If and when Lisbeth Salander recovers, she'll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge--against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions...

"A film arrives at the National Criminal Investgation Department in Stockholm. It shows a woman, alive, being filmed through the window of her house. She does not know she is being watched. The police don't take it seriously. Until she is found dead. When the next video arrives, Detective Margot Silverman frantically searches for any way of identifying the victim. But it is already too late. Because at the time the video was sent, the subject was...

"Describes woodland scenes in the autumn when two acorn children get blown away in the wind"--P. [4] of cover.

Attorney Nora Linde is asked by Detective Thomas Andreasson, a childhood friend, to help in a disturbing investigation. The apparent suicide of a university student turns into something more sinister: a thirty year-old cold case that someone wants to keep covered up.

"A stranger wearing a mask stands in the shadow of a garden. He's watching his first victim through the window. He will kill him slowly, make it last play him a nursery rhyme make him pay. There's only one person the police can turn to ex-Detective Joona Linna but he's serving time in a high-security prison. So they offer him a chance to secure his freedom: help Superintendent Saga Bauer track down the vicious killer known as the Rabbit Hunter, before...

"With the summer season on Sandhamn comes an unsettling mystery for Detective Thomas Andreasson. A bullied young boy has vanished from a sailing camp on neighboring Loekholmen Island. Has the terrorized eleven-year-old run away? Or, in this isolated vacation spot where strangers lurk, is it something more ominous? The disappearance has also captured the interest of Thomas's longtime friend, attorney Nora Linde. The missing child happens to be the...