The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Now it was Blomkvist’s turn to look inscrutable. Berger hesitated only a second before she said: “We had a story. But it was a v ...

Blomkvist was about to open his mouth when Berger put her hand on his knee. “Mikael and I have fought hard so that we could be c ...

Blomkvist was enraged. But he had never managed to be enraged at Erika Berger for very long. She wore a black dress, a waist-len ...

prospect of getting even with Wennerström, and Blomkvist wondered again what the origin was of the animosity between those two. ...

“Oh yes,” she said. “Decidedly you do.” “You really have been mad at me.” “Mikael, I’ve never felt so furious, so abandoned, and ...

Harriet Vanger had been a Christian, in a child’s sense of the word—attending Sunday school, saying evening prayers, and becomin ...

wrote nothing personal until the end of the school year when she apparently— depending on how the entries were interpreted—becam ...

There was no Sara in the family, nor did they know of Harriet Vanger, other than that she had been reported in the media as miss ...

Her fourth encounter with Advokat Bjurman was not one of their scheduled meetings. She was forced to make contact with him. In t ...

In terms of hardware, it was the Rolls-Royce of portable computers, but what really triggered Salander’s need to have it was the ...

The first question had to do with Harriet herself. Who was she? From his kitchen window Blomkvist had noticed a light go on upst ...

“To be honest...I didn’t come over to ask questions. I think I just wanted to say hello.” She smiled. “You’re sentenced to priso ...

“That surprises me.” “Why? It’s a matter of supply and demand. I have no interest in a boyfriend or a married man or someone liv ...

But it was enough to irrevocably cross a boundary. For Salander it was a display of strength by an enemy force—an indication tha ...

“You’ve done this before, haven’t you?” he said as he lowered his zip. He smelled as if he had just washed himself with soap and ...

compos mentis. It would be your word against mine. Whose word do you think would carry more weight?” He sighed when still she di ...

A trustee steps in to offer voluntary help for individuals who, for various reasons, have problems managing their daily lives, p ...

“good morning” with her teachers—the authorities had never found any reason to alter their decision. Consequently, a situation o ...

She left Bjurman’s office and went home, took a shower, ate two sandwiches with cheese and pickles, and then sat on the worn-out ...

be quite unpleasant to fight with that skinny girl. Unlike the other girls in the class, she never backed down, and she would no ...