If you don’t like romantic novels don’t be put off by the title. It doesn’t have anything to do with lovers. It is a novel that you will easily get hooked on.
Mikael Blomkvist is a journalist working for a Swedish magazine that gets involved in a hard investigation.
A girl is missing and his family is trying to find out why. She disappears on an island where almost everybody is member of her own family. Was the girl murdered? Was she kidnapped? Did she escape from someone or something?
Mikael Blomkvist, collaborating with Lisbeth Salander, a young, qualified private investigator moves to the isolated island and begins to make the residents uncomfortable.
This is not only the chronicle of the Vanger family´s conflicts, the other ingredients are sexual perversion, financial speculation and crime.
The characters are very well-drawn and the descriptions of the places are very convincing and it is easy to imagine what they look like. It´s a gripping novel and full of intrigue.
I´ve really enjoyed this book and I recommend it to everybody wanting to have a good time reading. I would absolutely describe it as a page-turner.