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David Lagercrantz is a Swedish journalist and bestselling author of mystery, suspense, crime fiction and non-fiction books.

Renowned for writing the bestselling autobiography I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović (2011), Lagercrantz is also the author of The Girl in the Spider's Web (2015), The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (2017), and The Girl Who Lived Twice (2019), the fourth, fifth and sixth installments of the Millennium Series by Swedish author Stieg Larsson.

Raised in Solna and Drottningholm, in the outskirts of Stockholm, he majored in philosophy and religion before receiving his journalism degree from the University of Gothenburg.

Lagercrantz then went on to work as a crime reporter at Expressen, which at that point was the leading newspaper in Scandinavia.

He made his debut as a novelist in 1997 with Ultimate High: My Everest Odyssey, a non-fiction book which took his writing career to the next level.

Originally written in his native Swedish, his books have been translated into several languages, including English.

His novels I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović (2011), and The Girl in the Spider's Web (2015) have both received film adaptations.

More about David Lagercrantz

Genres: Crime Suspense, Mystery, Non-fiction, Suspense

Sweden

Website: https://www.davidlagercrantz.com

Non Series

  • Fall of Man in Wilmslow - Syndafall i Wilmslow (2009)

Millennium Series

  1. The Girl in the Spider's Web (Book 4) - Det som inte dödar oss (2015)
  2. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (Book 5) - Mannen som sökte sin skugga (2017)
  3. The Girl Who Lived Twice (Book 6) - Hon som måste dö (2019)

Non-fiction

  1. Ultimate High: My Everest Odyssey - Göran Kropp 8000 plus (1997)
  2. I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic (2011)

Rekke & Vargas

  1. Dark Music - Obscuritas (2021)
Rekke & Vargas

Detailed book overview

Non Series

Fall of Man in Wilmslow

On June 8, 1954, Alan Turing is found dead in his home in the sleepy suburb of Wilmslow—an apparent suicide. Investigators assumed he purposely ate a cyanide-laced apple because he was unable to cope with the humiliation of his criminal conviction for gross indecency.

But Leonard Corell, a young detective constable who once dreamed of a career in higher mathematics, suspects greater forces are involved. In the face of opposition from his superiors and in the paranoid atmosphere of the Cold War, he inches closer to the truth and to one of the most closely guarded secrets of the Second World War—what was going on at Bletchley Park. 

With state secrets swirling in his mind and a growing fear that he is under surveillance, Corell realizes that he has much to learn about the dangers of forbidden knowledge.

Author: David Lagercrantz
Original Title: Syndafall i Wilmslow
First Release: 2009
ISBN: 978-1101970416
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Millennium Series

The Girl in the Spider's Web (Book 4)

The next installment in the Millennium series: a genius hacker who has always been an outsider; a journalist with a penchant for danger. She is Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo. He is Mikael Blomkvist, crusading editor of Millennium. 

One night, Blomkvist receives a call from a source who claims to have been given information vital to the United States by a young female hacker. Blomkvist, always on the lookout for a story, reaches out to Salander for help. She, as usual, has plans of her own. 

Together they are drawn into a ruthless underworld of spies, cybercriminals, and government operatives—some willing to kill to protect their secrets.

Here is the complete list of books in the series:

1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2008) by Stieg Larsson

2. The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009) by Stieg Larsson

3. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (2009) by Stieg Larsson

4. The Girl in the Spider's Web (2015) by David Lagercrantz

5. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (2017) by David Lagercrantz

6. The Girl Who Lived Twice (2019) by David Lagercrantz

7. The Girl in the Eagle's Talons (2023) by Karin Smirnoff

The Girl in the Spider's Web
Director: Fede Alvarez
Cast: Claire Foy, Beau Gadsdon, Sverrir Gudnason, LaKeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks, Carlotta von Falkenhayn, Stephen Merchant, Christopher Convery
Author: David Lagercrantz
Original Title: Det som inte dödar oss
First Release: 2015
ISBN: 978-0525434764
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (Book 5)

Lisbeth Salander—obstinate outsider, volatile seeker of justice for herself and others—seizes on a chance to unearth her mysterious past once and for all. 

And she will let nothing stop her—not the Islamists she enrages by rescuing a young woman from their brutality; not the prison gang leader who passes a death sentence on her; not the deadly reach of her long-lost twin sister, Camilla; and not the people who will do anything to keep buried knowledge of a sinister pseudoscientific experiment known only as The Registry. 

Once again, Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist are the fierce heart of a thrilling full-tilt novel that takes on some of the world's most insidious problems.

