Seit sechs Jahren wird der Massenmörder Dr. Hannibal Lecter in der geschlossenen Abteilung einer psychiatrischen Klinik hermetisch...

Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him. Hannibal’s uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle’s beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki. But Hannibal’s demons visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn. He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic, and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes death’s prodigy.

Welches grausame Erlebnis machte Hannibal Lecter zum blutrünstigen "Kannibalen"? Wie wurde der hochbegabte Junge zur berühmt-berüchtigten Bestie? Thomas Harris führt uns in die Kindheit des genialen, äußerst kultivierten und monströsen Serienkillers. Er enthüllt den Albtraum, den der Elfjährige kurz vor Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs erlebt und der ihn bald zu eigenen Gräueltaten treibt.

There's a killer on the loose who knows that beauty is only skin deep, and a trainee investigator who's trying to save her own hide. The only man that can help is locked in an asylum. But he's willing to put a brave face on, if it will help him escape.

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate.