The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

You can't read this book without getting emotionally involved with the characters, especially Lisbeth Salander who is absolutely fasinating. She is young, very smart, surly and has excellent hacking skills. She also has her own form of justice for men who mistreat wommen. Lisbeth teams up with journalist Mikael Blomkvist when he is asked to look into a decades old murder, and what follows is a tense, highly entertaining story with a lot of action. The story starts slowly, but once it grabs you, you will not be able to reisits the two sequels in this series.