The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a suspenseful page-turner. Although it deals with some lurid sex crimes, I didn’t feel the topic was exploited.

The characters are pretty well fleshed out, but I was disappointed to meet yet another fictional character with eidetic memory. Here, it really wasn’t even necessary as a plot device. Despite the quibble, I’m adding Larsson’s other books to my reading list.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first in a trilogy of mysteries set in Sweden by author Stieg Larsson. Mr Larsson was a journalist who died in 2004 of a sudden heart attack. This book is dark and intriguing. We meet and get to know the 2 main characters, a playboy journalist named Mikael Blomkvist and the title character Lizbeth Salander.

As I read I could picture the movie. Can’t wait for the next one.