Sexual violence against women is also a recurring theme in his work. The girl being raped was named Lisbeth, which he later used as the name of the heroine on his Millenium trilogy. This event haunted him for the rest of his life. Witnessed a rape when he was 15, and was helpless to stop it. These books are all bestsellers in Sweden and in several other countries, including the United States and Canada. The first three books ( The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest) have since been printed as the Millenium series. When he died at the age of 50, Larsson left three unpublished thrillers and unfinished manuscripts for more. Stieg Larsson (born as Karl Stig-Erland Larsson) was a Swedish journalist and writer who passed away in 2004.Īs a journalist and editor of the magazine Expo, Larsson was active in documenting and exposing Swedish extreme right and racist organisations. On her own, she will plot revenge-against the man who tried to kill her, and against the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. With the help of Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. Meanwhile, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, which forces her to face her dark past.

Blomkvist, convinced of Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation of the murders. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend Lisbeth Salander. Mikael Blomkvist, now the crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption on their way to discovering the truth of Harriet Vanger’s fate. Blomkvist is aided by the pierced and tattooed computer prodigy Lisbeth Salander. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist recently sidelined by a libel conviction, to investigate. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to try to discover what happened to her. Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared without a trace more than forty years ago. Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy is now available in a complete hardcover set.

The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson