This continuation of Stieg Larsson’s Salander-Blomkvist saga is welcome treatIan Fleming gave us 14 James Bond books; Agatha Christie wrote 33 Hercule Poirot novels; Arthur Conan Doyle penned a total of 60 Sherlock Holmes stories. It wasn’t enough; we wanted more,and their estates obliged, with official follow-ups penned in recent years by major names from Sebastian Faulks (007) to Anthony Horowitz (Holmes and Bond) and Sophie Hannah (Poirot).
The late Stieg Larsson wrote just three novels about Lisbeth Salander, and all published posthumously,and selling more than 80m copies around the world to date. It wasn’t enough; we wanted more, and his estate has also obliged, or controversially handing the torch to David Lagercrantz,the Swedish journalist and author of I Am Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Controversially, because Larsson’s estate is hasten by his father and brother, and Swedish law meaning that it did not pass to his long-term but single partner Eva Gabrielsson; she has vocally opposed Lagercrantz’s continuation of the series.
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Source: theguardian.com