BlackHat Mystery Bookstore

Stieg Larsson
[1954-2004]

short profile The Millennium Trilogy works about Stieg Larsson links

Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson died seven months after he delivered his three mystery novel
manuscripts to his publisher; the books quickly became a posthumous and worldwide sensation.

Stieg Larsson's longtime girlfriend-roommate Eva Gabrielsson was being supported in her travails since Stieg's sudden death thru the website supportEva.com; but after publication of Eva's own book in January 2011, the site no longer requests monetary support; verbal support is very welcome, however.

The Millennium Trilogy
Stieg Larsson books in English, German, Swedish, French & Spanish

★   ★   ★   ★   ★

"The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" [2005]
original title "Män som Hatar Kvinnor (Men Who Hate Women)"

Radical journalist Blomqvist loses a libel suit against corrupt industrialist Wennerström, jeopardizing his magazine and income. The retired former head of the Vanger Corp. empire offers Blomqvist work on a family history, while promising to produce evidence against Wennerström. Before long, Blomqvist discovers a forty-year-old crime, a 'locked room' mystery on the family's island estate. Blomqvist meets an 'asocial punk' named Lisbeth and when the two team up to investigate, the hunters become the hunted.

	English translation by Reg Keeland [Jan 2008] Kindle Edition from Vintage [9/2008] for $6.77 Vintage 8x5 pb [6/2009] for $6.00 Vintage mass pb [6/2009] for $7.99 Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2008] for $17.13 book entry at Wikipedia
	"Men Who Hate Women" [Yellow Bird/Nordisk Film Feb 2009] The film opened in Norway, Denmark & Sweden in early 2009 and broke many records.. Directed by Niels Arden Oplev; starring Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Peter Haber, Sven-Bertil Taube, Peter Andersson, Ingvar Hirdwall, Marika Lagercrantz, Ewa Fröling, Michalis Koutsogiannakis & Stefan Sauk Music Box Films Home Ent. widescreen color Blu-ray [7/2010] for $19.99 Music Box Films Home Ent. widescreen color DVD [7/2010] for $15.49 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia • official movie site
	"The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" [Sony Pictures Dec 2011 release]   U.S.-based feature film; co-producer Scott Rudin; directed by David Fincher, co-produced & written by Steven Zaillian; starring Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara & Christopher Plummer full credits at IMDb • official movie site

★   ★   ★   ★   ★

"The Girl Who Played With Fire" [2006]
Swedish title "Flickan som Lekte med Elden"

A fellow journalist enrolls Blomqvist in an already well-documented investigation of sex-trafficking of under-age girls in Sweden. Lisbeth long ago hacked into Blomqvist's computer, so while the two men follow proper journalistic procedure, Lisbeth plots punishment of the evil-doers. But before she can take action, she is falsely accused of three murders; she quickly disappears and Blomqvist uses all his skills to try to clear her name; #1 bestseller in U.K.

English translation by Reg Keeland Kindle Edition from Vintage [7/2009] for $7.59 Vintage mass pb [3/2010] for $7.99 Vintage 8x5 pb [3/2010] for $8.77 Knopf 9¼x6½ hardcover [7/2009] for $13.00 book entry at Wikipedia

"The Girl Who Played With Fire" [Yellow Bird/Nordisk Film Sept 2009] Directed by Daniel Alfredson; staring Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Per Oscarsson, Sofia Ledarp, Georgi Staykov, Niklas Hjulström, Micke Spreitz, Yasmine Garbi, Tanja Lorentzon, Michalis Koutsogiannakis & Paolo Roberto Music Box Films Home Ent. widescreen color Blu-ray [10/2010] for $19.99 Music Box Films Home Ent. widescreen color DVD [10/2010] for $12.99 full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia

★   ★   ★   ★   ★

"The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest" [2007]
Swedish title "Luftslottet som Sprängdes (The Air Castle That Blew Up)"

Lisbeth is in hospital with a head wound, in the intensive care unit and under arrest; if she gets well, she will stand trial for three murders she did not commit. ('Air castle' is 'pipe dream' in Sweden.)

