My holiday reading concluded with another dive into the Nordic thriller genre. This time I tried the best selling novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. This is the first book in a trilogy that are now all available in English. The underlying theme of this book is violence against women, which seems to be a real problem in Sweden. The book opens with Mikael Blomkvist, a financial journalist, having just been successfully sued for liable. After his conviction, he takes a break to work on the family history of a very eccentric and rich Swedish industrialist. Along with this assignment he is tasked with finding any new insight he can into a 40 year-old murder case. As you can imagine the book takes a lot of interesting twists and turns with this murder mystery. Then just when you think they story is over, there is a second chapter that circles back to the original libel case.
At almost 600 pages, this book is a page turner. You may loose a lot of sleep trying to get to a good stopping point once you get started. Unfortunately Stieg Larsson died in 2004, shortly after delivering the manuscripts for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, but at least there are two more books to tackle.
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