The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

This NY Times bestseller and motion picture is undoubtedly one of the best international books I have yet to read. Taking place in Sweden, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo tells the story of Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, ruthless computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate.From the vulgarity, to the violence, and the suspense, this book shows that authors can publish a book and make millions off of it even after they've been dead for almost twenty years. I read the book prior to seeing the movie and I personally believe that Steig Larsson's work provides the reader with a better imagination of what Sweden looks like and how intense a dark night in a Scandinavian winter can be. He also tells more gruesome details than what the movie has to offer. I am on the second book in the trilogy and I wold advise anyone who hasn't read these yet to join me and get to it!