Mikael Blomkvist, a financial journalist, has hit bottom. Recently sued for libel, he retreats to northern Sweden where he is offered a job researching the Vanger family, more specifically the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, forty years ago.
Lisbeth Salander, a talented, tattooed computer hacker, not only profiles Blomkvist for Harriet Vanger's very old uncle, she also ends up making a connection with him, and soon the odd team discovers a truth so ugly, so heinous that Blomkvist questions its publication and then his own journalistic integrity.
One very cool book. Stieg Larsson created a fast, intriguing novel with dramatic but real characters and a stunning look at society with the first of his trilogy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Even though Larsson's characters are so vastly different from me, I like watching and listening to their thoughts, discovering their moral compasses, which are completely different from each other. I admired their strengths even as their flaws revealed themselves to each other and to me.
Definitely an adult mystery, crime, saga, this novel is not for anyone seriously bothered by sexual references and abuse which, sadly, is all too common.
Originally published 5/19/10
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