Carey Mulligan

Lisbeth Salander, the Girl Who Rocked the Mystery-Action Genre

We are all a little in love with her. In this season of heat and sweat and languor, there's no escaping Lisbeth Salander. She is, of course, the enigmatic action hero of the sensational Millennium Trilogy -- "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," "The Girl Who Played With Fire," The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest''-- the trio of dazzling mystery novels by the Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson, who died of a heart attack at the age of 50 in 2004, before his manuscripts were published and he could witness the worldwide phenomenon his books became in just a few years. Lisbeth Salander, 25, frail, ...

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