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 in her own family - the deeply dysfunctional
Vanger clan. Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired to
investigate, but when he links Harriet's disappearance to a string of
gruesome murders from forty years ago, he needs a competent assistant -
and he gets one: computer hacker Lisbeth Salander - a tattoed,
truculent, angry girl who rides a motorbike like a Hell's Angel and
handles makeshift weapons with the skill born of remorseless rage. This
unlikely pair form a fragile bond as they delve into the sinister past
of this island-bound, tightly-knit family. But the Vangers are a
secretive lot, and Mikael and Lisbeth are about to find out just how far
they're prepared to go to protect themselves - and each other.
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