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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo:

Book 1 of the Millennium Trilogy
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2703 Reviews
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 16, 2008 - Fiction - 480 pages
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.

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.


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Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1)

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In rating this book I realized that I didn't even have a shelf for mystery books! The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a strong and compelling story with well written main characters, overall a solid ... Read full review

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First 100 pages. (Spoiler alert) Pretty nice set up of story. Met the key players and they started interacting. Next 100 pages. Still not much has happened yet. He interviewed someone, and asked about ... Read full review

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About the author (2008)

Stieg Larsson was the editor in chief of the magazine Expo. He was a leading expert on anti-democratic, right-wing extremist organizations. He died in 2004, soon after delivering the manuscripts of the novels The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland.


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