Lisbeth SalanderRead about another entry on the list.
The heroine of Stieg Larsson's trilogy about a girl with a dragon tattoo has—surprise!—a great big tattoo of a dragon adorning her shapely back.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo made Rebecca Jane Stokes's top ten list of books about women in peril…who fought back, Maureen Corrigan's top five list of crime & mystery novels of 2008, Camilla Läckberg's top ten list of Swedish crime novels, and is one of Lynda Bellingham's six best books. The Millennium Trilogy is one of Ken Follett's five best trilogies, and Lisbeth Salander is among Panayiota Kuvetakis's top ten fictional female friends we'd like to have as anything close to real-life friends and Anne Holt's top ten female detectives.
--Marshal Zeringue