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motive
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
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- The motive for the murders is still unknown.†
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- "We don't know the motive for the murders," Blomkvist said.†
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- If suppressing Dag's articles—or Mia's dissertation, for that matter—was the motive for the murders, then we have to beef up security here in the office.†
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- How likely do you think it is that Dag's book was the motive for the murders?†
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- You'll take care of that part, looking for a motive for the murders in all the material Dag gave us.†
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- What do we know about the motive?†
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- Who were they, what were they working on, who was in their circle of friends, who might have had a motive to kill them?†
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- And he had to make up his mind whether there was anything in the material that might hint at a motive for murder.†
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- We don't have a motive for the murders.†
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- If it's not a random killing, then there has to be a motive.†
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- And the more I think about it, the more it feels as if this manuscript provides a damned good motive.†
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- Can you think of any motive for the murders of Svensson and Johansson?†
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- The technical examination would not contain a syllable about who the killer was or what motive he or she—a woman was now the prime suspect—might have had for the murders.†
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- But it strikes me that Johansson's thesis having been on trafficking and prostitution, there's a possibility that in her work she made contact with Salander and this Wu and in some way provoked them, and that this might somehow constitute a motive for murder.†
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- What motive did she have for the murders?†
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- Bublanski took the microphone and said, "We will not speculate as to possible motives."†
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- We have no motive for Bjurman and nothing to say that she knew the couple in Enskede.†
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- How much of a motive does a psychotic nutcase need?†
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- Are we possibly looking at a motive?†
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- Blomkvist and Eriksson had made a list of the people who might theoretically have had a motive for killing Svensson.†
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- They would be satisfied if they could find a motive, but failing that, they were ready to call it an act of insanity.†
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- Neither Blomkvist nor Berger will speculate about who might be guilty of the murders, or what motive might lie behind them.†
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- And that would be a motive for murder.†
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- That may be your motive for Salander to commit murder.†
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- We've been focusing too much on the hunt for Salander, and so far we don't have a clue about the motive.†
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- But so far we have no motive.†
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- Blomkvist is certainly right that several people named in the book have a motive for murder.†
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- If she did turn out to be innocent...Who do you think would have a motive for killing both her guardian and your two friends?†
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- On the other hand, several newspapers floated the theory that since Mia Johansson's thesis dealt with the sex trade, this might be Salander's motive for the murders, on the grounds that—according to the social welfare agency—she was a prostitute.†
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- For one thing, she had no motive—†
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- She had a motive, known only to Björck and perhaps two or three other people in the whole country.†
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- The motive for the murder is still unclear.†
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- We assume that Salander is a psychopath, but even psychopaths need motives.†
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- The second realization was that Blomkvist's theory about Svensson's research providing a motive for murder was completely valid.†
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- Even if a motive for the murders of Svensson and Johansson was still unclear, Salander had been at the crime scene and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon.†
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- There was a personal connection and a possible motive—the decoration on Bjurman's abdomen raised the possibility of some form of sexual assault or a sadomasochistic relationship between the two.†
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- Two completely separate motives?†
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- He had immediately assumed that Svensson's investigative reporting about sex trafficking was the only plausible motive for the murders.†
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- Could there be more than one motive?†
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- Could Lisbeth Salander be the motive?†
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- There was something still unexplored, but he couldn't explain exactly what he meant by the idea that Salander herself could be a motive for murder.†
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- Who would have had a motive to murder Salander's guardian?†
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- I'm probably one of the few people in the country right now who unhesitatingly, and without an ulterior motive, is on her side.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(motive as in: What is her motive?) a reason for doing something
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, motive can refer to something that causes motion in an inanimate object. Even less commonly, it can refer to a distinctive feature in music, art, or literature.