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 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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great read don’t miss his series
Amazing storytelling.
Still to this day, one of the best books I’ve ever read.
Just couldn’t get into it at all. Couldn’t relate. Didn’t finish
I relly love this series real page tuners
I haved loved all the books in this series
hard to get into – great after pg. 100
This was the first girl book and it was a good read. Not true of subsequent similar titles
Couldn’t put it down!
Excellent book!
One of my favorites
Gritty and action-packed. Street smart and tough main character.
This is just a wonderful, well written novel.
Gripping.
This author wrote this trilogy, and then tragically passed away. I have read all three. Be warned they are translated from Swedish which makes them a little bit of a labor. But Lizbeth Salander is the most incredible character I have ever had the pleasure of reading about. This book and the other two are exquisitely researched. Don’t start …
Great book. Difficult to put down.
Excellent
Great Book. Tragic Protagonist. Classic flawed anti-hero settles a score. Several scores actually. I enjoyed this book tremendously.
This book was a gift from my niece, who is also an avid reader. She warned me to stick with it through the first few extremely boring pages (lots of financial-related stuff), which I did. So glad she encouraged me to not give up, because now I’ve read the entire trilogy, and loved it! Creepy, intriguing, surprising, vindicating….I could go on …
In one word: awesome