The Girl Who Played with Fire

by Stieg Larsson · first published 2005

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Swedish: Flickan som lekte med elden) is a psychological thriller novel by Swedish author Stieg Larsson. It was published posthumously in Swedish in 2006 and in English in January 2009. 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.

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Genre:

Thriller, Crime fiction, Mystery fiction

Original language:

Swedish

Reader rating:

★ 4.5 / 5 (2 on Open Library)

Year page:

2005