Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle, Henrik, is convinced that she was murdered by someone from her own deeply dysfunctional family. Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist is hired to investigate, but he quickly finds himself in over his head. He hires a competent assistant: the gifted and conscience-free computer specialist Lisbeth Salander, and the two...
In the electrifying follow-up to "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, is the focus and fierce heart of the story. Mikael Blomkvist - crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine "Millennium" - has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government. On the eve of publication, the two reporters responsible for the story...