The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo follows a financial journalist who, on break from his job as a result of a scandal, ends up investigating the death of the niece of a CEO of a major corporation years after it happened.
For a crime novel, it definitely beats the likes of Sue Grafton and Patricia Cornwell. The plot is far more clever and intriguing and surprising than any other crime novel I'd picked up before (note this is a grand total of two, after which I mostly gave up on the genre). The events are brutal and intense. It definitely made a 15 hour car trip far less boring, and I was generally compelled to read more.
If you were looking for something profound and earth-shattering, as so many seem to claim, you will be sorely disappointed. Though the author preaches a bit about abuse of women and financial journalism in Sweden, and we gain some degree of fascinating insight into the country through it, that part is little more than interesting information we could have read on Wikipedia. The characters, language, and similar elements in the book were enough to support the plot but nothing special.
Overall the novel is a well-done mystery with an interesting peep into Swedish culture.
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