Very good but......

This - on the left - is the book I finished on New Year's eve, ready to start a new one on the next day. It's been on my shelf for some weeks now, but only got round to starting it a couple of weeks ago. As it happened, my daughter bought me the other one, by the same author, for Christmas.

I've enjoyed the first one very much but would not go so far as to say he is the next Steig Larsson.

Anyone disagree?