Blomkvist eventually teams up with Salander, who used her hacking skills to research him earlier.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo follows the unlikely partnership between disgraced investigative journalist and the anti-social, brilliant hacker Lisbeth Salander .

Wealthy industrialist Henrik Vanger hires Blomkvist to solve a 40-year-old cold case: the disappearance of his niece, Harriet, from the family’s private island.