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Stories Set in Stockholm
Fourteen islands, hacker dens, Nobel halls and archipelago summers — Stockholm does sleek and secret at once. These ten span Salander to Beck; filter the city's stories by era on StoryTerra's map.
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Browse 35 books, 91 movies, 2 TV shows and 2 games set in Stockholm.

Let the Right One In
Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg Stockholm twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider bullied at school by his classmates; at home Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his…

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist…

The Girl Who Played with Fire
Mikael Blomkvist publisher of Millennium magazine has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched…

The Girl Who Played with Fire
Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading…

The Wife
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson's internationally best-selling trilogy.Lisbeth Salander - the heart of Larsson's two previous novels - lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the…

The Square
A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.

Evil
Stockholm the fifties. Though academically bright violent pupil Erik Ponti is expelled from his state school with the headmaster’s words “there’s only one word for people like you – evil… what you need is a good…

The Girl in the Spider's Web
After being enlisted to recover a dangerous computer program hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies cybercriminals and corrupt government officials.

Summer with Monika
Monika from Stockholm falls in love with Harry a young man on holiday. When she becomes pregnant they are forced into a marriage which begins to fall apart soon after they take up residence in a cramped little flat.
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