Stieg Larsson

The book picks up from the closing scene of Larsson’s previous volume: *The Girl Who Played with Fire*. Lisbeth Salander, after gravely wounding her father, has been rescued by her friend Mikael Blomkvist. She is, however, in critical condition, undergoing surgery and hospital confinement. Meanwhile, a special unit within the secret service attempts to have Lisbeth recommitted to a psychiatric

The novel is, in some ways, a continuation of the previous book. This time the protagonist is the girl, Lisbeth Salander. The opening is slow and leisurely. Lisbeth, now immensely wealthy, lives in the Caribbean and later returns to Sweden, where she resumes a relationship with an old friend and reconnects with her former guardian, hospitalized after a stroke. The journalist, on the other hand

The novel is a thriller. A journalist is hired by a powerful industrialist, Vanger, to investigate the disappearance of his niece, which occurred twenty years earlier. The journalist thus moves to a remote island in northern Sweden, where the elderly industrialist has retired. Meanwhile, the narrative follows a young woman who works for a security firm and is remarkably adept at computer-based