The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

Using her phone tapping contacts in London, she and Blomkvist discover that Harriet Vanger is alive and living in Australia. At the end of the first novel, Salander saves Blomkvist from Vanger's great-nephew (and Harriet's brother) Martin, a serial killer who has been murdering women throughout Sweden for decades. The two form an important relationship, in which each of their skill-sets prove invaluable in solving the Vanger case they also become lovers. Blomkvist reluctantly accepts the case in exchange for valuable information Vanger claims to have that would help him in his case against Wennerström.ĭuring this time, Blomkvist meets and begins to work with computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, whom Vanger had hired prior to investigate Blomkvist while considering him for the job. At the same time, he is offered a freelance assignment by Henrik Vanger, the former CEO of Vanger Enterprises and patriarch of the wealthy Vanger family, to help him solve the cold case of his great-niece, Harriet Vanger, who has been missing for 36 years and presumed dead. Facing jail time and professional disgrace, Blomkvist steps down from his position on the magazine's board of directors. At the start of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, he loses a libel case involving damaging allegations about billionaire industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström, and is sentenced to three months in prison. And as such quite frequently invite you to comment on various issues in television.'īlomkvist is an investigative journalist and co-owner of the monthly magazine Millennium based in Stockholm, Sweden. 'It will give the typical image of guardian of the moral, incorruptible, facing the business world. 'Mikael Blomkvist is a graduate of the School of Journalism and had much of his professional life dedicated to revealing and report suspicious transactions, specifically in the field of banking and business,' writes Larsson in the first volume of the trilogy. Lisbeth Salander sarcastically refers to him by this nickname throughout the series. Blomkvist is frequently referred to by his colleagues in the news media as ' Kalle Blomkvist', a reference to a boy detective who appears in several of Lindgren's novels, because his first notable investigation is uncovering the hideout of a gang of bank robbers. Larsson stated in interviews that he based many characters, including that of Lisbeth Salander, on characters from Astrid Lindgren novels.

He is a main character of Larsson's award-winning Millennium series, along with Lisbeth Salander. Mikael Blomkvist is a fictional character created by Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson. Mikael Blomkvist, as portrayed by Michael Nyqvist

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson