The Girl with Ice in Her Veins
A Lisbeth Salander Novel
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3.8 • 14 Ratings
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
“Lisbeth Salander is back—and maybe better than ever.” —Lee Child
“Fresh, fearless. . . . One of the great crime series of our time could not be in safer, more capable hands.” —Chris Whitaker
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Lisbeth Salander returns in this chilling new installment of the multi-million-copy bestselling Millennium series.
Sweden’s far north is growing colder; even in springtime, the town of Gasskas is buried under a relentless snow. As temperatures drop, tensions rise between a global corporation shamelessly exploiting the area's natural resources and wary locals who have scores to settle. A bomb blasts apart a crucial bridge. Soon after, a young journalist is found murdered.
Meanwhile, Lisbeth is at home in Stockholm, looking to fill the void her last lover left behind. When she discovers that fellow hacker Plague has been kidnapped and taken up North, and finds her niece, Svala, on her doorstep, she has no choice but to return to Gasskas—with Mikael Blomkvist at her side. Blomkvist takes the helm at Gasskas's newspaper, and Lisbeth tries to locate Plague. But then Svala goes missing, and Lisbeth's worst fears come to haunt her...
Lured back to a lawless town full of predators disguised as saviours and foes disguised as friends, forced to face down their own troubling pasts and those of their loved ones, Salander and Blomkvist must untangle a history of violence before it's too late. Karin Smirnoff has created a twisty, vertiginous, hard-hitting thriller that breathes new life into Stieg Larsson's epic series and unforgettable characters.
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Smirnoff's second Millennium novel (after The Girl in the Eagle's Talons) is a treat for longtime series fans. Several months after the events of the previous book, Lisbeth Salander's 13-year-old niece Svala Hirak is interning at the newspaper Gaskassen. She's also part of an environmental activist group, whose newest member, Simon Frisk, is an advocate for extreme—sometimes violent—protest. When Simon sexually assaults Svala and one of the teenage reporter's friends turns up murdered, she links up with a dangerous ally to take revenge. Meanwhile, Mikael Blomkvist is hired to helm Gaskassen fresh off of his cancer diagnosis, while Lisbeth searches for her hacker friend Plague, who has been kidnapped by Marcus Branco, the sadistic crime lord who killed Svala's mother and seeks a hard drive containing $400 million in bitcoin that only Svala can unlock. It's a lot of plot, and Smirnoff makes no room for newcomers to the series, assuming that readers have a near-photographic memory of details from the previous novels. Those who have been following along closely, however, will be rewarded with clever twists and poignant developments in the relationships among the core cast. This continues Smirnoff's hot streak.
