The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)

Millennium, #1

by Stieg Larsson

Hardcover, 465 pages

English language

Published Sept. 24, 2008 by Alfred A. Knopf.

ISBN:: 978-0-307-26975-1
OCLC Number:: 664685281

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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, 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. (front flap)

A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue.

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Henry reviewed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) by Stieg Larsson (Millennium, #1)

I spent 4 hours finishing the book, then I went for a run.

5 stars

The first half captured me, the second half was…insane. I picked an intense read for my first fiction book in years. When I finished, all I could do was grab my running shoes and go for a run, even though I already ran in the morning. It was a lot to process, and I needed the run to work through it.

Heavy, dark, insightful, scary, and beautiful. So happy I read it. And the broad theme of violence (and hatred) towards women is beautifully crafted into the story.