The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Is a story about an investigative journalist and what the cover calls a "punk prodigy". It's a mystery thriller about a pretty depressing and horrific subject: serial rapist/murderer. The first two hundred pages are background information-- a bit dull actually and then you get hooked into the thriller bit as we uncover slowly the culprit right under our noses. I can understand the phenomenon of the Millennium series, but the subject matter is rather distressing.