The Girl Who Played with Fire
2006 novel by Stieg Larsson / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Swedish: Flickan som lekte med elden) is the second novel in the best-selling Millennium series by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. It was published posthumously in Swedish in 2006 and in English in January 2009.
Author | Stieg Larsson |
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Original title | Flickan som lekte med elden |
Translator | Reg Keeland (pseudonym of Steven T. Murray) |
Country | Sweden |
Language | Swedish |
Series | Millennium |
Genre | Crime, mystery, thriller |
Publisher | Norstedts Förlag (Swedish), Quercus (English) |
Publication date | June 2006 (Sweden), 2009 (United Kingdom) |
Media type | Print (Paperback & Hardback) |
Pages | 576 (paperback) |
Preceded by | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
Followed by | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest |
The book features many of the characters who appeared in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005), among them the title character, Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant computer hacker and social misfit, and Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist and publisher of Millennium magazine.
Widely seen as a critical success, The Girl Who Played with Fire was also (according to The Bookseller magazine) the first and only translated novel to be number one in the UK hardback chart.[1]