This title is an Audio Book of the Year 2009 - Winner. Winner of the Audio Book of the Year, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is the first book in the sensational "Millennium Trilogy" - described as 'a publishing sensation' according to "The Sunday Times". It features award-winning narration from Saul Reichlin. Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own family. He employs 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. This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the author's work and as low as 30 per cent with characters and plotlines removed.