Once readers recover from the depression always attendant upon reaching the end of a superb story (and from the particular sadness here of knowing that Larsson, who died of a heart attack after turning in the manuscripts of his three mysteries, won't be writing any more) many of them will want to return to the first novel, to savor - with the wisdom of the newly enlightened - the earliest hints of the catastrophes to come. With the frantically awaited American publication of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, the last novel in his The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series, the soaring architectural ambition of Larsson's trilogy fully reveals itself. The final verdict is in: Steig Larsson has posthumously proven himself to be one of the Greats of Mystery Fiction, taking his place in the pantheon along with other demi-Gods like Christie, Sayers, Hammett, Chandler, Robert Parker and his (still-breathing) fellow Swede, Henning Mankell.
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