Weekend Reading – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

If you're looking for a good read check out The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. If you can get through about the first 40 pages or so – fasten your seatbelt!

I'm not very far past where it really starts to pulse but I can't put it down. The first part of the novel sets up a dense plot that takes some getting used to. It's set it Sweden and the author is Swedish so many of the places and spellings are unfamiliar. It's worth giving it time to get used to.

From Amazon:

"Henrik Vanger, an elderly Swedish industrialist, has long been receiving the same anonymous gift on his birthday: a single framed flower. He is convinced the series of flowers has something to do with his great-niece Harriet who vanished decades ago in mysterious circumstances when she was just 16.

Vanger coerces a disgraced and prison-bound journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, to do some research into the disappearance. In exchange for information on his niece, Vanger promises Blomkvist enough dirt to take down the rich man who is sending him to jail.

So begins "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," a blockbuster best-seller in Europe. As Blomkvist moves closer to the truth, he teams up with the titular character, a tattooed detective named Lisbeth Salander who's the real star of the show. Together they uncover things that stun even Blomkvist, a crusading financial reporter who thought he knew all there was to know about the rot of corruption, the myriad abuses of power and the darkest sides of ourselves."

One heck of a good way to spend a chilly Saturday afternoon! Bring it on!