Stieg Larsson was the Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Expo. He was a leading expert on anti-democratic, right-wing extremist organisations. He died in 2004, soon after delivering the text of the novels that make up the Millennium Trilogy.
"When Salander went out to Sandhamn she found an unshaven and hollow-eyed Blomkvist, who gave her a quick hug and asked her to make some coffee and wait while he finished what he was writing. Salander looked around his cabin and decided almost at once that she liked it. It was right next to a jetty, "
It's got a slow start but gets better as page turns. By the end of it I've decided to read the sequel. No fancy words(could be due to the fact that it's translated) but the plot is just fantastic!
read through in a fabulous summer house at Vaxholm