Acclaimed bestseller tells the story of a mystery disappearance.
"The story unfolds in precise and riveting prose... even while you know you're being manipulated, searching for the missing pieces is half the thrill of this wickedly absorbing tale." O: The Oprah Magazine
A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue... It's a contagiously exciting, stunningly intelligent novel about society at its most hidden, and about the intimate lives of a brilliantly realized cast of characters, all of them forced to face the darker aspects of their world and of their own lives.
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher, has decided to run a story that will expose members of society, business, and government. But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered. And fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander, who came to his aid in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Lisbeth Salander, the heart of Larsson's two previous novels, lies in critical condition. She's fighting for her life in more ways than one. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.
Sisters. Strangers. Survivors. More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia's teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different... Forming a wary truce, the surviving sisters look to the past to find the truth, unearthing the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago... and uncovering the possibility of redemption, and revenge, where they least expect it.
A revelation of familial longing and sorrow, The Little Friend explores crime and punishment, as well as the hidden complications and consequences that hinder the pursuit of truth and justice. A novel of breathtaking ambition and power, it is rich in moral paradox, insights into human frailty, and storytelling brilliance.
A deliciously funny, remarkably poignant, and simply unputdownable novel about the power of friendship, the lure of frenemies, and the importance of making peace with yourself through all life's ups and down.
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.
A twisty, powerful Hitchcockian thriller about an agoraphobic woman who believes she witnessed a crime in a neighboring house. It isn't paranoia if it's really happening... The Woman in the Window is a smart, sophisticated novel of psychological suspense.
The debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives. "Marries movie noir with novelistic trickery... hang on tight. You'll be surprised by what horrors lurk around the bend." - USA Today
The reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew.
New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard brings us an electrifying page-turner of passion and suspense with a captivating premise... What would make the perfect man?
One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law can contain.
Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. Dogged by her own demons, Camille must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story.
A tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful story with an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches.