What is the plot synopsis for The Girl who Played with Fire?

Answer 1

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is about the investigation of the disappearance, and believed murder, of Harriet Vanger. Disgraced author Mikael Blomkvist is hired by Harriet's uncle to solve the mystery surrounding her disappearance almost 30 years after the original crime. As he works to find out the truth, he is aided by Lisbeth Salander, an antisocial hacker and investigator who has a disturbing past. The book is one of three in the Millennium series.

Answer 2

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is about a journalist named Mikael Blomkvist who is enlisted to help a man named Henrik Volger find out how his niece, Harriet, disappeared one day many years ago.

At the same time, Lisbeth Salander, a computer genius who is extraordinarily antisocial, and sometimes considered violent, has been commissioned to research Blomkvist's background.

Later in the book, Lisbeth, who is under the care of a guardian, is sexually assaulted (I won't give away by whom...).

Mikael and Lisbeth eventually meet, and join forces to solve the mystery of Harriet Vanger, and also allow Lisbeth to create an ally in Mikael.

***Extreme use of profanity and explicit scenes. If you are sensitive to this, please do not read this book. It's very well written, but definitely not for the fainthearted.***

Oh, and if you're wondering, Lisbeth is the girl with the dragon tattoo.

Answer 3

Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation.

He's had no contact with tattooed wild-child and computer hacker extraordinaire Lisbeth Salander since they risked their lives on a terrifying hunt for a serial killer a year earlier (see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). But unknown to Blomkvist, Salander has had contact with him-or at least, with his computer hard drive, which she has cloned and is monitoring from the vast new apartment she has bought with her fraudulently obtained fortune.

Repeatedly abused while young, Salander is a traumatized Survivor of a deranged psychotherapist who treated her as a child. A punk avenging angel with boxing skills, a photographic memory and pathologically focused on seeking out and punishing violent misogynists, Salander is drawn to the investigation on Blomkvist's computer. So while Blomkvist and his fellow Millennium idealists research the sex industry according to the rules of good journalism, Salander-spurred on by the appalling case studies of teenage prostitution she finds on Blomkvist's computer-takes matters into her own hands. She plots punishment for the traffickers, but before she can carry out her own brand of justice, she is accused of three murders, all connected to the sex trafficking exposé about to be published in Millennium.

To avoid capture by the police, Salander vanishes. While the tabloids go wild at the idea of a "psychotic lesbian S&M Satanist" on the run, Blomkvist tries despairingly to clear her name, though he can't find her anywhere. When he does eventually make contact, it is to discover that Salander is more embroiled in his investigation than he could have thought possible. It turns out that for Salander, the trail of guilt leads shockingly close to home.

Answer 4

The first paragraph of chapter 1 is:

" The trial was irretrievably over; everything that could be said had been said, but he had never doubted he would loose. The written verdict was handed down at 10:00 on Friday morning, and all that remained was a summing up from the reporters waiting in the corridor outside the district court."

Answer 5

Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist who's been charged with libel, is hired by a man named Henrik Vanger to figure out what happened to his niece who disappeared 36 years earlier. When he decides he needs help, he hires a private investigator, Lisbeth Salander to help him. She's a strange, but extremely smart young woman with a mysterious past. Together they figure out the chilling mystery.

-Based on the novel by Steig Larsson.

Answer 6

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a fiction book made up by Steig Larsson. It is said, however, that he once witnessed the rape of a woman named Lisbeth which is the reason she gets raped and why he chose that name for his character.

Answer 7

The Swedish title of the book is "Men Who Hate Women" so it would be about bringing awareness to the men in Sweden who abuse women.