Larsson, Stieg

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.

Lisbeth Salander, recovering in a Swedish hospital from a gunshot wound, calls upon journalist Mikael Blomkvist to help prove her innocence in the murders of three people; but in order to do so, he must uncover a long-buried conspiracy within the Swedish Secret Service.

Mikael Blomkvist is publishing the story of his career, exposing the extensive sex trafficking operation between Sweden and Eastern Europe, but when two investigative journalists are killed the night before the story runs and Lisbeth Salander is implicated, Mikael vows to clear the girl's name and find the true killer.

Hacker Lisbeth Salander assists Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist, with the investigation of Harriet Vanger's disappearance decades earlier, and the two uncover a dark world of secrets about a wealthy Swedish family as well as a surprising connection between themselves.