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The previous actors to take the lead in Stieg Larsson’s franchise were excellent. So the successor to Noomi Rapace, Rooney Mara and Claire Foy is bound to be brilliant – whoever they are …

These winter thriller movies are set in snowy conditions, and see compelling protagonists face the frozen elements and deadly forces.

"I'm excited that we get to see, again, a new version of a woman who just refuses to follow the rules"

The Swede is the first woman to write a Lisbeth Salander novel. She explains what men don’t get about sexual violence, why she introduced a genius niece – and how writing beats chopping wood for a living

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright and The Girl In The Eagle’s Talons by Karin Smirnoff.

Authors from Jane Mayer to Michael Lewis show that malfeasance from government and private enterprise is by no means just a foreign affair

The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons, out in English next year, picks up from David Lagercrantz in filling out the late author’s vision for a 10-book sequence

Once seen as the purview of British and American writers, crime fiction is very much a global phenomenon. Fictional investigators such as Lisbeth Salander, Kurt Wallander and Jules Maigret are now perhaps as well known as Hercule Poirot, Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.

FRANCE 24's Jennifer Ben Brahim meets the actress who was launched to international stardom as Lisbeth Salander in the "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". Swedish actress Noomi Rapace is on the jury that will decide which film gets the big prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. She has to…