The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Blomkvist thought hard: what to say to prevent or postpone his execution. “Where’s the picture now?” “The negative? It’s in a sa ...

I have to remember that he’s irrational. The cat. He could have brought the cat down here, but he went to the family crypt. Mart ...

CHAPTER 24 Friday, July 11–Saturday, July 12 Martin Vanger bent down and went through Mikael’s pockets. He took the key. “Smart ...

“What do you do with the bodies?” “I have my boat at the dock right below here. I take them a long way out to sea. Unlike my fat ...

“Disappointment?” “Exactly. Disappointment. They imagine that if they please me, they’ll live. They adapt to my rules. They star ...

At 11:15 Lisbeth Salander drank the rest of the water from her PET bottle as she turned the pages. Unlike Blomkvist, who earlier ...

She switched off the desk lamp and left the newsletters in piles all over the desk— something for that slut Lindgren to take car ...

Salander fast-forwarded through the pictures from the other PC, which photographed the gate and the road outside the front door. ...

“It’s a choice that I made. I could discuss the moral and intellectual aspects of what I do; we could talk all night, but it wou ...

“You killed her.” “I wanted to kill her. I thought about it, but I arrived too late. I couldn’t get over to the island.” Blomkvi ...

“It’s time,” Martin Vanger said. He put his hand on the strap and pulled down. Blomkvist instantly felt the noose cutting into h ...

Then she struck for the third time, just as Martin Vanger was trying to get to his feet. She hit him with a loud smack on the hi ...

Salander had not forgotten that Martin Vanger had a rifle somewhere, and she stopped, holding the pistol ready to fire in front ...

Salander braked. She saw the trailer start to jackknife across her lane. At the speed she was going, it took two seconds for her ...

She used Blomkvist’s cut-up T-shirt to wipe fingerprints from the handcuffs, the knife, and the golf club. She picked up her PET ...

and scrapes on his body. The noose had been so tight that he had a dark red mark around his neck, and the knife had made a blood ...

As she said this, Blomkvist fell asleep, as suddenly as if he had fainted. CHAPTER 25 Saturday, July 12–Monday, July 14 Blomkvis ...

His victims were often new arrivals, immigrant girls who had no friends or social contacts in Sweden. There were also prostitute ...

Salander stuffed the envelope with the pictures into her jacket pocket. After that she carried the binders over to the woodstove ...

Frode looked at the sleeping figure. He saw the black and blue marks on Blomkvist’s face and the contusions on his chest. Then h ...