New THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Sequel Now in American Stores

Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist are back.

Following author Stieg Larsson's death in 2004, a new author has written a sequel to Larsson's MILLENIUM series. Swedish author David Lagercrantz's THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB is available to purchase in the USA now.

In December 2013 the Swedish publishing company Norstedts announced that Lagercrantz had been contracted to write the fourth novel in the Millennium series of crime novels, originally by Stieg Larsson (1954-2004). The novel was published at midnight August 26-27, 2015, around the ten-year anniversary of the first Millennium novel. According to the publisher, the book is a stand-alone sequel based on Larsson's characters, but has not made use of the incomplete book manuscripts and notes he left behind. Lagercrantz, however, stated in an interview with Aftonbladet that he had picked up some of the unfinished plot threads from the published novels. The draft was reported as finished by Lagercrantz in January 2015. The Swedish title is Det som inte dödar oss, literally translated "That Which Does Not Kill Us". The English language title is The Girl in the Spider's Web.

Per Barnes and Noble's description, "She is the girl with the dragon tattoo-a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit. He is a crusading journalist whose championing of the truth often brings him to the brink of prosecution.

"Late one night, Blomkvist receives a phone call from a source claiming to have information vital to the United States. The source has been in contact with a young female superhacker-a hacker resembling someone Blomkvist knows all too well. The implications are staggering. Blomkvist, in desperate need of a scoop for Millennium, turns to Salander for help. She, as usual, has her own agenda. The secret they are both chasing is at the center of a tangled web of spies, cybercriminals, and governments around the world, and someone is prepared to kill to protect it . . .

"The duo who captivated millions of readers in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest join forces again in this adrenaline-charged, uniquely of-the-moment thriller."

In November 2011 Lagencrantz's best-selling sports biography I am Zlatan Ibrahimovi? was published, with Lagercrantz as credited ghostwriter. According to Lagercrantz, the book is largely based on approximately 100 hours of interviews conducted with Ibrahimovi? in Milan. Lagercrantz chose to approach the project as a novel, rather than a conventional ghostwritten autobiography written as a journalistic piece, and later stated that none of Ibrahimovi?'s voice in the book is actual quotes, but rather an attempt to capture the "literary Ibrahimovi?", a concept which Ibrahimovi? at first was sceptical about. Lagercrantz explained to Ibrahimovi? that he found David Beckham's more conventional autobiography boring, to which the footballer replied "Who the f--- is Beckham?". The Swedish language edition sold over 500,000 copies before Christmas 2011, which according to his literary agency Bonnier Group Agency is the fastest selling book of all time in Sweden. The rights have been sold to more than 30 countries. The biography was nominated for the Augustpriset book award in 2012.

In Financial Times, Simon Kuper compared the biography to Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint and drew parallels between the main characters' experiences as minority members and outsiders struggling for recognition and acceptance in mainstream society, calling it "The best footballer's autobiography of recent years".

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