Tag Archives: Millenium trilogy

Stieggy Stardust

So I ended up setting The Greatest Show On Earth aside to read the next book in Larsson’s Millenium trilogy: The Girl Who Played With Fire. All the main characters from the original book return, including the sassy heroine Lisbeth Salander and investigative journalist (and sexual beast) Mikael Blomkvist.  This time, the story shifts away from the Miss Marple murder ...

Stieg Larsson was a first time author who had worked previously as a journalist who was commited to fighting the rise of Nazism in Sweden.  He wrote a trilogy of books in his spare time, handed in his manuscripts to a publisher and then died.  The books went onto to become bestsellers and the inner sleeve of The Girl With ...