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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |  | Author: Stieg Larsson
Creator: Reg Keeland
Publisher: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 5
Media: Paperback
Pages: 600
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
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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Product Description
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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| Customer Reviews:
 Great September 7, 2010
lachigirl (Chicago, IL United States)
Great story, well written, this is one of the first books that is popular and everyone is reading that i like, this is a great one, and i will read the other two as well.
unbeatable September 7, 2010
Terry (UK)
unmissable, hard to put down. kept me awake for several nights until I had finished, then I had to buy the next 2 in the trilogy. shame the author died so suddenly, very talented writer.
Five stars easily September 7, 2010
AJ (Washington, DC United States)
I'm not going to recap the story for you. In fact, don't read any of the reviews because many of them may contain spoilers. Just read the book. Or listen to the audio version as I did. The narrator is very good. This is a perfect mystery thriller. I don't say that lightly. Read it (or listen to it) now.
Spectacular Trilogy September 6, 2010
K. Donnelly-Miller (Indianapolis, IN United States)
At first I was not interested in reading this trilogy because quite frankly, the title of this book (the first in the trilogy) didn't attract me. I thought it was related to tattoos and bikers or something like that. But then I saw that the books (all three) were consistently on the top list for Kindle as well as the NYT Bestseller list. So I downloaded a sample. For those of you who own a Kindle, download samples of the Kindle bestsellers. You will discover why the books are on there! At least for me, downloading the samples has been the best decision most of the time.
Anyway, these books were so riveting (aside from the first few chapters in the Dragon Tattoo) that I could hardly put them down. I read all three in 6 days. Give the first few chapters in Dragon Tattoo a chance--they just establish the background of some of the main characters. After the "move to Hedeby" the book takes off!
Two things I would say--because the names and locations are Swedish, sometimes it is hard to keep some straight but the author was very good to give some context when he returned to a character or location. I appreciated that writing style.
I just wish the author were able to write more books for us to enjoy. I recommend these books the way I recommend John Le Carre. Of course, they are popular fiction, not Charles Dickens, but the writing far surpasses most popular mystery thrillers.
Great Book September 6, 2010
marianne
enjoyed this book as much as The Girl Who Kicked Fire and cannot wait to get my "Kindle" to download the third in the series to read that book.
Would recommend a quiet time when you can really get into Dragon as it was hard to put down.
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