The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The genre-defining thriller that introduced the world to Lisbeth Salander

<p><b>***********************</b><br> <b>The phenomenal international bestseller - 100 million copies of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series sold worldwide.</b><br> <br> <b>One of the Bookseller's 30 most influential books of the last 30 years.</b><br> <br> <b>"What a cracking novel! I haven't read such a stunning thriller debut for years. Brilliantly written and totally gripping" <i>Minette Walters</i></b><br> <br> <b>With an Introduction by Val McDermid</b><br> <br> 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.<br> <br> He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history.<br> <br> But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.<br> <br> <b>Stieg Larsson's groundbreaking trilogy is continued in <i>The Girl in the Spider's Web, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye</i> and <i>The Girl Who Lived Twice</i> by David Lagercrantz</b></p>