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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This is an excellent story. Grabs you and doesn’t let go until the story is told.
His masterpiece.
Not my kind of book, flat out scary….and anyone that can think up this stuff has an unusual outlook on life….I have read them all and only because someone close to me wanted me to…..no more of this for me!
The books in this series written by Steig Larson were wonderful, the books written by the author after Larson’s death are not worth spending $ on. I loved the Steig Larson books even though sometimes they were scary and unnerving but always WONDERFUL
This author is missed terribly! This trilogy is spellbinding!
You would not regret buying this book. Five star all the way and more!!!!!!
Ok but not a favorite.
Loved this book! I read it a few years ago. Too bad Larsen died before it became such a big hit.
A little violent for my taste but a good read nevertheless. The characters are memorable and the plot twists and turns.
Stieg Larsson wrote exceptional characterizations, which shattered the glass ceiling of my understanding of what a female heroine can take. In essence, he took a couple of pre-existing Swedish fictional characters, Kalle Blomkvist and Pippi Longstocking (both by the author Astrid Lindgren), and brutally modernized them. He made Lisbeth Salander, …
A fantastic book. I absolutely loved it and couldn’t put it down. I had to read the whole series.
WONDERFUL I loved all in the series Very good & believable characters
Great book…the main character is my hero now.
It drew me in to this author’s works and set me to exploring a new kind of mystery.
I ***LOVE*** this series 🙂
After all these years, it can seem as if Stieg Larsson’s menagerie of flawed protagonists and appealing villains has actually sprung to life, as if cut from the molten plastic of his imagination by a 3D printer. One can’t help but speculate what Larsson, felled by a heart attack at 50 in 2004, would have made of all the raw material provided by …
The entire trilogy is excellent and hard to put down once started
couldn’t put it down!
Great thriller
Excellent!!