can you make it Swedish?

The October 17 issue of the New Yorker magazine has a cartoon in which an aspiring author has presented his manuscript to a potential publisher. The publisher smiles and says, "It's a gripping detective thriller, but could you make it Swedish??
For any of you who may have been living under a rock, the reference is to the 3 books by the Swedish writer Stieg Larsson -- books that have been topping best seller lists -- in the USA and elsewhere -- for the past year and longer.
The sales of this book may have been compounded by the fact that the author died of a heart attack shortly after he found a publisher.
But the books are fascinating in their own right. The female lead appears in the first book as "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", and continues to play a major role in the second and third volumes of the trilogy. I agree with people who say that that these novels have parts that are both violent and graphic. But in a book, it is easy to skip over those parts.
The male lead is a thinly disguised version of Larsson himself. Larsson is a strong feminist, and he doesn't shy away from the theme of sexual abuse by his own gender.
I read all three of these books; the aformentioned, then "The Girl who Played with Fire," and "The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest". But I didn't read them in close succession. For books as intense as these,one needs a breather in between. SD