Caught In The Whirlwind
Books 19 & 20: The Girl Who…
Book 19: The Girl Who Played With Fire
Author: Stieg Larsson
Genre: Fiction (Crime/Mystery)
Pages: 630
Book 20: The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest
Author: Stieg Larsson
Genre: Fiction (Crime/Mystery)
Pages: 576
Summary
A few weeks before Dag Svensson, a freelance journalist, plans to publish a story that exposes important people involved in Sweden’s sex trafficking business based on research conducted by his girlfriend, Mia Johansson, a criminologist and gender studies scholar, the couple are shot to death in their Stockholm apartment. Salander, who has a history of violent tendencies, becomes the prime suspect after the police find her fingerprints on the murder weapon. This launches Blomkvist on a journey into Salander’s past in an attempt to clear her name (if, in fact her name should be cleared).
Notes
These books really should be read as one unit. In fact, the end of The Girl Who Played With Fire is such an evil cliffhanger I would have been a little angry at having to wait for the third book to see what happened.
It’s very much in the same vein as The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and if you liked reading that book you will enjoy these two as well. Pretty much everything I had to say in my previous review applies here as well. I was pleased to find that the issues with the translation that I had with the first book were largely gone.
Sadly, my “Oh come on!!!” computer hacking reactions were back here too.
Next Book
I feel behind a bit with my posting so I’ve just finished World War Z by Max Brooks, which will appear in a separate post.
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