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 (2009 film) does, and tells him that she is taking back control of her money and life. If any 'accident' happens to Lisbeth, then the film will be released, and any threat to her will result in the same outcome. She then uses a tattoo machine to brand Bjurman's abdomen with the message "I am a sadist pig and a rapist". Blomkvist moves to a cottage on the Vanger estate and meets the Vanger family, including Harriet's brother Martin who is the head of the Vanger group and cousin Cecilia. Martin is congenial and has Blomkvist over for dinner, he and Cecelia