Looking for something to read while you're on the hold list for Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest? Try one of these mystery/thrillers with lead females similar to Larsson's Lisbeth Salander.
Retribution by Jillian Hoffman
L.A. Outlaws by T. Jefferson Parker
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
In the Woods by Tana French
Grant County series by Karin Slaughter, starting with Blindsighted
Jane Whitefield books by Thomas Perry, starting with Vanishing Act
Monkeewrench series by P.J. Tracy, starting with Monkeewrench
Maureen O'Donnell series by Denise Mina, starting with Garnethill
Kay Scarpetta mysteries by Patricia Cornwell, starting with Postmortem
Kathleen Mallory mysteries by Carol O'Connell, starting with Mallory's Oracle