The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: 1/3 (Millennium trilogy) (Millennium Series) - Softcover

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. Full description

Intelligent, complex, with a gripping plot and deeply intriguing characters. The author's early death is a great loss - Philip Pullman, Guardian. As vivid as bloodstains on snow - Lee Child. What a cracking novel! I haven't read such a stunning thriller debut for years. Brilliantly written and totally gripping - Minette Walters. I doubt you will read a better book this year - Val McDermid. So much more than a thriller, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a dazzling novel of big ideas - Harlan Coben. Brilliantly written - the characters are superbly drawn and the story grips from first to last - Mail On Sunday. A rip-roaring serial-killer adventure - Mail on Sunday. An utterly fresh political and journalistic thriller that is also intimate and moral - a feast of a book - Michael Ondaatje. The books are selling in their millions across Europe and it's not hard to see why - Spectator. The ballyhoo is fully justified - the novel scores on every front - The Times. A publishing sensation who seemingly came from nowhere - crime fiction has seldom needed to salute and mourn such a stellar talent as Larsson's in the same breath - Sunday Times. Just when I was thinking there wasn't anything new on the horizon, along comes Stieg Larsson with this wonderfully unique story. I was completely absorbed - Michael Connelly. --Reviews