Review

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

By Stieg Larsson

Published by MacLehose Press

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.

Convinced that she was murdered by someone in her own family, her uncle hires disgraced journalist Mikael Blomqvist to investigate. He soon links her death to a string of other murders and realises he needs a competent assistant to help him.

He gets one: computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, a tattooed, truculent, angry girl who rides a motorbike like a Hell's Angel.

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Translator: Reg Keeland