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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

Reviewed by Coral


Journalist Mikael Blomkvist has found himself on the wrong side of a slander lawsuit. Having been found guilty, not only is he looking at jail time and a hefty fine but the loss of his professional reputation.

Taking time away from his job before his jail sentence begins, Mikael is approached by Henrik Vanger, a member of the wealthy Vanger family, who wants to hire him. Officially, Mikael will be writing the story of the Vanger family. Unofficially, he will be looking into the disappearance of Henrik’s great-neice Harriet, who went missing forty years ago.

He is aided in his investigation by Lisbeth Salander, a private investigator and computer hacker. Together they did into both the events surrounding Harriet’s disappearance and Harriet’s life. As they did deeper, they become convinced that Harriet stumbled on evidence of a terrible crime. Did learning this secret cost Harriet her life? And, in trying to solve the same mystery, will it cost Mikael and Lisbeth theirs as well?

I liked this book for the most part, despite a couple of very disturbing and graphic scenes.

I though the Harriet mystery was nicely wrapped up in the end (I, of course, did not guess the ending).

I was a little disappointed in how another part of the mystery wrapped up. Without giving too much away, the crime that Harriet and then Mikael and Lisbeth stumbled over was, I felt, wrapped up in such a way that there were victims who never got their justice.

Grade: B