Stieg Larsson
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Author Stieg Larsson (1954-2004) was born in Västerbotten in northern Sweden. He was chief editor of Expo, the magazine published by the Expo Foundation, an organization he helped establish in 1995 to combat racism and the Swedish right-wing extremist movement. Larsson wrote his first novel in 2001, and enjoyed the process of fiction writing so much that he didn’t make contact with a publisher until he had completed his first two novels and had a third under way. Though Larsson died before seeing any of his books in print, all three were subsequently published in Scandinavia and continental Europe to great acclaim.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
- 2009 Anthony-1st Novel winner
- 2009 Barry-British winner
- 2009 Macavity-1st Novel winner
- 2009 Anthony-Novel nominee*
- Score: 30.59
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson’s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.
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 pieced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.
