Girl with the dragon tattoo, Lisbeth Salander, will be back in the fifth instalment of the Millennium series in September next year.
Lisbeth Salander, the hacker protagonist of the series was created by Swedish writer, Steig Larsson. He wrote three books featuring her, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2005), The Girl Who Played With Fire (2006) and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest (2007), which were released posthumously.
In 2015, the widely popular trilogy received a fourth instalment, The Girl In The Spider’s Web, penned by journalist David Lagercrantz. And a fifth addition was announced by Alfred A. Knopf Editor-in-Chief Sonny Mehta on Friday.
Lagercrantz is reported to have said by The Telegraph that the fifth book will be written in the hard-boiled, noir style of writers like Raymond Chandler. The main feature of this style is its terse dialogue. It will be unlike the fourth book, which was more technical and contained long passages on popular science.
Steig Larsson, the creator of the series featuring the anti-social hacker, Lisbeth Salander and investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist, had planned the series to stretch into 10 books. However, he was unable to finish it due to his death at the age of 50 following a heart attack.
The series has received a considerable amount of attention and praise, and has appeared on best selling lists around the world. It has been translated onto the screen twice. The first adaptation, released in 2009 was in the original Swedish, and starred Noomi Rapace as the titular character, and Michael Nyqvist as Blomkvist. In 2011, director David Fincher helmed the English adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo with Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig filling in the lead roles. Both adaptations have garnered critical praise and in fact earned Rooney Mara her first Oscar nomination.
