Mikael Blomkvist, a financial journalist just convicted of libel, gets hired by an aging industrialist to solve a forty-year-old disappearance on the family’s private island north of Stockholm. Working with him, eventually, is Lisbeth Salander — a researcher and hacker, a ward of the state, small, silent, and extremely dangerous. The Vanger family is a nest of Nazis and worse, and what the two of them uncover goes far past one missing girl. Even if you saw the movie, read the book. It’s gnarly, in the best way. Larsson was a journalist who spent his career on the Swedish far right, delivered three manuscripts, and died before any of them were published.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo