The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

“If Henrik dies, that investigation is going to be over awfully damned fast. Then you’ll be out on your grubby, snivelling inves ...

himself. After that he opened a crime novel by Val McDermid entitled The Mermaids Singing. At around 7:00 Frode drove up and sat ...

Only minutes after Frode had gone home, Martin Vanger drove up and parked his car by the road in front of the cottage. He came o ...

“I understand.” Suddenly he smiled. “Henrik is a bit of a conspiracy fanatic. But above all, I don’t want you to get his hopes u ...

Salander got out her Kawasaki on Midsummer Eve and spent the day giving it a good overhaul. A lightweight 125cc might not be the ...

who knew more about the business, he should go and see a certain Burman, who had been the foreman and who now lived on a street ...

an hour showing the pictures to a group of elderly people. They were very helpful, but none of them could identify the couple. A ...

“How many people worked at the carpentry shop?” “The normal work force was forty or so. I worked there from the age of seventeen ...

made an instant breakthrough in the investigation. Her first hit was the programme listings for TV Värmland in Karlstad, adverti ...

aunt. The nephew’s alibi was significantly weaker, and he was taken into custody for a while, but released for lack of evidence. ...

lived. At each stop Burman was greeted with warmth, but no-one was able to help them. Blomkvist was beginning to despair. At 4:0 ...

Hemmingen, 10^1 /2 miles, and another pointing towards Bastuträsk, 7 miles. Near the crossroads was a small bridge with a creek ...

taking care of. On a Sunday evening, after a visit of several days, Lea had hugged her mother, said goodbye, and caught the trai ...

Mildred Brännlund, remarried and now Mildred Berggren, opened the door when Blomkvist knocked around 10:00 on Sunday morning. Th ...

“You see an old photograph of me and then actually track me down. I can’t imagine how you did it.” Blomkvist put the photograph ...

CHAPTER 20 Tuesday, July 1–Wednesday, July 2 The first thing Blomkvist did the morning he returned to Hedestad was to go to Frod ...

“Contracts exist to be honoured. I work for Henrik. Henrik and I have been friends for forty-five years, and we are in complete ...

Blomkvist went back to his cottage and called Berger. She was not at the office, so he spoke to Malm. “Here’s the deal: Erika ca ...

“I see. You think I want to get rid of you.” He paused. “Mikael, we’ll have to talk about this later. I don’t really have time t ...

“I’m trying to work out what happened to her daughter—and she hates me. If Harriet were my daughter, I would have reacted a bit ...