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Pieces Of Her (Novel / Tv Series)

Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter tells the story of the love, strength, and forgiveness after a daughter learned that her mother had kept hidden significant pieces of her life. Andrea “Andy” Oliver’s life changed after she and her mother, Laura, witnessed a pair of horrific murders while celebrating Andy’s birthday at a popular restaurant. Laura had confronted the shooter in a way that Andy never believed her mother would be able to do. Afterward, Laura ordered Andy to move out of her house that night, an order that not only forced Andy to grow up but also set in motion Andy’s desire to find out exactly what her mother was hiding from her.

The novel opens in 2018 as Laura and Andy are celebrating Andy’s 31st birthday. A mentally ill man, Jonah Helsinger, came into the restaurant with a gun. He shot and killed his former girlfriend and her mother. Laura confronted the boy. In the course of the confrontation, Helsinger pulled a knife on Laura. She was able to keep him from killing her with the knife by putting her hand up to block the blade. She hit Helsinger in the neck with the knife and then appeared to intentionally kill him when she pulled the blade through the front of his neck. It was later determined that Laura had told the boy to be still so she could pull the blade straight out, but he stepped backward, causing the knife to kill him.

After Laura’s wounds were treated, she insisted on being taken straight home. She told Andy that she had to move out, that night. Instead of obeying her mother, Andy fell asleep in her apartment. When she awoke later that night she interrupted a man torturing her mother. Andy killed the man by hitting him in the head with an iron skillet. Fearing that Andy would be put in prison for murder, Laura gave Andy instructions to go to a storage facility that Laura had prepared. She told Andy to go to Idaho and stay there until Laura called her and told her it was safe to return. When Andy reached the storage facility, she discovered her mother had prepared in case she ever needed to run away. Inside the unit were a car and some clothes as well as a good deal of cash. Andy also found pictures of her mother that showed she had at one point in her life suffered a severe beating. Another set of pictures showed Andy as a toddler standing in the snow. Andy had no knowledge of ever having lived anywhere there had been snow. She decided instead of going to Idaho, to find out exactly what her mother was keeping from her.

At this point, the novel goes back in time to 1986 when Martin Queller, president of the Queller Corporation was murdered while taking part in a panel discussion during the Global Finance and Business Consortium in Oslo. The murder was arranged by the Army of the Changing World, a cult group that included Martin’s children, and carried out by Laura Juneau. Laura’s husband had been refused treatment by Queller’s group homes at which point he went home killed his three children and seriously injured Laura. The cult group was led by Nicholas “Nick” Harp, a man who seduced Jane Queller, Martin’s daughter with his charisma.

The reader soon understands that Jane is the younger Laura, Andy’s mother. She worked her entire childhood under the critical eye of her father to become a world-renowned pianist. Her father raped her, beat her, and belittled her throughout her childhood. Nick gave her a chance to escape her father’s cruelty but Jane was deeply involved in Nick’s cult before she realized what was happening. Nick abused and manipulated her in order to keep her and the other members of the cult doing what he wanted.

Until Jane saw that people were getting killed, like her father and Dr. Alexandria Maplecroft, a professor the group kidnapped and held for ransom, Jane believed that the group would be able to do some good by taking a stand against her father’s fraudulent company. She soon realized that Nick wanted power and glory more than he really wanted to change the world. Jane could take no more of Nick’s abuse when she learned that her brother, Andrew, was dying of AIDS and would not go to the hospital because of Nick. Nick gave Jane an ultimatum, she could either take care of her brother, or she could stay with Nick. Jane chose Andrew though Nick almost killed her as a result of her decision. Jane took Andrew to the hospital and then confessed to her crimes as part of the Army of the Changing World. Her confession came in time to stop other members of the group from detonating a bomb in New York City.

The novel switches back and forth between Andy and her journey to discover her mother’s past, and the story of Jane’s time with Nick. It was at the same farmhouse near Chicago where Jane chose to take care of her brother instead of staying with Nick that Andy realized her mother was a member of a cult as well as a concert pianist in her past life. Andy was shot and taken hostage by Paula Kunde, Laura’s nemesis in the cult and the woman who had sent the man to torture Laura. Laura came to her daughter’s rescue to discover that Andy had matured and evolved during their time apart giving Andy the strength of mind to help her mother overpower Paula.

 

 

 

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John Milton

1000 Yards -BS
John Milton changes lots of identities, shoots some Korean politicians and go back home
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The Cleaner
Milton kills a couple and a policeman who was patrolling the area; he saves a baby sat in the back seat of the car, though.
They were dangerous terrorists, but this experience marks hime and he decides to take a break from being a killer agent; so he goes to hos agency and says he quits.
His boss, Control, doesn't accept his dismissance and sends another agent, Calan, on his trail.
Milton leaves the building and in the Tube he meets a woman who's crying and jumps in the tracks; he saves her and listens to her story; she's desperate for her son, Elijah, who's being going out with violent gangs.
He actually belongs to the London Fields Boys, who are just going from drugs and theft to some more serious deals and are led by Risly Bizness, a famous rapper, who's Israel Brown, a gangster who's going for blood and becoming a real criminal.
Milton buys a flat in Hackney and during an AA meeting gets to know Rutherford, a former boxer who tells him he might try to save Elijah bringing him in his boxing club.
Milton meets Elijah in Victoria Park but the kid is reluctant to listen to him.
Besides, Bizness has just asked him to carry a gun and get ready to use against a notorious Camden rapper who's dissing him.
When he's supposed to attack and kill him, another member of the gang convinces him otherwise; Elijah runs away and he's arrested by the Police.
Milton and Rutherford manage to rescue, but the kid catches Milton in bed with his mother and decides to return to Bizness's service.
Milton threatens Bizness directly at an HMV signing session and then sets fire to a trap house belonging to the gang.
Bizness burns down Elijah house out of revenge and so Milton takes advantage of his presence in one of the London riots and kills him; Elijah is convinced to go back to boxing and leave the gang.
In the last scene, Callan manages to catch Milton and tries to kill him, but Rutherford shoots him and saves Milton, though he is shot and dies.
Callan swears revenge and Milton escapes from London.


Victoria Park brawl
Bizness in the disco giving the gun to Eljah

The HMV facing

Saint Death
Milton is wanted by Control's agency but he has fled to South America where he is employed as a cook and has had his trails lost.
A mafia family beheads and terrorizes locals; a local reporter, Caterina Morena, writes a blog about them and the Gonzales level on them attacking a diner where they kill people, hurt Caterina and Milton intervenes and saves Plato's (local sheriff) life.
Plato explains to him the story of the Gonzales family; Milton goes to the hospital to see Caterina but he has to face a thug and Beau Baxter, local investigator, tells him the goon was the local boss, Santa Muerte (Saint Death).
Milton escapes with Caterina Moreno in a motel, leaves her there and crosses the border to buy weapons.
Felipe Gonzales manages to trace them and abducts Caterina, though; but Milton runs after them and on his turns, abducts Alfonso, Felipe's brother.
The brothers orchestrate the exchange and try to kill Milton but Plato has followed them.
In the meantime Milton has been finally traced by Anne Thacheray, english hacker working for Callan, Control's secret agent, and they go to the meeting point to exact Milton's head, too.
Caterina manages to escape with Beau Baxter and kill both Alfondo and Felipe Gonzales in a hotel room; the Services catch Milton ordering Anne to stop chasing him since he's going back to London on his own accord; even though the reader doesn't know why.


The Driver
Tabitha Wilson, model and influencer, is abducted during a web date and then murdered.
Milton is a taxi-driver in San Francisco; he takes on a girl, Madison, who admits she's an escort and carries her to a party; but he realizes the place is really dangerous and waits for her in the car; after a while he sees Madison run away shouting somebody is killin her.
He investigates with her boyfriend, Trip, who wants to go to the police but he prefers to act on his own; he goes back where he left Madison and finds the place curiously empty; 2 guys are there, though, so Milton hides out and then asks the neighbours.
He meets Andrew Brady, a man who has lost a leg in Iraq but his neighbour says he's a liar and so MIlton suspects him, since he's reluctant to talk about Madison, too.
Milton and Trip go to interrogate Aaron, the guy Madison was with that night and and he confesses he was Madison's client, to Trip's embarassment, and he know Madison used an angency called Fallen Angelz.
When 2 more girls disappear, Milton looks for his friend Beau Baxter, who helped him in the Saint Death case and they find out the agency belongs to some mobs, Luciano and Lucchese. They give him the name of Jarad Efron; Milton goes to him and threatens to kill him if he doesn't give him the names of the people behind the agency.
In the meantime Trip gets convinced the murderer is Brady and goes to his home to kill him, but Milton was tailing him and stops him before he gets to him; he tells Trip Brady is innocent, since he now knows who's behind the plot.
It's Robinson, the runner for the Presidency elections, and his right arm, Crawford.
Robinson went with all the girls who had been killed and Crawford, once threatened by many people to tell everything, killed them all to shut them up.
When Milton stops Robinson, though, he admits he used prostitutes but didn't know Crawford was cleaning the mess killing them all!
Crawford kills Robinson pretending he killed himself and then kidnaps Eva, Milton's partner, to level him.
But Milton manages to escape in a final confrontation during the excange and kills Crawford, too.
In the epilogue we come to know Madison's still alive.

Milton waiting for Madison
Madison running away door to door


Ghost
Control guides an expedition in London against Russian Spies; the killer is John Milton. But 2 members escape from the ambush; Snow, who runs away when a gang assaults Beatrix Rose, then n.1
9 years later, Milton is custody for having beaten 2 guys, one of which was the county's sheriff; he's bailed out by a russian spy, Anna Kushyenko; she tells Milton his former mate Captain Pope was caught and beaten
by her boss and Pope asked her to ask Milton to be back in London, as happened 2 episodes before.
Milton flies to Russia with Anna to catch up with him; when they're there, Milton goes to visit her former friend Anya who brings Milton to Sherbatov, who is revealed to be Snow!
Sherbatov has captured Pope and badly beaten him.
When Milton finds him, he asks him to find Beatrix Rose and catch Control.
Milton finds Beatrix Rose in Hong Kong; she tells him her story, including her being now seriously ill and her daughter Isabelle, still in the hands of Control.
Milton flies back to London and goes to Control's house, which he knows; he catches him off guard and reveals he has found 6 pen drives where all Control's crimes are contained; so he threatens Control to make all surface if he doesn't tell him where Isabel is and how to rescue Pope.
Control tells him they're both still captive in Russia; he flies there, kills Sherbatov and rescues Pope, who might actually survive.
When all seems solved, Callan, former Control's man, comes there and tries to kill Milton and Pope but Beatrix Rose comes there at the right moment and mortally stabs Callan.
In the epilogue, we come to know Control is dead and Pope is now n.1 of Gang Fifteen; and we see Milton flying away again while Beatrix Rose catches Pope in his car and tells him she wants to put her hands on Control!

The Sword Of God
Sheriff Lester Grogan stops a man in the small town of Truth; that man is John Milton!
He leaves him in a camping site but MIlton returns to town and gets arrested for a bar fight.
A girl who was in the bar, Mallory Stanton, stops him and tells hime about his brother Arty and how he's been missing for many days now and thinks Milton might help her; Milton accepts and decides to go in the woods together with Ellie Stanton, FBI, and the snme Mallory.
After a long chase, they manage to catch the guys who actually had abducted Arty and take them back to Truth, where Grogan arrests them.
But at the police station, a group of people led by Lundquist claims his son is among the detected people and wants him free with force; he kills the sheriff and releases all the prisoners, hurting Milton who tries to escape with a car which he manages to crash before being killed.
He manages to get back to the barn and realizes Mallory and Arty had been abducted, so he's only the option of escaping and try to rescue them in a second time.
He hides in the woods, hardly surviving and finally see them; they are a dangerous sect referring to the Last Times and calling themselves *The Sword Of God*.
Milton goes back to the barn, heals momentary his wounds, eats all he can find and gets some waepons; he makes a dynamite weapon and kills oem of them; then chases Lunquist in the woods again and makes them run into the Falls; they survive but Ellie Stanton intevenes with a helicopter and helps him in the chase.
MIlton finally catches Lunquist and drowns him in the waters.
In the last scenes, we see Ellie looking for Milton in a local bar and Milton going there but deciding otherwise and going away.

Milton roaming in rainy North America and meeting Truth's Sheriff
Billy bullied by his headmaster
Ellie loooking for Milton in the bar and Milton going there and then going away


Salvation Row
Milton gets in trouble in New Orleans - a long time ago - together with his hacker, Ziggy Pen, and they're both hidden and saved by the Bartholomew's family, then going under the Katrina hurricane and losing everything including their houses.

Years later, Milton hears about Isabella Bartholomew on TV; she's running an estate helping people damaged by Katrina calling Salvation Row but she's having trouble with the local mob.
He decides to go back to New Orleans to help her and understands Joel Babinaus and Jackson Dubois, local bullies, are threating Izzy to sell the estate in order to make money.
He has first to send her brother, Alexander, to rehab, as he behaves dangerously; then he gets rid of 2 thugs sent by Babineaux.
But he realizes behind the whole plot there was a Vic Bachman, an old acquaintance of Miltons's, a very dangerous man who was supposed to be dead in Iraq.
Bachman, now Mr.Boon, asks Dubois to kill Milton.
Milton abducts Babineaux for leverage since Bachman had abducted Alexander; they meet in a bar and arrange for the exchange but when they meet Bachman tries to kill him, killing a wrong couple in a motel and killing her girlfriend with the ricochet of his rifle.
Milton runs and Bachman follows him abducting Ziggy Pen, too; then he decides to fight Milton with his bare hands and he's going to kill him but Isabel comes at the last moment and manages to stop him; Milton hits him ad runs; in the meantime Isabel has won the cpurt case and the mobsters have been arrested.
In the epilogue we know Bachman survived and is imprisoned in Angola, Michigan, from where he calls a lawyer to be set free!

Bachman and Milton speaking face to face in the bar


Tarantula - BS

Headhunters
We're told the story of Bachman and of how he apparently died while working for the Mossad and then he survived, had a plastic surgery and reappeared.
The story begins with Bachman being released from Angola, the Michigan prison where he was detained after the events narrated in the previous episode.
Bachman flies to Australia to kill Milton who had found refuge there working as a farmer.
Ziggy Pen, his hacker, had found a job working for some Yakuza gangsters, in the meantime.
Milton is abducted together with Matilda, the farm owner, by Bachman's people but Matilda rocambolesquely manages to set them both free; they escape to Perth  where thay are caught again by Bachman's men; Milton beat them, free Matilda and they escape again robbing a bank and finding a lift on a ship into a container.
Milton decides to go find Ziggy in Tokyo to use his help so they fly there but he has first to rescue him who's guarded by the Yakuza people and can't escape his house; Milton kills the Yakuzas, free Ziggy and fly toTel Aviv to go find Victor Blum, former Bachman's boss, to seek for leverage; Blum reveals to Milton the name of Shavit, the old mand Bachman is devoted to and so they go to Croazia to use him to make Bachman come out in the open.
They find Shavit in Dubrovnik, capture him and call Bachman; the latter goes there btu the fight is stalled until the Rabins - former Mossad Police - go there, shoot Shavit and free Matilda.
Milton fights Bachman and manages to drawn him.
In the epilogue, we come to know Ziggy is moving on to a new life in Seoul while Matilda's back to Australia and a man (Milton?) goes to meet her.


The escape in the container
Ziggy prisoner in his house
Matilda seeing Milton coming from a distance


The Ninth Step
A group of ex-cop gangsters named *The Feather Men* are after Eddie Fabian, a man Milton meets in an AA meeting in London.
Eddie thinks Milton can help him and tells him everything; he was abused as a child by Leo Isaacs and other politicians who now want to kill him.
He goes home and the Feather Men follow him but they find him already dead, gassed in his car.
Milton meets a journalist, Olivia Dewey, who had to meet Fabian the very same day he was going to meet Milton; she thinks he was killed and so does Milton.
Hicks, a former Feather Man, goes to Milton to tell him after the corruption there's a Richard Higgins.
Milton finds in Eddie's house the confession of a robbery and murder he did with his brothers and he understands the secret document proving their guilt and the abuses of politicians are contained in Higgins' files and are kept in a safety box in the London Vault; so he convinces Higgins' men to break the vault to put the blame on Eddie's family and clear them, but they understand they're played and try to kill him; Hicks detonates a bomb in the underground and rescues Milton after he had already got his hands on the documents.
Higgins kills Leo Isaacs and then kidnaps Olivia in order to get rid of Milton but Hicks stages a beating from the latter and goes to Higgins pretending he's with them and telling Higgins to meet Milton; they meet in Covent Garden and then he goes to Oxford to find Eddie's family; Milton finds Fabbian's father there and kills him; behind the whole story there was Eddie's adoptive family, who were thieves and abusers and had killed Eddie in order to shut him up.
Hicks kills Higgins and in epilogue we see Milton doing a tattoo with the writing IX, the Ninth Step of the AAs, asking them to make amends to the people they hurt.

