The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Everyone has read this or seen the movie, so I decided to jump on the bandwagon. I had no idea it took place in Sweden or that it's such a smart book. This story has layers and it's engrossing as hell and even shocking, in a sexual way.
Mikael Blomkvist is a financial reporter for the magazine Millenium and he loses a trial for libel against a titan of industry, Wennerstrom. Once the verdict comes down, he receives a call from a former titan of industry who is now in his 80s, Henrik Vanger, to pay him a visit and entertain a freelance job offer. He will be paid a sum in the millions if he stays on Vanger's estate in a sparsely populated island, and writes the Vanger family story while also investigating the long-ago murder of his grand-daughter, Harriet.
Meanwhile, Lisbeth Salanger, aka the girl with the dragon tattoo, is working as a private investigator for a security firm. She's asked by Vanger's lawyer to look into Blomkvist. That piques her interest in his case. Eventually she works side by side with him to solve the mystery of Harriet. What they discover is disgusting and shocking. And of course, everything ends up tying together.
The book covers finance, technology, and even some of the Bible, so it was a pretty daunting work to write. There's clearly room left for a sequel at the end (it's the first in a series).
General consensus: It was damn good and nearly impossible to put down.
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