The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: A Lisbeth Salander Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307454546)

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME - #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The thrilling first book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series featuring Lisbeth Salander: "Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry punk heroine and a down-on-his-luck investigative journalist, and you have the ingredients of Stieg Larsson's first novel" (The New York Times). - Also known as the Millennium series

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 pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.

Look for the latest book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, The Girl in the Eagle's Talons!

Author: Stieg Larsson
ISBN-10: 0307454541
ISBN-13: 9780307454546
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Language: English
Published: 06/23/2009
Pages: 608
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.17w x 1.13d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.5
Point Value: 27
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 126808 / Girl with the Dragon Tattoo


Review Citation(s):
Vanity Fair 12/01/2009 pg. 140
Newsweek 05/24/2010 pg. 60
People Weekly 05/31/2010 pg. 55
Entertainment Weekly 06/04/2010 pg. 93
Entertainment Weekly 06/25/2010 pg. 36
Entertainment Weekly 07/09/2010 pg. 26
New York Review of Books 06/09/2011 pg. 8