Reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

So I'm reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo now and I kind of got into it by accident. My mom and dad were visiting friends in North Carolina and my mom wound up coming home with this book. Her friend Mary said she'd love it, but my mom doesn't have that much time to read, so she ended up giving it to me because she knew I would read it. So, Mary, this review is for you.

My mom's issue with the book was so many characters with names that were hard to pronounce. Well, the book does take place in the Sweden, so I'll give her that one. But once I got into the two main characters, or the two characters I feel are the most pivotal: Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander, it was impossible for me to quit reading the book.

So far all I know is Salander is working for an agency that essentially finds out information about people, but good dirt, like a detective agency. So Salander has been hired through her company to follow Mikael. In the meantime, Mikael Blomkvist is holed away in some estate in another city researching a family murder mystery for a very wealthy man.

Apparently Blomkvist has made a name for himself as the part owner of a financial magazine that is bent on seeking the truth about all of the CEOs of large companies and other financial superstars. He went to trial for some information he spilled about a wealthy hedge fund guy. The wealthy guy won the slander trial and so Mikael has to spend some time away from his magazine and also some time in jail.

Before he goes to jail, he is propositioned by a very wealthy man who might be able to help him get real dirt on the hedge fund guy, if he writes a bio tell-all for this man, but that is all as a guise for solving a family murder mystery that the wealthy man has spent his life trying to solve.

I don't know what is going to happen, but I have a feeling Salander is somehow mysteriously related to the wealthy guy's missing/murdered family member. No spoilers, I will find out how it ends the right way, by reading it!