Article: Dive into crime tales from Ariz. to Scandinavia.(NW Arts&Life)

Byline: Adam Woog; Special to The Seattle Times

Summer arrived with a vengeance, and with it some crime novels to take the edge off any excessive heat.

The late Swedish writer Stieg Larsson's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" was astonishing in its quality and popularity. Its sequel is the equally mesmerizing "The Girl Who Played With Fire" (Knopf, 514 pp., $25.95, translated by Reg Keeland).

Lisbeth Salander -- the near-autistic, punkish computer hacker of the title -- again encounters Mikael Blomkvist, a sharp-eyed investigative journalist, this time tracking the shadowy figures behind a sex-trafficking operation. She has a personal reason for ...

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