Book review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Author: Stieg Larsson Subject: Crime fiction Year: 2008 ISBN: 9781906694661 This book well deserves its reputation as being the best crime fiction for over a decade. It all began with outspoken Swedish journalist Mikael Blomkvist being sent to jail for allegedly defaming local tycoon Hans-Erik Wennerström. During this abysmal point in his life, retired national mogul Henrik Vanger approached him and invited him to Hedeby, a small, seclusive island in northern Sweden inhabited by the Vanger family. There Henrik offered Blomkvist a strange job - to solve the mysterious missing, or apparent murder, of his niece Harriet Vanger, happening over 40 years ago. Lured by the exceptionally generous remuneration and Henrik's promise to help avenge Wennerström, Blomkvist reluctantly took up the task and started to investi...