<Tr> <Th> No. of books </Th> <Td> 5 </Td> </Tr> <P> Millennium is a series of best - selling and award - winning Swedish crime novels, created by Stieg Larsson . The two primary characters in the saga are Lisbeth Salander, a woman in her twenties with a photographic memory and poor social skills, and Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist and publisher of a magazine called Millennium . </P> <P> Larsson planned the series as having ten installments, but due to his sudden death in 2004, only three were completed and published . All of them were published posthumously: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in 2005, The Girl Who Played with Fire in 2006, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest in 2007 . Larsson's novels were originally printed in Swedish by Norstedts förlag, with English editions by Quercus in the United Kingdom and Alfred A. Knopf in the United States . The books have since been translated and published by many publishers in over fifty countries . By March 2015, 80 million copies of the first three books had been sold worldwide . </P> <P> Publisher Norstedts förlag has commissioned Swedish author and crime journalist David Lagercrantz to continue the Millennium series featuring Larsson's characters . Lagercrantz's first novel in the series, The Girl in the Spider's Web, was published in 2015 . Another installment, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, followed in 2017 . </P>

Books in the girl with the dragon tattoo series