Milton in the cabmen shelter

The Jungle
Milton offers a lift to France to an AA friend who has to go there with his lorry; on the way back to Dover they take up inadvertedly some migrants; one of them, Samir, says his sister Nadia had been abducted by traffickers and Milton decides to help him.
He goes to the brother where she's supposed to be kept but he finds only a friend of hers, Sarah.
He brings her to his house in Bethnal Green where she shows him a video in which her kidnappers are visible; she recognizes 2 Albanian twins, Drago and Florin.
Milton gets on their tracks and leaves Hicks with the girl.
Milton goes to Lybia and after difficult predicamentsm, he manages to get on the migrants boat where Ali, the boss of the traffickers, is supposed to be.
In the meantime, Sarah escapes from Bethnal Green, goes back to the brothel and tells the Albanians where Milton and Hicks are.
They catch Hicks and torture him until he breaks and tells them about Milton.
Milton gets to Italy and goes on a boat heading for Civitavecchia where the criminals are hidden; he kills Kolo, one of the traffickers, and obliges another to take him to Calais, where Nadia is supposed to be.
But when he gets there, Pasko, the twins' father, captures him and takes him to the same place where they're keeping Hicks.
Milton and Hicks, helped by an unexpected move of Sarah, manage to set free and run away; Sarah is killed and the Pasko escapes but Milton catches Florin and obtains an exchange with Nadia in London centre and sends her back to her brother; then he traces them in Kilburn and burns their den down and then finds out where Ali lives in Lybia, goes there and kills him, too.

Milton bargaining with cabmen to cross the border
Milton in the trunk
Milton in the coffin
Milton giving a cellphone to Pasko to track him down


Blackout
Milton wakes up in a hotel room where there's the body of Jessica, one of his former lovers.
Four days before he had gone to Manila to meet her since William Logan, an ex partner og Group Fifteen told him Jessica had had a baby from him.
Milton is arrested and he admits he doesn't remember what happened that evening; he knows Jessica was molested by De Lacey, an arm dealer whom Milton had had arrested when they were in the organization together.
In the meantime Logan had gone to Manila too and had them drugged befgore putting them in the hotel where he strangled Jessica and staged the murder made by Milton.
He's convicted by Josie Hernandez, Philippine detective; but in few days the hotel room where he was is destroyed and so are the videos she was checking; the barman is killed, too.
Josie understands Milton was framed and goes to talk to him; as soon as she goes there, Milton is transferred to Billibad, an infamous prison where killers are secluded and he's daily beaten by a brutal thug named Tiny.
Milton understands it's all a set up contrived by De Lacey and so, with the help of an old inmate, he manages to call Hicks and Ziggy Penn to help him out.
Josie comes to know that her partner Mendoza is the guy who required Milton's arrest.
Ziggy manages to hack the prison and free Milton, who kills Tiny in the riot and escapes together with Josie, Hicks and Ziggy.
Milton gets Mendoza and forces him to take them to Logan's house, where Logan kills Mendoza and Milton kills Logan after having him confess the whole plot.
Milton's group decides to make Hicks pose as Logan to bait De Lacey and catch him; Hicks plays ball but De Lacey discovers the plot and he's killing Hicks when they're saved by a young policeman who had followed Josie to the meeting place.
De Lacey is arrested but the government wants him out; so Milton stages a car crash with the vehicle carrying him and Josie to the prison.
He let De Lacey run, then he catches him and strangles him.
In the epilogue, we know Jessica's son is not Milton's.

Milton wakes up in a alcohol mess in the hotel room

The Alamo
Milton binds and gags a drug dealer selling heroin in Coney Island, where he now lives.
At an AA meeting, he becomes friend with Manny Blanco, who tells him the story of his son Freddy, who has been robbed of his football shoes and he has no money to buy them back; Milton gives him money and Manny invites him to see a match.
Freddy is at the match, too, and a champion sends a football to the stands, which Freddy catches; he goes to the toilet, forgets it in the booth and when he comes back to rescue it, he witnesses a guy, Carter, killing Felipe Gonzales, an informant who was suspected to talk about *The Alamo*, a gang of corrupted cops who steal money illegally from drug dealers.
Milton goes to the toilet, too, and meets Freddy there; he tries to help him and takes him to the police station; there Freddy recognizes the killer in an operational video and he's scared; Milton discovers from his shoes he's Manny's son and so he decides to investigate.
Milton tracks the car of the cops - Detective McIntosh and Detective Polanski - following the man Freddy has recognized; he intrudes Carter's house and gets the certainty he's the killer since he finds the hidden weapon; he assaults a guy who was waiting for him and tells him a dealer named Acosta has sent to kill them all; so he rushes to the Blancos' and manages to take them away.
He talks to Inspector Polanski, who knew the whole story and reveals to Milton the killer is Landon Shepard and Robert Carter; but at the same time Rhodes, a rookie working with them, comes to know they're suspected and kill them both.
He's paid by Acosta who asks him to call Milton and the Blancos, too; and the Blancos stupidly go back to their home to rescue the football Freddy had left behind.
Milton calls him, but it's too late; so he hurries to their house and kills Rhodes after making him tell him where Acosta has his basis.
He goes to the strip club Acosta owns and a hooker tells hime the Blancos have been abducted there, actually.
So he prepares an arsenal to blow the place out but MacIntosh arrests hime for the murder of Acosta's men.
With the help of Polanski he's released and goes with Fedorov, a friend whose daughter Milton saved, to the club.
He manages to get the Blancos free and catch Acosta, but Fedorov asks Milton to let him to him; he wants to kill him since he destroyed on of his son's life!
So the Blancos are free, Acosta's killed by Fedorov and Polanski closes one eye on Milton's acts, letting him go; Milton thanks him and flies to Miami.


Redeemer
In London a drilling inspector, Adrian Lima, is arrested by Judge Saverin.
Milton, now in Rio, meets Shawn Drake, a former army mate; Drake is bodygiarding Judge Saverin but needs a new man as one of his has called it quits.
He intodruces him to Dean Hawkins and Jannette Berg, who have Saverin's daughter, Alicia, in custody; they tell him he'll just have to be with Alicia all the time.
In the meanwhile we meet a brazilian guy, Paulo, who's blackmailed by a gangster, Palito, since he owns him money he had borrowed to get cures for her ill daughter.
He has to be a driver for them; but he soon realizes they're asking him to abduct a young girl; the girl is Alicia.
During the fire, Hawkins and Berg are killed, together with Shawn Drake; Milton manages to run away but he finds in a hospital seriously injured in the following car crash.

He escapes the hospital and seekd help from his former Group Fifteen mate Harry Marks.
He tries to investigate going to meet Xavier de Oliveira, Drake's missing man, but he finds him dead in his house and, instead, he meets Shawn Drake alive and kicking there!
Milton manages to kill his guards and run away; he finds Paulo waiting in the car and he obliges him to tell the whole story; the plot had been organized by a mobster, *Garanhao*, who had employed Drake to silence Judge Saverin in exchange of expiring debts he had with him.
Milton wires Paulo in order to be guided to the house where Alicia is abducted, manages to free her and makes her run away with Paulo to a motel.

In the fight, Garanhao kills Marks who had come to help Milton; the latter goes to Judge Saverin to show him his daughter is still alive and the Judge reveals the plot was started by Adrian Lima, Garanhao's half-brother; he just wanted revenge for his condemnation!
So Milton goes to Lima's house, leaves Saverin there and calls the Police to go rescue him while he catches Lima, closes him in his car's trunk and goes to kill Garanhao.
Then he releases Lima to the Police in order to let him pay his debt with the justice and finally kills Drake for his betrayal, too.

Sleepers
In Southwold Leonard Geggle and Fedor Aleksandrov are killed by Mitrokin and Kutznezova; they were Russian spies who were going to tell secrets to the British.
Group Fifteen sends a team to investigate; we're in the times when Milton was still an alcoholic and a killer at Control's service.
Milton and the team come to know they were *Sleepers*; the real names of the killers are Mikhail Timoshev and Natalya Kuznetzov.
Pope contacts Ziggy Penn and watches Primakov, now hiding behid the name of Vincent Beck - the man behind the murders -  and finds out the Sleepers have already reached him at his house.
Pope captures Beck to make him speak but he commits suicide; so Control orders Pope and Milton to go to Moscow and kill Primakov and Kuznetzova.
In Moscow they meet Jessie Ross, who's working with them, but Milton - tipped by Ziggy - discovers she's a countespy working for the Russians; so he takes her with him under the threaten of killing her family and organizes the meeeting to catch Romanova, Aleksandrova's daughter, the woman who had leaked the secrets to the British.
Stepanov, the leaders of the Russians, comes over but Mitrokhin kills him.

Milton and Pope escapes with Jessie Ross and Romanova in the back of their car while Primakov is killer by another Russian Spy and in the epilogue we know Mitrokhin killed Nikolaev, the old man behind the whole plot.

Twelve Days
The London Field Boys' gang - protagonists of *The Cleaner* - see Eljah on TV; he's now become a successful boxeur.
John Milton, now in Tenerife, gets the same news from TV and decides to go and check on him in London.
Pinky and the gang decide to revenge their defeat from Eljah and so they contact Connolly, his next opponent and threaten to kill him if he doesn't go down in the 3rd, so they can bet on Jaja.
Milton meets Sharon, Jaja's mother, in Sheffield - where they live now - but Eljah refuses to see him and punches him in the face, still angry for the death of Rutherford, his first trainer, killed in the final confrontation Milton had with the LFB.
Eljah beats Connolly at the 3rd, as stated, and after the match he goes to a party together with Alisha Brown, who is revealed to be nobody but Risky Bizness's sister who wanted to seek revenge for his brother, killed by Milton in the past events; Solomon, Biz's brother, backs her up and they have a final confrontation with Eljah and the whole gang but he treats Pinky as his subordinate and Pinky kills them all; Solomon, Kids and Chips.
Milton - guided as usual by Ziggy Pen and Hicks - comes over and kills Pinky; then go with Eljah and Sharon to spend Christmas at their home in Chesterfield.


Bright Lights
Milton is on tracks of Eljah in Las Vegas; while going there he meets Jessica Russo in a coffee bar; she says her car has broken down and he takes her to Vegas.
When they arrive at her house, she discovers someone has abducted her father and goes back to Milton's car to let him carry her away in the very moment when Oscar Delgado and his men, thugs for a Mexican drug cartel, intrude the house and capture Richard Russo, Jessica's father; Milton and Jessica manage to escape them and they recover a briefcase the goons haven't managed to catch.
They find shelter in a hotel while Milton tries to contact Delgado; they arrange the exchange money for Richard in the desert; when the exchange is going to happen, someone shoots Delgado, takes Jessica and Richard with him and run away shooting Beau Baxter, who was there as back up for Milton, and leaving them there.
The guy is Mason Russo, Jessica's twin brother.
The Russos had contrived the whole plot to cheat the cartel and run away with the money to Italy and disappear.
Milton decides to follow their tracks to seek justice for Jessica cheating him but at the same time a killer is sent by the owner of the cartel on their tracks, too.
He kills Beau in the hospital, one policewoman who was guarding him and they fly to Siena to finish how work.
Milton flies to Italy, too, to revenge his friend and approaches Russos' mansion; he sees the killer shooting Mason Russo and goes to the house; he kills the sicario and leaves Jessica and Richard to the Italian police.
In the very end we come to know that Milton is working together with Chase Baxter, Hicks and Penn on a plan; are they going to eliminate the cartel and revenge Beau? To be continued...


The Man Who Never Was
A cartel in Medellin is slaughtered by a woman who ambushes them with her men.
We come to know the perpetrator is Group Fifteen, by means of the new Control - Weaver -. the new N.1 - Bjorn Thorsson and the woman who realized the plan.
In the meantime we find John Milton in Amsterdam; he's on the trails of Juan Pablo Lopez, a drug dealer who belongs to the organization which had killed his friend Beau Baxter in last episode and to whom he has sworn revenge to.
To penetrate their dens he pretends he's interested in dealing with them and so he arranges meetings with the bosses, Dal Pozo and La Bruja to convince them to be their English basis.
His back is composed by his usual friends Hicks, Ziggy Penn, Ellie Flowers and Chase Baxter, Beau's son.
They try many times to break him but they are always caught off guard by the interventions of G15 who is found to cross paths with Milton's men.
Bjorn Thorsson manages to capture Milton and kills La Bruja; the Medellin cartel is so defeated.
Milton manages to escape and even Chase, seriously injured, is finally saved.
But the new Control and G15 are not happy with Milton being still around as a solitary avenger and so in the Epilogue they decide they'll have to kill him!
 

Killa City
John Milton goes to Kansas City called by Tanner, ex G15.
He distractly watches a car auction and sees a young guy bullied by 2 thugs after he bought a van for 500 dollars.
Following his new ways, he tries to help the young guy taking him away in the van; the boy is Enzo Pizzolato, a guitar player who bought the van for the group; Milton takes him to his house and they go together to the gym where they rehearse to find shelter; but Kenny O'Connor, one of the twins who threatened Enzo, calls him and says he wants the van; he has abducted Tanner and wants to exchange him for the van.
Understanding the trap, Milton barricades in the gym and check the van: in the doors there are 5 million dollars hidden!
The whole local mafia, led by Salvatore Provenzano is thus on their traces; so are the O'Connors; but Tanner has sold Milton, too, as he met Thorsson, the new G15 Number 1 and he had to tell him where Milton is.
But Milton prepares some traps for them and when everybody catches up with him in the gym, so, he makes dynamite explode until they all die; the only guy who catches him is Thorsson; he's ready to shoot him but Fernandez, the gym teacher, saves him; Milton does not kill Thorsson but explains to him he has changed his life and so he doesn't kill him; he tells him to deliver a message to the new Control telling them he's not going to forgive them again if they don't leave him alone.
Thorsson meets the G15 in London and they confirm their priority is killing Milton.
Milton prepares to fly to Bali and change his identity.


Ronin
John Milton is in Panama waiting to catch a flight to Bali where he is going to change his identity for good.
Victoria Deschamps, one of her former colleagues, is providing hime a new identity: from now on he's going to be Eric Blair.
In the airport, though, he meets a beautiful Japanese woman he understands she's in trouble: she embarks on the same plane, sits next to Milton and feels sick.
Her name is Sakura Nashimoto, wife of Myasato, a man killed by his brother, Katsuro Nashimoto, who was ordered to kill him as he stole a precious sword from their father's - Takashi Nashimoto - collection.
Takashi killed Myasato for revenge and abducted their son, Yamato; Sakura had been obliged to be a drug mule in Bali to avoid Takashi killing her son; but a heroin capsule broke in her stomach and she was going to die.
Milton helps her and decides to help to fulfill his 12th step.
He takes her to Manila to avoid the yakuza and then they hide in Tokyo to study how to rescue Yamato.
Milton, after many violent clash with Sakura's family members, is caught by Katsuro who thinks he has killed him throwing him out of a high storey; but Milton has managed to jump into a down balcony and so he manages to kill them since they believe he's dead.
Yamato is released and given to Sakura while Hachiko, Sakura's father kills Takashi.
Milton leaves Sakura and Tokyo to go back to Bali to enjoy his new identity of Eric Blair.
 

Never Let Me Down Again
John Milton is in Okinawa attending more meetings: in one of these he meets Judith-Ann Caine, an elderly woman looking for his son who is still missing in the far away Scotland.
Milton decides to walk one more step of his redemption and instead of flying to Bali for his new life, he flies to Scotland to investigate Alan Caine's disappearance.
Once in the small town of Oban, in Scotland, he finds a job as a cook in the restaurant run by Chrissie, a beautiful and ambiguous young woman.
He starts investigating on Alan and he meets Helena, his sister, who advises Milton to stay away from him: he was involved in some migrants' trafficking and she thinks the worst might have happened.
Chrissie's ex husband, Johnston Hanna, wants to get rid of him, besides, and Milton understands it's not a matter of jealousy.
So he goes to the place where it seems there's a strange firm run by Hanna working in the Environmental field and finds out it's a secret place where they keep corpses and weapons.
He bumps into 2 Chinese thugs, kill them and once back, asks local people to be carried to the nearby small island to check what's going on in the firm.
When there, he meets Connor Gordon, his former mate in Afghanistan: he's going down physically and mentally since he had been recruited by the trafficking people but he decides to help his old friend Milton to fight them.
They go back to Oban and try to rescue Chrissie for them but in the meantime he understands there's Group 15 on the criminals: they are fighting the trafficking but they want to get rid of Milton, too.
Control, a woman who has succeded Michael Pope, sends Number 1- Bjorn Thorsson - to check on Gordon and neutralize Milton.
They manage to catch the criminals: Hanna Johnston kills himself but Chrissie is released and Oxindale, a worker in Chrissie's restaurant, decides to write the whole story down.
Milton is neutralized and summoned by Control and Number 1: he is assigned a new mission so the story of Eric Blair is still postponed!
 

