<Tr> <Th> Preceded by </Th> <Td> The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Followed by </Th> <Td> The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest </Td> </Tr> <P> The Girl Who Played with Fire (Swedish: Flickan som lekte med elden) is the second novel in the best - selling Millennium series by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson . It was published posthumously in Swedish in 2006 and in English in January 2009 . </P> <P> The book features many of the characters who appeared in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005), among them the title character, Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant computer hacker and social misfit, and Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist and publisher of Millennium magazine . </P>

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