By: Stieg Larrson
Genre: Crime Fiction
Stars: 5 out of 5
A year after the Wennerstrom affair we find Lisbeth Salander in the Caribbean; after a year of traveling she returns to find that people are after her. Mikael Blomkvist is working on a special issue of Millennium about Sweden’s sex trafficking and he has hired a man and his partner to write pieces for it. A few weeks before the issue and the book is supposed to be published the couple are found dead in their apartment. And they find Lisbeth’s fingerprints on the murder weapon. Now Mikael must pursue his own investigation of the murders and the sex trafficking to not only find out the killer but clear Lisbeth’s name. All the while Lisbeth is being hunted down for the murders. Therefore, she must undergo her own investigation and finish something she started when she was twelve.
The second installment of the Millennium Trilogy is certainly a page turner. You have three investigations and therefore many perspectives of the same story being pursued at the same time and a lot of dirty secrets being exposed. We learn a lot more about Larrson’s protagonist Lisbeth Salander and her past that she has tried to avoid all of her life. Instead of explaining a lot of Swedish financial things in the first hundred pages, Larrson jumps right into his story; from the end of the prologue I was hooked. And he keeps you hooked throughout the rest of the novel, until the cliffhanger at the end. I really recommend this book to anyone and everyone. Someone on the bus saw me reading this book and I strongly recommended it to him! I am usually a skeptic when it comes to mainstream fiction but Stieg Larrson is a terrific writer and has an intriguing story line. Seriously readers of this blog, if you haven’t already read these books, read them!
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