Hitting the train stations with a storm is The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo trilogy by Stieg Larsson. Swarms of comuters clutch the recent top of the charts book and loose themselves in Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander's scandalous lives.
The three books ( The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest) where left unpublished at the time of Larsson's death in November 2004 and since have become a hit over Europe and America with several translations.
Michael Blomkvist is the financial magazine Millennium's chief editor and journalist. Facing the ultimate court case accused of libel and slander he takes time out and is hired by an old buinessman to investigate the mystery of his missing niece.
Lisbeth Salander has the world against her, she works for a company using her computer techniques to gather files of detailed information on selected people. Blomkvist recruits Salander to help him solve the mystery.
I read the first book over the course of 2 weeks, and I love books that are thick that i don’t finish within the day. Perfectly keeping the ending hidden with his gripping style of writing, Larsson kept me on edge, constantly trying my best to decipher the ending. Constantly trying to solve the mystery.
The first chapter is incredibly hard to get into. The use of Swedish names and places gets extremly confusing but after a while when you begin to recognise the characters getting hooked to the storyline is inevitable.
There is a reason that everyone is or has read this book. Five stars out of 5.
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