The Girl Who Played With Fire

Last night I finished reading the book The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson. It's the second part of the Millennium Trilogy which began with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and concludes with The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. In this book a young journalist and his student girlfirend, who were both writing an expose on prostitution, are found murdered in their home. The chief suspect is enigmatic computer hacker Lisbeth Salander. The target of a nationwide police search and media frenzy, the only one who seems convinced that she did not kill the couple is journalist Mikael Blomkvist who races to prove her innocence and find the real killer before it's too late. It's a good book actually. Personally, I preferred it to the first book, but they really have to be read in order. It's reviewed over at Permanently Weird.

Later on I watched a TV show called Dirk Gently, which was loosely based on the novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams (author of Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy), it's about a private detective who uses the "interconnectedness of all things" and quantum physics to solve his cases and how an investigation into a missing cat becomes a bizarre tale involving time travel and murder. I enjoyed it. I thought it was really funny.

Today was a pretty dull day at work. I was only working for six hours. I'm now off work until the 31st December.