{"product_id":"9780143198369","title":"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo","description":"A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet’s disappearance . . . and about Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age—and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness to go with it—who assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, astonishing corruption in the highest echelons of Swedish industrialism—and an unexpected connection between themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s a contagiously exciting, stunningly intelligent novel about society at its most hidden, and about the intimate lives of a brilliantly realized cast of characters, all of them forced to face the darker aspects of their world and of their own lives.","brand":"Stieg Larsson","offers":[{"title":"Penguin Canada |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2015-09-24","offer_id":46405466587391,"sku":"9780143198369","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bcb42201-f2c0-4af7-bf4c-6293ff6df743.jpg?v=1734035786","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780143198369","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}