Salander is back: The man who perfected Stieg

01 September 2015 - 02:03
By Jake Kerridge, ©The Daily Telegraph

Eva Gabrielsson, the partner of the late Stieg Larsson, has described David Lagercrantz as an "idiotic choice" for the job of writing a sequel to Larsson's Millennium trilogy. The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz, published by Quercus, R340Without putting it in those terms myself, I did wonder - after reading Lagercrantz's novel Fall of Man in Wilmslow, which uses the death of Alan Turing as the springboard for a glacier-paced, ludic and philosophical crime novel - if he was the ri...

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