The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Larsson's Stockholm is a city of investigative journalism and cold money, centred on Södermalm: the Millennium magazine on Götgatan, a reporter's attic on Bellmansgatan, a hacker's flat above Mosebacke. From there the story makes one long excursion north, to the invented island of Hedeby in the river country beyond Gävle, and back again to settle scores in the capital's finance world.

Mikael Blomkvist

The libel court, Kungsholmen

Part 1

The story opens with the public disgrace of a financial journalist, convicted of libel after an exposé of a corporate magnate falls apart under him. The verdict sends him out of the courtroom with his reputation and his magazine in ruins. Stockholm's courts sit on Kungsholmen, the island most tied to the city's money and legal power.

Part 1

inferred The novel does not name the courthouse. This marks Stockholm District Court on Kungsholmen, the island of the city's law and finance worlds, where a Stockholm libel case would be heard.

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Mikael Blomkvist

The Millennium offices, Götgatan

Part 1

The small investigative monthly at the heart of the book keeps its newsroom on Götgatan, one of Södermalm's busy shopping streets. It is the journalist's real home and the venture he spends the story trying to save. Larsson set it in a part of Söder he knew well, near where his own magazine once had its offices.

Part 1

inferred Millennium is a fictional magazine. The novels place its newsroom on Götgatan, a real Södermalm street; this sites it at the Götgatan and Hökens gata corner that readers and the screen versions use.

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Mikael Blomkvist

Blomkvist's flat, Bellmansgatan

Part 1

The journalist lives in an attic flat on Bellmansgatan, high on Södermalm, reached by a walkway that crosses above the street. The book names the street, and the real building at Bellmansgatan 1 has become a fixed stop for readers walking the city of the novel.

Part 1

explicit Named in the book.

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