The Girl with Ice in Her Veins
A Lisbeth Salander Novel
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3.5 • 132 Ratings
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- $14.99
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, from the author of The Girl in the Eagle's Talons.
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 saviors 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. The Girl with Ice in Her Veins is a twisty, vertiginous, hard-hitting thriller that breathes new life into Stieg Larsson's epic series and unforgettable characters.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Lisbeth Salander’s past may have finally caught up with her in this powerful Nordic thriller. When a bridge to a local mine explodes in the Swedish town of Gasskas, Lisbeth suspects that her 13-year-old niece, Svala, a member of an environmental activist group, may be involved. After a journalist covering the story is murdered, Lisbeth embarks on a perilous search for Svala and a missing hacker friend, putting her in the path of an old adversary dead set on revenge. Since penning The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons, Karin Smirnoff has taken the helm of this riveting series with gusto. We loved how she focused not just on Lisbeth but also on her fiery niece, making this a great jumping-in point if you haven’t read any of the other books. Make some time for this edgy thriller that’s full of unforgettable characters.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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.
Customer Reviews
Who’s the girl
The girl in this book is not Lisbeth Salander. In fact Salander is merely a secondary character in this extremely hard book to read. The author(s) should get back to the original premise of her genius and computer ability.
Disappointed
It is rare that I fail to finish a book, but the gratuitous squalor and violence toward women displayed in the first chapters was disgusting and inexcusable. Don’t even get me started about the cartoonish political ideologies. This is a subtlety free novel; everything is black or white.
I was an admirer of the 3 original books which I read some 20 years ago. I stopped reading this one before any of the original characters entered the story because I realized I didn’t want to watch them (even if they
were recognizable) be dragged thru this mess and sullied. I read 40+ books a year and quite a few have been of the Nordic noir genre and translated to English and so this was not a translation problem, but rather an author problem. If her purpose was to shock; it worked. I was shocked into a realization that my time could be better spent.
Disappointed
Felt this book was basically a rewrite of the previous book