The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (originally titled "Men Who Hate Women") is a translated Swedish book and the 1st in a series called “The Millenium Trilogy”. The other two book are titled, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. There is a 4th book which is in "negotiations". Larsson's partner of 30 years, Eva Gabrielsson, has the authors laptop with the manuscript of the 4th novel (she has said was a planned 10 book series) in a "safe place". She will not turn it over to the estate unless she get guarantees that the rights to the books are distributed "as he would have wished". Stieg never left a will and his brother and father were actually suprised that the estate reverted to the family. Gabrielsson says Larsson's father and brother were eager to cash in on the sudden success of the books, but is hoping that her rights will prevail in the end. ~Support Eva website

About the Book
The book has two story lines. The first is the mystery into the possible murder of Harriet Vanger, a member of the prominent Vanger family, who disappeared from a gathering on the remote family owned island in Sweden. The second is that of a disgraced financial journalist sentenced to jail for libeling a shady businessman. Stieg Larsson blends these two stories together through the characters of Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unorthodox investigator.

About the Author
Stieg Larsson's first murder mystery has been a smash hit throughout Europe since its 2005 publication in the author's native Sweden, and has now become a bestseller in the U.S. as well. But the bitter twist in Larsson's success story is that he didn't live to see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo published: he died of a heart attack just after he delivered the manuscripts for this book and the two that follow. ~Barnes and Noble

The Girl Who Played With Fire
Stieg Larsson's seething heroine, Lisbeth Salander, once again finds herself paired with journalist Mikael Blomkvist on the trail of a sinister criminal enterprise. Only this time, Lisbeth must return to the darkness of her own past (more specifically, an event coldly known as "All the Evil") if she is to stay one step ahead--and alive. The Girl Who Played with Fire is a break-out-in-a-cold-sweat thriller that crackles with stunning twists and dismisses any talk of a sophomore slump. ~Amazon Book Review

Män som hatar kvinnor
The Swedish film version of the best selling novel is now released in USA theatres.
The Los Angeles Times: "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" is "a mind-bending and mesmerizing thriller that takes its time unlocking one mystery only to uncover another, all to chilling and immensely satisfying effect."
The Washington Post: "It's the rare 2 1/2 -hour film that doesn't make you look at your watch once. 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' is such a film.... like a good book, the plot is so engrossing, the characters so rich and complex, the mood of gloom mixed with glimmers of hope so all-encompassing that the thought of its actually ending never occurs to you.... For fans of the thriller genre, it's also one heck of a lot of fun."

A Hollywood remake is in the works for Stieg Larsson's international best-selling book "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo."