Publisher, Random House Audiobooks (July 28, 2009)

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Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.

But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander—the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and who now becomes the focus and fierce heart of The Girl Who Played with Fire.

As Blomkvist, alone in his belief in Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation of the slayings, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.

About the Author, Karl Stig-Erland Larsson: Stieg Larsson, who lived in Sweden, was the editor in chief of the magazine Expo and a leading expert on antidemocratic right-wing extremist and Nazi organizations. He died in 2004, shortly after delivering the manuscript for this and two subsequent novels.

About the Performer: Simon Vance is a stage, TV and film actor who has narrated more than 200 audiobooks for which he has won seven AudioFile earphone awards and three consecutive Audie nominations. He has also been selected as an AudioFile Golden Voice. His most recent BOT narrations include: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson, Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, and D-Day by Anthony Beevor. Formerly a BBC Radio newsreader in London he now resides in Northern California.