The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
By: [by] Stieg Larsson
Edition: 2009 Penquin 17th printing of 2005 First Penguin ed.
Series: Penguin Canada
Publisher: Penquin Group (Canada); Alfred A. Knopf (USA)
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto, Canada; New York, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: swe
Translation of: Män som hatar kvinnor
Format: Paperback (MM)
Number of pages: 841
ISBN-13: 9780143170099
Copyright date: 2005 by Norstedts Agency; 2008 by Reg Keeland (Eng. Trans. c/r)
Description: The first in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family.

The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a libel case, to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance.

Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old, pierced, tattooed genius hacker, possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age--and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness--assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, an astonishing corruption at the highest echelon of Swedish industrialism--and a surprising connection between themselves.---From publisher description.

''Wildly Suspenseful...an intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller.''---The Washington Post
Notes: ***This ed. Manufactured in Canada*** / Manufactured  ***simultaneously in the USA, as a Borzoi Book by Alfred A. Knopf, a div. of Random House Inc. New York, USA*** / New York Times Bestseller by **Stieg Larsson; translated from Swedish by Reg Keeland**
***Both ISBN13 9780143170099 and ISBN10 0143170090*** are noted under eachof the following WC IDs: OCLC/WorldCat - 755010818 (c)2005; 798228966 (c)2005; 982262736 (c)2008; 319485965 (c)2009; (c)2009;

Winner of Galaxy British Book Awards: Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year 2009
Joint winner of CrimeFest Sounds of Crime Award (Abridged) 2009
Short-listed for Heathrow Travel Product Award: Travel Read, Fiction 2009
Short-listed for CWA Duncan Lawrie International Dagger 2008