The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The thrilling first book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series featuring Lisbeth Salander: “Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry punk heroine and a down-on-his-luck investigative journalist, and you have the ingredients of Stieg Larsson’s first novel” (The New York Times). • Also known as the Millennium series

Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.

Look for the latest book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, The Girl in the Eagle's Talons!

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Published Jun 23, 2009

600 pages

Average rating: 7.96

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Community Reviews

BridgetBjorna
Jan 22, 2025
Couldn’t get into it. So many details and such long passages.
K Olson
Jan 14, 2025
10/10 stars
Took a bit to get into it but once I was I could barely put it down. Very interesting thread running through about the influence of Nazism in Sweden. Very suspenseful.
LTC
Nov 20, 2024
Book #6: Kathleen selected the book, Laura hosted.
Khris Sellin
Jul 05, 2024
10/10 stars
Riveting

One of those books I've been meaning to read for a long time, and I'm glad I finally got around to it. It was hard to put down.
MarieG
Nov 17, 2025
2/10 stars
I've taken several runs at this book and I just can not get into it. I feel like I'm letting down the world as it is so popular right now.

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