This book was so good!  I loved the first one by Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and this followed the two main characters from that book, a year later.

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is planning another massive expose, this time about the exploitation of eastern European women in the underground Swedish sex trade.  A couple are working on the story of the decade - Mia is writing her PhD into the topic and her husband is making her paper into a book and cover article for Millenium.  The book and article are going to be filled of shocking revelations - police, journalists, politicians - tens of high profile people paying for illegal sex will be named and shamed.

But then they accidentally uncover something that has been hidden by the Swedish government for twenty years and they both end up dead - shot execution style in the head.  The gun used to kill them has Lisbeth Salander’s fingerprints on it.  When the police try to contact her guardian, he turns up dead. How does the expose on Swedish sex slavery link with Lisbeth and her disturbed past?

Gripping read!  I can’t believe the next one is still in hardback and I have to wait until April of next year to get the paperback!  It ends on such a cliff hanger - what’s going to happen next!?

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson