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The Girl Who Played With Fire

The Girl Who Played With Fire is the second chapter in the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson that follows closely on the tail of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. She would be Lisbeth Salander (the angular beauty Noomi Rapace) who feels the need to come home from her tropical hideout where she escaped after the first leg of this engrossing saga. She returns to Stockholm to further button down Nils Bjurman (Peter Andersson) her scumbag parole office and quickly comes to the realization that she’s being targeted by a mysterious blonde goon. Meantime magazine publisher Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) Lisbeth’s former colleague and paramour is excited about his latest expose on human trafficking thanks to the research of a young girl and her boyfriend reporter who Mikael has on retainer. When this couple turn up viciously murdered Mikael has to stay tight lipped with the police in order to protect the story’s sources. However he’s determined to do his one investigation which coincidentally crosses paths with Lisbeth’s would be blonde assassin. Meantime Nils Bjurman also shows up dead and the police suspect Lisbeth not only for all three murders. Once again Mikael and Lisbeth have to do their sleuthing at arms length via cyberspace to try to locate the elusive Alexander Zalachenko (Georgi Staykov) who not only seems to be the root of all this evil but is also a painful connection to Lisbeth’s past. The plot is intricate but never implausible and leaves the back door wide open for the third chapter - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, the book currently on everybody’s best seller list. I can’t wait!

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