The Girl Who Played With Fire

The Millennium series is a series of crime novels written by Stieg Larsson before his death in 2004. The first trilogy of the series, consisting of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, was written by Larsson himself and published posthumously. Since Larsson’s death, David Lagercrantz has written a second trilogy in the series, which consists of The Girl in the Spider’s Web, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, and The Girl Who Lived Twice. Additionally, Karin Smirnoff is in the process of writing a third trilogy, with two titles announced so far: The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons and The Girl With Ice in Her Veins. Each novel focuses on the relationship between Lisbeth Salander, a hacker with a photographic memory, and Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist with a strong moral code. Larsson’s inspiration for the story has been questioned, but he initially claimed that the character of Lisbeth was inspired by a friend of his named Lisbeth, whom he witnessed being sexually assaulted by three other men.

The first book in the series, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, introduces Blomkvist and Lisbeth separately.