Description The novel starts with journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who is forced to resign his position at Millennium, a financial magazine he co-founded with his longtime lover Erika Berger, after being convicted for defaming the financier Hans-Erik Wennerstrom. While waiting for his two month prison sentence, Mikael receives a job offer. Henrik Vanger, the retired C.E.O. of Vanger Corporation, wants him to live on his family’s island compound for a year, as he investigates and writes about his dysfunctional family, but in reality he is investigating the disappearance and most likely death of his great-niece, Harriet, forty years ago. Each year on his birthday, Henrik receives a pressed flower like the ones Harriet used to give him, and he believes her murderer is doing this to torture him. Mikael accepts the job and moves to a small house on the Hedeby Island where he is surrounded by the other members of the Vanger family.