Bulletproof
Milton is in prison for the G15; they want him to work for them in the case of Tristan Huxley, a guy who's trafficking for the Pakistani and need protection.
Milton meets him and his muscle, Cronje and Huxley is happy to be protected by him, since he had used his job when they were in the army.
They fly him to Sri Lanka, Colombo and then an isolated island where Milton realizes the traffics are surely illegal; they involve the Russian prime minister and lots of too young girls, already acting during the flights in Huxley's personal Jumbo.
In the meanwhile 2 asiatic guys, Nadia and Nawaz, enter the english border illegally and they kidnap Philip Maidment's wife and child to oblige him - since he's Huxley's Jumbo's pilot, to hijack the plane and fly it to Islamabad where Nawaz, head of the terrorists is expecting them to abduct Huxley to have leverage with G15, stop the sale of missiles to the Pakistani and then kill them all.
Thorsson, the group N1, manages to warn Control, though, who sends some snipers to Maidment's house. They manage to free the woman who contacts Maidment just seconds before landing.
They fly to India and back to England while the plot is discovered and Nadia killed by G15.
When they do a guy who was introduced in the beginning of the story, Rufus Lewsey, tries to kill Huxley claiming her daughter Roxanne had taken her life because if him.
He's ready to make himself explode with him when Thorsson shoots him.
Milton was already suspecting Huxley was guilty of horrible things so he investigates Rufus' wife and he discovers Huxley had destroyed dozens of young girls compelling them to prostitution and allowing high class people to rape them.
Thorsson is on his side even though Control would like him to catch Milton so he manages to get Huxley pretending he was taking him in a secure location and he obliges to confess everything on camera and gives all his money to his victims.
Control knows the whole plot and approves Milton's action and so she decides to let him go.
He finally meets her in a pool where she's watching her daughters compete in swimming: he tells her what happened and ask her if they would let him free but Control gives him an envelope with the documents he needs to chase Cronje; Milton doesn't even answer and disappears.

 

The Sandman
Tristan Huxley is in the Belmark Prison, London. He's given a pill to swallow: he does and he goes into a coma from which he wakes me freed by the Russian mafia.
In the meantime Milton kills Cronje in South Africa, where ha was chasing him.
Huxley is contacted by Otto Sonner (the Sandman) who shows him the video of Milton killing Cronje so he says he wants Milton and Thorsson dead.
Sonner sends his 2 sons on his tracks but Thorsson kills Alyosha Sonner not before the latter manages to kill Thorsson's wife, though.
Milton goes to Weaver to try to catch Huxley on his turn so they go to Russia following the tracks but in the meantime the Russians kill Weaver and abduct Control.
The whole G15 meet in Krasnodar to plan a strategy; finally Milton and Number 2 kill Huxley; Milton is attacked by Lily Moon, former G15 passed to the Russians but he manages to escape the car crash she provoked to avoid being caught by him.
Sonner keeps Control prisoner and tells her he wants Milton dead for the murder of his sons.
Milton asks Ziggy to tell him where Control is and so he leaves New Delhi, where he had escaped, to go to Kashmir waiting to know how to free Control.


Uppercut

 

 

Beatrix Rose

The Dragon & The Ghost
White Dragon
Beatrix Rose meets Jackie Chau in a bar in Kowloon and kills 3 goons who were trying to kill him.
He tells her his story and Beatrix decides to help him to fight the Triad is threatening him.
She kills 3 more thugs and then sets up a meeting with Donnie Qi, pretending she wants to work with him.
She kills him, instead, and gives the body to Chau who brings it to Fang Chan Ying, the boss; he proposes Chau to employ Beatrix with them.

Nine Dragons
Beatrix Rose is following David Ross, a Triad, helped by Jackie Chau; she poisons him with ricin and meets Grace, a young girl threatened by the Triad as the sister of Liling, a prostitute killed by Zhao Gao.
Beatrix finds 6 of them and kill them; then takes Grace in a hotel to be protected by Chau.
The place is located by the local gangsters, though, and so Chau runs, leaving Grace in their hands.
Beatrix gets a hard drive where there's a video evidence of Zhao killing Liling and then manages to meet Ying, the big boss, at the Nine Dragons restaurant but there she finds his men have abducted Grace; so she leaves her with them, knowing they might sell her to local maniacs if she reacted.

Dragon Head
Trying to save Grace, Beatrix investigates Zhao Gao, using the video of him molesting Liling, Grace's sister.
She catches him at the Nine Dragons and Zhao confesses he was blackmailed by Liling for the video, so he called the Triad and make them kill her.
Beatrix goes to the Dragon Head to speak to Ying, the boss, but she finds all his thugs there with Grace!
She manages to kill some of them and free Grace but then she decides to go after Ying; she is captured and violently beaten by some of his men, though, as Chau had sold her out to the Triad.
She is left to die but she makes her way out convincing the goons to go after Chao and when Chao tries to fly away to Toronto, she goes to the airport and poisons him.
Danny Wu convinces her to escape from Hong Kong to avoid being caught by the local police.


In Cold Blood
Beatrix is pursuing her Kill List, including the people who were responsible for the murder of her husband Lucas and the abduction of Isabelle; they are Lydia Chisholm, the girl who shot, Oliver Spenser, Connor English, Joshua Joyce, Bryan Duffy and Control.
Beatrix meets Michael Pope, head of Group 15, who says they've located Joyce.
He has been attacked by pirates while sailing in Somali land; Beatrix goes there, kills local soldiers and manages to get on the boat, where she kills Joyce.
Pope is told by G15 to give Beatrix hints about Duffy, too, and we come to know she has already crossed Spenser off the list, leaving 4 more to go.


Blood Moon Rising
Beatrix Rose is now on the trails of Lydia Chisolm; when she finds her, she sabotages her car, calls her while she's behind the wheel and make it explode!
Pope sends Damon Faulkner to help Beatrix find Bryan Duffy; he is working undercvoer with the Iraqi troops; Beatrix penetrates the soldiers' camp and make him tell her where Control is; he's in orth Carolina.
Beatrix kills Duffy in a fight in the desert running the risk of being killed as she's suffering for her disease and can't hold her gun properly; but in the end she manages to shoot him and then runs home to Casablanca; but at the airport she's caught by English Connor, who follows her.

Blood & Roses
Connor English flies to Casablanca but Beatrix anticipates him and meets him there.
He manages to abduct Usabelle but he's knocked oout and he's made to tell her where Control lives.
In the meantime Control has brutally killed the Moroccan couple who took care of them in Casablanca.
Beatrix runs after Control in the States - he's in North Carolina - and she first stays in NY with Isabelle, showing her around and getting a gun in a trap house where she has to face 2 goons.
She locates Cassidy Fields - Control's father, too, and manages to catch her to use her as a bait.
Isabelle has to check on her, but Cassidy escapes; Beatrix has reached by then the exchange meeting place with Control, but it was a trap; she uses her car as a bomb, hurting Control seriously and dying.
Isabelle receives the news while in a bar chasing Cassidy; she decides to go to the hospital where Control is.
Pope is going to the same hospital with John Milton (!) to kill Control, but when they arrive in Control's room, they find him already dead; Isabelle has killed him!
In the epilogue she's helped by Pope to flee the place and disappear, as her mother wanted.


Phoenix
In a prequel to the whole story of Group Fifteen, John Milton & Beatrix Rose, Control sends Beatrix to secure Igor Koralev, former CIA spy.
Control puts her in team with John Milton; Beatrix is definitely unconvinced by Milton's status, especially his alcohol addiction, but they catch Koralev anyway.
Before dying, he tells her the name *Phoenix*, whom they discover is a new born girl who had been left alone in the combat location; Beatrix adopts her and decides to call her Isabel, thus letting us know Isabelle is not her natural child, as Lucas was sterile!


Tempest

Danny Wu (Nakamura) wants to go back to the States to reunite with his wife Colette and her daughter Melissa, but some former CIA guys are on his trails, as he possesses some files who might compromise them.
One guy from the Group Fifteen, Logan, is on Wu's chase, too, but Beatrix Rose meets him and proposes an exchange; she meets Lincoln, partner of Navarro's gang, the guys who are after Danny and tells him they'll give them the files if they let him know how to locate Melissa.
Obviously they're playing a double game and so they buy Logan, who meets Navarro and promises them Beatrix, whom they call Ariel as they have named the whole operation *Tempest*, with Danny being Prospero and Melissa is Miranda.
But Beatrix coalizes with Alfredo and they manage to catch Navarro guys who had in the meantime abducted Melissa.
Beatrix frees Melissa and let her flee away with Alfredo.
She pretends to poison Navarro as she had poisoned Wang in orde to frighten Lincoln, Navarro's boss, and convince them to leave Danny alone; the latter is now reunited with her daughter.


Isabella Rose

The Angel
Isabella Rose meets Michael Pope in London right after she killed Control in the hospital and is given protection by her telling her she can go home.
While she's going, though, a bomb blasts in Westminster killing lots of people.
Some of the terrorists are caught but the biggest fish are at large; Pope decides to send Isabella on their tracks since their leader has a son in a rich college in Geneva and Isabella can pose as her school mate.
She does and meets Khalil, who is a successful playboy who seems to care only for sex and money; Isabella manages to be invited to a private party held by him but when she's planting a bug in his house, she's caught by Khalil's parents and she's abducted.
Pope tries to release her but some of the Group soldiers - Snow and Hannah Kelleher - get killed and he manages to locate her but not to set her free!


The Asset
The terrorists acting in *The Angel* make a plane burst in Heathrow; Maia, named *The Asset* kills the head of the gang.
In the meantime Isabella Rose is still with the family who abducted her in the first episode and Michael Pope is sent by Vivian Bloom to Turkey to find the criminals.
Isabella manages to escape the car she was in but an ISIS group attacks them and take the Al-Khawaru family; Isabella escapes but she's caught by another cell and taken with the terrorist family away in a helicopter
She manages to make friends with Aqil, another kid who's prisoner, and they escape the prison.
In the chase that follows, though, Aqil is captured and brought to the public square whwre they decreed to crucify him together with the Al-Khawari family.
Pope locates them with the help of G15 and goes there; he makes a grenade explode and frees Isabella; together they flee the country and illegally pass many borders until they arrive to Montepulciano, where Pope's family lives.
But her wife and her daughter are not there and they find Maia in the house, instead; she menaces to kill Pope but Isabella, who was waiting for her in a bar, goes to the house and surprises her; Maia is obliged to jump from the window and run away-
In the epilogue, we find Michael and Isabella on an Indian beach trying to make up what happened and how to contact Pope's family but we come to know that the attacks in London were not perpretated by terrorists, btu they were the act of Vivien Bloom and the USA Secret Services in order to gain polemical consensus; Pope was used as a distraction and now they plan to kill him and Isabella, too, in order to eliminate Group 15 and substitute it with a new Secret Service called Prometheus and Dedalus!


The Agent
Vivian Bloom meets James King and they debrief the Prometheus Group about what happened in China-India; we come to know not only the terrorist attacks were staged by the US secret services led by them under the name of Manage Risk, but that Pope being sent to the Al-Khawari and Isabella penetrating the house was a move made to plant evidences against them, not to find them, as they were innocent!
Maia is not the only asset they created; with the help of Ivanovsky, grandson of Stalin's trusted man in genetics, they are trying to build the perfect warrior with chemical means; they are helped by a doctor, Alexandra Litivenko.
Pope and Isabella are contacted, in the meantime, by a voice who they would call Atari who tells them to flee Mumbai and run away in order to have Pope's family back and be safe.
They fly to Shangai where they meet Eric Curry, another asset, who tells them to meet a man - who will be revealed to be William Litivenko - to receive instruction.
They meet him but a sniper kills him; then they meet Atari and he tells them they were killed as they were 2 more assets and they have now to go to Russia.
Pope and Isabella manage to get there with Litivenko and try to unlock the data the criminals are looking for to lock the assets from discovering them.
Maia catches them at the airport where another terrorist attack takes place; they manage to escape it but Litivenko is killed.
So Vivian Bloom proposes the final exchange; they will give hime his family for Maia and their silence.
Pope asks Chuck Mc Cluskey to help them with a helicopter and so they do.
In the final confrontation, Maia manages to escape the men from Manage Risk and to save Isabella, who hadn't been able ot jump in the helicopter, and takes her to recover in a hospital in Tennessee.

The Assassin
Maia and Isabella are on the run together; they rob some lorry drivers belonging to a drug cartel in order to have financing and pursue their aim; destroy Dedalus and Prometheus.
Vivian Bloom and James King, survived to the last events, summon a meeting with dr. Ivanovsly and set the strategy to kill Maia.
Isabella and Maia, on their turn, contrive another strategy: Isabella makes himself be caught in a shop robbery and from a Mexican prison asks to call the US Embassy and asks to talk to Bloom, so to bait him there.
Bloom calls Pope, though, to find Isabella and give him Maia; Bloom, who's been isolated for 1 year in Vietname with his family, accepts, convinced Maia's dangerous!
The prison van carrying Isabella is stopped by Bloom's men and she's abducted; Ivanovsky get to them in order to have Maia but Isabella pretends Maia is dead and promises to take them where she's buried her.
When Bloom's people arrive there Maia, waiting for them, makes their helicopter explode and captures Ivanovsky, who's asked to analyze Isabella's DNA; the doctor describes what we already knew from previous episodes; Isabella is not Beatrix's daughter, but she's Phoenix, left there by a Russian experimentalist; now we know he was experimenting together with Ivanovsky and so Isabella is an asset, too; that's why she recovers so quickly from any wound!
They are attacked by more US goons and Ivanovsky runs away; Macaria, in the meanwhile, another asset, is trying to assassinate Morrow, pacifist potential US President, in order to restore the military order Dedalus is pursuing; Macaria is intercepted by Maia, who's in her turn stopped by Pope and abducted; they kill Macaria, too.
Bloom meets with Atari and they make the point; mission accomplished; the assets are all out and Atari will now look for Maia and kill Pope.
Pope realizes the plot thanks to Isabella and Maia and so he finds the London hotel where Bloom is, kills 2 of his men and kills Bloom, too.
Ivanovsky takes Isabella to Maia but Maia kills him to revenge all the assets he has ruined; Pope arrives there and is shot by soldiers on Maia's track; Maia remains there to die of her disease while Pope and Isabella flees in Pope's helicopter; before dying, Maia asks Isabella to kill James King.
In the epilogue, we see King living in Kenya together with Caringdton; Isabella goes there and kills him; now she's got one more person left behind. Is it The Voice/Atari?

The Avenger
Chinese mafia guys fight in a Bejing restaurant: Xiangu kills General Qiang.
Isabella Rose lives with Pope and Chloe, a friend she found in France.
We see Atari meeting Zhu and propose to save him from the restaurant failure if he kills Phoenix.
Alistair Latimer, ex member of Group Fifteen, meets Atari in London: he tells him to catch Pope as revenge for his killing Vivien Bloom, the former Control.
Latimer looks for Pope and makes him arrested by the Police in Gatwick but Milton comes to free him and takes him to Control to set to fight Atari.
Xiangu manages to kill Jean-Claude, Chloe's brother, and assault Isabella but she runs; Milton comes to rescue her and tries to kill Xiangu but they discover he had killed Chloe, too.
Xiangu escapes but Pope and Isabella catch him and give him to Control and the new Scandinavian Number 1.
They run after Latimer in Valletta and with the help of Ziggy they catch him; but he fights back with Pope.
Both fall down a cliff; Atari dies but Pope disappears.
Isabella, in the meantime, catches Xiangu and kills him; she then runs to free Pope but she doesn't find him neither on the rocks nor in the waters.
Where is Pope?

 


Soho Noir

 


Group Fifteen

 


The Atticus Priest Mystery

The House In The Woods
The novel rolls around the *Christmas massacre* occured in the mansion of Hugo Mallender; during the night of Christmas' Eve, the whole family is murdered; Hugo, his wife Juliet and their twins Cameron and Cassandra.
The only survivor is Ralph Mallender, who was not there at the time.
Mac Kenzie Jones investigation focuses on Cameron, a problematic youth who seems to have killed the whole family and then pointed the gun at him; but the position doesn't fit and Tristan Lennox, a cop, witnesses movements inside the house some hours before the massacre.
Ralph goes under trial and all seems to be against him when his wife, Allegra, calls Atticus Priest asking to solve the mystery as she's sure her husband is innocent.
Atticus discovers lots of incongruities in his favour, as a matter of fact; first he investigates Freddy Lamza, a gay guy who had testified against Ralph saying he hated his family; Atticus finds e-mails in which Freddy says he was going to get money by a journalist in case Ralph were found guilty; besides, he finds out Cassandra, Cameron's twin, had had a relation with Jimmy Robson, violent guy who was hated by the family and would have reasons to kill them all; Ralph is found not guilty, so, but Atticus feels he's been set up.
With the help of Mac Kenzie he investigates further into Allegra, who in the meanwhile has gone living in the rich mansion of the Mallenders', and discovers she has changed her name a couple of times after having poisoned her ex-husbands with thallium in order to inherit fortunes; and this time she had plotted the whole massacre together with Tristan Lennox, who's revealed to be his lover; she was planning to kill Ralph, too, inherit and live with him.
They manage to arrest them and close the story when, in the very epilogue, we are told that Atticus's chess mate whom he knows as Jack Of Hearts, had been following all his moves and congratulates him without revealing his identity!


