The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
continuing Stieg Larsson's globally bestselling MILLENIUM series
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4.1 • 353 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Meet Lisbeth Salander, the iconic character who has captivated 100 million readers worldwide.
"Salander remains, in Lagercrantz's hands, the enigmatic and fascinating anti-heroine in fiction" Financial Times
"Salander and Blomkvist have survived the authorship transition intact and are just as compelling as ever" New York Times
LISBETH SALANDER IS AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE
Sentenced to two months in a women's prison for saving a young boy's life by any means necessary, she refuses to say anything in her own defence. She has more important things on her mind.
Mikael Blomkvist makes the long trip to visit every week - and receives a lead to follow for his pains. And not just any lead, but one that could unlock the secrets of Salander's childhood.
Even in prison system, Salander will never stop seeking the truth, driven by a childhood memory of a woman with a blazing birthmark on her neck. As if it had been burned by a dragon's fire...
Translated from the Swedish by George Goulding
*** Want more Lisbeth? THE GIRL WITH ICE IN HER VEINS, coming August 2025, is available to pre-order now! ***
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Lagercrantz's excellent second contribution to Stieg Larsson's Millennium series finds Lisbeth Salander serving a two-month sentence in Flodberga, the only maximum security women's prison in Sweden, for unlawful use of property and reckless endangerment stemming from a murder case chronicled in 2015's The Girl in the Spider's Web. Lisbeth doesn't mind her incarceration, since it allows her to work on her attempt to combine quantum mechanics with the theory of relativity, but she's annoyed that her section of the prison has been taken over by gang leader Benito Andersson, who's torturing a beautiful young Bangladeshi prisoner, Faria Kazi, a convicted murderer. Lisbeth is also troubled by a visit from her old guardian, Holger Palmgren, who informs her that he has some startling information: Lisbeth might have been part of a study dealing with twins when she was a patient at St. Stefan's psychiatric clinic for children. Determined to learn more about this study, Lisbeth asks her friend Mikael Blomkvist, editor of Millennium magazine, for help. After her release, Lisbeth investigates the case of the Bangladeshi prisoner, and Blomkvist delves into Lisbeth's childhood. Eventually, these twisting plot lines tie together in this complicated, fascinating mystery. As a bonus, readers learn the meaning of the dragon tattoo on Lisbeth's back.
Customer Reviews
Brilliant
I could not put it down, I was so caught up in the storyline I almost felt I was there with them.
The girl who takes an eye for an eye
The best of the Lagercrantz novels so far. More succinct, not so long-winded. In fact, closer to the Larsson originals.
I enjoyed very much.
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