The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Fits the dictionary definition of “cracking read”. Once the ball started rolling I couldn't put it down.

As much as I enjoyed it I struggled with a couple of things: 1) I don't know how to pronounce non-Arabic letters in Swedish so I was constantly distracted when I was trying to figure out what words sounded like. I got better towards the end of the book, but it bugged me early on.

2) “Kalle Blomquist”. I didn't look it up until after I finished. A solid American parallel is “Encyclopedia Brown”. This bugged me every time I saw it and I'm a dummy for not looking it up sooner.