The Girl in the Spider’s Web, the new book in the Millennium Series, is available now!Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive … decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled genius hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, which forces her to face her dark past.
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Steig Larsson was a terrific writer and the three fiction books he wrote are all great. A tragedy that he died so young.
A singular book on its own, but also part of a great trilogy.
Great book loved the characters. Worth reading entire series.
You don’t have to read the series to appreciate this book. Helpful for background but as stand alone as well written individual books.
Love this series!!
Excellent book in an excellent series. There is depth and originality to both plot and characters.
Loved this book
Loved reading this book. Had enough mystery and elements of surprise to keep me in my “can’t put it down mode.” Great characters with descriptive elements and wonderfully unpredictable.
Intense!
A gritty, gripping, intense thriller which kept me guessing until the last sentence. A white knuckle novel for sure.
As I have already reviewed the first of these books. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. All I can say, is read them all. They slam you into the wall, and you never peel off.
The second book in the Millennium trilogy picks up a year after Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist pulled off their various coups. Lisbeth has been traveling, but suddenly a dangerous thug seems to be trailing her. Through a strange course of events, Lisbeth is wanted by the police for murder.
I enjoyed this second installment in the trilogy significantly more than the first one. This book deals more with Lisbeth than with Mikael, and she is by far the more interesting character. Mikael, after all, is a man who liked going to prison because he found it “restful.” This book delves into some of the issues of Lisbeth’s past, especially a devastating event that is mysteriously absent from her social services file.
This book is absolutely bursting with suspense, and this was a book I literally couldn’t stop reading. I was desperate to see how all of the pieces fit together. Who is the mysterious giant? What happened in Lisbeth’s past? Finishing this book made me want to start the next one immediately.