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ISBN
9780307269980
Publication Year
2009
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Book Title
Girl Who Played with Fire
Author
Stieg Larsson
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Crime, Thrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime

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Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government. But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander--the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and who now becomes the focus and fierce heart of The Girl Who Played with Fire. As Blomkvist, alone in his belief in Salander's innocence, plunges into an investigation of the slayings, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307269981
ISBN-13
9780307269980
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Product Key Features

Book Title
Girl Who Played with Fire
Author
Stieg Larsson
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Crime, Thrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Fiction

Dimensions

Item Length
9.5in.
Item Height
1.3in.
Item Width
6.6in.
Item Weight
30.5 Oz

Additional Product Features

Series Volume Number
2
Lc Classification Number
Pt9876.22.A6933f5713
Reviews
The first reviews from the UK: "This second novel is even more gripping and astonishing than the first . . . Conscious of the way crime and other networks transcend national boundaries, it's a very modern novel. What makes it outstanding is the author's ability to handle dozens of characters and parallel narratives without ever losing tension. Larsson was a fantastic storyteller. This novel will leave readers on the edge of their seats." Sunday Times "The best thriller I've read in ages . . . If you want a book to take on your lifetime trip on the Trans-Siberian railway,The Girl Who Played With Fireis the one." Evening Herald(Ireland) "Umberto Eco transposed Sherlock Holmes to a different time and genre and imported learning from history, theology, philology and other disciplines. Larsson's [books are] likewise an enjoyable and instructive compendium of pop-culture references and academic knowledge . . . Salander is recognisably a Lara Croft for grown-upsa female Terminator . . . [She is] the huge pleasure of these books, a fascinating creation with a complete and complex psychology." Guardian "The essential first step to appreciating Stieg Larsson is to rid yourself of any fixed image you have of Swedish crime fiction. If Mankell is Swedish gloomy, Larsson is Swedish noir. Very . . . Lisbeth is a heroine like no other in crime fiction . . . Her mental and physical strengths are beyond those of ordinary humans. Yet Larsson's writing manages to make her intriguing, admirable and even sympathetic. . .The Girl who Played with Firebecomes an absorbing, exciting and bloody multi-layered chase . . . A riveting read." Times Praise forThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: "A remarkable first novel . . . Wildly suspenseful . . .The Girl With the Dragon Tattoohas been a huge bestseller in Europe and will be one here if readers are looking for an intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller that is variously a serial-killer saga, a search for a missing person and an informed glimpse into the worlds of journalism and business . . . It's a book that lingers in the mind . . . Lisbeth is a punk Watson to Mikael's dapper Holmes, and she's the coolest crime-fighting sidekick to come along in many years." -Patrick Anderson,Washington Post "A super-smart amalgam of the corporate corruption tale, legal thriller and dysfunctional-family psychological suspense story. It's witty, and unflinching in its commonsense feminist social commentary . . . A veteran mystery reader could spot the clues to this novel's runaway popularity as easily as Poe's detective, Auguste Dupin, spotted that purloined letter . . . Larsson's multi-pieced plot snaps together as neatly as an Ikea bookcase, but even more satisfying is the anti-social character of Salander . . . I'm betting that this offbeat bad girl will win a lot of readers' affections." -Maureen Corrigan,Fresh Air(NPR) "Imagine the movies of Ingmar Bergman crossed with Thomas Harris's novelThe Silence of the Lambs.Larsson's mesmerizing tale succeeds because, like P.D. James, he has written a why-dunit rather than a whodunit." -Deirdre Donahue,USA Today "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoois a striking novel. Just when I was thinking there wasn't anything new on the horizon, along comes Stieg Larsson with this wonderfully unique story. I was completely absorbed." -Michael Connelly, " The Girl Who Played with Fire will likely confirm Larsson's position as the most successful crime novelist in the world." Slate "Larsson has bottled lightning . . . Formally at least, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a muscle car. But a European engine purrs beneath its hood . . . Itbuzzes with ideas [and] fizzes with fury." Los Angeles Times "A dynamite thriller." Liz Smith, Variety "These books grabbed me and kept me reading with eyes wide open with the same force as the best of the series on the TV monitor . . . Move over, Tony Soprano . . . Blomkvist is a wonderfully appealing character. And the girl of the title is one of the most fascinating characters in modern genre fiction." Alan Cheuse, San Francisco Chronicle "A nail-biting tale of murder and cover-ups in which the victims are tantalizingly hard to distinguish from the villains. . . Believe the hype . . . It's gripping stuff." People "Another gripping, stay-up-all-night read." Entertainment Weekly "Lisbeth Salander [is] one of the most startling, engaging heroines in recent memory . . . Some of the books' appeal comes from the Swedish setting, but most of it is a result of the author writing from the heart, not from a formula. Larsson clearly loved his brave misfit Lisbeth. And so will you." USA Today " The Girl Who Played with Fire confirms the impression left by Dragon Tattoo. Here is a writer with two skills useful in entertaining readers royally: creating characters who are complex, believable, and appealing even when they act against their own best interest; and parceling out information in a consistently enthralling way." Washington Post "Lisbeth Salander was one of the most original and memorable heroines to surface in a recent thriller: picture Angelina Jolie's Lara Croft endowed with Mr. Spock's intense braininess and Scarlett O'Hara's spunky instinct for survival . . . Now Salander is back in an even more central role . . . The reason it works is the same reason that Dragon Tattoo worked: Salander and Blomkvist transcend their genre and insinuate themselves in the reader's mind through their oddball individuality, their professional competence and, surprisingly, their emotional vulnerability." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A suspenseful, remarkably moving novel . . . This is the best Scandinavian novel to be published in the U.S. since Smilla's Sense of Snow . . . Salander is one of those characters who come along only rarely in fiction: a complete original, larger than life yet firmly grounded in realistic detail, utterly independent yet at her core a wounded and frightened child . . . One of the most compelling characters to strut the crime-fiction stage in years . " Booklist (starred) "This is complex and compelling storytelling at its best, propelled by one of the most fascinating characters in recent crime fiction." Library Journal (starred) "Fans of intelligent page-turners will be more than satisfied by Larsson's second thriller . . . [It has] powerful prose and intriguing lead characters." Publishers Weekly "Fans of postmodern mystery will revel in Larsson's latest . . . also starring journo extraordinaire Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander, the Lara Croft of the land of the midnight sun . . . Lisbeth is really a Baltic MacGyver with a highly developed sense of outrage, a sociopathic bent and brand-new breast implants, to say nothing of a well-stuffed bankbook.", Praise forThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: "A remarkable first novel . . . Wildly suspenseful . . .The Girl With the Dragon Tattoohas been a huge bestseller in Europe and will be one here if readers are looking for an intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller that is variously a serial-killer saga, a search for a missing person and an informed glimpse into the worlds of journalism and business . . . It's a book that lingers in the mind . . . Lisbeth is a punk Watson to Mikael's dapper Holmes, and she's the coolest crime-fighting sidekick to come along in many years." -Patrick Anderson,Washington Post "A super-smart amalgam of the corporate corruption tale, legal thriller and dysfunctional-family psychological suspense story. It's witty, and unflinching in its commonsense feminist social commentary . . . A veteran mystery reader could spot the clues to this novel's runaway popularity as easily as Poe's detective, Auguste Dupin, spotted that purloined letter . . . Larsson's multi-pieced plot snaps together as neatly as an Ikea bookcase, but even more satisfying is the anti-social character of Salander . . . I'm betting that this offbeat bad girl will win a lot of readers' affections." -Maureen Corrigan,Fresh Air(NPR) "Imagine the movies of Ingmar Bergman crossed with Thomas Harris's novelThe Silence of the Lambs.Larsson's mesmerizing tale succeeds because, like P.D. James, he has written a why-dunit rather than a whodunit." -Deirdre Donahue,USA Today "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoois a striking novel. Just when I was thinking there wasn't anything new on the horizon, along comes Stieg Larsson with this wonderfully unique story. I was completely absorbed." -Michael Connelly
Copyright Date
2009
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2009-014053
Dewey Decimal
839.738
Series
Millennium Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
Number of Pages
512 Pages

