The Girl with the Sturgeon Tattoo: A Parody
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ISBN: 0312610505 / Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, August 2011
A parody of some of the most popular suspense stories finds investigator Mikeal Bloomberg hunting down clues in Stockholm, where a petite, tattooed ninja has been wrongly implicated in the murders of a Baltic sturgeon expert, an unpublished writer, and herds of female reindeer.
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Arguably the funniest novel to emerge from Northern Europe since the Black DeathA reindeer strangler has struck again; the world's leading authority on Baltic sturgeon has been filleted, and the head of Sweden's only unpublished thriller writer has been discovered some meters from his body. Just a typical day in Stockholm's crime log? Or are the murders the works of a single killer? Chief Inspector Svenjamin Bubbles has a suspect: Lizzy Salamander, Scandinavia's most heavily tattooed girl-sociopath and hacker extraordinaire.Mikael Blomberg believes Salamander has been framed. But if Salamander is innocent, who is the 4'10" girl ninja captured on a surveillance camera decapitating the failed novelist? And what has become of the unpublished manuscript that claimed to connect Sweden's most eco-friendly corporations to the twentieth century's greatest tyrant?A shocking story of corruption and perversion that reaches to the highest echelons of the world's largest producer of inexpensive ready-to-assemble wooden bookcases, The Girl with the Sturgeon Tattoo delivers a hilarious—and gripping—parody of the best-selling novels by Stieg Larsson.
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