A Place To Bury Strangers
Human bones are found in a ditch near Salisbury.
McKenzie Jones inquiries together with Jessica Edwards and their team.
Contemporary, Atticus Priest is called by James York, whose daughter Molly has disappeared.
Atticus searches in the local trap houses and bumps into a guy Jordan Lamb and his pusher, Shayden Mullins.
He actually finds Molly York there and makes the place searched by the Police while Molly returns to his father.
In the meantime the bones found multiply; one of the bodies is Alfred Burns, condemned years before for pedophilia; his twin, Derek Burns, is still alive, though and so Atticus goes to him but he is hit by someone who was after Burns, too.
Atticus discovers that Burns was in the IRA army together with Richard Miller and James York, so he goes to Miller's and the latter tells him the whole story behind.
Jessica Edwards is informed by Shayden Mullins that Molly saw her father kill 2 thugs; York assaults her and makes her prisoner but he's found: he had kept Mollyt prisoner, killed Jordan Lamb and was about to kill Jessica, too.
Once captured he confesses all the crimes, past and present but once in prison he is killed!
Atticus understands his confession was coerced; he is summoned by the Jack Of Hearts at night at Salisbury Cathedral: he goes there and finds Richard Miller killed in the trunk of a car.
The Jack Of Hearts speaks to him in a muffled voice and tells him there was a whole macabre story of child abuse behind all that but, once Atticus has spotted him near there, he hangs and disappears.

 

Red Room



 

PT Reade
Thomas Blume

Hard Fall
Thomas Blume, still devasted by the loss of his family - his wife Sarah and his son Tommy - mysteriously killed in London, discovers a marriage betrayal but the perpetrator dies of remorse, leaving Blume desperate.
A woman keeps following him; he contacts Amir, a friend of his, who tells him she's Elizabeth Ellington, mother of a missing child, Jack.
Blume investigates and after dismissing the first suspect, Stephen Marlowe, a teacher, he turns his attention to William Bennet, the bus driver, who gets angry when questioned.
Blume discovers he has changed identity after being condemned for child molesting.
Blum catches him but Bennet shoots him; he is saved by the Police who were called by Atkinson, a policeman who had formerly denied Bennet's involvement in the case because he was a friend of his but then understands Blume is in danger and rescues him.
They find Jack buried in William Bennet-Hudson's garden and they rescue another missing child, Charlie Haines, still alive.
The episode ends with Blume deciding to remain in London to revenge his family while Amir is seen exchanging money with an unknown person to shut Blume up!


Snow Burn
Jonathan Ashburn, english politician, is caught in a drug scandal and Blume looks for a hacker, Gremlin, to try to solve the case; he finds him dead and meets Nicole Remay; she says she has news on Blume's killed family.
Ashburn is found dead by overdose in Regents' Park but Nicole discovers he was poisoned by thugs who had been paid to shut him; Blume traces them in club in Barbican; he tortures one of them - Stayanov - who tells him Ashburn bought the very dose that killed him.
Blume manages to enter the Houses Of Parliament to search the truth in Ashburn's documents but he's stopped by a woman who reveals the truth of politicians involved in drug trafficking before launchinf in the Thames.


Red Hunt
Darmian Slater contacts Blume to check on his lover, Christina Bishop.
Blume follows her but she's involved in a violent car crash and loses her life.
Nicole Remay tells Blume Christina is a very strong and rich woman wanted for the death of her husband, Jimmy Hughes, and Blume sees her alive going out of a pub!
Blume shows the shop video to Darmian to give him proof of her being alive.
He's addressed to find news about her in London Docklands slums and he actually finds the place where Christina had left her car to be stolen; the dead person is Andrea, an addict.
Blume traces Christina, too, and she tells him she didn't kill Hughes but he was killed by another guy who was jealous of him since Jimmy was gay.
Darmian goes where they are and tries to kill them revealing the killer was him since he wanted Christina all for him; he attacks Blume but Christina kills him.


Cross Fire
Thomas Blume is in NY looking after Chelsea Hyde, daughter of Gordon Hyde, famous politician, and Aisha, Amir's friend.
He finds them at a party but he witnesses their abduction by hand of a false waiter who had infiltrated there, Paul.
Blume traces them to a Clapham garage where he finds Yash, Amir's friend; he tells him the place is used as an ordinary workshop and so Blume leaves.
But Miranda Appleton, reporter present at the party, tells him about the Hydes and their reputation; the kidnappers tell them they want a huge ransom and they want 2 people going there to get the girls; Andrew Hyde, Gordon's brother, is killed; Blume goes with Amir but the unavoidable shooting happens and Blume manages to escape to find a real slaughterhouse where the girls were kept.
He kills Paul, rescues the girls and sets the place, a real arsenal disguised as The Regent Movie, on fire.
In the epilogue, we hear a phone conversation involving a spanish guy who tells Blume they caught a sniper - Roland - who is the killer of Blume's family!

Grave Walker
Blume is back in NYC to chase the killer of his family.
When he lands at the airport, he's arrested by his old friend, Rey Sanchez, who fakes the manoeuvre to welcome him back.
Ray tells Blume they have Teach in custody and Captain Kinsley tells him she wants him to catch the killer of Darcey Holland, Blume's former girlfriend, in exchange of letting him put his hands on Teach.
Blume checks Darcey's ouse and meets Zoe, her twin sister, there.
Zoe says Darcey had recently been seeing Eugene Whitehouse, but when he catches him, he kills himself after saying he's controlled by Walker and some Russians.
Blume connects his words to a Russian mobster family, thr Lems, and finds Victor and Mikhail, father and son running the house.
Victor cuts a deal with him promising him to tell him Walker if he finds his son Mikhail.
Blume spends time with Zoe who tells him she knew Mikhail; he goes to his house but Lem denies all accusations and, besides, gives Thomas an envelope which reveals Walker talking to Rey Sanchez!
Convinced his friend he's betraying him, goes to the Chlesea hotel where they are but discovers Walker is actually a detective - Simms - working undercover together with Sanchez to cature Victor Lem; they had used Darcey Holland as a cover to kill Zoe; Darcey is still alive; the sisters hated each other since Lem was in love with Darcey but had left her for Zoe so she killed her; but Zoe didn't know she was actually a pawn in the game and when Darcey comes to know she kills herself .
The story end but when Blume accesses the prison to catch Teach, an explosion blows the whole building down!


Flash Point
Thomas Blume's in the aftermath of the explosion of the prison where Teach was kept when he receives a phone call from a person who says he wants Teach dead, too.
He follows the lead and gets tangled into gangs of bikers and a girl names Donnie Lewis; ha tries to get info from them but they seem not to know anything and Rey, his partner, sends him a video showing the bombing of the prison had been made to kill Teach, not to save him!
Donnie's father, Lincoln Lewis, tells Blume they had been actually hired for the hit on Teach and they must look for a gang, the SMC; when they do, they find lots of killed people in their den.
Blume thinks his old knowledge Vinny Horowitz might know something about gangs and goes to question him; he manages to steal the address of the arsenal from him and goes there but the bomber calls him again revealing he's been tracing hime all the time!
The building exolodes and Blume and Rey manage to escape at the last moment.
Detective Lynch helps him find out Teach was once married to an activist, Luisa Quinto; Blume the story is more complicated and so he goes back to Lincoln, but he finds him killed by Horlon Lincoln, who is revealed to be the bomber, too; he wanted his brother dead.
Blume finally faces Teach but he's just about to kill him, Teach tells him they've been in a set up since the start; that he didn't kill his family and they have to run away from the people who are behind all this; Kellerman and his men.
Reluctantly, Blume runs away together with Roland Teach!


End Game
Blume wakes up in a house where he and Roland Teach had escaped from Kellerman's men; they head to a workshop where they steal car from a small time crook and they contact the FBI; Blume tells Kinsley, Bale and Becker that he got Teach handcuffed and has decided to give him in; they meet at the Yankee Stadium for the exchange but the team is against him and Teach manages to run.
Blume catches up with agent Clarissa Daly, who tells him part of the story; Teach was married to a Luisa Quinto who was killed and Teach is supposed to have a secret file the FBI is desperately looking for.
He goes to an Internet cafè looking for info and he finds a lead in Han Lee, a chinese spy; he finds him dead, killed by the Federals!
Teach tells him the whole story; his wife Luisa was writing a memoir about a so-called Blacklist in which many high levels were implied and her partner in this research was the very Sarah Blume; that's why they killed them both!
They find the USB drive in a cabin where Teach and Luisa used to go but agent Knox gets there and tries to kill them; Teach runs but Blume is shot and recovered in a hospital where Becker goes to finish him; he kills Daly and Johnson but Teach comes over and manages to disarm him; so Blume kills Becker, after discovering he was the murderer of his family.
Teach is hit and dies, too; but he tells Blume his son is still alive!

 

Lisa Regan

Detective Josie Quinn

Vanishing Girls
Isabelle Coleman has gone missing; Josie Quinn goes to her but a gang of latinos tries to kill her; in their car there's Dirk Spencer, Isabelle's history teacher, who, before entering a coma, says one word: Ramona.
Josie Quinn investigates and finds out that Dirk has a niece, June Spencer, who had disappeared, too; and another girl, Ginger Blackwell has gone missing right now.
June Spencer is now hospitalized; Josie goes to talk to her and June, basically catatonic, kills another inmate, Sherry Gosnell, with a fork.
Josie puts the puzzle together and finds out that Sherry's husband, Nick Gosnell, had kept a bunker in his house since his father taught him to do it; he abducted girls and abused of them.
With the help of the Police, they manage to shoot Nick and go to the hospital where his father is still alive and confesses everything.
In their house, they find Isabelle alive while Ramona had been killed many years ago.
Ramona is revealed to have been Josie's uncle, as she was the daughter of Lisette, Jo's grandmother; basically they all knew the conspiration of the policemen behind it; Ray, Jo's ex husband, is actually shot in the search and Luke, her new partner, too; but in the end he saves his life and he moves on with Josie Quinn promoted new chief of the lcoal Police.

The Girl With No Name
Misty Derossi, former Ray's (Josie's ex-husband) is found beaten and a baby, who was arguably hers, disappeared.
One of her friends tells Josie that she knew about the baby; she was calling him Victor Ray, after his father and her grandmother, who Misty didn't know violent to Ray!
They talk to Misty's manager - she's a lap dancer - and watching the CCTV cameras, they see Misty was with Luke, Josie's present boyfriend.
Josie goes to his house but he's missing, too and, besides, a dead body is found in their garden; it's Mickey Kavolis, a man working undercover for Eric Dunn, an affarist trying to build Casinos.
In the place, Josie finds a girl, instead, who seems not to remember anything of what happened.
Josie's team inquires until they come to know her name is Kim Conway; she's Eric's girlfriend and she was at Misty's house, too; they arrest her but a policeman, Denny Twitch, escapes with her who asks help watching one of the surveillance cameras!
A car crash is staged; Twitch is killed and Kim runs away and then tells the story to Kim; Eric was going to kill her as she was pregnant but she managed to kill Kavolis and pretended amnesia; then she went to Luke's, who was her lover, and had her baby there; Eric's goons came and took Misty and the baby away.
Eric is discovered to be a donor baby, son of Peter Rowland, who's also the father of Aarin King, the Interstate Killer; the man behind all those killings - and many others in the last years - is Rowland, who wanted to punish all his children who had some *guilt* of any kind; Kim Conway is Rowland's daughter, too, and he wanted to leave his fortune to her as he was in love with her; so she proposes to have Kim and leave Luke and Misty's baby; but Kim realizes he's going to cheat her and causes a car crash in which Rowland dies while Luke and Victor, Kim's son, are rescued in Motel where he was keeping them.
In the end Kim's son has his name changed into Harris Quinn.


Her Mother's Name
Josie Quinn is called to solve a cold case murder; the bones of a pregnant girl are found and the analysis give this girl the name of Belinda Rose, who's Josie's mother!
Which can't be, as Josie was born in '89 and this Belinda killed in '84; but Josie's mother was a very nasty person, so she thinks it's possibile it was her who killed the girl and then adopted her identity.
Parallely to the story, a la Lackberg, we read the story of Josie when a little girl; and we know she was mistreated and abused by many clients of her mother, who was a dealer and a prostitute, while Lisette, Belinda's mother, had tried to save her and let the Court adopt her.
Sophie looks across the board to find hints from people who knew her mother but many people get killed in the run; and a work mate of Belinda, Sophia Bowen, reveals Belinda's baby was son of Judge Bowen, her husband; he's discovered because he has fangs, as the dead girl had.
Sophie is the killer of the true Belinda, out of sheer jealousy; she tries to kill Josie to keep the truth hidden, but Josie is freed by Trinity Payne, journalist, and identical to Josie; she's actually discovered to be Josie's sister, in the end.
The whole story had started as Belinda, who was actually Lila Jensen, had been abused all her childhood and finally burned down the boarding house where she was kept.
In the fire one of the dead girls was Trinity's twin sister, Shannon; and Josie was another sister who Lisette had only decided to adopt her, as she knew that Lila-Belinda had abducted her from the Institute out of sheer cruelty.
In the end, Lila Jensen is hospitalized as she's dying while Josie realizes her real identity, though preferring to remain the Chief of the Police as Josie Quinn.

 

Her Final Confession
Gretchen Lowther, Josie Quinn's partner cop, has a terrible past.
She was adopted as her mother had killed her sister; but when she was eighteen she flew her new family, too, and she went to live with William Lowther, a very young cop who worked undercover agains biker gangs.
He was covered for a long time by Lincoln Shore as he saved his life in a bike accident when Lincoln didn't know he was working undercover, but then they felt victims of a serial killer, the Soul Mate Strangler, who had killed 6 random couples since 1992 leaving them an object from a previous victim couple.
Billy is killed and Gretchen manages to escape so when she grew up she started chasing the biker gangs to revenge Billy and put away Lincoln Shore; Gretchen was then mother of 2 kids, Ethan and her sister twins, but Gretchen doesn't know.
In these days, the body of James Omar is found dead in Gretchen's home with a pic of a kid pinned on his chest.
James is in the novel discovered to be no other than Ethan Robinson (Gretchen's kid) school mate and, since they had come to know the truth, they had been chased by The Strangler (who Joise discovers he's a cop, O'Hara) and while Omar was killed with the photo of the son of the last couple killed, Ethan ha managed to escape.
O'Hara is captured and Gretchen finds again her 2 twins, alive and good.


The Bones She Buried
Mr. Sutton, the manager of the Sutton Enterprises, gets mad after a love refusal and starts shooting lots of his employees; using the complicity of his daughter Zachary and other workers, he pretends a crane collapsed causing all these dead people and he buried them with his muscle, Ivan Ulrich, a guy who had nothing to lose and was bitter and desperate after being molested by a priest when he was a child.
But Ivan falls in love with Colette Fraley, Noah's (Josie's boyfriend) mother and so he tells everything to her.
In the meantime some people starting acting suspiciously and Ulrich kills them.
Colette refuses his advances and another guy, Sam Pratt, committs suicide as he was in love with Colette, too.
She then seeks had referred to his brother Drew to find out what was wrong with him so she comes to know the whole plot and is given evidences of the murders by Drew's mother.
But Ivan can't kill Colette and so he she just warns her; but the news of her possessing evidences is known by Grady, who is Laura's brother's husband and a future CEO of  Suttin, where, Laura works; Grady decides to kill Colette to shut her up.
The story starts when Josie and Noah actually find Colette dead in her house and the house burn down by Ivan after the murder as he didn't want people to discover the plot; but the latter is finally discovered and thanks to Ivan's confession they solve also Colette's murder, so both the Suttons and Grady are condemned to a long detention.

Her Silent Cry
Penny Knight is a missing girl; she escaped from an addicted mother and was adopted by a family who later died in a car crash; out of shock she adopted the name of one of the girls - Amy Walsh - and she came to know a guy, Martin Lenhardt, who abducted her, married, abused her and gave her a child - Gideon Lenhardt - whom she tried to protect but finally managed to escape the abuses of his father together with her; Martin would die later, while Gideon was welcomed into a foster care where he became close to Natalie Oliver, another abandoned girl; Amy Walsh, instead, marries Colin Ross, has a child - Lucy - and, still trying to forget her incredible chidlhood, tries to live an ordinary family life.
One day Lucy is kidnapped in a park and soon after a guy asks for a ransom from various Amy's friends' houses and kill them; Jaclyn - nurse -, Wendy - teacher and finally Natalie, his accessory.
They set a meeting with him to give him the money but it's soon clear that his intentions are to hurt Amy, not to get any money; at the showdown he leaves it there and tries to kill both Amy and Josie Quinn; they manage to escape his shots and find Lucy alive, too; the kidnapper is captured, instead, and he's revealed to be none other than Gideon Lenhardt, the son Amy had from Martin and whom she escaped with; convinced it was his father's misfits were his mother's faults, he had lived his still short life with the mission of making his mother suffer.


