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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Steig Larsson.

Damn, yet another novel to make me grieve the loss of this fine storyteller. I love the continuation of the relationship between Lisbeth & Blomkvist, how it revolves and evolves. I especially enjoyed the continuation from The Girl Who Played With Fire, and the evolution of issues created in the novel. I hesitate to write too much in an effort to avoid giving the story away but there were several moments when I was cheering.

I am curious if another novel is to come out, I have read that there is another in the "Trilogy" series, that it was on Mr. Larsson's laptop at the time of his death but that his estate was being challenged yada yada yada.

So I'm curious if there will be another & overly curious about some of the characters and relationships that were created in this novel. For instance, Zalachenko had something like 9 children all together & we only know about three and one of them is still a mystery, Lisbeth's twin sister. I'm curious as to how Lisbeth may evolve, does she really have Asperger's Syndrome or has she been shit on so many times in life that she really did turn away from society & relationships within society in an effort to protect herself? What is going to happen to her relationship with Blomkvist & what's going to happen with his new relationship with Monica, I don't have a good feeling about this relationship by the way. She seems to have gotten caught up in him very quickly for a strong independent woman...somethings fishy.

Again!

The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson.

Yes! Another fantastic read by Stieg Larsson, why o why did he have to die? My original thoughts were that because of occurrences in the first novel I already had this second novel figured out. How wrong I was!

Again, this novel had me guessing until the end with many layered twists and turns between the first page and the last.

The main characters are the same, Lisbeth, the girl with the dragon tattoo, and Michael, the political journalist with the heart of gold. This time the mystery had more to do with Lisbeth. Was she a multiple murderess or being framed? Who is Zala, a Kaiser Soze type character?

For much of the story Lisbeth is absent, leaving the reader to question her innocence. Then she uses her prodigious hacking skills to infiltrate Michael's computer with messages leaving just enough information to keep him searching while she is also conducting her own investigation.

Kudos to Stieg Larsson for another drug-like, well written suspenseful novel. Now bring the third in this series to the U.S.!