This was our book group selection for May, and a very popular choice.
Mikael Blomkvist is a journalist, recently convicted of libel against a leading Swedish businessman. When he is hired to investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl over forty years previously he finds himself entangled with dark secrets and even darker characters. He enlists the brilliant but troubled Lisbeth Salander to help him with his search for the truth, bringing unique and often unorthodox talents with her.
There has been a huge amount of hype surrounding this book and I found that it lived up to this hype. In some ways it has been done before - corporate crime, crusading journalist, misfit sidekick, disfunctional family with dreadful secrets, extreme sexual violence and depravity, cryptic clues hidden in biblical references - but the whole is greater than the sum of the parts in this case. The backdrop of small town Sweden brings a refreshing element to the story and an atmospheric bleakness underlying the narative.
As this book is a substantial 644 pages long I am counting this toward the Four Month Reading Challenge - read a book with over 500 pages.
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