The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
In a nutshell: Mikael Blomkvist, disgraced journalist, goes to a small Swedish village to work for Henrik Vanger, a rich industrialist and patriarch of the bizarre Vanger family, who is obsessed with the disappearance of his niece forty years earlier. Blomkvist investigates, helped by Lisbeth Salander, a delinquent hacker who follows no rules but her own...
The blurb: This is a very intricate book, and many storylines are neatly entwined around the main plot, which is the strange case of 16 year-old Harriet Vanger, who disappeared 40 years previously from an isolated island. Around this are many distinct, yet connecting, characters and stories, such as Blomkvist's career, families, financial corruption or physical abuse, which are thought-provoking and gripping. Salander's caracter is especially fascinating and complex.
IMHO this is a intelligent, addictive and multi-layered book that sucks you in gradually like a intricate game of chess. It is actually quite "slow" for about two hundred pages, but suddenly the characters and the settings click and the thriller part of the book begins. Part sophisticated thriller, part whodunnit, part exploration of a darker side of society, highly recommended.
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