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  • I loved it and can't wait to read the third in the trilogy!!

    I really enjoyed this book!! However, it is part of a triology, and this is book two in the series. The first of the series is "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo". It is not necessary to read the first book to understand this one...it would just make some of the references easier to understand and put together. I purchased this book because it is a longer book...724 pages. I would rather take my time than rush to get it back to the library. Our local library had limited copies and I had to be on a waiting list. The only difficult part of reading this book is all of the names used and all of the characters. At times it could be a little confusing to keep the who's who straight. I did enjoy the murder mystery, the who-done-it and how it would all turn out. A great read, but do it in ...

  • Couldn't put it down, excellent second book!

    After I read "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", I couldn't wait for and had to read the second installment in Stieg Larsson's trilogy, "The Girl who Played with Fire". It doesn't disappoint - this time, it's focused on Lisbeth Salander, the super intelligent, ass kicking, biker, hacker. And if you're looking for gilrs kissing, yes, she is and yes, she does. I'm not going to delve into the complicated plot. I read during the summer, and these two books really fascinated me.Wonderful "uh oh" and "ah ha" moments.Larsson's Salander is a marvel, surely one of the most interesting and memorable literary characters in long time. Go ahead, don't be afraid, and trust me, you'll love it.

  • Great addition to your novel collection

    Stieg Larsson first novel tell us about the eerie facts of sexual assaults that happens on daily basis througout Sweden, the dirty facts of the business world and the naivette of one financial journalist. The early chapters are rather mundane, with long explanatory passages that serves as the basis for the following. But when you get through the middle and ending part of the book, it's author rhyme of writing got to a full exhilarating speed of story telling. These parts I love best. Really looking forward in finishing the trilogy.

  • Review: The Girl Who Played With Fire

    This is the second in a Swedish trilogy. I started reading the series because the covers were bright & the titles odd. I found out that Larsson, the author, delivered three books to the publisher, and then died. The first book, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, WAS WRITTEN IN Swedish, IT TRANSLATES WONDERFULLY. Certain to be a film, the mystery follows a tattooed investigator who, along with a journalist, convicted of libel are hired to locate a family member who disappeared 40 years earlier. It is a mystery, a story of familial dysfunction, and an amazing story of finances, that is wonderfully sculpted. In the second book, THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE,the convicted journalist, Blomkvist, exposes a sex trafficking crime. It is followed by two murders, with fingerprints of our tattooed ...

  • GREAT BOOK BY A GREAT AUTHOR

    I recently bought the book; "The Girl Who Played With Fire" By Stieg Larsson. This book is the first book in the series known as the "Millennium Series." I just finished reading the final book, “The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest” and that book/series are AWESOME!!! I strongly recommend the book "The Girl Who Played With Fire" along with the two other books in this series; “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”(2nd Book)& "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest" (3rd/Final Book). Stieg Larsson’s character development/back stories are without a doubt memorizing & his story telling is GREAT!!! I don’t know about you but I’ve noticed that a lot of authors either focus all their attention on character development or the telling of their story. However, Stieg Larsson REALLY is in a league of his ...

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