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""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 WhitakerINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Lisbeth Salander returns in this chilling new installment of the multi-million-copy bestselling Millennium series.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.

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A splash of Tolkien, two scoops of Marvel, a shattered girl's world. . . . A gaze that meets Larsson's feminist anger but continues to dig a little deeper.-- ""Västerbotten-kuriren"" Criminally fast-paced.-- ""Femina"" Karin Smirnoff's language is worth reading for its own sake.-- ""Dagens Nyheter "" This author takes the Millennium series to a new level.-- ""Arbetarbladet"" Well-written and exciting.-- ""Dast""

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Karin Smirnoff is the author of her debut novel, My Brother, which became a critically acclaimed bestseller shortlisted for the prestigious August Prize, translated into eleven languages, and optioned for TV by the producers behind The Bridge. She previously worked as a journalist. 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 UK-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. Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over fifty Earphones Awards and thirteen prestigious Audie Awards. He was named Booklist's very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009.

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