Millennium

Millennium is a series of crime novels originally conceptualized by Swedish author Stieg Larsson, who completed the first three books before his death. David Lagercrantz penned the next three, and Karin Smirnoff is in the midst of writing the third trilogy. The two primary characters in the saga are Lisbeth Salander, an asocial computer hacker with a photographic memory, and Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist and publisher of Millennium magazine.

Eight books in the series have been published. Larsson planned for 10 installments, but completed only three before his sudden death in 2004. That first trilogy was published posthumously as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in 2005, The Girl Who Played with Fire in 2006, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest in 2007. Larsson's novels were originally printed in Swedish by Norstedts Förlag, with English translations by Steven T. Murray published a few years later, by Quercus in the United Kingdom and Alfred A. Knopf in the United States.