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The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest

May 22, 2010 – 12:43 pm

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Third and last in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series which a relative of mine refers to as the “Blomkvist/Salander crack cocaine of reading”. It does not disappoint. Having already read the first two (which by the way IS mandatory), you will breeze through all 576 pages – and in the end, be wishing for [...]

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The Girl Who Played With Fire

April 22, 2010 – 5:57 pm

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The second in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy and my favorite (so far). The story picks up with ‘punk hacker savant’ Lisbeth Salander being the prime suspect in the brutal murders of two journalists that were investigating a sex trafficking scandal. Salander, intent on clearing her name, must go underground to elude detection [...]

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A Reliable Wife

January 24, 2010 – 6:05 pm

 
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This book reads like a Bergman film. Set in northern Wisconsin in the late 1800’s, where the winters are harsh and people’s lives are bleak. Ralph Truitt, advertises for “a reliable wife”. What he gets is a woman bent on killing him for his money. This is not a pretty tale, just one [...]

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

August 10, 2009 – 8:45 am

This was my first Nordic thriller and all the reviews are correct. Very good and very creepy. Love Lisbeth and her messed up mind.
Book Author: Stieg Larsson
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