Karin Smirnoff To Write New Dragon Tattoo Novel
Knopf will publish ‘The Girl With Ice in Her Veins,’ written by Karin Smirnoff, this summer.
Lisbeth Salander is back in a new novel coming later this year, People magazine reports.
Knopf will publish The Girl With Ice in Her Veins, written by Karin Smirnoff and translated by Sarah Death, this summer. The book will be the eighth novel to feature Salander, the introverted computer genius with a photographic memory and an uncanny ability to solve mysteries.
Salander made her first appearance in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, written by Stieg Larsson and posthumously published in 2005 in Sweden; Reg Keeland’s English translation of the novel was published in the U.S. three years later.
The novel was a bestseller, and two more novels in the series, written by Larsson before his death and translated by Keegan, followed: The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. The series inspired successful films in both Swedish and English; the latter starred Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig and was directed by David Fincher.
David Lagercrantz wrote three books in the series starting in 2015. In 2022, it was announced that Smirnoff would take over the character with a new trilogy; the first installment, The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons, translated by Death, was published in 2023.
The Girl With Ice in Her Veins will follow Salander trying to find a kidnapped fellow hacker and her missing niece in the fictional Swedish town of Gasskas. Knopf calls the book “a twisty, vertiginous, hard-hitting thriller that breathes new life into Stieg Larsson’s epic series and unforgettable characters.”
The Girl With Ice in Her Veins is scheduled for publication on Sept. 2.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.