The only story he has involves a stock market crash believed to be caused by troll factories, though a lack of evidence has left him uninterested.

Eyewitness accounts, including reporter Catrin Lindas, who Blomkvist starts dating, suggest the man knew something about controversial Minister of Defense Johannes Forsell.

With help from Salander, Lindas, and the police, Blomkvist figures out that the man was Nima Rita, a Sherpa who was a guide on an Everest expedition Forsell was part of where billionaire Klara Engelman died.

Camilla's hacker Jurij Bogdanov, fed up with her, leads Salander to the factory and in the ensuing fight, she disfigures her sister's face.

Blomkvist finishes his story about the stock market crash with a caveat about the culprit added by Salander, who burns down her childhood home to move on.

[3] The Guardian felt that while Lagercrantz’s prose is more serviceable than the peculiarly clodhopping original writing, by this point the main characters have, sadly, become subject to the law of diminishing returns – in particular Salander, who is now just another all-purpose kick-ass heroine.