Best crime thriller I have read in the longest time, multiplied by 3, since there are different plots involving the same set of characters in 3 separate tomes. Stieg Larsson was a Swedish writer (he died in 2004) and a well-known expert on antidemocratic right-wing extremist and Nazi organisations. His first book, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, featured some characters who were Nazi fanatics. "The Girl" in the trilogy refers to Lisbeth Salander who is a twenty-something delinquent prodigy with tons of tattoos, a photographic memory and an uncanny abstract reasoning power. I read the first book in 2 days, most of the time with my heart thumping along as the protagonist Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist, and his spiky spunky research assistant Lisbeth, first introduced here and would become the lead in the subsequent books, went digging into the mysterious disappearance of Harriet Vanger, scion of one of Swedish wealthiest families, over forty years ago. I am now into the second book, The Girl who played with Fire, which features sex trafficking and a murder mystery, and I can't wait to get my hands on the last one, The Girl who kicked the Hornet's Nest, supposedly a direct sequel to the second book.
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