Murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue combine into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel, the first in Stieg Larsson's thrilling Millenium series featuring Lisbeth Salander.
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY JUL 14, 2008
Cases rarely come much colder than the decades-old disappearance of teen heiress Harriet Vanger from her family's remote island retreat north of Stockholm, nor do fiction debuts hotter than this European bestseller by muckraking Swedish journalist Larsson. At once a strikingly original thriller and a vivisection of Sweden's dirty not-so-little secrets (as suggested by its original title, Men Who Hate Women), this first of a trilogy introduces a provocatively odd couple: disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist, freshly sentenced to jail for libeling a shady businessman, and the multipierced and tattooed Lisbeth Salander, a feral but vulnerable superhacker. Hired by octogenarian industrialist Henrik Vanger, who wants to find out what happened to his beloved great-niece before he dies, the duo gradually uncover a festering morass of familial corruption at the same time, Larsson skillfully bares some of the similar horrors that have left Salander such a marked woman. Larsson died in 2004, shortly after handing in the manuscripts for what will be his legacy. 100,000 first printing.
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Penguin Random House LLC
Jbfj , 06/25/2011
The girl with dragon tatoo
First couple hundred pages are tough to get through, but it does pick up and is worthwhile read
edpoma , 08/06/2011
Slow start, but a great ending. Definitively makes me want to read the next one.
Eddie8620 , 04/23/2011
Excellent book!!! Recommended for everyone.... Beginning is a little boring but it hooks you on! Can't wait to read the next one!
More Books by Stieg Larsson
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy
La reina en el palacio de las corrientes de aire (Serie Millennium 3)
La chica que soñaba con una cerilla y un bidón de gasolina (Serie Millennium 2)
Los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres (Serie Millennium 1)
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
The Girl Who Lived Twice