The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

For forty years, the mystery of the disappearance of the young relative won’t let a dying industrial magnate rest—and now he makes the last attempt of his life: he hires journalist Mikael Blomkvist to find her. Blomkvist takes the hopeless case mostly to distract himself from his own troubles, but soon he realizes that the problem is even more complicated than it seems at first glance. How is a long-ago incident on an island connected to several murders of women that happened in different years in different parts of Sweden? What do quotes from the Third Book of Moses have to do with it? And in the end—who tried to kill Mikael himself when he got too close to the truth?
And even less could he have imagined that the investigation would lead him straight into a living hell among the idyllic peace of a small town.