--- description: It may have a different author, but "The Girl in the Spider's Web" looks a lot like the other Lisbeth Salander novels title: Here's the Cover for the New "Stieg Larsson" Book image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6ba4f8cfe7519979/69878608e53aba84684d859e/the-girl-in-the-spiders-web.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Books](/tag/books/) ## Books Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here's the Cover for the New Book in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 31, 2015 3:21 PM CUT  Knopf by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 31, 2015 3:21 PM CUT Stieg Larsson died before he could complete a fourth book in his Millennium Series—but its protagonist, Lisbeth Salander, lives on. After the wild success of _The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo_ and its two sequels, _The Girl Who Played With Fire_ and _The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest_, Larsson’s publishers and estate recruited Swedish writer David Lagercrantz to continue the series. The fourth book will hit shelves Sept. 1, and its American publisher, Knopf, revealed the cover for _The Girl in the Spider’s Web_ on Tuesday. If we’re judging a book by its cover, readers can probably expect book four to hew closely to Stieg Larsson’s style—the design is very much in keeping with the rest of the series, and though Lagercrantz gets the byline, the jacket specifies in not-insignificant type that the story is “continuing Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Series.” The book will once again follow the adventures of Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist, though this time, says Lagercrantz, it will introduce “Silicon Valley as a locale and a character from the National Security Agency in a central role.” The Larsson novels have spelled huge profits for publishers, selling 80 million copies worldwide and 25 million in the U.S. alone since 2005\. Whether a new writer can replicate the same spark remains to be seen—_Spider’s Web_ will have an initial print run of 500,000 copies in the U.S. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3765229/girl-in-the-spiders-web/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3765229/girl-in-the-spiders-web/"},"headline":"Here's the Cover for the New Book in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series","datePublished":"2015-03-31T15:21:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:34:50.017Z","description":"It may have a different author, but The Girl in the Spider's Web looks a lot like the other Lisbeth Salander novels","url":"https://time.com/3765229/girl-in-the-spiders-web/","keywords":["Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6ba4f8cfe7519979/69878608e53aba84684d859e/the-girl-in-the-spiders-web.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6ba4f8cfe7519979/69878608e53aba84684d859e/the-girl-in-the-spiders-web.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"the-girl-in-the-spiders-web","caption":"","creditText":"Knopf","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3765229/girl-in-the-spiders-web/","name":"Here's the Cover for the New Book in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series"}}]}] ```