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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |  | Author: Stieg Larsson
Creator: Reg Keeland
Publisher: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard
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Rating:  1770 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 600
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0307454541
Dewey Decimal Number: 839.738
EAN: 9780307454546
ASIN: 0307454541
Publication Date: June 23, 2009
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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.
Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, September 2008: Once you start The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, there's no turning back. This debut thriller--the first in a trilogy from the late Stieg Larsson--is a serious page-turner rivaling the best of Charlie Huston and Michael Connelly. Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidly crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling) offer to resurrect his name is extended by an old-school titan of Swedish industry. The catch--and there's always a catch--is that Blomkvist must first spend a year researching a mysterious disappearance that has remained unsolved for nearly four decades. With few other options, he accepts and enlists the help of investigator Lisbeth Salander, a misunderstood genius with a cache of authority issues. Little is as it seems in Larsson's novel, but there is at least one constant: you really don't want to mess with the girl with the dragon tattoo. --Dave Callanan
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 1st in a great series September 9, 2010
Cynthia Etu Haviland (Upstate NY USA)
Don't go by the first few chapters of this book. I almost didn't keep reading it because of the financial/political background of Sweden in the beginning but I kept telling myself it had to get better because of the great reviews it has. Once the story started, I could not put it down. The same with the two sequels. I was sorry when I finished the third in the series, I want to keep reading about Salander & Blomkvist, I feel like they were a part of my life.
 A good book to help you sleep September 9, 2010
T. Bianchi (Missouri)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am reading this for a book group selection I am at 300 pages and still waiting for it to get better. If i can't sleep I pick this book up read a chapter or two then out like a light. I hope it gets better soon.
Page turning thriller September 9, 2010
ozgirl28
What a page turner! Well constructed and written ( and congratulations to the translator too). One of those books that when you decide you must turn out the light when you get to the end of the chapter, Larsson hooks you in to start the next one and tell your partner that you haven't got there yet! Can easily see why it's made the Top Seller List.
Great Read! September 8, 2010
Joy Miller
This was a great book. The first few pages seemed to drag a bit to me, but then it really took off. I couldn't put it down. And then to my delight, my book clube selected it for this month's book. Now I'm already ahead of the game! I've read the second in the series and am anxiously awaiting the third to arrive in the mail!
What's the Swedish word for wow!? September 8, 2010
Anna McCall (Atlanta, GA)
I admit I was late coming into the "girl" series from Stieg Larsson. I decided to give it a shot and finished within 24 hours. It was completely un-putdownable. The story and characters are both complex and layered but handled masterfully. Lisbeth Salander is and utterly fascinating leading lady, absolutely riveting and completely unapologetic. She is the kind of character that none of us know in real life, and we're not sure we would want to. She is brash, moral, complex, angry, flawed, and brilliant. Blomkvist is the perfect complement. He is also flawed and brilliant, and the forces that conspire to bring these two together are awesome.
Blomkvist is hired by an eccentric millionaire to write his family's complex biography, but with the secret mission of finding the man's niece, lost to him 40 years ago. Blomkvist is a fallen and disgraced journalist, having written an unsubstantiated article about the financial corruption of a billionaire. He decides to leave his newspaper for a sabbatical of sorts to give the scandal a chance to die down. He accepts the offer from Henrik Vanger, thinking the whole time that he will be able to make no headway. What he finds will change him and everyone around him forever.
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