The Girl Who Danced With Death by Sylvain Runberg

Her style is a combination of European and Japanese influences to create their own unique feel. Runberg and his frequent artist collaborator Ortega are more confident in their storytelling decisions, pushing action set pieces where the story calls for it and Ortega's characters have more personality and are much more expressive.

The Titan editions of the French graphic novels are also better than the Vertigo adaptations of the original trilogy, which were often serviceable but stiff in both writing and art. Runberg delves deeper into these themes in this graphic novel than Lagercrantz does in the new novels, which choose James Bond-style technothriller plots over the political undercurrents that informed Larssen's plots in the original trilogy. The difference being that Runberg has a better understanding of the key themes of Larsson's intentions in his original trilogy, namely the exposure of government corruption, the insidious rise of the far-right in Europe and the link between far-right thinking and misogyny which fuels the abuse of women in society. I consider this graphic novel a better continuation of Salander and Blomkvist's story than Lagercrantz' novels. Salander and Blomkvist are forced to go into hiding as the net tightens around them from all sides, racing against time to expose a conspiracy that threatens to endanger the political landscape of Sweden and spread to the rest of Europe. Blomkvist's magazine Millennium comes under legal threat again from the candidate's lawyers putting the squeeze and investors getting cold feet. Salander and Blomkvist find an excuse to continue their cautious friendship as they carry out their part in the investigation, with Salander herself targeted by Sparta. Meanwhile, Blomkvist is investigating a charismatic right-wing political candidate to prove his past ties with far-right groups and asks Salander for help in uncovering the man's past that he has gone to great pains to hide. At first she thinks it's the Secret Service, but discovers it's really a secret far-right group called Sparta who want hackers to carry out a major hack for them. In the new story, Lisbeth Salander is planning to hack the Swedish Secret Service's secret files but finds her hacker friends are being abducted.

The Girl Who Danced With Death by Sylvain Runberg