The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
A Lisbeth Salander Novel
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4.4 • 7.3K Ratings
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Publisher Description
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The thrilling first book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series featuring Lisbeth Salander: “Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry punk heroine and a down-on-his-luck investigative journalist, and you have the ingredients of Stieg Larsson’s first novel” (The New York Times). • Also known as the Millennium series
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.
Look for the latest book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, The Girl in the Eagle's Talons!
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
If you love a heart-thumping Nordic noir, you owe it to yourself to hear the one that made the genre a global sensation. When the scion of the wealthy Vanger family hires respected journalist Mikael Blomkvist to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his aunt decades before, Mikael knows he can’t do it without his most brilliant—and iconoclastic—researcher, the heavily pierced and tattooed Lisbeth Salander. But the more they uncover about the mystery, the closer they get to a roiling, dangerous undercurrent of misogyny hiding not just within the Vanger family, but everywhere around them. Stieg Larsson lays out a fascinating series of overlapping plots involving business conspiracies and financial misdeeds, but it’s the novel’s dark, overriding theme of violence against women that propels the narrative forward. And the iron-forged Lisbeth is the ultimate strong female protagonist, especially when exacting revenge on the men who’ve abused her. This smart and shocking thriller will echo in your mind for a long time after you’ve read it.
Customer Reviews
The girl with dragon tatoo
First couple hundred pages are tough to get through, but it does pick up and is worthwhile read
Great
Slow start, but a great ending. Definitively makes me want to read the next one.
Excellent
Excellent book!!! Recommended for everyone.... Beginning is a little boring but it hooks you on! Can't wait to read the next one!