Stieg Larsson’s partner bids to finish final novel

THE longtime partner of Stieg Larsson says she could finish a fourth volume in the phenomenal Millennium series left incomplete by the Swedish novelist’s sudden death, if she secures the rights.

In a 160-page memoir to be published in France, Sweden and Norway next Wednesday, Eva Gabrielsson casts new light on the creation of the crime series that has sold more than 45 million copies worldwide.

Larsson, 50, died of a heart attack in November 2004, before the publication of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, all centring on his anti-heroine, the punk computer hacker Lisbeth Salander.