Detective Stories
From The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larrson (translated by Reg Keeland):
Somehow she had always had this gift.
Her reports could be a catastrophe for the individual who landed in her radar. Armansky would never forget the time he assigned her to do a routine check on a researcher in the pharmaceutical industry before a corporate buyout. The job was scheduled to take a week, but it dragged on for a while. After four weeks’ silence and several reminders, which she ignored, Salander came back with a report documenting that the subject in question was a paedophile. On two occasions he had bought sex from a thirteen-year-old child prostitute in Tallinn, and there were indications that he had an unhealthy interest in the daughter of the woman with whom he was currently living.
After finishing the awesome novel that is The Alienist I am on to yet another detective-story-thriller (this new one adds a financial drama element). I’m only about 60 pages in but it’s quite interesting so far save for having to deal with all these Swedish names! I ran into two people in the subway reading the book and nodded in approval as they saw me on the task of starting it… a good sign! Intriguing – and even though it’s a translation, it feels pretty honest (unlike when I read Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore, which had a very meh translation) and I’m definitely about to get engulfed in this one…
