"Everything in Blomkvist's background shows that he's a very careful reporter. Every controversial revelation he published before was always well documented. I went to court one day and listened. He seemed to have given up without a fight. That doesn't accord with his character at all. If we are to believe the court, he made up a story about Wennerström without a shred of evidence and published it like some sort of journalistic suicide bomber. That's simply not Blomkvist's style" (54-55)
Although Blomkvist isn't a criminal, what Lisbeth is doing is just like offender profiling also known as criminal profiling. Many today know this technique of investigating from shows such as Criminal Minds (2005) and Law & Order (1990s) as well as from the movie Silence of the Lambs (1991).
Criminal profiling is a combination of law enforcement and psychology. Without ever meeting the subject, through the use of criminal investigative analysis (also called investigative psychology) the psychologist is able to analyze them and determine a set predicted behavior. The psychologist can look at the crime scene, photos, clues and any current case evidence to build their profile. By creating a set routine or characterization of the subject, the investigators would be able to pick out pieces of new sections of the puzzle that don't match up; which could possibly eliminating the data all together, find a copy cat or in Lisbeth's case she was able pick out and pinpoint pieces of the puzzle that didn't quite fit.
Criminal profiling is a combination of law enforcement and psychology. Without ever meeting the subject, through the use of criminal investigative analysis (also called investigative psychology) the psychologist is able to analyze them and determine a set predicted behavior. The psychologist can look at the crime scene, photos, clues and any current case evidence to build their profile. By creating a set routine or characterization of the subject, the investigators would be able to pick out pieces of new sections of the puzzle that don't match up; which could possibly eliminating the data all together, find a copy cat or in Lisbeth's case she was able pick out and pinpoint pieces of the puzzle that didn't quite fit.