I just finished reading the Millennium series by Stieg Larsson. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest. I think these are fantastic novels, incredibly well written and seemingly well researched. Stieg Larsson, who has passed away after finishing the writing the series, but before they were published was a Swedish journalist who was a prominent anti racist journalist in Sweden. So far as I am aware his novels were not based on any one article or case that he worked on, but I would certainly imagine that the ideas for these novels were drawn from his work as a journalist.
The original Swedish name of the first book, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, was Men Who Hate Women. This title ought to give an indication as to what this book may be about. I don't want to give too much away, assuming of course that there is anyone reading this blog, I wouldn't want to ruin it for those of you who may now be interested in reading the books. A basic synopsis of the first novel is that it is a detective story about a journalist who is hired to discover the whereabouts of a long lost family member of an old patriarch. The journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, hires a young woman as a research assistance and together they discover some fairly traumatic family secrets in the hunt for the missing girl. The other two novels focus more specifically on the research assistance and her own skeletons in the closet.
Personally I thought these novels were fantastic, but I would warn you that I don't believe them to be for the faint hearted. Normally when i like a book I recommend them to one and all, but in this instance I have found myself being somewhat hesitant to recommend them to one and all.
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