tortured childhood. Now the memories come back to haunt Justine, but she is prepared. It is time for Justine to take revenge on everyone that has done her wrong.
Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Høeg
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/1993
ISBN-13: 9780374266448
ISBN-10: 0374266441
Call Number: F HOE
When her six-year-old neighbor falls to his death, and no one is willing to suspect foul play, Smilla Qaavigaaq Jasperson finds her own investigation taking her into the files of a Danish company.
Retribution - Jilliane Hoffman
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/2004
ISBN-13: 9780399151279
ISBN-10: 0399151273
Call Number: F HOF
When a distinguished female prosecutor is confronted by the most dangerous predator she has ever encountered, she discovers that she must make a difficult choice between justice and retribution. A first novel.
Silence of the Grave - 1961- Arnaldur Indriðason and Bernard Scudder
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/03/2006
ISBN-13: 9780312340711
ISBN-10: 0312340710
Call Number: M IND
When a skeleton is unearthed at a Reykjavik building site, Inspector Erlendur and his colleagues set out to unravel a complex decades-old crime that may have ties to his own troubled family history. By the author of Jar City. 
Unseen - Mari Jungstedt and Tiina Nunnally
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/05/2006
ISBN-13: 9780312351571
ISBN-10: 0312351577
Call Number: M JUN
In the midst of preparing for the midsummer tourist season, the island of Gotland is rocked by the brutal killings of a young woman and her dog, a crime that becomes only the first as a serial killer terrorizes tourists and locals alike and brings Inspector Anders Knutas into an alliance with journalist Johan Berg to find the murderer before more women die.
Faceless Killers : A Mystery - Henning Mankell and Steven T. Murray
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/1997
ISBN-13: 9781565843417
ISBN-10: 156584341X
Call Number: M MAN
Inspector Kurt Wallander, a local Swedish police officer whose own personal life is falling apart, finds himself coping with a wave of anti-foreigner sentiment when he is put in charge of the investigation into the brutal murders of an elderly couple.
Garnethill : A Novel of Crime - Denise Mina
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/1999
ISBN-13: 9780786706129
ISBN-10: 0786706120
Call Number: M MIN
When Maureen O'Donnell finds Douglas, a shady therapist with whom she is having an affair, in her apartment with his throat slit, she sets out to retrace his last few days and uncovers a horrifying scandal at a local psychiatric hospital. A first novel.
Mind's Eye : An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery - Håkan Nesser and Laurie Thompson
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/24/2008
ISBN-13: 9780375425035
ISBN-10: 0375425039
Call Number: M NES
Chief Inspector Van Veeteren becomes suspicious about the seemingly open-and-shut case against Janek Mitter, convicted of killing his wife while drunk, especially when Mitter also becomes a homicide victim, and launches a full-scale investigation into both slayings, linked to a mysterious letter written by the second victim, to unravel the truth and find the real killer.
L.A. outlaws : A Novel - T. Jefferson Parker
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/05/2008
ISBN-13: 9780525950554
ISBN-10: 0525950559
Call Number: F PAR
Investigating the latest crime scene of a celebrity thief who has been staging lucrative heists and donating the spoils to charity, rookie deputy Charlie Hood embarks on an affair with a key witness and is forced to make an ethics-testing decision when the thief is targeted by a professional killer.
Vanishing Act - Thomas Perry
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/01/1995
ISBN-13: 9780679435365
ISBN-10: 0679435360
Call Number: F PER
Jane Whitefield, a Native American woman whose job is to help people disappear, assists those looking for a new identity, until she is confronted with a new client who is not what he seems. By the author of Sleeping Dogs.
A Field of Darkness : A Novel - Cornelia Read
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/08/2006
ISBN-13: 9780892960231
ISBN-10: 089296023X
Call Number: M REA
Married outside of her blue-blood class to a genius investor who takes frequent business trips, features writer Maddie Dare endures long weeks alone in her industrial-city home and becomes involved in an investigation to clear her favorite cousin from a double murder charge.
Blindsighted - Karin Slaughter
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2001
ISBN-13: 9780688174576
ISBN-10: 0688174574
Call Number: F SLA
Pediatrician and coroner Dr. Sara Linton, her ex-husband and chief of police Jeffrey Tolliver, and female detective Lena Adams are on the case when a sadistic rapist and murderer begins targeting women in Grant County. A first novel.
Echoes from the Dead - Johan Theorin and Marlaine Delargy
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/25/2008
ISBN-13: 9780385342216
ISBN-10: 0385342217
Call Number: M THO
Twenty years after a little boy vanishes without a trace from the remote Swedish island of Öland, his grandfather receives a package containing the worn shoe of a child, sending his mother on a desperate quest to find her son, a search that becomes entangled with the murderous rampage of a serial killer and a mythic island figure. A first novel. Original.
Monkeewrench - P. J. Tracy
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2003
ISBN-13: 9780399149788
ISBN-10: 0399149783
Call Number: F TRA
Grace McBride and the team at her software company are horrified when events in their murder mystery computer game are replicated in the real world by a ruthless killer, a situation that prompts them to analyze the game in order to anticipate his next move.
The Intuitionist - Colson Whitehead
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/1999
ISBN-13: 9780385492997
ISBN-10: 0385492995
Call Number: F WHI
As two factions at the Department of Elevator Inspectors--the Empiricists and the Intuitionists--wage war on each other, Intuitionist Lila Mae, the first black elevator inspector, faces bedlam when an elevator freefalls on her watch and the mysterious notebooks from the founder of Intuitionism suddenly appear.

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