David Lagercrantz
Author of The Girl in the Spider's Web
About the Author
David Lagercrantz was born on September 4, 1962 in Solna Municipality, Sweden. He was a crime reporter for Expressen, a national daily paper, where he covered some major crime stories including an infamous triple murder in the cemetery in the northern Swedish town of Amsele in 1988. His first book, show more Ultimate High, was published in 1997. His other works include A Swedish Genius, The Sky over Everest, Fall of Man in Wilmslow, and I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic. A Swedish Genius provided inspiration for the critically acclaimed documentary film Patent 986. In 2013, Lagercrantz was selected to write a new instalment in Stieg Larsson's Millennium series. The Girl in the Spider's Web was published in 2015. It was followed by The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, published in 2017. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: David Lagercrantz, in Stockholm shortly after midnight on Aug. 27, 2015, at the world premiere of his book "The Girl in the Spider's Web". By Frankie Fouganthin - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42695388
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- Legal name
- Lagercrantz, David Gunnar Fransiscus
- Birthdate
- 1962-09-04
- Gender
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- Nationality
- Sweden
- Occupations
- journalist
- Relationships
- Lagercrantz, Olof (far)
Asklund, Lis (faster)
Lagercrantz, Arvid (farbror)
Ruin, Hans (morfar)
Lönnroth, Lars (kusin)
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Ruin, Olof (morbror) - Short biography
- David Lagercrantz, 1962 geboren, debütierte als Autor mit dem internationalen Bestseller Allein auf dem Everest. Seitdem hat er zahlreiche Romane und Sachbücher veröffentlicht. 2013 wurde er vom schwedischen Originalverlag und Stieg Larssons Familie ausgewählt, die Folgeromane der Millennium-Reihe zu schreiben. David Lagercrantz ist verheiratet und lebt in Stockholm.DAVID LAGERCRANTZ is an acclaimed Swedish journalist and author. He has worked as a crime reporter for Expressen and has written several novels, including the #1 best-selling The Girl in the Spider's Web. He worked with international soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimović on his memoir I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović, which was short-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and nominated for the August Prize in Sweden.
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This is, without a doubt, the worst book I've read this year. It's is piss poor bad. Not funny-in-a-hipster-kind-a-way bad. Just plain bad. Like really, really bad.
Badly written in general and filled with terrible dialogue and a plot that just goes in all directions without ever focusing on anything in specific.
If the first three books in the series had been written like this, no one in the world would ever have heard of Lisbeth Selander and Mikhael Blomkvist.
I've read half of the book so you don't have to.… (more)
Badly written in general and filled with terrible dialogue and a plot that just goes in all directions without ever focusing on anything in specific.
If the first three books in the series had been written like this, no one in the world would ever have heard of Lisbeth Selander and Mikhael Blomkvist.
I've read half of the book so you don't have to.… (more)
Need someone else to write these
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It was very difficult to get into and very slow moving. Other than that, it was an interesting read.