Cold Heart Creek
Tyler and Valeria Yates, a young couple, are found killed in a campsite, poisoned, with no sing of struggle.
There's a third sleeping bag, though, and in Valeria's throat someone stuck a golden chain.
Josie and Noah investigates and, in the proximities, they find a weird place called *The Sanctuary* where a sort of sect leader, Charlotte Fadden, holds people whom she defines lost and wishing to find their full self.
Going around the place, Josie Quinn meets a frightened girl, Renee Kelly, who clearly shows signs of violence and desire to escape; Josie proposes her to free her but she doesn't escape; instead, while on their way back t the Police station, they bump into a girl who gives birth on the street; her name is Maya Bestler and she claims there was a sort of monster living in the forest who impregnated her: Michael Donovan, who rejects all charges and is set free.
Maya had a boyfriend, Garrett Romney, who was violent to her and now doesn't want to see her.
Investigating on the Yates' case, the third person is identified as Emilia Gresham, friend of the couple and recently separated from her husband, Jack, who was harassing people and recently acting violently.
Renee Kelly is found murdered, in the meanwhile.
Josie and Noah decide the truth of all cases is nowhere to be found but in the Sanctuary; so they go back there and this time press Fadden to tell the whole story; she's shifting so much that Josie falls in her psychological game and, in order to convince her to overcome the memory of Lisa Jensen, Josie goes in the inside stalls, only to find herself abducted by her and Jack Gresham, who is a host there!
The truth is that Jack was accepted in the Sanctuary but he wasn't redeemed at all; on the contrary, it was him who had killed Valeria and Tyler as they had gone near there, in the camping, together with Emilia Gresham just because they wanted to rescue and save Jack; Jack, instead, killed them and abducted her former wife Emilia who is still there in the place!
Josie manages to see here and run away with her but Jack catches up with them; they fight and they are saved by the intervention of Michael Donovan; he leaves them on the road where they are rescued by the Police.
Charlotte and Jack are arrested and Maya finally reveals she had really a relation with Donovan and she had escaped to the Sanctuary to escape from Garrett Romney and then Jack had staged her kidnapping, too.
In the epilogue, we see Josie Quinn throwing in the nearby river, Cold Creek, the ashes of Lisa Jensen, who died.

Find Her Alive
Incredibly sombre and lugubre story of a molested guy, Alexander Thornberg, who grew up undergoing the abuses of her father, Francis, until the day his mother, Hanna, dies and his sister, Nicoletta escapes from home.
Alex's mental disorder creates an alter ago named Zandra, who represent her second half and revenges his abuses killing people who have been divided and using his own division Alex/Zandra to help him choose his victims and he creates the myth of *The Bone Artist* as he makes macabre architectures with the bones of the people he kills.
He kills his sister Nicci to silent her and then starts looking for people who were named similarly to missing people.
In doing this he bumps into Trinity Payne, who was investigating the case of Codie Lash, one of the killer's first victims; Alex abducts her and keeps her in a bone installation while waiting to capture Josie Quinn.
When Josie Quinn finds out Trinity is missing she starts the search, though.
Trinity had managed to leave some hints: when  struggling to avoid being abducted by Alex, she manages to scribble a writing in shorthand saying *Vanessa* - Josie's false youth name - and *Frequency*; it's an old VHS in which Trinity hides her notes about her youth and her chase of The Bone Artist; thanks to these hints she manages to go to the place where Alex hides his den and releases her twin sister.

Save Her Soul
Josie's background story on pg.141-142-248-249
During a devastating flood in Denton, Josie Quinn and Gretchen discover a body floating into a bag into the river.
It's identified as Vera Urban, a girl who was a student in the same college where Ray, Josie's ex partner, studied together with her.
A mysterious woman who identifies herself as Alice calls Josie to tell her she knows the whole story and wants to meet her; but when they do, she's shot by a nearby sniper and dies.
She was nothing but Vera Urban, Beverly's mother!
The search focuses on the past of Bev at school and Josie discovers that Vera was an addict and sells drugs to survive; besides, she was with Silas Murphy, who was one of Lisette's husband, thus being Josie's grandfather.
The story had started when Kurt Dutton, the proprietor of the Enterprise who owned the land where the body was discovered, was having an affair with the much younger Beverly; his wife Marisol had discovered hime and he had killed Beverly and started beating Marisol; once the story surfaced Marisol had killed Vera before being finally caught by the Police.

 

Breathe Her Last

Hush Little Girl

Her Deadly Touch

The Drowning Girl



Detective Parks

Finding Claire Fletcher
Lisa Regan tells the story of Claire Fletcher using 2 points of view; Claire is 1st person narrator and sometimes it's the 3rd person's point of view; the story is quite usual, as it deals with Connor Parks meeting Claire in a ub; they have a romance but he wakes up he realizes Claire's gone; he looks for her at the address she has left only to find her family has reported her missing for 10 years!
Connor investigates while we come to know - in flashbacks - the story of the abduction of Claire by hands of a creepy pedophile, Reynard Johnson, who was used to abuse and rape his sisters since a child; he had kidnapped and mauled many girls and even killed some of them; every time a girl tried to escape he ran after her killing her dears and in some cases killing the girl, too.
Claire suffers the Stockholm syndrome for a while and she's even jealous of Tiffany, another abducted girl; but the last time she escapes - the time we see in the beginning, when she meets Connor Parks - it's the last time.
She has decided to be free and so partners with Connor to find his perpetrator; in the end it's none but Tiffany who deadly stabs Reynard.
Claire is reunited with her family and starts a new life with Connor Parks.

Losing Leah Holloway
Leah Holloway launches her car in the motorway killing people and then trows it in the river; she had her children with her and her friend Rachel Irving's kids, too; they are rescued but she refuses to be saved and drowns in the water.
Claire Fletcher is there with her boyfriend, Detective Parks, and tries to save her but Leah doesn't let her.
Claire and Connor investigate her past and apparently find nothing reprimandable about her.
But the real story is that some time before Leah, though a faithful woman, had fallen into the trap set for him by a young and handsome guy, Dylan John North.
He relationship had become hotter and darker in time until Leah found out she was pregnant of him; she faked her maternity as another of her husband's kids but the lie crashes down when Leah discovers that DJ (Dylan) is none but Rachel's secret son she had from a morbid relation years before; she hated the kid back then and now that she has discovered her friend Leah is her lover, she blackmails her with porn pictures of her realtion; she had them since DJ is in reality a serial killer, the Soccer Mum Strangler; Leah was going to be just another of his victims.
So Leah had called Rachel for the last time, heard the whole story, received the porn pics exposing her and DJ in sexual acts and had decided to end the story; she drank a whole bottle of vodka and threw herself in the river letting the children be saved.



Jocelyn Rush

Hold Still
The macabre story of Jocelyn Rush's weird childhood becomes the centre of the plot of a story of abduction and violence; Olivia, little girl Jocelyn adopted as child of her sister Camilla, former addicted, is carjacked by an unknown guy; Jocelyn discovers it was the threatening sign of a criminal who crucifies Anita Grant, an ex prostitute.
Some days later, another street girl, Jennifer Maisley, is crucify in the same way.
The inquiries follow the tracks of the small crook criminal world, but Jennifer suspects cops.
In the end she was right since the perpetrator was one of her colleagues, Kyle Flinch, who had partnered Vince Fox, another cop who had done time since he had killed Larry Warner's son, a delinquent; out of revenge, Kyle and Vince partner with Larry Warner and Angel Donovan, using them as mobsters and had assaulted both Anita Grant and Jennifer Masley.
They are finally captured and Camilla tells her the story of her childhood, when their father had allowed some thughs to repeatedly rape her; Jocelyn reinforced her bond with her sister but decides to keep Oliva as of she were her daughter.

 

Cold Blooded

Over The Edge
 

 

 

 

Angela Marsons

Detective Kim Stone


First Blood
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Silent Scream
Teresa Wyatt is murdered in her bathtub by someone who was not expected to look for her; she was witness of several burials in the zone; besides, the place goes on fire to attract the Police:
Kim Stone goes to Teresa's school - she's a teacher - and discovers another colleague, Professor Milton, has disappeared, too; somebody killed his dog and left him a note saying: *Kill the dig or wife nr.3 will die*.
Tom Curtis, another person who knew about the burials, is killed.
In the meantime, we read about a man holding girls in seclusion, raping and torturing them.
Another woman, Mary Andrews, is killed; Kim goes to talk to the caretaker, William Payne and they start suspecting Richard Croft, the Headmaster of the place; but soon after he is killed, too.
While closing the circle around the boarding house, Kim Stone is abducted by Victor Wilks, Pastor of the place, who confesses he's the killer of all the girls we read in the parallel narration; but the killer of all the witnesses since the beginning is actually Nicola Adamson, a young girl who had a twin sister - Beth - who died and that, from then on, was misguided by her sister's spirit to revenge the sufferances she underwent in that place.
Kim is finally rescued and the story surfaces.

Evil Games
Kim Stone is called to investigate on the case of Leonard Dunn, who's in charge of having molested his children; Kim Stone suspects the kids' mother knowing and approving since the beginning, but in the end she discovers there was a man with them and that was Wiley, a policeman who wanted to view the violence.
The incident runs through the main plot which sees Kim Stone facing a wicked psychiatrist, Aòexandra Thorne, whose main concern is to make her patients commit crimes and destroy their own lives.
She pushes a man, Barry to revenge against his brother, Adam, who has married his ex-wife; he puts his brother's house on fire and abduct their kid, Amelia; Barry tries to kill himself and Alexa runs there to push it to do it telling him her daughter Amelia is dead while she was just in the boot of the car as Adam had left her.
Another patient of hers, Jessica Ross, suffers of post-partum depression and Akex convinces her to kill her child.
Kim Stone smells smoke when a sex maniac, Allan Harris is killed by her victim, Ruth Willis, who had knifed him exactly as Alexandra Thorpe had suggested her to do when we get to know her.
She decides to investigate on the doctor and discovers she pretend her family died in a car crash while her sister, who's alive, talks to Kim and tells Kim Alex is a monster and she must be stopped; Sarah, Alex's sister, tells Kim to ask their mother, too; so Kim goes to the House where she's recovered and finds a woman who's mentally sick but violent and dangerous to the point of scratching and hurting Kim, who has to run away from the hospice.
In the meanwhile Alex understands Kim is on her tracks and so, after meeting and threatening each other, she discover the likewise terrible past of Kim, too; when she get to know that Alex was born of a deranged mother - Patricia Stone - who had bound her and her brother to a radiator in a fit of rage and craziness and so she had witnessed her brother Michael's death and from then on she had always been guests of foster houses.
Alex finally decides decides to victimize an autistic guy, Dougie.
Kim discovers the final plot as the landlord of the recover house where he lives is add was going to be victimized, too, but had found refuge in a recovery run by David Hartwick, who had inquired about Alex's professionale code on the web and Kim found it.
So Kim goes to David who confirms everything and meets Alex for the final confrontation; Kim doesn't get brainwashed as Alex's patients and manages to catch her and incarcerate her with the help of Dougie and his usual partner Bryant,

Lost Girls
Kim Stone has to face a sombre and macabre story: in the local community 2 girls are missing: Charlie Timmins and Amy Hanson; after the first inquiries, the Police decides to summon the families in a war room where the whole story basically takes place.
After some days, the kidnappers send a message to the negotiator telling them they are open to accept the highest bid coming from one of the families; the other kid will die.
Kim Stone, so, investigates the case occurred the very previous year in the same place in which 2 girls were abducted and just 1 came home but with no paid ransom, as it seems.
She contacts the family of this girl, Emily Billingham, who are overprotective and keep their child isolated; but the little girl wants to help and so runs away from home to meet Kim and tell her that the girl who was with ehr, Suzie Cotton hadn't made it and she doesn't know where they were or if they paid.
But the Police manages to close the circle around the criminals, who are a small time crrok, Will, and a real murderer, Symes, who are finally caught in a final confrontation in the house Emily has revealed with hypnosis.
During the waiting in the war room, though, a real feud between the 2 families had started: Karen - Charlie's mother, had revealed that his husband Robert wasn't the kid's father; and Elizabeth and Stephen were furious with them as they suspected they had offered a ransom taking advantage of the fact that the Hansons are broke.
In the predicament, someone had obviously contacted the kidnappers, so Kim Stone in the end discovers that the third man behind all this is nothing less than Helen, a cop mate who was going to retire and was desperate to be alone and forgotten.
In the end, the 3 perpetrators are arrested while not only Charlie and Tim are rescued but even Suzie Cotton, the girl who was abducted 2 years before and believed dead, is found alive.


Play Dead
Graham Studwick is a junior student who is obliged by a disturbed mother to dress as a girl; he's bullied at school until he decides to take revenge against all the people who ruined his life.
He first kills his mother and he's kept in a detention house but when he's paid his dues he poses as Duncan Adams and goes looking for his victims.
He kills Louise Hickman and some years later Jemima Lowe, his main torturers.
Jemima is discovered by Kim Stone and her police mates when they go to pay a visit to a place in Westerley where they study the realtionships between insects and corpses; during the trip they bump into Jemima's corpse and they take it from there.
Later Graham-Duncan attacks another girl, Isobel Jones, but she survives; he then tries to intrude the hospital to finish her but he can't manage to enter; Kim Stone finds the key to the whole story in this failed murder, as Isobel had assumed another identity; she was Mandy Hale, a girl molested by Curtis Grant, the security of Westerley's estate; when the Police investigates the place, they discover Curtis is nothing but another incarnation of Graham Studwick and that's why the bodies were dumped in that place.
The fatal mistake for him is when he abducts Tracy Frost, reporter and sworn enemy of Kim; investigating her disappearing, Kim goes to Westerley where she asks Catherine Evans, the tenant; she refuses to give her info and attacks her, revealing she was Graham's accomplice as she was another person molested in Bromley's college; Kim manages to escape from her and in the end they are both secured by the Police forces while Tracy is saved and becomes Kim's friend.

Blood Lines
The novel sees the return of Alexandra Thorne, the crazy psychiatrist who, even behind the bars, manages to manipulate people to do evil; she tries to hurt Ruth Willis, who had been her first victim and allies with Tanya Neal, a convict who killed her family, to push other girls to pain; besides, she sends fake letters to Patricia Stone, Kim's mother, in which, pretending it was Kim to write, she tries to free her from jail, knowing how much Kim would be hurt by this.
Kim Stone visits both and succeeds in uncovering Alex's plot; so her mother remains in jail, Ruth is badly beaten but saved and Alex fails one more time; in the end Kim manages to get her cell searches and recovers a picture of her and her twin brother Michael, which was stolen by her; and in the end she goes to meet her to tell her she lost and ironically kisses her, telling her goodbye for good.
Is it really for good, though?

The main story concerns a guy, Luke Sweeney, who abducts a girl and horribly rape her in 2007.
In present times, Kim Stone has to face 3 mysterious murders, apparently unconnected.
Deanna Brightman, a solicitor's wife, is killed; she's discovered to have had a lover, Jason Cross, who's investigated as suspect but tried to kill himself; Maxine Wakeman, a young girl involved in drugs and adopted by a TV star, Geraldine Hall, psychiatrist; finally Tommy Howard, adopted son of Judge Harold Howard.
The key to the story is found when Kim finds out that Lissy, the daughter of Woodward, a policeman, is abducted, too.
The police connects the dots and finds out these people were loved by the people who judged Luke Sweeney incapable of understanding, thus becoming not persecutable; Luke Sweeney's mother was Anna Mills, housekeeper at the Brightman's house and it was her who killed Deanna to hurt Mitchell, her husnabd and prosecutor; she killed Maxine to hurt Geraldine, who signed the incapability declaration and Tommy to have revenge on his father, the judge.
In the end they manage to capture her and save Lissy.

Lost Souls
Kim Stone and her team have to face a a dark and gloomy story of violent and truculent racism.
They initially find a skeleton in the lands owned by a local family, the Cowleys.
Soon after they discover this skeleton has a bullet in it and more bones are found, almost a graveyard.
While another family - the Preeces, Cowleys' neighbours -  is inquired, the violent crimes pile up.
Justin Reynold commits suicide under mysterious circumstances and a Polish guy, Henrik Kowalski is found being horribly beaten by him.
Gary Flint, a racist thug, is investigated but he's not the perpetrator of the facts and so he gives out the name of Floda to Kim Stone.
She follows Floda's route only to find that he's nothing less than Bartholomew Preece.
He was organizig a man hunt in which all the racist pigs of the place could take place.
They were responsible for the death of Jacob James, a black man whose story is narrated in flashback and who was the man whose bones were initially found; they had killed more Asian and black people during their cruel safaris and in the end they are discovered when Floda - which stands for Adolf read backwards - gives Gary Flint as food for his dogs to punish him for having given his name away and then abducts Stscey Wood, black policewoman in Kim's team; following her traces, they manage to free her and unstone the whole disturbing story.


