Millennium Series

This series focuses on the investigation and uncovering of crimes that often involve dark secrets and scandals. The main characters, a journalist and a hacker, strive to reveal the truth and face dangerous adversaries. The story combines elements of thriller and detective fiction, creating a gripping and action-packed narrative. Readers can look forward to surprising twists and complex plots.

Recommended Reading Order

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
554 pages
20 hours of reading
4.1(19294)Add rating
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.
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
Stieg Larsson
649 pages
23 hours of reading
4.2(9412)Add rating
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." "
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The girl who kicked the hornets' nest
Stieg Larsson
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After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive Care, and is set to face trial for three murders and one attempted murder. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist she must not only prove her innocence, but identify and denounce corrupt politicians. Salander is now ready to fight back.
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The Girl in the Spider's Web
David Lagercrantz
400 pages
14 hours of reading
3.8(106416)Add rating
This fall, Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return in the highly anticipated follow-up to Stieg Larsson's THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST. In this adrenaline-charged thriller, genius-hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist face a dangerous new threat and must again join forces. Late one night, Blomkvist receives a phone call from a trusted source claiming to have information vital to the United States. The source has been in contact with a young female super hacker-a hacker resembling someone Blomkvist knows all too well. The implications are staggering. Blomkvist, in desperate need of a scoop for Millennium, turns to Lisbeth for help. She, as usual, has her own agenda. In The Girl in the Spider's Web, the duo who thrilled 80 million readers in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest meet again in an extraordinary and uniquely of-the-moment thriller.
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The girl who takes an eye for an eye
David Lagercrantz
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Lisbeth Salander is an unstoppable force. Sentenced to two months in Flodberga women's prison for saving a young boy's life by any means necessary, Salander refuses to say anything in her own defence. She has more important things on her mind
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The girl who lived twice
David Lagercrantz
448 pages
16 hours of reading
3.7(23260)Add rating
The sixth in Stieg Larsson's DRAGON TATTOO series - more than 90 million copies sold worldwide - the crime fiction phenomenon featuring Lisbeth Salander.Book four in the series, THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB, is a majorfilmfrom Sony Picturesstarring Claire Foy - out in Autumn 2018."Rest easy, Lisbeth Salander fans - our punk hacker is in good hands" Patrick Ryan, U.S.A. Today"Salander and Blomkvist are just as compelling as ever" Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "Not only do the matter-of-fact style and intricate plotting and sexy, chilling atmospherefeel very true to the original novels, but Lagercrantz transcends the source material" Benjamin Percy,Esquire"Elegantly paced, slickly executed, and properly thrilling" Alison Flood,Observer
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The Girl in the Eagle's Talons
Karin Smirnoff
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The untapped natural resources of Sweden's far north are sparking a gold rush, with the criminal underworld leading the charge. But it's not the prospect of riches that brings Lisbeth Salander to the small town of Gasskas. Her niece's mother is the latest woman in the region to have vanished without trace. Two things soon become clear: Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager -- and she's being watched. Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is also heading north. He has seen better days. Millennium magazine is in its final print issue, and relations with his daughter are strained. Worse still, there are troubling rumours surrounding the man she's about to marry. When the truth behind the whispers explodes into violence, Salander emerges as Blomkvist's last hope.[Bokinfo].
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The Girl with Ice in Her Veins
Karin Smirnoff
385 pages
14 hours of reading
Sweden’s far north is growing colder; even in springtime, the town of Gasskas is buried under a relentless snow. As temperatures drop, tensions rise between a global corporation shamelessly exploiting the area's natural resources and wary locals who have scores to settle. A bomb blasts apart a crucial bridge. Soon after, a young journalist is found murdered. Meanwhile, Lisbeth is at home in Stockholm, looking to fill the void her last lover left behind. When she discovers that fellow hacker Plague has been kidnapped and taken up north, and finds her niece, Svala, on her doorstep, she has no choice but to return to Gasskas—with Mikael Blomkvist at her side. Blomkvist takes the helm at Gasskas's newspaper, and Lisbeth tries to locate Plague. But then Svala goes missing, and Lisbeth's worst fears come to haunt her. . . Lured back to a lawless town full of predators disguised as saviors and foes disguised as friends, forced to face down their own troubling pasts and those of their loved ones, Salander and Blomkvist must untangle a history of violence before it's too late. The Girl with Ice in Her Veins is a twisty, vertiginous, hard-hitting thriller that breathes new life into Stieg Larsson's epic series and unforgettable characters.
Millennium Trilogy Boxed Set
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; The Girl Who Played with Fire; The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
Stieg Larsson
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The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson is a gripping series of crime thrillers that delves into dark secrets, corruption, and injustice in Swedish society. The trilogy follows the brilliant but troubled hacker Lisbeth Salander and investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist as they unravel complex conspiracies, confront powerful adversaries, and seek the truth. Spanning themes of revenge, redemption, and resilience, the books — The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest — offer a masterful blend of suspense, social commentary, and unforgettable characters.