The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first book in Steig Larson's Millennium series, first published in 2005 in Sweden. The main character is a journalist named Mikael Blomkvist, who seeks the help of a hacker named Lisbeth Salander in hopes of solving the mystery of a young girl's disappearance 40 years ago. It explores themes of violence against women in a country of Sweden that is becoming more and more corrupt over the course of the novel.
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