The Girl Who Played With Fire
by Stieg Larsson
Lisbeth Salander, a troubled young woman who can play a computer the way Tommy Emmanuel can play an acoustic guitar, has used her talents, quite illegally and untraceably, to make herself a wealthy woman. It should almost be the happily-ever-after end of the story, except that her fingerprints have been found on a gun used to kill a pair of researchers on the eve of their publication of an expose on sex slavery in Scandinavia.
Respected journalist Michael Blomqvist doesn't think Salander had anything to do with it. He had a relationship with her some time back, and he knows all too well what she is capable of-or more importantly, what she is not capable of. Blomqvist's relationship with Salander ended badly, and she doesn't trust him any further than she can spit, but with or without her help, Blomqvist intends to clear her name, and perhaps in the process figure out just what went wrong between the two of them. Blomqvist's only ally is an elderly hospitalized man of limited communication capacity, Salander's onetime advocate. Together, the men launch a investigation parallel to the official one, an investigation without the foregone conclusions that seem to characterize the police work in the case.
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