The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Series)

Amazon Best of the Month, September 2008: Once you start The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, there's no turning back. This debut thriller--the first in a trilogy from the late Stieg Larsson--is a serious page-turner rivaling the best of Charlie Huston and Michael Connelly. Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidly crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling) offer to resurrect his name is extended by an old-school titan of Swedish industry. The catch--and there's always a catch--is that Blomkvist must first spend a year researching a mysterious disappearance that has remained unsolved for nearly four decades. With few other options, he accepts and enlists the help of investigator Lisbeth Salander, a misunderstood genius with a cache of authority issues. Little is as it seems in Larsson's novel, but there is at least one constant: you really don't want to mess with the girl with the dragon tattoo. --Dave Callanan

• The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium)
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium Trilogy)
• The Girl in the Spider's Web: A Lisbeth Salander novel, continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series
• The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye: A Lisbeth Salander novel, continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series
• The Girl Who Lived Twice: A Lisbeth Salander novel, continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series
• Red Wolf: A Novel (The Annika Bengtzon Series)
• The Girl on the Train
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
• The Dinosaur Feather
• Gone Girl