Prologue

• Statue of Boudicca Westerminster Bridge

  Boudicca is honoured with a statue on the Thames at Westminster Bridge, ...

Chapter 2

• Alingsås

  The missing patrol car was found in Alingsås early this morning.

• City Hotel, Lorensbergsgatan, Göteborg

  Blomkvist thanked him and took a taxi to City Hotel on Lorensbergsgatan.

• Ernst Fontells Plats

  They were to take a taxi to police headquarters on Ernst Fontells Plats, ...

• Göteborg Central Station

  Modig and Holmberg arrived at Göteborg Central Station just after 8.00 a.m.

• Advokat

  Advokat – lawyer as a profession, here also used as the title of a lawyer (like ‘Doctor’, ‘Mr.’, ‘Mrs.’ etc.).

• Paolo Roberto

  Roberto, Paolo (1969-) – Swedish ex-boxer and actor who played himself in the Swedish film version of “The Girl Who ...

• Säpo

  Säpo, Säkerhetspolisen – the Security Police (MI5/6, FBI/CIA). As the National Security Service's areas of ...

• Svenska Morgon-Posten (S.M.P.)

  Svenska Morgon-Posten F - fictional quality morning newspaper.

Chapter 4

• City Hall, Stockholm

  He took the tunnelbana to City Hall, walked to police headquarters on ...

• Järna

  Viktor Göransson was the club’s treasurer and financial expert, who lived ...

• Kumla prison

  He had met Lundin at Kumla prison in the early nineties. He was the only ...

• Nyköping

  Where are you?”“Nyköping.”“What the fuck are you doing in ...

• Örebro

  “Sure. But the serial number shows that the pistol was stolen four years ...

• Puerto Banús, Spain

  It had eventually been established that the warehouse was owned by the ...

• Södertälje police station

  Nieminen was in a vile mood when he left the cells at Södertälje police ...

• Strängnäs

  The incident in Stallarholmen was connected with the discoveries at ...

• Göteborg's Rapé Snuff

  Göteborg’s Rapé snuff – Swedish wet snuff, available in portions sachets, normally for use under your upper lip.

• S.I.S. (Swedish Internal Security)

  FICTIONAL

Chapter 6

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  Artillerigatan

  Then he took a taxi to Artillerigatan in Östermalm.

• Bromma

  Gullberg went down to Stureplan and hailed a taxi. He gave the driver an ...

• Frey’s café

  Gullberg had a single slice of bread and a cup of black coffee in Frey’s ...

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  Stureplan

  Gullberg went down to Stureplan and hailed a taxi. He gave the driver an ...

• Kronan

  Kronan – Major Swedish warship that was sunk in the Battle of Öland in 1676. Its wreck was located in 1980 by ...

• Wasa

  Wasa (the Vasa) – Swedish warship which foundered on its maiden voyage in 1628. She fell into oblivion but was ...

Chapter 8

• Café Copacabana

  When Blomkvist left Café Copacabana next to the Kvarter cinema at ...

• 

  Café Rosso

  Exactly twenty seconds after Blomkvist left Café Copacabana, Malm raised ...

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  Kronoberg prison

  As soon as the doctors discharged her, she would be transferred to ...

• Långholmsgatan

  He sauntered after the man tailing Blomkvist even though he had not been ...

• Vittangigaten

  A call to the national vehicle register revealed that the car belonged to a ...

• Rosenbad

  Rosenbad – art nouveau building from 1902 in the centre of Stockholm, now housing the Prime Minister's Office and ...

Chapter 10

• Angered

  Baksi spoke for a short while before he hung up.“Idris lives in Angered,” ...

• 

  Gustav Adolfs Torg

  He turned off both his mobiles and walked through the Galleria to Gustav ...

• 

  N.K. department store (side ...

  Blomkvist did not see the grey Volvo on Monday, nor did he have the feeling ...

• Sjöbo

  During that period the Sjöbo debate[5] had been conducted in Sweden, ...

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  The Academic bookshop

  Blomkvist did not see the grey Volvo on Monday, nor did he have the feeling ...

• 

  The Galleria

  He turned off both his mobiles and walked through the Galleria to Gustav ...