Broken Bones
Dark story of 2 horrible crimes; a human trafficking of Rumanian people into England is discovered after the death of a child left abandoned in a shelter run by the Robertsons family; the police manage to end the trafficking and arrest the perpetrators.
The main plot is centered on a serial killer who kills prostitutes; Kelly Rowe is found dead in the snow; the same lot occurs to Donna Hill and later we witness a young girl, Ellie Greaves, who is abducted by another girl, Roxanne, who stages a mug and takes her to her home; she only wanted to take her to Kai Lord, pimp and criminal who puts girls on the street and sells them on the illegal market of human beings.
But right when the spot is centered on him, Kim Stone discovers that the killer is another girl, Sal, who had abducted Gemma, the girl who had tried to kill Kim when she visited Alex Thorne in jail in the last episode.
Sal had gone crazy because of age, of having no job and no hope and was getting a deaf revenge on the world by killing her colleagues.


Dying Truth
Macabre and sombre story happening in a high society private school, the Heathcrest College.
Sadie Winters, a 16 year old girl, is brutally beaten and thrown down the tower bell of the Institute.
Kim Stone and her team investigates but suddenly more incidents and deaths occur; even the parents of the girls are difficult to decipher.
After a week of dark crimes and attacks, Kim manages to ricapitulate the story in the nightmares of Laurence Winters, Sadie's dad.
He was in love with a young student, Lorraine Peters and had left her pregnant; his wife, Hannah, knew the whole story and when Graham tried to kill Lorraine making her dive into an empty swimming pool but leaving her alive, she killed with her hands; Graham Steel lives with the nightmare of his murder and beging to make secret clubs in the college; they are named after the cards and they become basically criminals covering each others' crimes.
So he kills in sequence students to quench his thirst for revenge including Sadie; the people who are appointed as *cards* cover him until Kim discovers in Saffron, Sadie's sister, a false goodbye letter which spelt *aborted* meaning that her parents had made her interrupt her pregnancy using Gordon Cordell, a gynecologist who had been a Spade, too, when a student.
In the final confrontation Laurence is caught but Hannah gets killed while trying to kill Kim, who is seriously injured in the fall from the steeple; Kevin Dawson dies.
The college goes in more reliable hands.

Angela Marsons's own synopsis:
Laurence cheated on Hannah with Lorraine and got her pregnant. Laurence persuaded Graham to push Lorraine into the pool as a joke but Graham didn’t know the pool was empty. He was haunted by guilt for the death of Lorraine and her unborn child. When he learned of Saffie’s abortion it tipped him over the edge and he began his murder spree to hurt those he saw as responsible


Fatal Promise
Double trouble for Kim Stone: the main plot concerns Gordon Cordell, the doctor who practised abortions in *Dying Truth*; he is found brutally murdered and we hear in a subplot the voice of the killer who wants blood vengeance against him.
His son Saul is killed, too, and so are Phyllis Mansell and Nat, her daughter and nurse in Cordell's clinic.
The investigation led by Kim Stone discoveres a gloomy plot dating back to when Cordell had made many mistakes and hurt people; of those victims, Richard Terry Chance, had plotted all these murders, so, exploiting the Mancini family who had stolen material from Cordell's clinic and so had been very easy to target as bogus perpetrators by Chance.
The subplot is much more fascinating, instead, and concerns a young girl who disappears from home: Jessie Ryan; in the beginning her best friend Emma Watson and her mother are suspected as they were filmed while fighting with Jessie; but after many stakeouts, Stacey unveils the real story; Emm Watson had actually taken Jessie and hidden her in their caravan, but only to protect her from a sadistic and violent mother, who was trying to make her sick after having killed another child!


Dead Memories
Kim Stone faces a criminal who is targeting her through his victims: they actually find murdered people who reminds the story of Kim.
First a couple of junkies, Mark Johnson and Amy Wilde, are found dead with Mark chained to a radiator; then a couple - Bill & Elena Phelps - are murdered in a staged car crash exactly the way Kim's foster parents, Erika and Keith, had died.
Finally Billie Styles is found brutally molested as Kim had frequently been.
The police suspects are centered on Kim's enemies in jail, namely Kai Lord and Symes.
The plot is complicated by the fact that Derek Lowry threatens to diffuse pedopornographci material owned by John Duggar, who was Billie Styles's boyfriend.
John Duggar is found dead, too, and Alison - journalist - disappears, as the killer wants to reproduce the story of Kevin Dawson, too.
They manage to get there in time to save her and to catch tghe perpetrator, who Kim realized was Mallory Preece, Dale Preece's mother; she was the protagonist of Lost Souls.


Child's Play
Intriguing and terrible story of a deranged guy, Erik Hanson, who suffers the predominance and the intelligence of Beth Nixon, her cousin; his life is ruined by parents who treated him as an outcast; when he hears the news of Steve Robinson, a 12 year old boy decides to take his own life for the same reasons, his psyche snaps and becomes an avenger of people who share the same lot; in a macabre sequence he kills Freddy Compton, Barry Nixon - Beth's father - and finally Belinda Evans, all of them murdered in children places and playgrounds; this is the death from where the novel starts; investigating Belinda's death, Kim Stone meets her sister, Veronica, who acts very weird.
The development of the inquiry allows Kim's team to understand Veronica was plagiarized by Belinda and that's why they were in awful relationships; when the Police see the video of a contest in which Belinda missed a question as Veronica asked her to - not to keep her being humiliated by their parents - the truth triggers and they go back to all the couples and finally to Eric Hanson.


Killing Mind
Samantha Brown is found horribly slashed in the throat in her house: her death is archived as clear suicide, but Kim is not convinced.
Sam's family is very reluctant to talk about her and her sister Sophie so the Police inquires and is taken to a strange place, the Unity Farm, where people are recovered to overcome old traumas; the tennants, Jake Black and Britney Murray, deny every implication in the murder, but the suspects that soemthing very wrong happen there are stronger and stronger; more people die and so an agent - Tiffany - is infiltrated to check the situation; she finds Sheila Thorpe, mother of one of Samantha's friends who live there, working as a cook; she manages to become friend with Britney, who tries to make her live in the Farm, too; the situation unclouds when they meet Kane Drummond, the accountant of the cult, who was supposed to have stolen money from the people and particularly from Sophie Brown, who's actually sequestered and frightened inside Unity Farm.
In the final confrontation Stacey, Bryant and Kim manage to catch the criminals and in the fight Jake Black is killed; Britney is captured and she confesses all her murders; she had been on her turn a molested child and when people wanted to escape the Farm her thirst for revenge compelled her to kill people.


Deadly Cry
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Twisted Lies
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
In December 2002, Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of the Swedish political magazine Millennium, loses a libel case involving allegations about billionaire industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Blomkvist is sentenced to three months (deferred) in prison, and ordered to pay hefty damages and costs. Soon afterwards, he is invited to meet Henrik Vanger, the retired CEO of the Vanger Corporation, unaware that Vanger has checked into his personal and professional history; the investigation of Blomkvist's circumstances has been carried out by Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant but deeply troubled researcher and computer hacker.

Vanger promises to provide Blomkvist with evidence against Wennerström in return for discovering what happened to Vanger's grandniece, Harriet, who disappeared in 1966 during a family gathering at the Vanger estate on Hedeby Island, when the island was temporarily cut off from the mainland by a traffic accident on the bridge. Blomkvist moves to the island and begins to research the Vanger family history and Harriet's disappearance. As he does so, he meets most of the remaining Vanger clan, including Harriet's brother Martin, current CEO of the company; Isabella, Martin and Harriet's mother; and Cecilia, a headmistress who was Harriet's younger aunt and friend.

Meanwhile, Salander's legal guardian Holger Palmgrem suffers a stroke, and is replaced by Nils Bjurman, who uses his position to extort sexual acts from her and eventually rapes her. After using a hidden camera to record her assault, Salander takes her revenge, torturing Bjurman and threatening to ruin him unless he gives her full control of her life and finances. She then uses a tattoo machine to brand him as a rapist.

On Hedeby Island, Blomkvist pursues new evidence in Harriet's disappearance, including photographs showing Harriet's discomfort at the sight of a young man. He also discovers a set of names and numbers believed to be old telephone numbers in Harriet's journal; however, his daughter Pernilla, passing through on the way to Bible camp, identifies them as passages from the Book of Leviticus, which describe rules about violent punishment of women. Blomkvist correlates one of them with the grotesque murder of a Vanger Corporation secretary in 1949, and realizes that he may be on the trail of a serial killer. Vanger's lawyer suggests Salander as a research assistant.

Blomkvist realises that Salander hacked into his computer for the initial report, and confronts her to ask her to help with the investigation, to which she agrees. The two eventually become casual lovers. However, they realize they are being threatened when a local cat is left dismembered on their porch, and Blomkvist is shot at from a distance during an afternoon jog. Meanwhile, they uncover the remaining four murders corresponding to what was described in Harriet's journal, as well as several more that fit the profile. Moreover, most of the murders occurred in locations where the Vanger Corporation did business. They are initially suspicious that the murderer was Gottfried Vanger, Martin and Harriet's deceased father, but they find out that he died prior to the last victim's death.

While Salander continues to hunt through Vanger Corporation archives, Blomkvist manages to identify the man in the photograph: her brother Martin. However, before he can do anything, Martin takes Blomkvist prisoner, revealing that Gottfried "initiated" him into the ritual rape and murder of women before his own death, and implies that Gottfried sexually abused both him and Harriet. Martin admits to murdering dozens of women but denies killing his sister. He attempts to murder Blomkvist, but Salander—who had discovered the connections independently—arrives and attacks Martin. Martin flees by car, pursued by Salander, and commits suicide by purposely colliding with an oncoming truck.

Believing that Cecilia's sister Anita, who now lives in London, is the only relative who might know something about Harriet's fate, Blomkvist and Salander meet her and learn that Harriet is still alive and living under Anita's name in Australia. When Blomkvist flies there to meet her, Harriet tells him the truth about her disappearance: her father and brother had repeatedly raped her, until she killed her father in self-defense. Martin was sent away to preparatory school, but he returned the day of her disappearance. Harriet realized she needed to escape, so she found a place to hide during the traffic accident, and Anita smuggled her to the mainland the next morning. Blomkvist persuades Harriet to return to Sweden, where she reunites with Henrik. Blomkvist then accompanies Salander to her mother's funeral.

Back in Sweden, Blomkvist learns that the evidence against Wennerström that Vanger promised him is useless. However, Salander hacks Wennerström's computer and discovered that his crimes go far beyond what Blomkvist documented. Using her evidence, Blomkvist prints an exposé and book which ruin Wennerström and catapult Millennium to national prominence. Salander, using her hacking skills, succeeds in stealing some 2.6 billion kr (about $260 million USD) from Wennerström's secret bank account. Blomkvist and Salander spend Christmas together in his holiday retreat. Shortly after, she goes to Blomkvist's home, intending to declare her love for him and give a Christmas present, but leaves when she sees him with his long-time lover and business partner Erika Berger.

As a postscript, Salander continues to monitor Wennerström and after six months, anonymously informs a lawyer in Miami of his whereabouts. Four days later the body of Wennerström is found in MarbellaSpain, shot three times in the head.


The Girl Who Played With Fire
 

The novel is formally divided into a prologue followed by four parts. The prologue of the book opens with a girl captured and restrained inside a dark room by an unidentified male. To cope with being captured, she mentally replays a past episode when she threw a milk carton filled with gasoline onto another man inside a car and tossed an ignited match onto him.

Part 1 – Irregular Equations[edit source]

After finishing the job on the Wennerström affair (described in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Lisbeth Salander disappeared from Sweden and traveled throughout Europe. The novel opens with her on the shores of the Caribbean in St George's, the capital of Grenada. Salander has become interested in Fermat's Last Theorem and mathematics, an interest that resounds with the opening page of each Part in this novel. From within her room in her hotel she observes on several occasions that her neighbor, Dr Forbes, an American tourist from Texas, physically abuses his wife, in the next room to Salander's. Salander also befriends George Bland, a 16-year-old orphaned student living in a small shack and begins tutoring him in mathematics. Salander finds Bland's company relaxing and enjoyable because Bland does not ask her personal questions, and the two develop a sexual relationship.

Salander uses her connections among the hackers' network to investigate Dr Forbes and learns that he was once accused of mishandling funds in his faith-based foundation. Currently he has no assets, but his wife is the heiress to a fortune worth $40 million.

As a hurricane hits Grenada, concerns for the safety of the residents at the hotel cause the hotel management to begin ushering them into a cellar. Salander remembers Bland, and braves the strong wind and rain to collect him. As the two reach the hotel entrance, Salander sees Dr Forbes on the beach with his wife and realizes that he is attempting to kill her for her inheritance. Salander attacks Forbes with the leg of a chair and abandons him to the elements. Salander, Bland, and Mrs Forbes retreat to the cellar and receive medical care; Dr Forbes is later confirmed as the only fatality of the storm.

Part 2 – From Russia with Love[edit source]

Lisbeth Salander returns to Stockholm after more than a year's absence. Immediately before the Wennerström affair became public knowledge, Salander had laundered a sum of three billion kronor (the equivalent of about half a billion $US) into a disguised bank account. With this sum she purchases a new upscale apartment outside Mosebacke Torg and moves out of her old apartment in Lundagatan (SV). Salander allows her current sex partner, Miriam Wu, to move into her old apartment, for the price of 1 krona and the condition that Wu forward all of Salander's mail. Salander also re-establishes contact with Dragan Armansky, her former boss at Milton Securities, and her former legal guardian Holger Palmgren, who fell victim to a stroke at the beginning of Dragon Tattoo.

Nils Bjurman, Palmgren's replacement, continues to nurture a growing hatred for his ward after the events of Dragon Tattoo. His fury has caused him to diminish his practice down to a single client (Salander) and focus his attention on capturing her and destroying the film she made of him raping her. He scrutinizes Salander's medical records, and thus identifies an incident named "All the Evil" as well as a person from her past as his strongest ally.

In the meantime, Mikael Blomkvist, the publisher of Millennium magazine, has lost contact with Salander, who has refused even to open his letters. He is therefore surprised, shortly after her return, while he is walking past Salander's apartment in the vain hope of running into her, to see her being attacked by a ponytailed man with a beer gut, a member of the Svavelsjö outlaw motorcycle club. Blomkvist attempts to help, to Salander's astonishment, and their joint efforts enable her to elude her attacker.

Millennium is approached by a couple: Dag Svensson, a young journalist, and Mia Johansson, a doctoral student. They have put together a meticulously researched report, ironically titled "From Russia with Love", about sex trafficking in Sweden and the abuse of underage girls by high-ranking figures; this is the subject of Johansson's doctoral thesis and Svensson wants Millennium to publish his exposé in book form. Whilst the research is mostly complete, Svensson, Johansson, and the Millennium staff are intrigued by recurring mentions of "Zala", a shadowy figure heavily involved in Sweden's sex-trafficking industry. Salander, hacking Mikael Blomkvist's computer, is taken aback by the mention of Zala, and visits Svensson and Johansson to ask questions.

Part 3 – Absurd Equations[edit source]

Later the same night, Blomkvist calls on the couple, and finds them both shot dead in their apartment, the killer having apparently left the building only seconds before. Blomkvist notifies Erika Berger, the Millennium's editor-in-chief and his lover, of the double murder, and the magazine's management team holds an emergency meeting at which they decide to postpone the publication of Svensson's book and the associated magazine special. They decide to backtrack Svensson's research to ensure the accuracy of the material, and to comb through it for possible murder motives, while Blomkvist is tasked with finishing Svensson's mostly-completed book.

Prosecutor Richard Ekström assembles an investigative team, led by Inspector Jan Bublanski, who selects Sonja Modig for inclusion in the team because of her sensitivity to women's issues. The team identifies Salander's fingerprints on the murder weapon, and her formal record establishes her as a violent, unstable, psychotic young woman with a history of prostitution. Armansky, Blomkvist, and Berger all vouch for Salander's intelligence and moral fiber; neither Blomkvist nor Berger was even aware of her psychiatric history. While investigating Salander's social circle, Modig finds Bjurman shot dead in his apartment with his own revolver, the same weapon used on Svensson and Johansson; Salander remains the prime suspect. In light of this new evidence, Ekström holds a press conference and discloses Salander's name and psychiatric history to the press, describing her as a danger to others and herself.

Blomkvist enlists the help of managing editor Malin Eriksson to investigate the murders, during which investigation Blomkvist realizes that Salander has hacked into his notebook computer. He leaves her notes on his desktop, and her replies point him to "Zala". Blomkvist confronts Gunnar Björck, a policeman on sick leave and one of the high-ranking abusers identified by Dag and Mia, who agrees to disclose information about Zala if Blomkvist leaves him out of Millennium's exposé.

Armansky realises that Milton Security should become involved in the investigation and sends two of his employees, Hedström and Bohman, to aid the formal police investigation. Miriam Wu returns from a Paris trip to find herself taken to the police station, and she confirms Salander's intelligence and moral character. However, Hedström, who carries an old grudge against Salander, leaks Wu's identity to the press, who publish stories about Wu's involvement in a Gay Pride Festival and Salander's prior friendship with a female rock group; both Wu and Salander are sensationalized in the media as members of a "lesbian Satanist gang". The press also publishes information about Salander's past.

