“As vivid as bloodstains on snow – and a perfect one-volume introduction to the unique strengths of Scandinavian crime fiction”
LEE CHILD
“Several cuts above most thrillers … intelligent, complex, with a gripping plot and deeply intriguing characters”
PHILIP PULLMAN
“What a cracking novel! I haven’t read such a stunning thriller debut for years. The way Larsson interweaves his two stories had me in thrall from beginning to end. Brilliantly written and totally gripping”
MINETTE WALTERS
“Salander is a unique character in crime fiction … Larsson’s books sparkle with wit and playfulness”
VAL MCDERMID
“So much more than a thriller, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a dazzling novel of big ideas. It tackles issues of power, corruption, justice, and innocence – all the while drawing you into the twists and turns of a frighteningly suspenseful mystery”
HARLAN COBEN
“I’ve just spent a few weeks with all my experienced reader’s critical defences swept away by the cyclonic force of a story … Exceptional … Welcome to the immortality of fiction, Lisbeth Salander!”
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
“Just when I was thinking there wasn’t anything new on the horizon, along comes Stieg Larsson with this wonderfully unique story. I was completely absorbed”
MICHAEL CONNELLY
“An utterly fresh political and journalistic thriller that is also intimate and moral. In spite of its dark unearthings Stieg Larsson has written a feast of a book, with central characters you will not forget”
MICHAEL ONDAATJE
THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE
“A year ago, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo won ecstatic praise from British critics and readers … With the spiky and sassy Lisbeth Salander – punkish wild child, traumatised survivor of the ‘care’ system, sexual adventurer and computer hacker of genius – Larsson created the most original heroine to emerge in crime fiction for many years … The air of sizzling enigma that she leaves in her wake only intensifies as Larsson’s galloping prose twists the plot”
BOYD TONKIN, Independent
“A combination of urgent, multi-layered thriller, traditional police procedural and articulate examination of the way a supposedly open-minded country like Sweden treats both its vulnerable women and children in care … The Girl Who Played with Fire is that rare thing – a sequel that is even better than the book that went before … to be read in great hungry chunks”
LOUISE FRANCE, Observer
“Even more gripping and astonishing than the first … conscious of the way crime and other networks transcend national boundaries, it’s a very modern novel. What makes it outstanding is the author’s ability to handle dozens of characters and parallel narratives without ever losing tension … This novel will leave readers on the edge of their seats”
JOAN SMITH, Sunday Times
“An astonishing crime novel … as a novelist Larsson came up with an entirely new kind of heroine for the crime story … as with Larsson’s first novel, this is wonderful stuff”
BARRY FORSHAW, Daily Express
“Lisbeth Salander really is a wonderful creation: psychologically complex, unswerving in her morality and fearless in her pursuit of her very individual notion of justice … What is more intriguing, however, is this book’s moral and political resonance: what seems, on the face of it, merely an engaging thriller has somehow managed to acquire an aura of moral quest, not just in the fictional world, but in the actual place we inhabit”
JOHN BURNSIDE, Scotsman
THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS’ NEST
“I was completely enthralled by The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, the tense and almost apocalyptic conclusion to Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy”
ANTHONY HOROWITZ
“Larsson has produced a coup de foudre, a novel that is complex, satisfying, clever, moral … This is a grown-up novel for grown-up readers, who want something more than a quick fix and a car chase. And it’s why the Millennium Trilogy is rightly a publishing phenomenon all over the world”
KATE MOSSE
“If fans of the first two of Stieg Larsson’s mega-selling Millennium Trilogy feared that his tales of dark doings in Sweden might not delight to the last, they need not have worried. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest begins where its predecessors left off, gripping the reader in a relentlessly fast narrative. Some novels claim to be page turners, this trilogy is the real deal”
TONY TASSELL, Financial Times
“Solves the mysteries set up in the first two novels and explains how Salander became what she is … confirms Larsson as one of the great talents of contemporary crime fiction”
JOAN SMITH, Sunday Times
“My choice of book of the year is not original, for the Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson has become a worldwide bestseller, and the publication of the finale to his Millennium Trilogy is an exciting literary event”
JESSICA MANN, Literary Review
“Fans will not be disappointed: this is another roller-coaster ride that keeps you reading far too late into the night. Intricate but flawlessly plotted, it has complex characters as well as a satisfying, clear moral thrust”
ANDREW NEATHER, Evening Standard
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