The farenhiet twins were interesting. But if you wanted to read some real Faber, see, The Apple, Under The Skin, The Hundred and Ninety Nine Steps (set in my birthplace) and Courage Consort. Michel Faber is a Dickens fan, his work on prostitution in the eighteenth century, while fictional, stays very close to fact.
Controversial question re Steig Larsson. His wife reckons she was writing them all along, what do you think?