GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Stieg Larsson (Vintage, 2009)
A national bestseller loaded with the signature aspects of a suspenseful crime novel including sexual exploits, dark family secrets, slowly revealed mysteries, ghastly torture and grisly murder. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the novel is that the Swedish author died in 2004 under suspicious circumstances, and his work is only now being published posthumously. In this first installment of Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy crime series, a Swedish-Casanova-investigative-journalist is charged with uncovering a family’s torrid past amidst his own libelous scandal involving a corrupt, billionaire, international financier. Eventually he pairs up with a young-tattooed-goth-hacker and together they untangle a 40-year old island murder mystery. While the language (albeit in translation from Swedish) is often artless and the hero-less story is undercut with a relentless and ugly thread of misogyny, the book is still a page-turner that keeps the reader hooked until all shocking and bloody truths are revealed (8/10).
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