Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Well this was one of the most popular books in Sweden and had as its original title in Swedish ‘ Men who hate women’ which sums up the nature of the whole trilogy in our opinion.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Trilogy 1)
What you need to know before your trail
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder – and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family.
He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate.
When the pair link Harriet’s disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.
Travel Guide
From the island from where Mickael and his girlfriend sail – Bullando up through Furusund strait to Angso Bay and the island of Arholma, there are a number of islands and places of beauty which in a novel of this graphic and raw nature, makes for quite the contrast.
Some places are alluded to to build up the history of the characters such as the Kungsholmen school where Blomkvist and robert Lindberg were friends and Monteliusvagen, a quarter-mile promenade overlooking Lake Malaren, – where Lisbeth choses to live.
From here you can also look out and see the courthouse where Mikael stands on the steps after being found guilty of libel.
Götgatan -is a major street where Elisabeth herself lives in a fictional home and where Mikael’s fictional offices are here and there is a recreation of them in the City Museum – Södermalm, Ryssgården.
Of course Hedeby Island is a major setting for any ‘Tattoo’ booktrail – but you’ll be hard pressed to find it in real life for it’s fictional. Said to be 1 hour or so north of Gävle.
Where Next?
