Harriet Vanger started sending his Uncle, Henrik Vanger, pressed flowers for his birthday since she was eight years. When Harriet was 16, she mysteriously disappeared. Yet, the pressed flowers kept on coming to Vanger for the next 40 years through the mail without a return address. Were they coming from Harriet’s abductor? Who was the abductor? Was he a member of the Vanger empire? What happened to Harriet remained a mystery and Henrik brooded about it for almost four decades.
On Henrik Vanger’s 82nd birthday, he decided to hire a financial journalist Carl Mikael Blomkvist who has just been convicted of libeling a financier and is facing a fine and three months in jail. He was a asked to write an autobiography of Henrik Vanger and to do an investigative journalism to the disappearance of Harriet. About to refuse but when Henrik offered him a large amount of money and help win his case, Blomvist acquiesced.
Blomkvist was partnered with Lisbeth Salander, a 24-yearl-old computer hacker with lots of tattoos (including a dragon on her back) and body piercing. She was pale and thin and loves to wear black—a combination of gothic and trashy look. But don’t underestimate her ability to investigate by way of computer hacking. Unfortunately, Lisbeth was also a victim of rape that perhaps contributed to her low self esteem.
These are the two characters brought together to solve a mystery that needed solving even before they were born.
The story is very complicated that you wouldn’t want to miss even a page. It’s one of those that gets better until the end.
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