The fourth book in Stieg Larsson's hugely popular "Dragon Tattoo" series features the twin sister of the series' protagonist Lisbeth and is partly set in Ireland ( Read more... )

( Girlfriend claims Millennium Trilogy author left 200 pages behind on laptop )

A close friend of deceased crime writer Stieg Larsson has revealed details of the unpublished manuscript thought to be the fourth book in the global best-selling Millennium series.

Larsson confidant Kurdo Baksi told Swedish daily paper the Expressen that Camilla, the estranged twin sister of Millennium’s goth hacker heroine Lisbeth Salander, plays ( Read more... )

In the seven years since Stieg Larsson’s sudden death of a heart attack at age fifty, the sudden, head-spinning success of his books has permanently altered the lives of those he left behind. There has been enough drama, controversy, and cliffhangers to fill a separate series of mystery novels about what happens when a novelist dies on the eve of ( Read more... )

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Author of the year: Stieg Larsson's legacy lives on

With the right character, an author can defy death - and live on in the hearts of readers. Think Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes. Agatha Christie and Hercule Poirot. And now, Stieg Larsson and Lisbeth Salander, his world-famous girl with the dragon tattoo.
Larsson, the Swedish novelist who ( Read more... )

Nathaniel Rich, writer of the Larsson profile in the new issue of 'Rolling Stone,' discusses the enigmatic late novelist

In the six years since his death, Stieg Larsson has become the world's bestselling author - and its most enigmatic. He is the prize product of what RS contributor Nathaniel Rich calls "Stieg Larsson Industries," a high-powered ( Read more... )

Awards season in Hollywood and London is beginning.

Today the 16th Annual Critics' Choice Awards announced their nominees. The awards show will take place on Friday January 14, 2011 (and I think it's televised on a cable channel in the US).

Best Actress Nominees:
-Annette Bening - “The Kids Are All Right”
-Nicole Kidman - “Rabbit Hole”
-Jennifer ( Read more... )

There's been a bunch of articles recently talking about the whole WikiLeaks, Julian Assange arrest, and the hackers striking back - and so I suppose the comparisons to a Stieg Larsson novel are to be expected.

What do you think? Does the way the story is unfolding read like a Larsson thriller to you?

Here's one of the many, many articles talking ( Read more... )

From the New York Times' Sunday Book Review: Inside the List

Stieg Larsson’s rumored fourth novel may or may not be languishing on a laptop in Stockholm, but his fans do have some new material to chew on this holiday season. In the just-translated memoir “Stieg Larsson, My Friend,” Kurdo Baksi - a prominent left-wing journalist and the rare real ( Read more... )