The Girl with Ice in Her Veins: A Lisbeth Salander Novel - Hardcover

by Karin Smirnoff (Author)

"Lisbeth Salander is back--and maybe better than ever." --Lee Child

"Fresh, fearless. . . . One of the great crime series of our time could not be in safer, more capable hands." --Chris Whitaker

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Lisbeth Salander returns in this chilling new installment of the multi-million-copy bestselling Millennium series, from the author of The Girl in the Eagle's Talons.

Sweden's far north is growing colder; even in springtime, the town of Gasskas is buried under a relentless snow. As temperatures drop, tensions rise between a global corporation shamelessly exploiting the area's natural resources and wary locals who have scores to settle. A bomb blasts apart a crucial bridge. Soon after, a young journalist is found murdered.

Meanwhile, Lisbeth is at home in Stockholm, looking to fill the void her last lover left behind. When she discovers that fellow hacker Plague has been kidnapped and taken up north, and finds her niece, Svala, on her doorstep, she has no choice but to return to Gasskas--with Mikael Blomkvist at her side. Blomkvist takes the helm at Gasskas's newspaper, and Lisbeth tries to locate Plague. But then Svala goes missing, and Lisbeth's worst fears come to haunt her. . . .

Lured back to a lawless town full of predators disguised as saviors and foes disguised as friends, forced to face down their own troubling pasts and those of their loved ones, Salander and Blomkvist must untangle a history of violence before it's too late. The Girl with Ice in Her Veins is a twisty, vertiginous, hard-hitting thriller that breathes new life into Stieg Larsson's epic series and unforgettable characters.

Author Biography

KARIN SMIRNOFF is a bestselling author in her native Sweden where her books have sold more than 700,000 copies. Her debut novel, My Brother, was nominated for the prestigious August Prize. She was born in Umeå, a small hamlet in northern Sweden, near where she now lives and a short drive from where Stieg Larsson himself grew up.

SARAH DEATH is a translator, literary scholar, and editor of the U.K.-based journal Swedish Book Review. Her translations from the Swedish include Ellen Mattson's Snow, for which she won the Bernard Shaw Translation Prize. She lives and works in Kent, England.