Part 4 – Terminator[edit source]

Part 4 begins with Salander's wondering why the press's inside source has chosen not to publicize "All the Evil", the events which dominated the gap in her biography, information she knows would swing public opinion even further against her. Blomkvist is approached by Paolo Roberto, a boxing champion and Salander's former coach. Blomkvist asks Roberto to help by finding Miriam Wu, who, released by the police, has been avoiding all contact from the press, including Blomkvist. In the meantime, at Salander's suggestion, Blomkvist focuses on Zala as the key connection among the three murders and the sex trafficking. As the police continue the investigation, Blomkvist's team also notices the three-year gap in Salander's biography. Blomkvist decides to confront Björck and trade his anonymity for information on Zala.

Roberto, staking out Salander's former apartment in the hopes of catching Wu, witnesses her being kidnapped into a van by a paunchy man with a ponytail (Salander's earlier attacker) and a "blond giant". He follows the van to a warehouse south of Nykvarn, where he attempts to rescue Wu by boxing with the giant. He finds his opponent unusually muscular and totally insensitive to pain, and only through applications of massive blunt trauma can he and Wu stun the giant enough to escape. The giant recovers and sets the warehouse on fire to destroy the evidence. However, Roberto is able to direct the police to the site, where they find three buried and dismembered bodies.

Visiting Bjurman's summer cabin, Salander finds a classified Swedish Security Service file written about "All The Evil", and begins to make the connection between Bjurman and Zala, whose real name is Alexander Zalachenko. By coincidence, two members of Svavelsjö MC, Carl-Magnus Lundin (the paunchy ponytailed man) and Sonny Nieminen, have been dispatched to burn the place down. Salander physically incapacitates them, leaving more suspects for Bublanski to find. She returns to her apartment and, having no choice, decides to find Zalachenko and kill him. Salander discovers the blond giant's identity ("Ronald Niedermann") and his connection to a post office box in Göteborg, and she goes there to find him and Zalachenko.

In his apartment, Blomkvist finds Salander's keys, which he had picked up after her escape from Lundin. He manages to find her new, upscale apartment as well as the DVD revealing Bjurman's crime. With information from Björck and Salander's former guardian, Holger Palmgren, Blomkvist is able to piece together the entire story: Zalachenko is a former Soviet defector under secret Swedish protection, whose very existence is kept classified by Säpo; Bjurman and Björck knew about him only because they happened to be the junior officers on duty the day Zalachenko went into a police station and demanded political asylum. Zalachenko, initially a source of vital information on the USSR's intelligence operations to Säpo, began to traffic in sex slaves on the side. He became the partner of a 17-year-old woman who became pregnant with twins, Lisbeth and Camilla. Zalachenko was an itinerant father who physically and emotionally abused his partner when he was home. The cycle of violence culminated in Lisbeth Salander's deliberately setting his car alight with gasoline while her father was in it. This is the event Salander refers to as "All the Evil", since the authorities, instead of listening to her pleas on behalf of her mother, imprisoned Salander and declared her insane.

Salander's mother was left with the first of a series of cerebral hemorrhages which consigned her to nursing homes and ultimately caused her death. Salander realised that the government would never acknowledge Zalachenko's crimes, which would require them to admit his existence. Zalachenko was allowed to walk away, but suffered serious injuries and had to have his foot amputated.

Niedermann had killed Svensson and Johansson on Zalachenko's orders: when Salander visited them, she asked whether Bjurman had ever showed up on their list of high-ranking abusers, and they called him immediately after she left. Bjurman then called Zalachenko in a panic, leading not only to their deaths but to his own, as well.

Blomkvist does not share all of his findings with Bublanski, out of respect for Salander's privacy, but between his testimony, the various character witnesses, and the additional accomplices piling up, the police are forced to admit that their original suspicions of Salander as a psychotic murderer may have been wrong. Milton Security are ejected from the investigation when it becomes clear that Hedström is the inside source who has been leaking sensational details to the press. Armansky is satisfied, as his true goal in aiding the investigation—ensuring Salander is not simply condemned as a murderer out of hand—has been achieved. Finally, Blomkvist finds Niedermann's Göteborg address, and sets off for the farm where Niedermann and Zalachenko await. He has deduced that Salander has entered what Roberto and his boxing friends called "Terminator Mode", where she attacks without restraint to defend her life and those she cares about.

Salander enters the farmhouse and is captured as a result of secret cameras and alarms Zalachenko had installed. Zalachenko tells Salander that Niedermann is her half-brother. When Salander attempts to escape, Zalachenko shoots her in the hip, shoulder, and head, and Niedermann buries her, not realising she is still alive. Battling through immense pain, Salander slowly digs herself out and again attempts to kill Zalachenko with an axe, noting that Zalachenko's use of a Browning .22 firearm is the only reason she survived. On his way to Göteborg, Blomkvist sees Niedermann trying to hitch a ride, captures him at gunpoint, and ties him against a signpost by the road. The book ends as Blomkvist finds Salander and calls emergency services.


The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest
 

The book begins as Lisbeth Salander is flown to Sahlgrenska Hospital. It picks up where The Girl Who Played with Fire left off.

In the hospital[edit source]

After surgery, Salander is moved to an intensive care ward under guard, accessible only to police, doctors, nurses, and her lawyer, Annika Giannini (who is also Mikael Blomkvist's sister). Zalachenko, whom Salander injured with an axe, is two rooms away. Niedermann, thanks to botched responses from the local law enforcement, is on the run after murdering a police officer, and carjacking and kidnapping a woman during his escape. Niedermann seeks help from his old friends at the outlaw Svavelsjö Motorcycle Club, kills the treasurer, and steals 800,000 kronor before disappearing.

These events prompt immediate action from "the Section", a secret division of Swedish Security Service (Säpo) created for purposes of counterintelligence, and responsible for Zalachenko's asylum and supervision. Evert Gullberg, founder and former chief of the Section, asks former Section associate Fredrik Clinton to become acting head of the Section and plots to deflect attention away from the Section by silencing Salander, Blomkvist, and Zalachenko. They form a working alliance with the unsuspecting prosecutor of Salander's case, Richard Ekström. Dr. Peter Teleborian, the psychiatrist who supervised Salander when she was previously institutionalised on the Section's orders, provides Ekström with a false psychiatric examination and recommends that she be reinstitutionalised, preferably without a trial.

Gullberg, who has terminal cancer, murders Zalachenko in his hospital bed and attempts to enter Salander's room to murder her, but is prevented by Giannini. Gullberg then commits suicide in the passage outside Salander's room. A distraught Giannini informs Blomkvist of the shootings. Section operatives murder Gunnar Björk, the junior Säpo officer who had handled Zalachenko after the latter's defection and who was Blomkvist's source of information about the Section; the operatives falsify the death as a suicide. Other Section operatives burgle Blomkvist's apartment and mug Annika Giannini, specifically making off with copies of the classified Säpo file that contains Zalachenko's identity, and plant bugs in the homes and phones of Millennium staff. The timing of the attacks and the property that was taken cause Blomkvist to realise that the phones are tapped, and he begins to investigate the Section in earnest for a Millennium exposé.

Counterattack[edit source]

Blomkvist hires Dragan Armansky's Milton Security to handle countersurveillance. Armansky, on his own initiative, informs Säpo Constitutional Protection Director Torsten Edklinth about the constitutional violations. Edklinth, along with his assistant Monica Figuerola, begins a clandestine investigation into the Section. After Figuerola confirms the allegations, Edklinth contacts the Justice Minister and the Prime Minister who approve a full investigation by Constitutional Protection, and later invite Blomkvist to a confidential meeting in which they are to share information. They agree to Blomkvist's deadline—he intends to publish his findings about the state's manipulation of Salander's constitutional rights on 15 July, the third day of her trial, and the government agree to arrest any identified ringleaders of the Section at the same time.

Blomkvist convinces Salander's doctor, Dr. Anders Jonasson, to return her Palm Tungsten handheld computer to her. Blomkvist arranges to have a cellular phone placed in a duct near Salander's room, granting her Internet access through the resulting hotspot, which she uses to maintain contact with the outside world and work on a statement for her upcoming trial. Jonasson also helps her fake complications from her surgery, so that she can remain in the hospital's custody (and out of the police's). Meanwhile, Blomkvist, Armansky, Bublanski, Edklinth and their allies continue their joint counter-surveillance of the "Zalachenko club," feeding them misinformation about Millennium's (supposed) passivity regarding Salander's trial. They identify nine central players in the Section. Additionally, Blomkvist and Figuerola become romantically involved.

Berger subplot[edit source]

Whilst all of the above is going on, Erika Berger leaves Millennium to be editor-in-chief at Sweden's largest daily paper, the (fictional) Svenska Morgon-Posten (S.M.P.). Though the board hired her to revitalise the paper's sagging circulation numbers, they shut down her every proposal, emphasising profits over sustainability. Meanwhile, Henry Cortez, junior Millennium reporter, uncovers a story about a Swedish toilet-manufacturing company that engages child labour in Vietnam. His research reveals that the boss of said firm is Magnus Borgsjö, who is CEO and major shareholder at S.M.P. and hired Berger for her new position. Blomkvist gives a copy of the story to Berger, agreeing to delay its publication until August while she confronts Borgsjö and convinces him to resign gracefully.

Berger begins receiving graphic e-mails and threats from an anonymous source within S.M.P., most of them calling her a "whore." Erika asks her staff to remain on alert, but matters escalate when the stalkerbreaks into Berger's home and steals private materials, such as high school love letters, a sex tape made with her husband Greger Beckman, and her copy of Cortez's story. Berger engages Milton Security to help secure her home, and Armansky sends over former police officer Susanne Linder to provide protection while Beckman is abroad on business.

Salander, whilst engaged in her own homework, discovers Berger's plight and mobilises the "Hacker Republic," an elite and international group of computer wizards, to assist. They determine that Peter Fredriksson, S.M.P. employee and former high school classmate of Berger, is the culprit. Linder steps outside the law to confront Fredriksson and recovers Berger's things. However, Fredriksson has already passed Millennium's exposé on to Borgsjö. Borgsjö orders Berger to suppress the story at Millennium or lose her job at S.M.P. Berger, her sense of journalistic integrity offended, instead runs the story in that day's issue of S.M.P. under Cortez's byline, and then resigns in protest over both this and her treatment by upper management. Borgsjö and Fredriksson are both forced out, whilst Berger is accepted back at Millennium with open arms.

Trial[edit source]

As Salander's trial approaches, the Section abruptly realise that Blomkvist's and Millennium's seeming lack of preparation are simply a cover story for their (successful, if now detected) campaign of misinformation. Clinton, having no idea what Blomkvist knows or plans to publish, arranges to plant cocaine in Blomkvist's apartment and simultaneously hire two members of the Yugoslav mafia to murder him; their intention is to frame him as a drug dealer and thus destroy his credibility. The former is easily undermined by the security cameras installed by Milton Security, which capture the plant; the latter requires the intervention of Figuerola, Andersson, Modig and several others from both Säpo and Milton. Blomkvist and Berger are spirited off to a Milton safehouse, allowing Säpo to further the misdirection by claiming that the two hitmen simply had the bad luck to stop for a meal at the same restaurant as the police officers. Berger, meanwhile, intuits Figuerola's and Blomkvist's affair, and promises Figuerola to stay clear of Blomkvist as long as they are together.

The first two days of Salander's trial, on various counts of aggravated violence, proceed with relative calm. However, on the third day, Millennium's dual book-and-magazine exposé is published, the officers of the Section are arrested, Channel TV4 runs an hour-long program on the Section using (pre-recorded) interviews and material from Blomkvist, and Giannini systematically destroys Teleborian's testimony, proving that the Section and Teleborian had conspired to commit Salander at age 12 to protect Zalachenko, that Salander's rights had been repeatedly violated, and that they were once again conspiring against her. Blomkvist and Edklinth provide evidence proving that Teleborian's recent "psychiatric assessment" of Salander was fabricated and that he is working with the Section to silence her. Teleborian is then arrested for possession of child pornography, which was found on his computer by Salander and her hacker friends, Plague and Trinity. Ekström, realising that the law is (or should be) on Salander's side, withdraws all charges against her, and her declaration of incompetence is rescinded.

Aftermath[edit source]

With the evidence and credibility of the prosecution shattered, the prosecutor drops all charges against Salander. Freed, Salander embarks on an overseas trip to forget the events. She spends several months at Gibraltar, among other things to pay a visit to the man managing the billions she had stolen from Hans-Erik Wennerström in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. She also tracks down Miriam Wu, who is studying at a university in Paris, and apologises for putting her life in danger during the events of Played With Fire.

Salander soon discovers that being a "legally responsible citizen" involves its share of toil and drudgery. As Zalachenko's daughter, Salander is obliged to inherit half of his properties and wealth, while the other half goes to her twin sister Camilla, whom no one has heard from in more than a decade. Suspicious about an abandoned factory in her father's estate, she goes there to investigate. There, she discovers two dead women, and Niedermann, who had been hiding there from the police. After a brief struggle and chase, Salander outwits Niedermann by nailing his feet to the plank floor with a nail gun. She is tempted to kill him herself, but instead reports his location to Sonny Nieminen, acting head of the Svavelsjö biker gang, and then reports the entire brawl to the police. She leaves before the stand-off concludes, satisfied that both Niedermann and the Svavelsjö bikers have been brought to justice. (She later learns that Niedermann was killed by the bikers, and Nieminen by the police while resisting arrest.)

Back at her apartment in Stockholm, Salander receives a visit from Blomkvist. The story ends with the two reconciling.


The Girl In The Spider's Web
 

Computer scientist Frans Balder abandons a prestigious job in Silicon Valley and returns to Sweden to take custody of his autistic son August. Balder is informed by several law enforcement agencies that he is in danger from a criminal organization who call themselves the "Spider Society", but he ignores their warnings, preferring to focus on his neglected son. August exhibits savant syndrome; he produces drawings of impressive veracity and demonstrates facility with numbers. Meanwhile, one year since Millennium magazine's scoop on The Section, the publication has stagnated and is in danger of losing creative control to outside investors. Balder's former associate, Linus Brandell, tells Mikael Blomkvist about Balder and his tumultuous history, mentioning that some of his activities were aided by Lisbeth Salander.

Spurred by a childhood memory, Salander attempts to track down someone from her past, leading her to the Spider Society. She helps a group of hackers gain access into NSA servers, much to the fury of the agency's top cyber security agent, Edwin Needham. NSA agent Alona Casales and SÄPO agent Gabriella Grane are given the task of pursuing Salander and the Spider Society, which are a group of elite Russian criminals led by an individual named "Thanos". Grane calls Balder with concerns about his safety, and Balder hires Milton Security for protection. He also reaches out to Blomkvist, hoping to confess his concerns to a respected journalist. Blomkvist agrees to meet him, but as he arrives, an assassin, self-identified in the narration as Jan Holtser, kills Balder. Blomkvist reaches out to Salander, hoping to harness her talents to the investigation.

August's mother is unable to cope with his disorder and remands him to a care facility. However, Blomkvist realizes that August is drawing a picture of his father's killer. Holtser's superior, a woman called Kira, orders him to eliminate the child, but Salander rescues August and reaches out to Blomkvist and Millennium editor Erika Berger. Grane, a friend of Berger's, offers her beachfront vacation property as a safe house. Blomkvist learns from Balder's former associates that he had hired Salander to confirm that someone had robbed him, implicating executives inside Solifon, the company he worked for, in the theft. Thus, Balder went to Solifon to attempt to gain more evidence, discovering that they were collaborating with both the NSA and the Spider Society in their espionage efforts. It was this investigation that resulted in his death.

Needham is pulled off the investigation into Salander's hack, as the NSA is eager to cover up the agency's involvement. He learns of an individual known as "Wasp", and catches the allusions to Marvel Comicscharacters Janet Van Dyne, founding member of the Avengers, and their perennial foe. Meanwhile, a woman calling herself Rebecka Mattson attempts to seduce Blomkvist. After talking to Salander's former guardian, Holger Palmgren, he learns she is Lisbeth's long-missing twin sister Camilla, who has taken over part of her father Zalachenko's criminal network and is using it to strike against Lisbeth. Needham comes to Sweden and contacts Blomkvist, asking to meet Salander so that she can help him secure the NSA database. However, they are interrupted by Salander: she and August are under attack at the safe house by the Spider Society under orders of Camilla AKA Kira AKA Thanos. Lisbeth fends them off, wounding Holtser and several other suspects.

Though Camilla gets away, Lisbeth and August do as well; additionally, August has already drawn the picture implicating Holtser and helping Salander decrypt the last of the NSA's secrets. Grane takes a position at the UN working for human rightsMillennium publishes an exposė of the affair which restores their credibility; additionally, a new investment from Gibraltar (the site of Salander's Wasp Enterprises) allows Millennium to buy out their meddlesome investors. Needham, with the magazine as ammunition, ousts the crooked officers at the NSA. Salander visits Blomkvist to renew their friendship.


