The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

considerably larger than the rest of the houses in the settlement. This was the master’s domain. “This is the Vanger farm,” Frod ...

“I think I’ll take this opportunity to leave you two alone,” said Frode. “I have to go home and discipline the grandkids before ...

“Do you remember her, Mikael?” Vanger said. “Remember?” “Yes, you met her. And actually you have been in this room before.” Blom ...

to brace himself on the bookshelf when he straightened up. He laid the album on the coffee table. He knew what he was looking fo ...

“Because I want to ask for your help with this closing of accounts.” “Why me? What makes you think I’d be able to help you?” “Be ...

Blomkvist sighed. Obviously Vanger was not going to let him go in time to catch the afternoon train. He was sure that if he call ...

Vanger held up a hand. “Enough. I get your point. But it’s never good psychology to exaggerate. I need somebody who can do resea ...

want you to take me at my word when I say that I detest most of the members of my family. They are for the most part thieves, mi ...

“I doubt it. But you said there were two things. The book is the pretext. What is the real objective?” Vanger stood up, laboriou ...

“I’m no historian, but I’ve read a few books.” “In 1939 the Second World War began, and in 1940 the Winter War in Finland. A lar ...

Vanger thought for a moment. “My father didn’t really know how to deal with his grandson, so I was the one who gave him a job in ...

“My thirty minutes are almost up, but I’m close to the end of the story. Will you give me a reprieve?” “Go on,” Blomkvist said. ...

Thursday, December 26 For the first time since he began his monologue, the old man had managed to take Blomkvist by surprise. He ...

inside his car, screaming in pain. The tanker driver was also injured but managed to scramble out of his cabin.” The old man wen ...

about 2:10. If we also include children and unmarried guests, all in all about forty family members arrived in the course of the ...

where Martin Vanger has his villa today, and the pastor lived on this side of the bridge. He had been in bed, nursing a cold, wh ...

hidden without being discovered? Where would she get money? And even if she got a job somewhere, she would need a social securit ...

was. When summer came I hired three experienced woodsmen who did the entire search over again with dogs. They combed every squar ...

“No. That day there were precisely thirteen boats on Hedeby Island. Most of the pleasure boats were already in storage on land. ...

He compared the efforts of financial journalists with the way crime reporters or foreign correspondents worked. He painted a pic ...