He’s a best-selling crime novelist from a Scandinavian country, but don’t call Jo Nesbø the next Stieg Larsson. It’s not that Nesbø doesn’t care for the comparison. He just believes it’s misleading

AP – Swedish police have confirmed that actor Per Oscarsson, who won a best actor award at Cannes in 1966 and appeared in films based on Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium,” died in a fire at his house.

Also reviewed: HBO’s “You Don’t Know Jack” and “The Girl Who Played With Fire,” the second film based on the Stieg Larsson trilogy.

Also from Stieg Larsson, a new hardcover boxed set; Carl Hiaasen skewers celebrity culture; and Suzanne Collins wraps up her teen trilogy.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Stieg Larsson, author of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, has become the first writer to sell more than one million Kindle e-books thanks to his popular mystery Millennium Trilogy novels, online retailer Amazon.com said on Tuesday.

Reuters – Daniel Craig will star in the English-language remake of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” plus the two potential follow-ups based on author Stieg Larsson’s best-selling trilogy.

The second installment of Stieg Larsson’s trilogy doesn’t sustain the supense.

The novels in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy were three of the five biggest sellers of the second quarter, according to USA TODAY’s Best-Selling …

Reuters – A heightened sense of reality mixed with pure pulp fiction is what makes Swedish novelist Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” trilogy such compulsive reading. Few modern writers could get away with heroes who are such staunch moralists going up against villains who drip with such unrepentant evil.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stieg Larsson copycats take note: The slow rise of electronic books is paving the way for more safe-bet fiction blockbusters and serial-type books, at least in the short term, according to some book experts.