Here is the complete list of books in the series:

1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2008) by Stieg Larsson

2. The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009) by Stieg Larsson

3. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (2009) by Stieg Larsson

4. The Girl in the Spider's Web (2015) by David Lagercrantz

5. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (2017) by David Lagercrantz

6. The Girl Who Lived Twice (2019) by David Lagercrantz

7. The Girl in the Eagle's Talons (2023) by Karin Smirnoff

Author: David Lagercrantz
Original Title: Mannen som sökte sin skugga
First Release: 2017
ISBN: 978-0525566496
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
The Girl Who Lived Twice (Book 6)

Mikael Blomkvist is trying to reach Lisbeth Salander—the fierce, unstoppable girl with the dragon tattoo. He needs her help unraveling the identity of a man who died with Blomkvist's phone number in his pocket—a man who does not exist in any official records and whose garbled last words hinted at knowledge that would be dangerous to important people. 

But Lisbeth has disappeared. She's sold her apartment in Stockholm. She's gone dark. She's told no one where she is. And no one is aware that at long last she's got her primal enemy, her twin sister, Camilla, squarely in her sights.

Here is the complete list of books in the series:

1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2008) by Stieg Larsson

2. The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009) by Stieg Larsson

3. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (2009) by Stieg Larsson

4. The Girl in the Spider's Web (2015) by David Lagercrantz

5. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (2017) by David Lagercrantz

6. The Girl Who Lived Twice (2019) by David Lagercrantz

7. The Girl in the Eagle's Talons (2023) by Karin Smirnoff

Author: David Lagercrantz
Original Title: Hon som måste dö
First Release: 2019
ISBN: 978-1101974179
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Non-fiction

Ultimate High: My Everest Odyssey

An exciting, personal account of one man's determination to climb Mount Everest alone, without oxygen assistance, describes how the Swedish climber accomplished his goal, within days of the 1995 tragedy that took the lives of a number of fellow climbers. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

NB: Co-authored with Goran Kropp.

Author: David Lagercrantz
Original Title: Göran Kropp 8000 plus
First Release: 1997
ISBN: 978-1563319365
Publisher: Discovery Books
I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I AM ZLATAN - the explosive, critically-acclaimed memoir of Zlatan Ibrahimovich, one of the world's most gifted and controversial footballers.

'Guardiola has no balls. He drove me like a Fiat . . . I'm a Ferrari'

Zlatan Ibrahimovic - professional football's most mercurial player, Swedish national hero, tabloid fixture, fashion icon, modern-day philosopher and black belt in Taekwondo. Born to a Muslim father from Bosnia, and a Catholic mother from Croatia, Zlatan recounts his extraordinary life story, from his poverty-stricken upbringing as an outsider in Malmö;, Sweden, to becoming one of the world's most sought-after and expensive players, gracing Europe's finest clubs, from Ajax to Juventus, Internazionale to Barcelona, Milan to Paris Saint-Germain.

I AM ZLATAN reveals a rare and ferocious intelligence, willpower and God-given talent most recently exhibited when Zlatan scored all 4 goals for Sweden in a 4-2 victory against England. His fourth goal, a 30-yard overhead kick with his back to goal is widely regarded as one of the greatest goals of all time. The BBC described it as a goal that 'combined unfathomable imagination and expert technique'.

NB: Co-authored with Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

I Am Zlatan
Director: Jens Sjögren
Cast: Granit Rushiti, Dominic Andersson Bajraktati, Cedomir Glisovic, Merima Dizdarevic, Håkan Bengtsson, Selma Mesanovic, Linda Haziri, Emmanuele Aita, Gijs Naber, Duccio Camerini, Helena Ellison
Author: David Lagercrantz
First Release: 2011
ISBN: 978-0812986921
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Rekke & Vargas

Dark Music

Professor Hans Rekke is a world authority on interrogation techniques, capable of dizzying feats of logic and observation. He was born into wealth and power and has a picture-perfect wife and daughter. But he also has a fragile psyche that falls apart under pressure.

Micaela Vargas is a street-smart police officer, the daughter of Chilean political refugees, who grew up in the projects on the outskirts of Stockholm and has two brothers on the wrong side of the law. She is tenacious and uncompromising, and desperate to prove herself to her fellow cops.

Micaela needs Hans’s unique mind to help her solve the case of a murdered asylum-seeker from Afghanistan. Hans needs Micaela to save him from himself. Together, they need to find the killer before they’re both silenced for good.

Author: David Lagercrantz
Original Title: Obscuritas
First Release: 2021
ISBN: 978-0593312926
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard