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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson
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mystery crime thriller past tense third limited POV ~663 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

oppressive paranoid bleak

A dark mystery. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Plot-driven. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence, sexual content.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 80
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 60
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 90
intimateepic

Content

Violence 95%
noneextreme
Sexual content 90%
noneexplicit
Humor 10%
seriouscomedic
Romance 30%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count165,732
Page count~663 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited

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