By VIKTORIA SUNDQVIST

Pardon me if I seem sleepy today, but I was up until 4:45 a.m. finishing Stieg Larsson's "The Girl Who Played With Fire."

The second in Larsson's Millenium trilogy, the book focuses on the odd girl Lisbeth Salander, who becomes the prime suspect in a triple-murder investigation. Salander disappears early on in the book, and much time is spent wondering whether she actually could have committed the murders.

Those who have read the first book, "The Girl Who Played With Fire," know that Salander is a bit odd, and it doesn't seem unlikely that she ended up in this situation. Yet her former friend and investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist doubts her guilt and sets out to find the truth.

The book is ten times better than the first book in the series, and I can't wait to jump into the third and final part, "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest."