The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

made a blunder that not even a twelve-year-old would commit, which only proved that her brain was being eaten up by worms and th ...

woman. She stood there for the next twenty minutes before she made up her mind. Blomkvist was reading a novel by Sara Paretsky w ...

“Screw it.” When he woke up, he heard her in the kitchen. It was not yet 7:00. He may only have slept for two hours, and he stay ...

tableau before Blomkvist got a rubbish sack and cleaned it away. He put the cat in the boot of the Volvo. He ought to file a pol ...

Blomkvist heard a car go by and looked up and saw Cecilia driving away over the bridge. Harald and Cecilia, he thought, but they ...

“What is next, then?” “I have a few questions. The first incident occurred just after Henrik had his heart attack and I was down ...

exactly the same spot where he had run into Cecilia on his previous visit. They said hello and shook hands. “Have you been up to ...

was now. A nurse replied that Pastor Falk had first been diagnosed three years earlier and that alas the disease had taken an ag ...

“No, no, no, not the Pentecostals. She’s looking for the forbidden truth. She is not a good Christian.” Then Pastor Falk seemed ...

“All this is basic dogma, so to speak. In general it’s the platform of the church and nothing unusual at all. He was saying quit ...

“There’s really nothing special about them at all, except that they came into existence somewhat later than the rest of the Old ...

Armansky wondered what was going on when Salander asked to speak to him in private. He shut the door behind her and motioned her ...

Salander thought over whether she had anything to add. She fixed her gaze on Armansky, saying not a word. Instead she just nodde ...

to a series of murders and then had methodically read not only her Bible but also the Apocrypha, and she had developed an intere ...

He put away the Apocrypha and got into his tracksuit, locking the door before he set off. He followed the narrow path along the ...

He was suddenly aware of pain in his temple and discovered that he was bleeding and that his T-shirt was drenched with blood. Sc ...

This was the next critical moment. A path ran inside the fence. He lay stretched out on the ground, watching. The farmhouse was ...

cottage was ajar. He went into a crouch almost instinctively. Then he smelled coffee and saw Salander through the kitchen window ...

“Let me in. We have to talk.” She hesitated. “We have nothing to talk about.” “We do now, and you can discuss it here on the ste ...

“You heard me. For all these years Henrik has tried to work out who opened the window in Harriet’s room during those critical mi ...