The Girl Who Played With Fire

The Girl Who Played With Fire (2006) by Stieg Larsson. Lisbeth Salander from "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" returns, this time as a free agent, self-employed, who gets accused of murder because she's in the wrong place at the wrong time. Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is also back, but he's not the central character in the book this time. Larsson's take on the thriller, Sweden-style, has just about everything you could ask for -- action, intrigue, duplicity, sex, corruption. It's fast-moving, and even at 500 pages is a relatively quick read. I look forward to reading the third book in the trilogy. Grade: A-