Product Description 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.
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
A good book to help you sleep 2010-09-09 T. Bianchi (Missouri) I am reading this for a book group selection I am at 300 pages and still waiting for it to get better. If i can't sleep I pick this book up read a chapter or two then out like a light. I hope it gets better soon.
Rating:
5/5
Page turning thriller 2010-09-09 ozgirl28 What a page turner! Well constructed and written ( and congratulations to the translator too). One of those books that when you decide you must turn out the light when you get to the end of the chapter, Larsson hooks you in to start the next one and tell your partner that you haven't got there yet! Can easily see why it's made the Top Seller List.
Rating:
5/5
Great Read! 2010-09-08 Joy Miller This was a great book. The first few pages seemed to drag a bit to me, but then it really took off. I couldn't put it down. And then to my delight, my book clube selected it for this month's book. Now I'm already ahead of the game! I've read the second in the series and am anxiously awaiting the third to arrive in the mail!
Rating:
5/5
What's the Swedish word for wow!? 2010-09-08 Anna McCall (Atlanta, GA) I admit I was late coming into the "girl" series from Stieg Larsson. I decided to give it a shot and finished within 24 hours. It was completely un-putdownable. The story and characters are both complex and layered but handled masterfully. Lisbeth Salander is and utterly fascinating leading lady, absolutely riveting and completely unapologetic. She is the kind of character that none of us know in real life, and we're not sure we would want to. She is brash, moral, complex, angry, flawed, and brilliant. Blomkvist is the perfect complement. He is also flawed and brilliant, and the forces that conspire to bring these two together are awesome.
Blomkvist is hired by an eccentric millionaire to write his family's complex biography, but with the secret mission of finding the man's niece, lost to him 40 years ago. Blomkvist is a fallen and disgraced journalist, having written an unsubstantiated article about the financial corruption of a billionaire. He decides to leave his newspaper for a sabbatical of sorts to give the scandal a chance to die down. He accepts the offer from Henrik Vanger, thinking the whole time that he will be able to make no headway. What he finds will change him and everyone around him forever.
Rating:
2/5
What is all the fuss about!! 2010-09-08 Cathy (Florida, USA) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful I really thought I would like this book, since everyone I talked to loved it and couldn't wait to run out and buy the next ones to read. Not me, I found very little interesting in the book and don't understand what all the fuss is about. We read the book for our next book club meeting; it should an interesting book to discuss since people either like it or found it lacking.
