by Stieg Larsson · Booket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788423356270
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Harriet Vanger disappeared thirty-six years ago on a Swedish island owned by her powerful family. Despite the police deployment, no trace of the girl was found. Did she escape? Was she kidnapped? Murdered? The case is closed and the details forgotten. But her uncle Henrik Vanger, a retired businessman, is obsessed with solving the mystery before he dies. Forty-three dried and framed flowers hang on the walls of his study. The first seven were gifts from his niece; the others arrived punctually for her birthday, anonymously, since Harriet disappeared. Mikael Blomkvist accepts Vanger's strange assignment to resume the search for his niece. Investigative journalist and soul of the magazine Millennium, dedicated to exposing the dirty laundry of politics and finance, Blomkvist is watched and prosecuted by a lawsuit for defamation and slander filed by a large industrial group that threatens to ruin his career and reputation. He will have the unexpected collaboration of Lisbeth Salander, a peculiar private investigator, socially maladjusted, tattooed and full of piercings, and with extraordinary and unusual qualities. Thus begins this magnificent novel that is the chronicle of the conflicts of a family, a fascinating fresco of crime and punishment, of sexual perversions and financial traps; a violent and threatening framework in which, nevertheless, a tender and fragile love story will grow between two absolutely unforgettable characters.
Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson was a Swedish writer, journalist, and far-left activist. He is best known for writing the first trilogy in the Millennium series of crime novels, which was published posthumously, starting in 2005, after he died of a sudden heart attack. The trilogy was adapted as three motion pictures in Sweden, and one in the United States. Larsson had conceived of ten books in the series; the publisher commissioned David Lagercrantz to write the next trilogy, and Karin Smirnoff to write the third trilogy in the series, which has eight novels as of December 2025. For much of his life, Larsson lived and worked in Stockholm. His journalistic work covered socialist politics and he acted as an independent researcher of right-wing extremism.
