The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a crime novel by the Swedish writer Stieg Larsson, published in Swedish in 2005 under the title Man som hatar kvinnor, literally Men Who Hate Women, and in English translation in 2008. It follows the disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist, hired by an elderly industrialist to investigate the decades-old disappearance of his great-niece Harriet Vanger, who partners with Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant and troubled computer hacker and surveillance specialist, as their inquiry into the Vanger family's past uncovers both the truth behind Harriet's disappearance and a wider pattern of corporate and personal corruption. The novel was published after Larsson's death, and became an international bestseller, selling more than thirty million copies by 2010; it won Sweden's Glass Key Award in 2006 and the Anthony Award for Best First Novel in 2009. It is the first novel of Larsson's Millennium series and launched Lisbeth Salander as one of the best-known characters in contemporary crime fiction.