• Upplands Väsby (refugee camp)/Carlslund

  Idris Ghidi landed at Arlanda airport in Sweden on 19 October, 1989. He did ...

• Birgit Friggebo

  Friggebo, Birgit (1941–) Swedish politician of the liberal People’s party (Folkpartiet). Minister in three ...

• Kurdo Baksi

  Baksi, Kurdo – a character in the Millennium trilogy but also a real-life friend of Stieg Larsson’s. Of Kurdish ...

• Per-Erik Åström

  Per-Erik Åström explains: ‘Save the Children Sweden began campaigning in the mid-1990s to make possession of child ...

• The Academic Bookshop

  The Academic Bookshop (Akademibokhandeln) – chain of book shops, the main shop located not far from N.K department ...

• The N.K. Department store

  N.K. (Nordiska Kompaniet) – quality department store established in Stockholm in 1902, receiving around 12 million ...

Chapter 12

• Dalarna

  Inspector Monica Figuerola, in spite of her unusual name, was born in ...

• Pontonjärgatan

  When she was finished she went home to her one-bedroom apartment on ...

• S:t Eriksplan

  By then it was 5.00 p.m. Figuerola locked all the material in her safe, ...

• Sunne

  “We’re following up on the robbery of the grocer’s in ...

• Värmland

  This was enough for Figuerola’s team to initiate the preliminary ...

• Cheese plane

  Cheese plane (or cheese slicer) – utensil for slicing (hard) cheese, very common in the Nordic countries.

• Gustavus Vasa

  Gustavus Vasa (1496-1560) – King Gustav I of Sweden from 1523 to his death and the country’s first autocratic ...

• Metro

  Metro – free newspaper intended for commuters and published by Swedish media company Metro international. It has 56 ...

• Stockholm City

  Stockholm City – free newspaper launched in 2002. A competitor of ‘Metro’ it was initially published daily, but ...

• The Swedish Helsinki Committee

  The Swedish Helsinki Committee (Svenska Helsingforskommittén för mänskliga rättigheter), today “Civil Rights ...

Chapter 14

• Brännkyrkagatan

  She sat still. In her rear-view mirror she saw the man in the blue overalls ...

• 

  Katarinavägen

  She bought a tin of Catch Dry snuff and went back out on to Södermalmstorg ...

• 

  Laurinska building

  The only spot from which the entrance door to the building could be ...

• 

  Milton Security.

  She simply called Milton Security and explained that she was looking for a ...

• Norrtull

  But he had retrained himself to be a locksmith (of all professions), and in ...

• Pryssgränd

  Straight ahead of her, on the steep slope down towards Pryssgränd, was ...

• 

  Pustegränd

  If she had a car parked down on Pryssgränd, Figuerola was out of luck. But ...

• 

  Riddarfjärden

  She looked up towards the roof of Bellmansgatan 1. She knew that ...

• The Bishop’s Arms pub Tavastgatan

  He turned left on to Tavastgatan at the Bishop’s Arms pub and parked at the ...

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  The Hilton, Slussen

  Figuerola decided to leave her car behind and turned left in the direction ...

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  The Maria lift

  The only spot from which the entrance door to the building could be ...

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  The Stadsmuseum

  Figuerola decided to leave her car behind and turned left in the direction ...

• Catch Dry Snuff

  Catch Dry Snuff – we are not sure about this one.

• Pressbyrån

  Pressbyrå kiosk, Pressbyrån – a very widespread brand of convenience store in Sweden.

• Stadsmuseum

  Stadsmuseum – the City of Stockholm museum at Slussen. Admission free. Provides Stieg Larsson walks around ...

• T.T.

  T.T. (Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå) – Swedish news agency founded in 1921.

Chapter 16

• Ambassador’s residence on Lange Voorhout

  Ambassador Janeryd was in no mood for small talk when he offered Blomkvist ...

• 

  Birger Jarlsgatan

  He got out at Birger Jarlsgatan at 10.55 and walked to Café Madeleine.

• Café Madeleine

  The message consisted of a single line:Café Madeleine, upper level, 11.00 ...

• Centraal Station, the Hague

• Dressman

  Blomkvist called from Café Madeleine on his anonymous mobile to book a ...

• 

  Hökens Gata

  He took the stairs down to the ground floor, but instead of going out on to ...

