The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: The genre-defining thriller that introduced the world to Lisbeth Salander (Millennium) - Softcover

Larsson, Stieg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857054031 ISBN 13: 9780857054036

Publisher: MacLehose Press, 2015

Synopsis

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The first book in the Millennium series featuring Lisbeth Salander - the global publishing phenomenon

With an Introduction by Val McDermid

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family.

He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history.

But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.

Stieg Larsson's phenomenal trilogy is continued in The Girl in the Spider's Web and The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz

About this title

Review:

I doubt you will read a better book this year (Val McDermid)

Intelligent, complex, with a gripping plot and deeply intriguing characters. The author's early death is a great los (Philip Pullman)

What a cracking novel! I haven't read such a stunning thriller debut for years. Brilliantly written and totally gripping (Minette Walters)

From the Publisher:

Review for Girl with the Dragon Tattoo:
A huge, 500-plus-page opus, a multilayered, multi-character tale by a writer of some considerable power. Full of social conscience and compassion, with great insight into the nature of moral corruption, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo just knocked me out. During the time I had my nose stuck in its pages, I was thoroughly consumed by the work, and in those periods when I had to put the book down, I found myself grumpy and anxious to return to Larsson's narrative ... when I finally put the book down, I was still unable to sleep, my head filled with the high-definition world that this author has crafted ... already I'm thinking this could be remembered as the best crime novel of 2008 ... This book shows how exhilarating crime fiction can be.

About this edition

• Publisher: MacLehose Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0857054031
• ISBN 13: 9780857054036
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 544