In the early nineteenth century, a Swedish orphan worries that she will again lose someone she loves when her aunt sails to Stockholm during the stormiest season.
Presents Swedish geography, education, traditions, social customs, and sports, with a chapter on Swedes in America. Includes a list of Swedish consulates in the United States and Canada, and a glossary.
Forty years after the disappearance of a young scion to one of Sweden's wealthiest families, Mikael Blomkvist is hired to find out what he can. He teams up with Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old genius hacker, and together they discover evidence of inequity within the missing person's family, corruption throughout the higher-ups of Swedish industrialism, and an odd connection between one another.
Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is about to expose a sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden implicating several high-ranking officials when two investigative reporters are murdered. The murder suspect is none other than Lisbeth Salander, the troubled computer hacker who aided him in the past. While Blomkvist tries to clear her name, Salander confronts her past in order to save herself from the person trying to frame her for murder.
Provides a brief history of the country, surveys Swedish festivals, industry, trade, cities, education, social welfare, sports, and describes the life of the nomadic Lapps.
