Book Review

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. A big book with 841 pages, I wondered at first if I could get through it but it was not a problem, the book was so well written and full of interest with competing stories to twist your mind around- a bit of romance along with a disappearance of a young teen aged girl and an investigation into the criminal activities of a world wide company. All this takes place in Sweden where a journalist has been tried and sentenced to prison for libel against the huge company and its owner. What he had to say in his financial magazine was true but he said it without a reasonable amount of proof.
The disappearance of another very rich man's granddaughter is the major story line. The grandfather hires the disgraced journalist to determine what happened to his granddaughter over 40 years ago. The journalist investigator who does not think he can uncover what happened , takes on the job as the compensation is very rich. In return for finding and uncovering the mystery the grandfather has promised to give the journalist incontrovertible proof of the criminal activities of the owner of the huge company. The journalist hires a unique young woman as his research assistant, I found her a symapthetic character. These are the major players in this story , there are other interesting characters apart from the real villain in the piece such as a serial killer who does not really make an appearance until much later in the story. I have not mentioned names as they are all Swedish names and it takes a bit of reading to get used to the look and mental sound of them, but it can be accomplished. This book is a page turner, it reads very well and the story is well constructed. This is an excellent mystery and I intend to read another of Larsson's books with the same main characters.
Read a good book tonight....:>)