Sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Mikael Blomkvist’s Millennium magazine is about to publish an exposé of sex traf­fick­ing in Sweden, when the two re­searchers are gunned down. Lisabeth Salendar’s prints are on the gun and she im­me­di­ate­ly becomes the most wanted woman in Sweden—but it’s not so easy to catch her. We learn a great deal about Salander’s traumatic past by the end of the book.

While the book is en­thralling—I read it in less than a day—it’s not especially well-written. The plot is often ludicrous, relying heavily on improbable co­in­ci­dences, and the characters can be im­plau­si­ble. Even so, I scarcely put the book down until I finished it.