#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The thrilling first book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series featuring Lisbeth Salander: “Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry punk heroine and a down-on-his-luck investigative journalist, and you have the ingredients of Stieg Larsson’s first novel” (The New York Times). • Also known as the Millennium series 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.
Look for the latest book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, The Girl in the Eagle's Talons, coming soon!
CHI edition of Man som hatar kvinnor (The girl with the dragon tattoo). #1 on NYTimes Books 9/08. First of a trilogy by late Swedish journalist Steig Larsson. A young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden disappeared and her uncle is determined to find out what happened. He hired a man with an assistant - a 24-year-old girl, a hacker, a genius, with a tattoo. Maureen Corrigan labels it "super-smart noir with a feminist jolt." In CHI. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
"Wildly suspenseful...an intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller." —
The Washington Post
"Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry punk heroine and a down-on-his-luck investigative journalist, and you have the ingredients of Stieg Larsson's first novel." —
The New York Times "Unique and fascinating.... It's like a blast of cold, fresh air to read
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." —
Chicago Tribune "A whip-smart heroine and a hunky guy who needs her help? This sexy, addictive thriller is everything you never knew you could get from a crime novel." —
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