The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Lisbeth Salander is one of the most original characters in crime fiction. Larsson created her and then died before he saw what she became.
Harriet Vanger
Stieg Larsson's 2005 novel follows Mikael Blomkvist, a disgraced financial journalist, who is hired by elderly industrialist Henrik Vanger to investigate the disappearance of his niece Harriet forty years earlier. He is eventually joined by Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant, tattooed, antisocial computer hacker with a photographic memory and a history of institutional abuse. Together they uncover something much darker than a disappearance. Larsson died of a heart attack just months before the first novel was published and did not live to see his trilogy become one of the best-selling crime series in history.
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"She had learned early that love was a double-edged sword.
"Stieg Larsson · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Larsson wrote all three Millennium novels on a laptop in his spare time, never expecting them to be published in his lifetime. He submitted them to his publisher and died of a heart attack three months later in November 2004.
The novel's original Swedish title is Men Who Hate Women. The English title was chosen by the publisher who believed it would sell better. Larsson intended the original title as a direct statement of the series' central theme.