The Girl in the Spider’s Web, the latest edition of Stieg Larsson‘s wildly successful Millennium series, has hit book shelves with a new author.
Larsson died in 2004 before the series took off. British author David Lagercrantz was selected to keep the series alive in a new book. While critics have complained that the series should have died with Larsson, Sonny Mehta, editor in chief and president of Knopf, defended the move to release a new book in the series.
“Lisbeth Salander is one of the heroines, I think, of the 21st century, and a most unlikely heroine. She’s brave, she’s intrepid, she’s unfrightenable, she’s got a moral core,” he told NPR. “And I hope people will just welcome the return of this extremely unlikely pair of Salander and this crusading journalist.”