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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, there's no turning back. This debut thriller--the first in a trilogy from the late Stieg Larsson--is a serious page-turner rivaling the best of don't want to mess with the girl with the dragon tattoo. --_Dave Callanan_
Starred Review. 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 corruptionat 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. (Sept.)
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SUMMARY: Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the wealthy Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle Henrik, a powerful industry magnate who doted on Harriet, is convinced that she was murdered - by one of their own relatives. Journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired to investigate. Before long, Mikael starts to link Harriet's disappearance to a string of gruesome murders. Enter private investigator and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander - a fierce young woman with a set of vibrant tattoos and a capacity for cool, remorseless rage. This unlikely pair delves into the Vanger family's sinister past. The Vangers are not only feuding and secretive but also violently dysfunctional And Mikael and Lisbeth are about to discover how far the family is prepared to go to protect themselves...
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An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's **The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo** combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel. Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's **The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo** combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel. Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disa
SUMMARY: Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the wealthy Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle Henrik, a powerful industry magnate who doted on Harriet, is convinced that she was murdered - by one of their
### Amazon.com Review **Amazon Best of the Month, September 2008** : Once you start _The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo_ , there's no turning back. This debut thriller--the first in a trilogy from the late Stieg Larsson--is a serious page-turner rivaling the best of Charlie Huston and Michael Connelly
SUMMARY: Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the wealthy Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle Henrik, a powerful industry magnate who doted on Harriet, is convinced that she was murdered - by one of their