For forty years, the mystery of a young relative's disappearance has haunted an aging industrial magnate, and so he makes one last attempt in his life—entrusting the search to journalist Mikael Blomkvist. He takes on a hopeless case largely to distract himself from his own troubles, but soon realizes: the problem is even more complex than it seems at first glance.

How is the old incident on the island connected to several murders of women that occurred over the years in different parts of Sweden? What do quotes from the Third Book of Moses have to do with it? And who, in the end, attempted to kill Mikael himself when he came too close to solving the mystery? And even less could he have imagined that the investigation would lead him to a living hell in the middle of an idyllic, peaceful town.

Stieg Larsson is an author without whose characters and plots it is impossible to imagine the universe of a modern thriller. His book sales worldwide have exceeded 100,000,000 copies. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has been adapted into two films, and both adaptations—the Swedish one and the Hollywood adaptation by the incomparable David Fincher—have become as iconic as the book itself. Like the entire Millennium trilogy, it forever changed the rules of action fiction.