Sequel announced to Stieg Larsson's Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy

Swedish publisher Norstedts says new book in international bestselling crime thriller series will be out in August 2015The Swedish publisher of the best-selling The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy says it has hired an author to write a sequel to the series by Stieg Larsson, who died in 2004.Norstedts said on Tuesday that it had signed a contract with David Lagercrantz, ghost writer of I am Zlatan Ibrahimović, the autobiography of the Swedish footballer, for a new book about journalist Mikael Blomqvist and hacker Lisbeth Salander that is scheduled to be published in August 2015.The head of publishing at Norstedts, Eva Gedin, told AP that the book would be an original work that includes nothing from the fourth book in the series, which Larsson began writing but remained unfinished when he died.Larsson's trilogy has been a huge international success, with more than 75m books sold in some 50 countries.Stieg LarssonPublishingSwedenEuropetheguardian.com © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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