The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 16, 2008 - Fiction - 465 pages

A sensation across Europe—millions of copies sold A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue. It’s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. It’s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet’s disappearance . . . and about Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age—and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness to go with it—who assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, astonishing corruption in the highest echelons of Swedish industrialism—and an unexpected connection between themselves. It’s a contagiously exciting, stunningly intelligent novel about society at its most hidden, and about the intimate lives of a brilliantly realized cast of characters, all of them forced to face the darker aspects of their world and of their own lives.

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Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1)

User Review  - Sean - Goodreads

In rating this book I realized that I didn't even have a shelf for mystery books! The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a strong and compelling story with well written main characters, overall a solid ...

Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1)

User Review  - Xox - Goodreads

First 100 pages. (Spoiler alert) Pretty nice set up of story. Met the key players and they started interacting. Next 100 pages. Still not much has happened yet. He interviewed someone, and asked about ...

About the author

Stieg Larsson, who lived in Sweden, was the editor in chief of the magazine Expo and a leading expert on antidemocratic right-wing extremist and Nazi organizations. He died in 2004, shortly after delivering the manuscript for this and two subsequent novels.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Author: Stieg Larsson
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008
• ISBN: 0307269752, 9780307269751
• Length: 465 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Fiction / Thrillers / General; Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense