by Stieg Larsson
(4.3 / 5)

BLURB

A spellbinding mixture of mystery of murder, family saga, story of love, and financial intrigue….
It’s about Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families, disappearing 40 years ago… and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her assassination.

It’s about Mikael Blomkvist, a recent crusading journalist at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet’s disappearance… and about Lisboaeth Salander, a 24-year-old, pierced and tattooed genius hacker possessing somebody twice her age’s hard-earned wisdom, who assists Blomkvist with the investigation.

This unlikely team discovers a vein of almost unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, amazing corruption in Swedish industrialism’s highest echelons-and an unexpected connection among themselves.