{"id":6272,"date":"2010-03-30T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=6272"},"modified":"2010-03-26T09:12:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:12:18","slug":"the-girl-who-played-with-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-girl-who-played-with-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Girl Who Played with Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>An international best-selling thriller, The Girl Who Played with Fire<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Stieg Larsson, transports us to present day Sweden where crime, corruption, and the\u00a0little known world\u00a0of human trafficking run rampant.\u00a0 Lisbeth Salander, a smart, tattooed, self-sufficient computer hacker, is the focus of a criminal investigation centered on the murder of two journalists who are close to exposing\u00a0the international sex trade business.\u00a0 Mikael Blomkvist, a magazine publisher whose magazine was to eventually publish the expose, has a history of working\u00a0with Salander and is intent on proving her innocence – if he can find her before the police do.\u00a0 On the run from authorities, Salander’s alarming past is revealed and she is intent on revenge.<\/p>\n

The twists and turns in this book will keep you wondering if she is innocent or guilty and, most importantly, what is the motive for these murders if she is the culprit?\u00a0 Even though this book is the second in the Millennium <\/em>series, it is easy to start with this book\u00a0before\u00a0reading the first book in the series, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 The final book in the series, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,<\/em> will be published later this spring. Sadly, Stieg Larsson died in 2004 while working on his fourth book.\u00a0 This series will also hit the big screen with the first installment being released in 2010.\u00a0\u00a0This\u00a0is an exciting book that combines\u00a0contemporary Scandinavian culture with\u00a0the elements of\u00a0a little-known\u00a0underworld\u00a0of betrayal, deceit, murder and corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An international best-selling thriller, The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson, transports us to present day Sweden where crime, corruption, and the\u00a0little known world\u00a0of human trafficking run rampant.\u00a0 Lisbeth Salander, a smart, tattooed, self-sufficient computer hacker, is the focus of a criminal investigation centered on the murder of[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[1139,268,333,130,636],"class_list":["post-6272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-computer-hackers","tag-murder","tag-mystery","tag-scandinavia","tag-scandinavian-mysteries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1Da","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6272"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6320,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6272\/revisions\/6320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}