As you sit behind the library desk, you're bound to get advice about a good book you ought to read (or just hang around in the library--no difference) and when I get ambitious I do write the title down. That happened just the other day when a retired librarian spoke to me about a novel which she said the book club should read. It is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson with translation from Swedish by Reg Keeland. She cautioned the story takes a while to get into but she is preparing to purchase a follow-up novel (although I can't recall if it is the new The Girl Who Played with Fire or the upcoming The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest).
Dragon Tattoo was published in 2008 in the United States and is a rather hefty 485 pages (more reading than I'd like to ask of the book club for the monthly selection). The book is popular though as the library system has copies in regular print, large print and CD with double-digit requests for the title.
The novel's story covers the investigation of a missing young heir to a very wealthy Swedish family by a journalist and--seemingly unlikely ally--a young, tattooed computer hacker. This investigation also begins after a 40-year-old disappearance.
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