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The first in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family.
The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a libel case, to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance.
Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old, pierced, tattooed genius hacker, possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age--and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness--assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, an astonishing corruption at the highest echelon of Swedish industrialism--and a surprising connection between themselves.---From publisher description.
''Wildly Suspenseful...an intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller.''---The Washington Post
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Fiction: Literature, Novels, Misogyny, rape, Book of Leviticus, child sexual abuse, finance, secrecy, aristocracy, heiresses, tattooing, upper class, industrialists, Detective, Mystery, punk, woman, crime, murder, sex, investigate, death, revenge, justice, trilogy, Journalists Sweden Stockholm Fiction, Missing persons Investigation Sweden Oland Fiction, Computer hackers Sweden Stockholm Fiction, mystery fiction, 21st Century Film and Literature, Gender and Violence, Scandinavian comparative literature, women's and gender studies, comparative literature, thriller, crime fiction, Family secrets, Fiction, Investigation, Missing persons, Rich people, Hackers, nyt:combined_print_fiction=2012-03-03, Suspense fiction, Corruption, New York Times bestseller, Computer hackers, Journalists, Lisbeth Salander (Fictitious character), Mikael Blomqvist (Fictitious character), Swedish fiction, Disappeared persons, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Reading materials, Ética, Spanish language materials, Spanish language, Novela, Rich, Personas desaparecidas, Clase alta, Journalists, fiction, Fiction, suspense, Missing persons, fiction, Stockholm (sweden), fiction, Large type books, Mikael Blomkvist (Fictitious character), Internet Archive Wishlis, Translations into English, Families, Fictional Works, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Women private investigators, Mikael Blomkvist, Lisbeth, Investigative reporting, Romans, nouvelles, Journalistes, Journalisme d'enquête, Personnes disparues, Enquêtes, German language materials, Junge Frau, Belletristische Darstellung, Verschwinden, Journalist, Aufklärung <Kriminologie>, Familie, Sexueller Missbrauch, Faschismus, Kriminalfall, Aufklärung, Kriminalroman, Schwedisch, Kriminalliteratur, Text, Industrialists, MurderPeople
Fictitious characters: Lisbeth Salander, Mikhael Blomkvist, Erika Berger, Holger Palmgrem, Henrik Vanger, Harriet Vanger, Martin Vanger, Gottfried Vanger, Isabella Vanger, Cecilia Vanger, Anita Vanger, Birger Vanger, Harald Vanger, Hans-Erik Wennerström, Robert Lindberg, William Borg, Monica Abrahamsson, Pernilla Abrahamsson, Nils Bjurman, Dirch Frode, Dragan Armansky, Plague, Christer Malm, Janne Dahlman, Gustaf Morell, Anna Nygren, Gunnar NilssonTimes
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Edition Notes
This ed. Manufactured in Canada / Manufactured simultaneously in the USA, as a Borzoi Book by Alfred A. Knopf, a div. of Random House Inc. New York, USA / New York Times Bestseller by Stieg Larsson; translated from Swedish by Reg Keeland
Both ISBN13 9780143170099 and ISBN10 0143170090 are noted under eachof the following WC IDs: OCLC/WorldCat - 755010818 (c)2005; 798228966 (c)2005; 982262736 (c)2008; 319485965 (c)2009; (c)2009;
Winner of Galaxy British Book Awards: Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year 2009
Joint winner of CrimeFest Sounds of Crime Award (Abridged) 2009
Short-listed for Heathrow Travel Product Award: Travel Read, Fiction 2009
Short-listed for CWA Duncan Lawrie International Dagger 2008
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Mikael Blomkvist, ekonomireporter, döms till fängelse för förtal av finansmannen Wennerström, och beslutar sig för att ta time out från sitt jobb på tidskriften Millennium.
I samma veva får han ett ovanligt uppdrag. Henrik Vanger, tidigare en av landets främsta industriledare, vill att Blomkvist ska skriva släkten Vangers historia. Men det visar sig snart bara vara en täckmantel för Blomkvists verkliga uppgift: att ta reda på vad som hänt Vangers unga släkting Harriet, som varit spårlöst försvunnen i snart fyrtio år. Henrik Vanger får årligen på sin födelsedag en påminnelse per post som gör att han inte kan släppa tanken på att hon fortfarande finns i livet.
Uppdraget ser till en början hopplöst ut och han behöver hjälp med research. Han får tips om Lisbeth Salander, en ung strulig tjej, tatuerad och piercad, men också professionell hacker och med unika egenskaper som gör henne till en oslagbar researcher.
Tillsammans är Blomkvist och Salander ett omaka par men utgör ett oslagbart team, och de kommer allt närmare lösningen på gåtan Harriet. Spänningen stiger när de börjar misstänka att en person i Henrik Vangers närmaste krets är inblandad i en rad sadistiska brott.
Stieg Larssons kriminaldebut är av ett enastående slag. Han skriver med en stark känsla för samtiden och det är effektivt, träffsäkert och drivet. Dessutom uppvisar han en mycket stor bredd förenad med djup i sina faktakunskaper. Han besitter en fantastisk förmåga att skapa komplicerade intriger som han knyter ihop med briljans.
Det här är första boken av tre böcker om Mikael Blomkvist och Lisbeth Salander.
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