Welcome to the beta version of Shelfari’s new Book Detail pages!
These pages are editable by the community, so please contribute! Click here to learn more about this feature. We’d love to hear your feedback.
Description
A sensation across Europe—millions of copies sold A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue. It’s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis
Cast of Characters
- Mikael Blomkvist: Journalist, publisher of Millennium magazine, and amateur sleuth
- Lisbeth Salander: Hacker, feminist, researcher and assistant to Mikael Blomkvist
- Henrik Vanger: Retired Swedish industrialist and patriarch of the Vanger family.
- Hans-Erik Wennerström: Add a description of this character.
- Harriet Vanger: Great-niece of Henrik and vanished 40 years ago
- Martin Vanger: Brother of Harriet and President of the Vanger Corporation
- Holger Palmgren
- Nils Bjurman
- Cecilia Vanger: Cousin of Harriet Vanger
- Erika Berger
- Dirch Frode
- Dragan Armanskij
Memorable Quotes
-
“"Friendship - my definition - is built on two things," he said. "Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble."”
Mikael Blomkvist
First Sentence
The trial was irretrievably over; everything that could be said had been said, but he had never doubted that he would lose.
Table of Contents
TITLE PAGE
PROLOGUE A FRIDAY IN NOVEMBER
THE VANGER FAMILY TREE
PART 1 Incentive
CHAPTER 1 Friday, December 20
CHAPTER 2 Friday, December 20
CHAPTER 3 Friday, December 20–Saturday, December 21
CHAPTER 4 Monday, December 23–Thursday, December 26
CHAPTER 5 Thursday, December 26
CHAPTER 6 Thursday, December 26
CHAPTER 7 Friday, January 3
PART 2 Consequence Analyses
CHAPTER 8 Friday, January 3–Sunday, January 5
CHAPTER 9 Monday, January 6–Wednesday, January 8
CHAPTER 10 Thursday, January 9–Friday, January 31
CHAPTER 11 Saturday, February 1–Tuesday, February 18
CHAPTER 12 Wednesday, February 19
CHAPTER 13 Thursday, February 20–Friday, March 7
CHAPTER 14 Saturday, March 8–Monday, March 17
PART 3 Mergers
CHAPTER 15 Friday, May 16–Saturday, May 31
CHAPTER 16 Sunday, June 1–Tuesday, June 10
CHAPTER 17 Wednesday, June 11–Saturday, June 14
CHAPTER 18 Wednesday, June 18
CHAPTER 19 Thursday, June 19–Sunday, June 29
CHAPTER 20 Tuesday, July 1–Wednesday, July 2
CHAPTER 21 Thursday, July 3–Thursday, July 10
CHAPTER 22 Thursday, July 10
CHAPTER 23 Friday, July 11
PART 4 Hostile Takeover
CHAPTER 24 Friday, July 11–Saturday, July 12
CHAPTER 25 Saturday, July 12–Monday, July 14
CHAPTER 26 Tuesday, July 15–Thursday, July 17
CHAPTER 27 Saturday, July 26–Monday, July 28
CHAPTER 28 Tuesday, July 29–Friday, October 24
CHAPTER 29 Saturday, November 1–Tuesday, November 25
EPILOGUE: FINAL AUDIT THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27–TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30
Authors & Contributors
- Stieg Larsson (Author)
Awards
- Anthony Awards (Finalist, 2009)
Popular Tags
See all 50 tags
Books with Additional Background Information
List the books that contain additional information about this book.
If you have any suggestions for how we can improve this page or if there are sections that you would like us to add, please let us know.
