The Girl Who Played with Fire is the second novel in the best-selling Millennium series by Swedish writer 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.
Lisbeth Salander thinks that her life is calmer now. She is developing an interest in maths and has a lusty albeit questionable affair with a student. However when Inspector Bublanski and his team discover the bodies of a couple in Stockholm, the murder weapon points to Lisbeth. The dead worked for none other than Millennium publisher Mikael Blomkvist and he knows that if there’s one thing he can’t trust the police to do it’s finding the elusive Lisbeth Salander.
She’s an expert at hiding her trail and leaving no cyber footprint. However he needs to find her if he has to unmask the perpetuators of the murders. Murders which point directly at a sex trafficking ring that the Millennium will risk all to unveil.
