About The Book
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.