 First edition cover | |
| Author | Stieg Larsson |
|---|---|
| Original title | Flickan som lekte med elden |
| Translator | Reg Keeland, pseudonym of Steven T. Murray |
| Language | Swedish |
| Series | Millennium |
| Genre | Crime, mystery, thriller |
| Publisher | Norstedts Förlag (Swedish) |
Publication date | June 2006 |
| Publication place | Sweden |
Published in English | 2009 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback & Hardback) |
| Pages | 576 (paperback) |
| Preceded by | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| Followed by | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest |
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Swedish: Flickan som lekte med elden) is a psychological thriller novel by Swedish author 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.[1]