Displaying 1 of 1 2008 Format: Book Author: Larsson, Stieg, 1954-2004 Title: The girl with the dragon tattoo / by Stieg Larsson ; translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray. Publisher, Date: London : MacLehose, c2008. Description: 532 p. ; 24 cm. Series: Millennium trilogy ; bk. 1 Subjects: Salander, Lisbeth (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Missing persons -- Fiction Journalists -- Fiction Murder -- Fiction Rich people -- Fiction Corruption -- Fiction Suspense fiction Stockholm (Sweden) -- Fiction Other Author: Murray, Steven T. Notes: Translation of Män som hatar kvinnor. Originally published: Stockholm : Norstedt, 2005. ISBN: 9781847242532 (hc.) System Availability: 18 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 18 Control Number: 561792 Course Reserves: 0 # Local items in: 17 # System items in: 17 Place Request Please select and request a specific volume by clicking one of the icons in the 'Where is it?' section below. Add to My List Share Expand All | Collapse All Where is it? Suggestions and more Trade Reviews Booklist ReviewThe first U.S. appearance of another major Swedish crime writer is cause for celebration but also disappointment: Larsson, an acclaimed journalist as well as the author of the award-winning Millenium trilogy, of which this is the first volume, died in 2004. The editor of a magazine called Expo, which was dedicated to fighting right-wing extremism, Larsson brings his journalistic background to bear in his first novel. It is the story of a crusading reporter, Mikail Blomkvist, who has been convicted of libel for his exposé of crooked financier Wennerstrom. Then another Swedish financier, a rival of Wennerstrom, wants to hire Blomkvist to solve the decades-old disappearance of his niece from the family's island compound in the north of Sweden. If Blomkvist works on the project for a year, his employer will deliver the goods on Wennerstrom. Blomkvist takes the job and soon finds himself trying to unlock the grisly multigenerational secrets in a hideously dysfunctional family's many closets. Helping him dig through those closets is the novel's real star, the girl with the dragon tattoo, Lisbeth Salander, a ward of the state who happens to be Sweden's most formidable computer hacker and a fearless foe of women-hating men. Larsson has two great stories (and two star-worthy characters) here, and if he never quite brings them together the conclusion of the Wennerstrom campaign seems almost anticlimactic after the action-filled finale on the island the novel nevertheless offers compelling chunks of investigative journalism, high-tech sleuthing, and psychosexual drama. What a shame that we only have three books in which to watch the charismatic Lisbeth Salander take on the world!--Ott, Bill Copyright 2008 Booklist Map It First Chapter or Excerpt Fiction/Biography Profile Large Cover Image Series Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