• Hotel des Indes, Lange Voorhout, the Hague

  He thanked Janeryd for the meeting and walked the short distance along ...

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  Hotel Sheraton

  “In the lobby of some hotel. Usually the Sheraton. Once at the Amaranth on ...

• Schiphol, Amsterdam

  The plane landed at Schiphol airport at 4.50, and by 6.30 he was checking ...

• The Amaranth

  “In the lobby of some hotel. Usually the Sheraton. Once at the Amaranth on ...

• The Arlanda Express (Central Station)

  He checked carefully to see that he was not being followed and hurried to ...

• The Hague

  It was Bertil K. Janeryd, now Swedish ambassador in the Hague. When it was ...

• 

  The Sturegalleria

  “Yes. I have to meet my husband and kids at the Sturegalleria in ten ...

• Bertil K. Janeryd

  Fictional character

Chapter 18

• Fisksätra

  "We have an agreement with a local security company, Adam Security in ...

• The Costa del Sol

  And – most disastrous of all – there was a video taken on holiday in the ...

• Adam Security

  Fictitious

Chapter 20

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  Åhléns department store

  Eriksson did not answer the telephone, but Blomkvist got lucky and caught ...

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  Armémuseum

  Jonas parked a block away from the Armémuseum. He walked across the street ...

• Bergsgatan

  She parked on Bergsgatan, took the lift up to Bublanski’s office, and ...

• Helsingörsgatan, Kista

  “Jonas Sandberg, born 1971. What did you say? Helsingörsgatan, Kista. ...

• 

  Holländargatan

  “He’s turning down Holländargatan. Hello… Car. Red ...

• 

  Nordic Light Hotel

  Figuerola parked beside the Nordic Light Hotel next to the Arlanda Express ...

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  P.U.B. department store

  “Opposite P.U.B. department store. He’s walking fast. Whoops, he’s turned ...

• 

  The Katarina Lift

  Blomkvist spent twenty-five minutes on the tunnelbana changing lines and ...

• 

  The Tre Remmare pub, Vasagatan

  I’ve got them. They’re sitting in the Tre Remmare pub on Vasagatan by the ...

• Vasagatan, Kungsgatan, Drottninggatan, ...

  The chase in central Stockholm. All the streets are around here.

• Åhléns department store

  Åhléns department store – Åhléns is a Swedish chain of department stores, established in 1899 as a mail order ...

• Housing association

  Housing association – refer to ‘cooperative apartment’, which lacks the slightly negative tone in British English. ...

• P.U.B. Department store

  P.U.B. department store (named after founder Paul Urban Bergström) – established at Hötorget in 1882. In the early ...

• S.I.F.

  S.I.F. – Swedish union of professional employees established in 1920. In 2007 it merged with H.T.F. and turned into ...

• The Academy Bookshop

  The Academy Bookshop (Akademibokhandeln) – chain of book shops, the main shop located not far from N.K department store.

Chapter 22

• Vaxholm

  Berger spent the rest of the morning calling the board members of S.M.P. ...

Chapter 24

• Drottningholm

  Blomkvist and Berger were lodged on the top floor of a safe house just ...

• Hallunda

  “Correct. G.B.H. About a year ago. A street fight down in Hallunda.”

• Husarö

  That day she had been busily finishing up one or two routine matters so she ...

• 

  Riddarholmen

  As they passed Riddarholmen, Edklinth called to tell them that neither ...

• 

  Samir’s Cauldron

  He’s supposed to be meeting Erika Berger at Samir’s Cauldron,” Figuerola ...

• 

  St Göran’s (hospital)

  “I’ll take you to A.&E. at St Göran’s.”

• Knutby

  Knutby – village to the east of Uppsala, where a much-publicized murder and an attempted murder were committed in ...

• Konsum

  Konsum – chain of supermarkets belonging to the Coop Norden (Nordic) group. Historically, Konsum has been ...

• She

  Fictional – even though Larsson could possibly be referring to a programme hosted by Malou von Sivers.

Chapter 26

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  The Mäster Anders restaurant, ...

  Andersson was accompanied by two uniformed officers when he placed his huge ...

Chapter 28

• Magge

  Magge – (not very common) short form for Magnus