Vintage crime/Black Lizard

"The first book in the Shady Hollow series, in which we are introduced to the village of Shady Hollow, a place where woodland creatures live together in harmony--until a curmudgeonly toad turns up dead and the local reporter has to solve the case. Reporter Vera Vixen is a relative newcomer to Shady Hollow. The fox has a nose for news, so when she catches wind that the death might be a murder, she resolves to get to the bottom of the case, no matter where it leads. As she stirs up still waters, the fox exposes more than one mystery, and discovers that additional lives are in jeopardy. Vera finds more to this town than she ever suspected. It seems someone in the Hollow will do anything to keep her from solving the murder, and soon it will take all of Vera's cunning and quickness to crack the case"--Provided by publisher.

Hacker Lisbeth Salander assists Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist, with the investigation of Harriet Vanger's disappearance decades earlier, and the two uncover a dark world of secrets about a wealthy Swedish family as well as a surprising connection between themselves.

Mikael Blomkvist is publishing the story of his career, exposing the extensive sex trafficking operation between Sweden and Eastern Europe, but when two investigative journalists are killed the night before the story runs and Lisbeth Salander is implicated, Mikael vows to clear the girl's name and find the true killer.

Lisbeth Salander, recovering in a Swedish hospital from a gunshot wound, calls upon journalist Mikael Blomkvist to help prove her innocence in the murders of three people; but in order to do so, he must uncover a long-buried conspiracy within the Swedish Secret Service.

Walter Huff, an insurance salesman, the suburban wife of a wealthy client, Phyllis Nirdlinger, conspire to trick Phyllis' husband into signing an accident insurance policy that pays double indemnity for railroad accidents.

Dexter Morgan returns from his honeymoon in Paris and gets to work perfecting his disguise as the perfect husband, father, and investigator, and wondering if he will be able to put his homicidal tendencies to rest, but when a new serial killer is identified, Dexter is once again drawn into the battle for fitting justice.

Serial killer Dexter Morgan, who limits his victims to others killers, discovers that he was seen while committing a murder and is now being followed and mimicked, while at the same time a cop killer is targeting Miami's police detectives and leaving behind battered and bloodless corpses.

Serial killer Dexter Morgan, who typically adheres to a code of only killing bad people, experiences life changes when his daughter is born, and as he looks into the disappearance of a teenage girl who is associated with a group of goths who are actually cannibals, he puts himself in danger of being their next meal.

Dexter Morgan, a Miami crime scene investigator who is sometimes moved to commit murder himself--goaded by a reptilian voice he calls his Dark Passenger--gets a clue that something is very wrong when he is called to the scene of a double homicide at the university campus, only to have Dark Passenger go into hiding.