Excerpt from The New Yorker Book Bench Blog:
Larsson’s murder mystery follows the travails of Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist in Stockholm who has been unjustly convicted of libelling a financial baron. Faced with jail time and strapped for cash, he accepts a business proposal from an octogenarian millionaire who lives in a remote village. The proposal: to move to the village and try to solve the mystery of the disappearance of the millionaire’s niece thirty years before. Blomkvist’s story eventually entwines with that of Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old hacker and social misfit who has a tattoo of a dragon on her shoulder.
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” which is translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland, is the first book in a trilogy. Larsson handed in all three manuscripts to his publisher before his death four years ago, at the age of fifty.
