The seventh installment of the crime novel Millennium will hit bookstore shelves next August under the title “Las talons del águila”. The book with the usual overtones of social criticism in the saga of the late Stieg Larsson focuses on a network of corruption and they have selected a new Swedish author Karin Smirnoff to continue the legacy of the renowned writer.

As reported by the Destino publishing house, which will publish this novel in Spanish in Spain and Latin America, “Las garras del águila” is one of the biggest international phenomena of the year and will be released in more than 35 countries. Specifically, it will land in Spain on August 30. Smirnoff (1965) was selected was selected by the heirs of Stieg Larsson to materialize this seventh chapter of the series starring Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist, after the three written by David Lagercrantz, which followed the trilogy that Larsoon began with “Men who did not love women”a saga that has more than 100 million readers around the world.

It was in 2013 when it was made public that lagercrantzSwedish writer and journalist, had accepted the challenge of continuing the Millennium saga created by his late compatriot Stieg Larsson, who wrote a black trilogy and social criticism that he never saw published because he died at the age of 50 of a heart attack in 2004. Lagercrantz wrote three other novels in this saga, which has more than 105 million readers worldwide, the last of which came out in Spanish in September 2019.

The seventh chapter of Millennium, already published in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands, moves the action from Stockholm to the north of the country where Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist will face a network of corruption covered by the exploitation of renewable energies and they will fight the violence against women, in the midst of the political environment in which the ultra-right is unstoppable.