The Times Online has a piece on the legacy of novelist Stieg Larsson, he of the outrageously popular Millennium Trilogy which began with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.  Several writers were asked to account for the phenomenal success of his books.  “Rachel Johnson, the novelist, said: ‘The Larsson books are basically plot, violence, violent sex, interspersed with Salander and Blomkvist eating huge open sandwiches and herring and mainlining weapons-grade coffee. It’s what readers want and he gives it to them straight up. And then he gives it to them a second time and then a third.’”  Yes, that.  Nutshell! Seriously, the making and the consuming of sandwiches in those books! (I’m kind of obsessed by the sandwich leitmotif.)  This is also great:  “The canny tourism operators of Stockholm know a market when they see one and have come up with the ‘Millennium tour’ of the city for Larsson fans. A high point is a visit to a 7-Eleven store that sells Billy’s deep-pan pizza, which figures prominently in all three novels.”  If it is not sandwiches, it’s Billy’s pan pizza.  Someone take me on this tour, please.  I’ll buy you a souvenir Lisbeth Salander t-shirt.