The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson

This book, the second in the trilogy finds Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, and only true friend of "The Girl", writing an expose about sex traffic and the abuse of underage girls. As one might expect, this seedy underworld is littered with corpses of guys, both good and bad. I enjoyed this book better than the first, as we learn much more about Salander's own horrific past, explaining her twisted outlook and ability to engage in crimes both violent and non with impunity

We meet her hideous father and learn that she really must have super-powers. Even though she does things that none of us would or could do, she is a character that we find ourselves cheering for, the ultimate underdog that triumphs in BIG ways.
569 pages

(Posted for Ann Roberts by Annie)