Each year on his birthday Harriet gave Henrik a present of pressed flowers. Vanger expresses his suspicion that Harriet was murdered by a member of the vast Vanger family, many of whom were present in Hedeby on the day of her disappearance. On this basis, Blomkvist agrees to spend a year writing the Vanger family history as a cover for the real assignment: solving the " cold case" of the disappearance of Vanger's great niece Harriet some 40 years earlier. The old man draws Blomkvist in by promising not only financial reward for the assignment, but also solid evidence that Wennerström is truly the scoundrel Blomkvist suspects him to be. Blomkvist accepts the assignment - unaware that Vanger commissioned a comprehensive investigation into Blomkvist's personal and professional history, carried out by gifted private investigator Lisbeth Salander.īlomkvist visits Vanger at his estate on the tiny island of Hedeby, several hours from Stockholm. At the same time, he is offered an unlikely freelance assignment by Henrik Vanger, the elderly former CEO of Vanger Enterprises. Facing jail time and professional disgrace, Blomkvist steps down from his position on the magazine's board of directors, despite strong objections from Erika Berger, Blomkvist's longtime friend, occasional lover, and business partner. Middle-aged journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who publishes the magazine Millennium in Stockholm, has lost a libel case involving damaging allegations about billionaire Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström, and is sentenced to three months in prison. The English release also changed the title, even though Larsson specifically refused to allow the Swedish publisher to do so, and the size of Salander's dragon tattoo from a large piece covering her entire back, to a small shoulder tattoo. Murray have said that Christopher MacLehose (who works for British publisher Quercus) "needlessly prettified" the English translation as such, Murray requested he be credited under the pseudonym "Reg Keeland". īoth Larsson's longtime partner Eva Gabrielsson and English translator Steven T. The magazine Millennium in the books has characteristics similar to that of Larsson's magazine, Expo, such as its leftist socio-political leanings, its exposés on Swedish Nazism and financial corruption and its financial difficulties. With the exception of the fictional Hedestad, the novel takes place in actual Swedish towns. The murder of Catrine da Costa was also an inspiration when he wrote the book. The veracity of this story has been questioned since Larsson's death, after a colleague from Expo magazine reported to Rolling Stone that Larsson had told him he had heard the story secondhand and retold it as his own. The incident, he said, haunted him for years afterward and in part inspired him to create a character named Lisbeth who was also a rape victim. Days later, racked with guilt for having done nothing to help her, he begged her forgiveness-which she refused to grant. Larsson spoke of an incident which he said occurred when he was 15: he stood by as three men gang raped an acquaintance of his named Lisbeth.
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