Stone's Fall & The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

[Wigeon]

Has anyone else read both and was rather surprised to find very similar broad plots: elderly industralist with large and complicated family engages young journalist to ostensibly write his biography / family history, but actually to investigate some mystery from his past.

Does anyone know why the pretext for both stories is so similar? Surely the author of Stone's Fall knew he was pinching the other plot. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005) appears to have been written earlier than Stone's Fall (2009) although I don't know when the former was translated into English.

Yes I have read both books and dont think they are that similiar tbh?. The girl with the dragon tattoo is much more a comment on the socio-politics of sweden and how this impacts particularly on women (with a bit of mystery thrown in). Stones fall is a much more formulaic mystery with some politics thrown in. Enjoyed both books btw.

Agree with pink I'm afraid, the similarity didn't strike me at all. Apart from anything else the journo in Stones Fall was useless and didn't find out anything at all, unlike the magnificent Blomkvist...

I know there's some fairly major differences between the two books, just that the similarity in the device of the industralist + journalist + biography-as-cover-for-investigating-a-mystery in both books just seemed a bit bizarre to me! Isn't that similarity / coincidence / blatant plagarism a bit odd?

Actually didn't like Dragon Tattoo really at all (although of course had to finish it!) and much prefered Stone's Fall!

There are supposed to be only seven stories in the world and all books are just a version of one of them .

I'm reading "Stone's Fall" at the moment and really struggling. Does the pace ever pick up?
I enjoyed "Dragon Tattoo" but hadn't spotted the similarities.

Sparkly - the first section of Sones Fall is not very gripping (I think intentionally, to show how clueless the narrator is). It is definitely worth sticking with, the middle section is particularly good I thought.