GUEST BLOG BY CHANGYUB TYLER LEE

Place A Hold

After reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, I quickly discovered that Stieg Larsson is a brilliant writer. I immediately picked up The Girl Who Played with Fire (book two of the trilogy) to continue reading his work, and I was not disappointed. This book revolves around the continuation of Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander’s lives—both audience favorites from the first book.

Mikael is close to publishing an exposé on sex trafficking, when his two friends are murdered. The tragedy not only affects Mikael personally, but also professionally, as he and his crew speculate that the murder could have a connection to preventing the release of the exposé. Mikael’s worries are heightened when he discovers that the police found Lisbeth Salander’s fingerprints on the murder weapon, thus linking her as the primary suspect. Mikael is convinced of his friend Lisbeth’s innocence. Unconvinced by the police allegations, Mikael runs his own investigation into the case to resolve the mystery.