The Girl in the Spider's Web

The fourth Millennium novel (published in English as The Girl in the Spider's Web) is the first written by David Lagercrantz, continuing the series created by Stieg Larsson. Late one night, journalist Mikael Blomkvist takes a call from a source: a brilliant computer scientist who has developed groundbreaking artificial-intelligence research and now fears for his life, having stumbled into something that powerful intelligence agencies would kill to control.

The story soon draws in Lisbeth Salander, who has been quietly waging her own war against criminal networks and government surveillance. As a murder throws Blomkvist and Salander back together, the case reaches into the highest levels of espionage, the secretive world of hacking, and, most dangerously of all, Lisbeth's own family history and the estranged twin sister who shares her past.

Fast-paced and contemporary, this installment revives Larsson's characters for a new cyber-age thriller of surveillance, genius, and revenge. Newcomers can follow it as a fresh entry point, but it rewards readers who know Lisbeth Salander from the original trilogy.