01679cam a2200241 4500 64396523 TxAuBib 20100629120000.0 090618t20092008||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780307473479 pbk 0307473473 pbk TxAuBib The girl with the dragon tattoo / Stieg Larsson ; translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland. New York : Vintage Books, 2009. ©2008. 644, 12 p. ; 18 cm. Originally published as: Män som hatar kvinnor. Stockholm : Norstedt, 2005. Includes an excerpt from Stieg Larsson's new thriller The girl who played with fire. 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. 20100629. Mystery fiction. Suspense fiction.