The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy - The Millenium Series (3 books) by Stieg Larsson

The Millennium series is a series of best-selling and award-winning Swedish crime novels, created by Stieg Larsson. Larsson planned the series as having ten installments, but due to his sudden death in 2004, only three were completed and published. The first,The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor, literally, Men Who Hate Women) in 2005, the second, The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden, literally, The Girl Who Played with Fire), in 2006 and the third, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Luftslottet som sprängdes, literally, The Air Castle that was Blown Up) in 2007.


Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson (15 August 1954 – 9 November 2004) was a Swedish journalist and writer. He is best known for writing the "Millennium trilogy" of crime novels, which were published posthumously. He was the second best-selling author in the world for 2008, behind Khaled Hosseini. The third novel in the Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, became the most sold book in the United States in 2010 according to Publishers Weekly. By March 2015, his series had sold 80 million copies worldwide.