The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
Bookviews’ Book of the Month for October was The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – a highly popular page turner with a unique set of characters and a wonderfully exciting plot. Well, Stieg Larsson’s sequel, The Girl Who Played With Fire is just as good, if not better than his first attempt.
Lisbeth Salander, the unique, at times bizarre and always fascinating young woman, introduced in his first book, is back and carrying on as she began.
The Plot: Dag Svensson, a young journalist, comes to Mikael Blomkvist and the Millennium (magazine) Board with a proposal: his fiance is writing her dissertation on the sex trade in Sweden and how it is supported by public and private officials who should know better. In order to expose this scandal widely, Svensson asks that Millennium devote its May issue to the sex trade and at the same time publish a book based on the dissertation. Needless to say, many important and several very dangerous folks object.
Because Lisbeth has been doing a bit of her own sleuthing, she becomes linked to this project and manages to become the primary suspect when three people (one of whom is h
er former guardian) are brutally murdered. Mikael and his magazine are determined to prove her innocent and to publish their expose no matter the cost.
The Wiki article on The Girl Who Played With Fire calls Lisbeth “a punk, avenging angel with boxing skills and a photographic memory.” Despite seeming to be amoral, Lisbeth has a fine-tuned sense of justice and a strict personal moral code upon which she will act (aggressively), if she feels she is right.
er former guardian) are brutally murdered. Mikael and his magazine are determined to prove her innocent and to publish their expose no matter the cost.The Wiki article on The Girl Who Played With Fire calls Lisbeth “a punk, avenging angel with boxing skills and a photographic memory.” Despite seeming to be amoral, Lisbeth has a fine-tuned sense of justice and a strict personal moral code upon which she will act (aggressively), if she feels she is right.
I highly recommend The Girl Who Played With Fire. It is a page turner to the very end.
A little bit about the author: Stieg Larsson, a noted Swedish journalist, activist and writer, died in November, 2004, of a heart attack. The three books that form the Millennium Crime Trilogy are being published posthumously. Book three is entitled The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest and is due to be published in May 2010. Meg
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