Sandra read the books and said:

Long and dark winter afternoons offer the perfect setting for plunging into Stieg Larsson’s best-selling Millenium trilogy. The three series books about Michael Blomkvist, renowed economic journalist, and Lisbeth Salander, an obscure and rather antisocial hacker, are extremely thrilling, compelling and almost unputdownable. It’s absolutely worth reading them also a second time, preferably in a cosy café on Södermalm / Stockholm where one can almost feel the presence of the leading characters. And if that is not enough, buy the Stieg Larsson map of Stockholm and explore the locations of books and films by yourself!

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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.

Details:

Millennium Trilogy: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / The Girl who played with Fire / The Girl who kicked the Hornet’s Nest

By Stieg Larsson

Published by MacLehose Press, (Quercus Imprint), 2008