
New paperback edition published to coincide with the major motion picture. Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned & inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder
- & that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist & the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark & appalling family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, & Blomkvist & Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.