The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)

by Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland
4 Stars
Setting: Sweden
503 Pages
Published in 2006

Ellie's Review
I actually enjoyed this novel slightly more than the first in the series, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (you definitely need to read that first before this one). I had expected Larsson to stick with the same plot formula as he had in Dragon Tattoo (as so many crime drama authors tend to), but this was totally different! If you want to learn more about Lisbeth, read it.

Book Summary
Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposeé 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 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.