Martin Lexell Books

Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing expose on social injustice, "The Girl Who Played with Fire" is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine "Millennium," has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled genius hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander's innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, which forces her to face her dark past." "

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle, Henrik, is convinced that she was murdered by someone in her own family the deeply dysfunctional Vanger clan. Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired to investigate, but when he links Harriet s disappearance to a string of gruesome murders from forty years ago, he needs a competent assistant and he gets one: computer hacker Lisbeth Salander a tattoed, truculent, angry girl who rides a motorbike like a Hell s Angel and handles makeshift weapons with the skill born of remorseless rage. This unlikely pair form a fragile bond as they delve into the sinister past of this island-bound, tightly-knit family. But the Vangers are a secretive lot, and Mikael and Lisbeth are about to find out just how far they re prepared to go to protect themselves and each other.

El inspector Paul Hjelm se enfrenta a un proceso de disciplina interno, con acusaciones de racismo incluidas, por disparar a un extranjero durante un secuestro con rehenes. Su impulsiva actuación no ha sido entendida y, a pesar de que le ha convertido en un héroe mediático, ha desbaratado su carrera. De pronto, una singular propuesta del superintendente Jan-Olov Hultin le sacará de la pesadilla: en lugar del cese de sus funciones, Hultin propone unirse a un grupo de investigadores de élite a los que denomina Grupo A. La invitación no podía llegar en un mejor momento para Paul, que se integra en el grupo y comienza a investigar el asesinato de dos empresarios de las altas esferas, muertos de la misma forma, con dos balas en la cabeza y sin rastro de casquillos. Pese a que algunas pistas apuntan a la implicación de la mafia estonia, las investigaciones de repente se centran en el hallazgo de una cinta con una curiosa grabación del Misterioso de Thelonius Monk hallada en el lugar del crimen… ¿Qué relación tiene con los asesinatos y de qué forma podría conducirles al asesino? Arne Dahl utiliza recursos de gran nivel, un estilo rico, de registros variados, un grado de refl exión moral e intelectual y un estupendo sentido del humor. Pero, ante todo, Misterioso es un auténtico thriller: duro, emocionante, sorprendente y lleno de acción.