The Girl Who Takes An Eye For An Eye
Salander is detained in jail because of pretestuose accuses she underwent during her protection of August in the previous episode.
An inmate of hers called Benito terrorizes the wing and especially a girl, Faria, who Salander feels innocent and wants to defend.
In the meantime, in order to restore his position, she asks Blomqvist to inquire in the life of Leo Mannheimer.
The journalist does and he finds a very cloudy past in the guy's past; involved in an apparently accidental hunting accident, he has recently disappeared; besides, he was fooled by his mates because of his clumsiness and his too stressed intellectual attitude.
Blomqvist manages to trace him, in the end, and he finds an interesting and kind person; he understands he was left-handed, though, but now he's not anymore!
So he inquires further and he finds out Leo was victim of a criminal gang, led by Rachel Greitz and Martin Steinberg, who ran a clinic in which they divided twins adopted at child-birth to experiment on their genetic features.
Leo's twin brother, Dan, is a great musician; as a young guy he was a dropout looking for a music career in which he finally succeeds; during one of his gigs, a woman calls him Leo and Dan starts to understand; Blomqvist, in the meantime, had managed to reach him, too and in the end, though Greitz tries to kill him to shut him forever, he helps them get free and reunite.
In the prison Salander beats Benito and seeks revenge for Holger Palmgren, his former tutor, killed mysteriously; but she suspects it was Rachel Greitz, since Agneta, Lisbeth's mother, knew everything about the clinic; that's why she put Blomqvist on the trail of Leo Mannheimer and his brother!
Lisbeth captures Benito and Faria's torturers pretending to be captured by them and so shooting a video in which they confess publicly; the Police see the video Salander sends online and with the help of the hacker Plague, they catch Benito and her gang and release Lisbeth.

 

Lisbeth Salander is serving a two month jail sentence for the crimes she committed while protecting August Balder. After threats arise against her, she is transferred to maximum security Flodberga Prison, which she finds rife with corruption. She also discovers that Bangladeshi prisoner Faria Kasi is tormented nightly by ruthless prisoner Beatrice "Benito" Andersson.

One day, Salander is visited by former guardian Holger Palmgren. During their conversation, Palmgren tells her about a visit he received from a former secretary from St Stefan's, where she was committed as a child, who gave him Salander's medical files which has led him to believe she was involved in something called the Registry. Suspicious, Salander forces the Warden to let her use his computer, where she learns the Registry is a secret project that places exceptional children in specific environments to test the effects on their growth.

Unable to do anything from prison, Salander asks journalist Mikael Blomkvist to investigate in her stead, pointing him to wealthy businessman Leo Mannheimer, whose name was in the Registry file she found. During his investigation, Blomkvist learns that Mannheimer had been acting strangely lately and comes to suspect that not only does he have a twin, Dan Brody, but Brody has been going around pretending to be Mannheimer.

Meanwhile Palmgren, while going through Salander's file, recognizes the name Martin Steinberg and calls him. Steinberg panics and contacts his associate Rakel Greitz who, despite dying from stomach cancer, enters Palmgren's house pretending to be a nurse, poisons him and takes the file. Blomkvist arrives too late to save him, but Palmgren tells him to find Hilda von Kanterborg, a former Registry agent whose initials were in the file, before he dies.

Blomkvist tracks Hilda down and, though she doesn't believe Dan stole Leo's identity, she confirms that they are twins. She also tells him that Greitz tried to take Salander away from her family as a child as part of the experiment, only for her to react violently and escape. What they don't know is she then hid in a church and saw a statue of a dragon being slain, which inspired her to fight against the unjust and later don her dragon tattoo.

Blomkvist then confronts Mannheimer who, after saving him from Greitz' henchman Benjamin, reveals that he is Dan. Having grown up on a farm with an abusive adopted father, Dan found a passion for music and eventually fled to America, where he lived as a jazz musician. After being mistaken for Leo by a co-worker, he saw that they looked alike and came to Sweden to find him. After spending time together, they angrily confronted Greitz together for answers. Unfortunately, she and Benjamin caught them off guard and poisoned Leo, blackmailing Dan into burying him and taking his identity. However, Dan secretly managed to save his brother's life and help him escape. They ended taking each other's identity, with Leo living in America, while plotting revenge.

While this is happening, the Warden of Flodberga makes plans to transfer Benito to another prison. Upon learning this, Benito prepares to kill Faria, which she reveals she was hired to do by Faria's brothers. However, Salander stops and severely injures her, sending her to the hospital.

After she is released, Salander, with the help of Blomkvist's sister Annika, looks into Faria's history: she had been treated as a slave and object by her highly religious older brothers Bashir and Ahmed, who planned on selling her into marriage with a rich man. That fell apart when she fell in love with Jamal Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi national who was branded a heretic by Islamist extremists. Salander soon discovers that, on the two older brothers' orders, younger brother Khalil murdered Jamal, leading to Faria pushing Ahmed to his death in anger, resulting in her arrest and Bashir hiring Benito.

Salander tricks Bashir into confessing on video, and convinces Khalil to do the same to the police after Bashir flees. She then plans to go after Greitz when Blomkvist tells her what he's found, only to be kidnapped by Bashir and an escaped Benito. She gets an alert out to her hacker allies, who manage to track the truck they're in and alert the police. With Faria's help, the police find them just as Salander escapes and arrest Benito, Bashir, and their colleagues. After recovering from a wound sustained in her escape, Salander confronts and subdues Greitz and Benjamin, deciding to spare the former so she can suffer the shame of her reputation being ruined as she's arrested.

Faria's charges are lowered and she's presumably released. The people, Steinberg included, involved are sent to prison and, though preempted by a stock market crash, Millennium publishes Leo and Dan's story. Everyone who knew Palmgren gather for his funeral, where Salander makes a passionate, if backhanded, speech about her guardian.

 

The Girl Who Lived Twice
Blomqvist receives the news of the dead of an unknown beggar beaten to death in the streets fo Stockholm; the man had his number, so Michael tries to go deeper and, together with her lover and journalist Catrina Lindas, he discovers the beggar was attacking Johannes Forsell, swedish politician; he asks Lisebth Salander to help him find out why and Lisbeth discovers an intricate plot of betrayals which dates back to 12 years before when Forsell and his wife, together with Klara and Victor Engelman went for an expedition on Himalaya; there Klara and Victor died and a sherpa, Nima Rua, was the man who had tried to save them; but when they were discovered dead, Forsell's entourage tried to hide the news as they were spies for the Secret Services; so they exploited the fact that Nima Rua had suffered irreparable damages from hypothermia to silence the story; but Nima Rua has slowly started to remember after having become a bum and so he was murdered before he could contact Blomqvist.
The same plot of the secret services at the services of the Russian government was run by Camilla Salander together with her thugs; when they discover Blomqvist and Lisbeth know all, they abduct Michael and try to kill him; Lisbeth manages to get there in time to free him, though, and she witnesses the death of Camilla by hands of one of her men.

 

 

Camilla Lackberg

01 Ispr Principessa The Ice Princess

02 Pred Predicatore The Preacher

03 Sten Tagliapietra The Stonecutter

04 Olyck Uccello The Stranger

05 Tysk Bambino The Hidden Child

06 Sjon Sirena The Drowning

07 Fyrv Guardiano The Lost Boy

08 Angska Segreto Buried Angels

09 Lejontam             Ice Child

10 Haxan                 The Girl In The Woods
Three different stories:
The Stella Case
The Girl In The Woods
The Medieval Story
These days, Erika Falk is working on the Stella Case, a girl abducted a killed 15 years ago.
The 2 timelines run parallel since the Stella Case had been solved as the crime of t2 very young girls, Helen Perssen and Marie Wall, who today are 35 year old mothers and have just returned to Fjallbacka after having paid their dues.
But right when they're back in town, another girl - Linnea Berg - disappears.
We come to know many local families whose life are involved; Sanna, Stella's sister has a young daughter, Vendela, who's the girlfriend of Sam, who's the son of James Jensen and Helen Perssen, the presumed killer of Stella.
Sam is together with Jessie, a young girl who's Marie Wall's - the second suspected killer - daughter.
In the devolopment of the story, we see that Vendela, together with Nils and Besse stalk an bully Jessie to the point that his boyfriend Sam teaches him how to shoot a gun for defense.
James, on his turn, had been taught how to shoot by his father James, who's discovered to be violent and unreliable; he had been friend of KG, his wife Helen's father and is his age!
The Stella case had been inquired by Leif, who committed suicide; and his death now is under Erika's radar; it seems to be his death might be a homicide.
The Fjallbacka community is divided between those who think the new murder is the misdemeanor of the local migrants and those who put the blame on Marie and Helen.
Erika talks to Sanna, who was Leif's friend and becomes sure Leif had been killed not to go deeper in the truth; Stella said she used a green man when she went to the lake.
Erika talks to the 2 girls, too, and Helen confesses killing both Nea and Stella but Marie confesses the same with different conclusions; they are actually defending each other as they were together but they're actually innocent!
Sam kills Vendela, Nils and Bass in a delirious rave, actually and he's revealed to have killed Linnea, too, even if t wasn't a real murder; he has taken her to the lake and she had fallen down; his father James wanted to cover him not to unravel the real plot which was behind the Stella Case; she was actually hit by a stone thrown by Marie Ann, but then James finished her in order to create an alibi for Marie, as he had a homosexual relation with KG, Marie's father!
In the medieval story, Lackberg tells us the story of Elin, a woman who fell in disgrace and asked help to her sister Britta, wife of the local vicar, Preben; he loves Elin, impregnates her but then obliges her to abort, renegades her and makes her burn at the stake as a witch; the story has no evident connection with the present times, but it's hinted that the curse of the witch might have striken the place where the 2 girls had been found dead.

 

Standalone Novels

 

Donne che non perdonano
3 donne, Ingrid, Victoria e Birgitta sono vittime di terribili violenze domestiche (Ingrid è tradita e trascurata, Victoria è sessualmente schiavizzata, Birgitta violentemente picchiata nonostante malata).
Le tre donne decidono di vendicarsi complottando insieme e così Victoria uccide Tommy, marito di Ingrid, riempendolo di cocaina e buttandolo dal ponte di una nave; Ingrid uccide Jacob, l'uomo che picchiava Birgitta accoltellandolo a casa sua dopo che Birgitta aveva ucciso Matte, il violentatore di Victoria.
Alle fine si ritrovano insieme e Birgitta scopre che che era l'insegnante della figlia di Ingrid.

 

Il gioco della notte
Storia un pò banale ed adolescenziale di un quartetto di amici che non sono certo molto ordinari: passati travagliati e violenti, odi e tradimenti tra di loro e non solo.
Nella notte di Capodanno si trovano tra di loro per gozzovigliare con cibo e non solo ma ben presto dalla casa di fronte, dove stan facendo la stessa cosa i genitori, ricevono gli echi dei loro passati dolorosi segnati da violenze anche fisiche su di loro.
Dopo alcuni eccessi consumati tra di loro nella notte, chiudono la festa in bellezza facendo crollare la casa dei genitori che muoiono sotto le macerie e nella notte ghiacciata della periferia di Stoccolma.

 


Il codice dell'illusionista
 

 

Truth Or Dare

Trapped

 

 

Faye Series

 

The Golden Cage
The gory story of Faye's revenge against her husband, Jack Adelheim.
Faye comes from a deranged family in which her mother was constantly beaten by her father who didn't spare his brother Sebastian, too; the latter would finally kill himself.
Matilda Bloom - her real name - decides to disappear and change her identity into Faye not before buring her abusive husband Viktor alive in the house!
Faye marries the rich Jack dreaming of a new and rich life but Jack reveals to be a cynical person not loving her.
He cheats on her and obliges her to abortion.
When she finds him fucking Ylva, her new flame, she starts brooding her revenge.
She abandons the house and rents a house; sets a firm which she calls Revenge together with her friend Kirsten and Chris.
She gets together to a younger guy, Robin; she slowly starts flattering Jack again until he realizes how much he lost and starts loving her again and asking her at his house to fuck.
She records Jack giving her head and sends the file to Ylva.
Jack breaks into Faye's office but she manages to convince him she did it for jealousy.
So she projects the ultimate revenge: she comes back to him and fakes the death of Julienne, their daughter, putting hints to Jack having killed her; the Police arrests him while she goes to live in a Mediterranean sunny place together with Julienne.

Silver Tears
Faye is now in Ravi (Italy) with her mother Ingrid and her daughter Julienne.
Kerstin, her partner, tells her some partners are selling Revenge shares; Faye goes to Stockhlm to check the situation and meets David Schiller, whom she falls in love with.
Yvonne Ingvarsson, has a CCTV of Faye in the night of the murder.
Faye discovers Henrik, Jack's partner, is behind the sales. Jack escapes the prison!
Faye investigates further until she decides to ally with Alice and Ylva (Jack's ex) to destroy the plot; she would take David Schiller onboard, too, but Ylva seems to know David's not playing fair!
David was never going to divorce and marry Faye.
Henrik buys the majority of Revenge's shares and fires Faye who's caught by Jack: it was him who played Henrik to buy Revenge to revenge against Faye; Jack knows Julienne is alive.
The guy who helped him escape is Gosta, Faye's father who had been sent in prison by Faye for the abuses he perpetrated against her and Sebastian, who used to rape Faye, too, and was killed by her.
When Jack goes to fetch Julienne, Faye sets a trap and electrocutes him.
She returns in control of Revenge with her partners but in the very end Gosta comes to her!

 

 

 

Cass Leary (Robin James)

The Burden Of Truth
Cassie Leary is informed about the death of Larry Drazdowski, beloved local baseball coach; a girl, Aubrey Ames, seems to be the last one to have seen him alive as they met in the park right before he died; she's arrested and Cassie has to defend her but, out of the blue, Aubrey confesses!
Cassie makes her talk and realizes Aubrey is only protecting his father, who has killed Larry as he was a predator and had abused Aubrey over and over.
Cassie investigates with the help of her 2 brothers - Matt and Joe - and the more she goes deep, the more she discovers how sinister a figure Larry was; he had raped many girls and, among these there was also Vangie, Cassie's sister, and Cassie's mother, who has Larry's same age!
Her father, instead, gave another fake confession; he would have been him to kill him but he wasn't.
Cassie is harrassed by many thugs who were close to Larry, like the school principal and some mobsters, but she doesn't give up and goes for Aubrey's defense on trial; in the end Aubrey retracts her confession and she is declared not guilty.
In the end we discover Larry's killer was Eric Wray, an ex-cop who knew everything about Larry and wanted revenge on his victims; Cassie pretends she doesn't know and sets him free.

 

 

Chuck Palahniuk

Cornwell
Crichton


Giorgio Faletti
Io Uccido
Niente di vero tranne gli occhi
Fuori Da Un Evidente Destino
Pochi Inutili Nascondigli
Io Sono Dio
Appunti Di Un Venditore Di Donne
Tre Atti Due Tempi


 


 

 

 

TV Series

Lost

24

1st season :  Palmer's attempt.

                   Kim kidnapped; Nina Myers.
                    

2nd season:  Terrorist bomb

                      Kate/Maria family; Nina used to rescue them.
                      Palmer is empeached by Novak
                      The bomb is detonated by George Mason.
                      A girl infects Palmer's hand in the last scene.
                      She'll be with Marwan in S4

3rd season    The Salazar/Amador/Saunders viels episode.

                      Jack kills Nina; Kim and Chase leave.
                      Chapelle & Gaele sacrifices.
                      Toni sells CTU for Michelle

4th season      The Araz family & Marwan.
                       Haller & Audrey

5th season       The nerv gas & the Charles Logan conspiracy                    

                       Bauer resurrects from presumed death
                       Toni, Michelle, Palmer, Edgar  killed.

6th season      Wayne Palmer is president; Bauer recalled from China.
                       The plot Charles Logan-Philippe Bauer

Redemption


7th Season     The Mobutu blitz in Sangala
                        CTU shut down; Bauer back from Africa works with
                        Bill, Toni and Chloe undercover.
                        Allison Taylor vs. Starkwood

8th Season     CTU bigger in NY
                       Uranium, Hassad and the Russians
                       Logan with Allison Taylor vs. Ethan
                       Dana/Janet

9th Season (Another Day)

                   

 

TV Series

 

Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul
Lost

24-DS
Prison Break
Bloodline

Luther
Lupin
The Killing

The Stranger

Seven Seconds
Criminal

Ray Donovan
The Leftovers

La Casa Di Carta
Quicksand

Broadchurch
Marcella

Gomorra

Unbelievable

Fargo

Il Caos Dopo Di Te
The Bodyguard
Safe
The Sinner

Dirty John
Paranoid
Hinterland

Twilight Zone

The Woods

Behind Her Eyes
Jack Taylor
Collateral
Somewhere Between

Kingdom Hospital

After Life
Twin Peaks
In Treatment
You

Black Mirror

The Fog

Haven
Fringe
Sherlock
Equinox

Under The Dome
Touch

The Following

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                 

Movies

 

Woody Allen
Benigni
Coen bros
Connelly
De Niro
Dylan movies
Hannibal
Hoffman
Kubrick
Larrsson
Kevin Spacey
King
Mendes
Tarantino
Troisi
Verdone
 

                  
                      
                     

              

Various Stuff

 

Leggere in Originale

Joyce: Paralysis & Epiphany

Modernism