A fourth book in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series of novels will be written… despite author behind the phenomenon dying nine years ago

Stieg Larsson, author of the Millennium-trilogy, died in 2004

New book to be written by Swedish author David Lagercrantz



Stieg's partner of 32 years has called it 'distasteful' and 'greedy'



A fourth book in the Millennium series will be published in 2015, despite author Stieg Larsson passing away nine years ago.



The book will see a new writer taking on Larsson’s mantle to continue the story of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his sidekick Lisbet Salander - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.



The Millennium trilogy was published posthumously and became a world-wide success which made it onto the silver screen twice, both in Sweden and Hollywood.

The Girl Who Sold Out? Swedish publishers Nordstedt has announced that there will be a fourth book in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series which saw its heroine translated onto the screen by Noomi Rapace in 2008

Publishers Nordstedt have chosen an author for book four and is planning on releasing it in 2015, on the tenth anniversary of the first book, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

‘There will be a new novel. We have thought about it for a while,’ publishing manager Eva Gedin told Aftonbladet.

All three books in the Millennium series were published after Stieg Larsson’s death and he never got to experience the immense success of his work, which was turned into a Hollywood film in 2011 with Bond-actor Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander.

Eva Gabrielsson, Stieg Larsson's partner of 32 years, was shocked to find out about the new book.

'I think it is a bit greedy. It's already a billion-pound industry,' she told Aftonbladet.

'It is distasteful to try to make more money.'

The Man With The Golden Pen: Stieg Larsson died in 2004 after suffering a heart attack walking up seven flights of stairs to his office and never saw his work published

The Millennium trilogy was published posthumously and quickly became a bestseller in Europe and the U.S.

The Girl With The Actual Book: Eva Gabrielsson, Stieg Larsson's partner of 32 years, has hit back at the new book calling the publishers 'greedy' and maintain she still has Stieg's original script for a fourth book - which will not be part of the new release

Eva has previously confirmed that she has the laptop which contains the first half of a fourth book, written by Stieg Larsson before his death.



However, she says publishers Nordstedt have not had access to the original script and will have to start from scratch with a new book.

Ms Gabrielsson and Stieg Larsson met as teenagers in their home town of Umea during a protest against the Vietnam war. They were together for more than three decades but although Stieg proposed in 1983, they never married.

As a result of the nature of his work as a journalist and editor of anti-fascist magazine Expo, Stieg and Eva both received death threats and not registering their partnership was a precaution to ensure their home would be harder to find in official records.

Steig Larsson died from a heart attack in 2004 when he had to walk up seven flights of stairs to his office when the lift broke.



The Girl On The Silver Screen: Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander in the popular Hollywood version of the film

The only resemblance of a will was one written in the 70s promising all his money to the Communist Worksers’ Party in Umea. It was never witnessed and was dismissed.



The rights to his work, the revenue from the books and the subsequent film deals in Sweden and in Hollywood, as well as half of the flat the couple shared in Stockholm, went to Stieg’s estranged father and brother.

Ms Gabrielsson has been involved in a public and infected legal battle over her partner’s legacy ever since.

David Lagercrantz, most famous for writing Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimiovic's biography 'I am Zlatan', is already writing on book four.

He says the continuation of the Millennium series is 'necessary'

'We know all these characters, Blomkvist and Salander, are so incredibly full of life. They deserve to live. It is a form of respect for his authorship. A respect in that his life’s work is being allowed to live on,’ he told Aftonbladet.