Sixth installment in the Millennium series; third continuation by David Lagercrantz. I have a soft spot for Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander and do enjoy catching up with them, even when they don't 100% "feel" like their Larsson selves. Is it just me, or is there a pattern of "Blomkvist tries t...
I really enjoy the Millennium Series and The Girl Who Lived Twice, in my opinion, lives up to the Stieg Larsson story that he started. The Millenium Series follows Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Bloomquist, two people from different ends of all spectrums but always manage to find pain and trouble. L...
Book # 5, in the Millennium seriesIn this second contribution in the Millennium series by Mr. Lagercrantz we will find Lisbeth Salanger on a quest into her origins and a lot of talk of stolen babies. The novel starts with our heroine serving a sentence in a maximum-security women’s prison where she ...
The Girl Who Takes an Eye For an Eye, Paul Lagercrantz, author; Simon Vance, narrator If you liked the Lisbeth Salander Millenium series, you will love this one. Although there are periods when the reader will definitely have to suspend disbelief, it is still an exciting page turner. Lisbeth Salande...
“Something feels not quite right.” Lisbeth Salander does Porridge and an unkind reviewer might suggest the reader does too. Scandi-Noir’s most famous odd couple get ill-served here in a seen-it-all-before job from David Lagercrantz. One senses a lot of this will be “re-imagined” (trans: jettisoned) ...
Honestly, I spent the entirety of this book fully convinced I was reading a nonfiction book about Alan Turing from the point of view of the policeman who found his body. Good job, David Lagercrantz! You totally fooled me! The book in question is Fall of Man in Wilmslow and it's the fictionalized sto...
Honestly, I spent the entirety of this book fully convinced I was reading a nonfiction book about Alan Turing from the point of view of the policeman who found his body. Good job, David Lagercrantz! You totally fooled me! The book in question is Fall of Man in Wilmslow and it's the fictionalized sto...
This story, a melding of two narratives, is an attempt to capture a sympathetic biography of Alan Turing who was badly treated by the establishment and a police procedural in which a detective tries to get to the bottom of a mystery.This disturbing tale of Turing’s suicide and the circumstance that ...