English translation by Reg Keeland [UK Oct 2009] Kindle Edition from Knopf [5/2010] for $9.99 Querkus U.K. 7½x5 pb [2010] import/used MacLehose Press 8¾x6 pb [10/2009] import /used Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2010] for $11.92 book entry at Wikipedia

"The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest" [Yellow Bird/Nordisk Film Nov 2009] Directed by Daniel Alfredson; staring Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Michalis Koutsogiannakis, Anders Ahlbom, Hans Alfredson, Tina Berg, Alexandra Eisenstein, Lena Endre, Jacob Ericksson & Georgi Staykov Music Box Films Home Ent. widescreen color Blu-ray [1/2011] for $20.99 Music Box Films Home Ent. widescreen color DVD [1/2011] for $15.49 full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia

★   ★   ★   ★   ★

	Stieg Larsson Millennium Trilogy CD Bundle [2010] read by Simon Vance Random House UNABR audio CD set [5/2010] ?? disks for $72.42
	Stieg Larsson Millennium Trilogy Hardcover Bundle [2010] Random House 10¼x7½ hardcover bundle [5/2010] out of print/used
	"Music From Steig Larsson's Millennium Trilogy" [2010] Composed by Jacob Groth, performed by The Slovak National Orchestra Silva America soundtrack CD [9/2010] 11 tracks for $16.68 appears to be for/from the first two Swedish movies only
	Stieg Larsson Millennium Trilogy - Swedish movies [2011] Music Box Films Home Ent. widescreen color Blu-ray [1/2011] 4 disks for $42.49 Music Box Films Home Ent. widescreen color DVD [1/2011] 4 disks for $35.49

★   ★   ★   ★   ★

Fourth Book ??
Rumors persist that a fourth manuscript exists, which the Larsson Family is suing Steig Larsson's longtime
girlfriend-roommate to obtain; there may also be partial manuscripts of fifth & sixth books.

★   ★   ★   ★   ★

"The Girl With The Sturgeon Tattoo"  

A parody by Lars Arffssen "Hilarious and gripping". Serial reindeer stranglings, the death of a sturgeon expert, and the headless body of an unpublished writer move Chief Inspector Svenjamin Bubbles to arrest tattooed hacker Lizzy Salamander. But journalist Mikael Blomberg believes that Lizzy was framed, and his quest to find the real killer uncovers "a shocking story of corruption and perversion that reaches to the highest echelons of the world’s largest producer of inexpensive ready-to-assemble wooden bookcases". St. Martin's Griffin 8x5 pb [8/2011] for $9.99

Works About Stieg Larsson

	"The Man Who Left Too Soon: The Biography of Stieg Larsson" [2010] by Barry Forshaw John Blake 9¼x6½ hardcover [5/2010] for $18.45
	"Stieg Larsson: Our Days In Stockholm" [2010] by Kurdo Baksi Pegasus Books, NYC 8¼x5½ hardcover [12/2010] for $14.96 "Stieg Larsson, My Friend" [U.K. edition 2010] by Kurdo Baksi MacLehose Press, London 8½x5½ hardcover [9/2010] out of print/imported
	"Millennium: The Story" [not released 2010] 50-minute documentary film about the author and the story behind “The Girl Who ...” trilogy of books and films. Directed by Laurence Lowenthal DVD/Blu-ray not available • not listed on IMDb • official movie site

"Die Stieg Larsson Story" [ZDF-TV Germany Jan 2011]
Produced, written & directed by Martin Uhrmeister; DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb

"There Are Things I Want You to Know: About Stieg Larsson and Me" [2011] by Eva Gabrielsson, with Marie-Francoise Colombani, Translation by Linda Coverdale Seven Stories Press pb [1/2012] for $10.17   Seven Stories Press 8½x5½ hardcover [6/2011] for $16.29

L i n k s
official Stieg Larsson Swedish booksite
Stieg Larsson credits at Internet Movie Database
Stieg Larsson entry at Wikipedia

UK's Millennium Trilogy fansite
EB's Stieg Larsson fansite
CBC's Spanish-language Stieg Larsson fansite

Stieg Larsson books in English, German, Swedish, French & Spanish

Online sales in association with  

top of this page   ••   back to BlackHat Mystery Bookstore homepage