The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, 2005
A disgraced financial journalist and a furious young hacker are drawn into a forty-year-old disappearance on a snowbound Swedish island, where a rich family keeps its secrets.
Stieg Larsson
Stieg Larsson's crime novels move through cold Swedish towns and closed rooms where money and institutions keep people quiet, and the people who notice are often the ones with the least power. «The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo» sets a disgraced journalist and a furious young hacker on a forty-year-old disappearance, and «The Girl Who Played with Fire» follows the same hacker back into a Sweden that wants to pin a triple murder on her. Start with «The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo»: it introduces the two of them and the mood of the whole run, patient and tense at once.
Feels like curiosity, power and dread.
Start with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Larsson was a campaigning journalist and editor of the anti-racist magazine Expo; he died of a heart attack in 2004, before the Millennium novels were published.
What a wall of forty-three pressed flowers can tell you that the police never could.
After putting down the telephone the eighty-two-year-old birthday boy sat for a long time looking at the pretty but meaningless flower whose name he did not yet know. Then he looked up at the wall above his desk. There hung forty-three pressed flowers in their frames. Four rows of ten, and one at the bottom with four. In the top row one was missing from the ninth slot. Desert Snow would be number forty-four. Books by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
Stieg Larsson, 2007
A wounded woman, an ER doctor counting minutes, and a journalist in handcuffs—a thriller about the machinery that protects secret power.
The Girl Who Played with Fire
Stieg Larsson, 2006
A hacker with a photographic memory returns from the Caribbean to a Sweden where a triple murder points at her.
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