Norstedts, the Swedish publisher of the late Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy, announced yesterday it has hired David Lagercrantz to write a fourth novel featuring journalist Mikael Blomqvist and hacker Lisbeth Salander, the Associated Press reported. The book is scheduled to be published in 2015. Lagercrantz was the ghost writer of I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović, which was shortlisted for this year's William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.
Eva Gedin, head of publishing at Norstedts, said the Dragon Tattoo project "would be an original work that includes nothing from the fourth book in the series, which Larsson began writing but remained unfinished when he died." That manuscript had been the center of a legal battle waged over Larsson's estate in 2010 between the late author's family and his longtime partner, Eva Gabrielsson.
