Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #854 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-10
• Binding: Hardcover
• 572 pages

The Times
The ballyhoo is fully justified...At over 500 pages this hardly sagged...The novel scores on every front - character, story, atmosphere'

Sunday Times
...a publishing sensation...Crime fiction has seldom needed to salute and mourn such a stellar talent as Larsson's in the same breath

The Times
The novel scores on every front - character, story, atmosphere and the translation

Customer Reviews

Absolutely Brilliant !!!
What a throughly good read. Had read some of the reviews about this story befoe buying, and I'm extremely glad I got hold of a copy. Well done. While writing this review, I would also like to recommend 'Dead Men Don't Bite' by Andrew Towning.

Thoroughly enjoyable!
I had read the review for this in the Times, so approached with
caution. It wasn't a dissappointment. I found myself hiding away to turn the pages in peace - The author's style is very much in the great nordic tradition, with similarities to other books I have read recently, 'Out Stealing Horses', by Per Petterson (sp?) and 'Julius Winsome' which, oddly enough, was written by an American based Irish author, Gerard Donovan. The style of the writing has more polish than Michael Connolly, but the author delivers. If you are sensitive about sexual violence or want to buy this book for your Grandma, beware, as one of the main characters developement is from a position of vulnerablily. Having said that, there is no gratuitous violence per se. I was very selfishly disappointed to hear that the author's life was prematurely cut short leaving only two more of his works behind. I look forward to buying the next two when they become available in English.

The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo
It makes me want to read more of this author -

shame about the translation.