The Girl Who Played with Fire is a crime fiction book. It is the second title in Millennium Series. The book is written by Stieg Larsson and is translated from Swedish to English by Reg Keeland. Stieg was a Swedish writer and a journalist. Millennium Trilogy is his best known work on crime novels. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is another book from the series. In addition, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest completes the subject trilogy.
Simon Vance is a star narrator and his performance for this audio novel took it to another level of enjoyment.
The Girl Who Played with Fire
Mikael was a crusading publisher and a journalist of the Millennium Magazine. He made up his mind about publishing a story for exposing a huge sex trafficking operation. It was all between Sweden and Eastern Europe. There was a potential of implicating highly placed and well-known members of the Swedish government, business, and society.
On the publication eve, the two reporters behind the story were found brutally murdered. It was much more shocking for Mikael. The fingerprints discovered on the murder weapon matched with Lisbeth Salander.
Mikael was all alone with his belief in the innocence of Lisbeth. This was when he started with his investigation about the murders and to find the truth. Lisbeth herself was drawn into a murderous and dangerous hunt. It was a hunt where she was the prey. This situation pushed her to revisit the dark past of her life and to settle everything once and for all.
This penultimate novel in the Millennium Trilogy is considered to be far better than the other two. It started slowly in the first hour and then it exploded with nonstop excitement maintained till it concluded.
