The Girl Who Played with Fire The Girl Who Played with Fire 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 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) 2011", while reaching the top ten of seven other publications, including the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch", "San Francisco Chronicle", and the "New Orleans Times-Picayune". "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" was declared one of the best films of the year by the American Film Institute, as well as the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. In December 2011, Fincher stated that the creative team involved planned to film the sequels "The Girl Who Played with Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest", "back to back." There was an announced release date of 2013 for a film version of