A review by ames599
The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin by Jan Stocklassa

3.0

This was an interesting book that gives a great deal of insight into the type of journalistic work Stieg Larsson did, and his major focus before he was known as the author of the Millennium series. There was a lot of detail, and a ton of different people mentioned throughout. It was at times over bearing and difficult to remember them all. As someone who was not at all familiar with the Palme assassination, nor the structure of Swedish government, I felt a bit like I was trying to catch up. As a whole the book did seem to drag on at times. There was a lot of time, and uncovering of information going on condensed, making it at times heavy feeling to get through. In the end a realistic possible solution to the assassination is given, but the case is not solved, and that was a little disappointing. I would recommend this book to any true crime junkie, those interested in the Palme assassination and/or investigative journalism.