David Lagercrantz's Top 3 Books

The strange case of the writer given over to the cause of the immortality of someone else's work. Something like this could be pointed out for a David lagercrantz whose main task is to continue the Millennium saga with the same levels of splendor. A series of crime novels whose characters are already part of the world imagination thanks to novels and movies and popularized in the first instance by the late Stieg Larsson.

I could hardly imagine a David dedicated in the narrative to the tasks of a biographer who would end up participating in the continuity of a legacy that makes the rest of the Nordic noir genre pale (an arduous task, by the way, considering the great quarry of the countries in the area).

The trick may lie with Lisbeth Salander, the mysterious girl around whose personality and abilities all imaginable plots are built. His very powerful presence, his dark personality, his traumas and his shrillness and eccentricities that reach even the sexual. And that glow of humanity under the black cloak of his fateful future ...

It is clear that if you can connect with the character, you have won the cause of consolidating the work. And that is what David has achieved so that the following novels, after the trilogy finished by Larsson, maintain that uniformity and the unanimous favorable criticism for an artificial continuity that almost always, in other cases, only predicts dissatisfaction on the part of readers and final failure.

With some independent foray into the same thriller line but politically oriented: «The Turing riddle«, David advances through the third post-Larsson installment and who knows if even more will come. For my part, this is the order in terms of that quality always appreciated subjectively.

David Lagercrantz's Top 3 Recommended Novels

What does not kill you makes you stronger

The first bet of continuity supposed that ordago to the greater one. If things went well, David could keep exploring new plots around Lisbeth. If not, he would have to rethink his literary career.

The reception of so many readers eager for more of the magnetic Lisbeth ended up giving her the final accolade. On some occasion I saw an athlete with the title of this novel tattooed on his arm. And the truth is that whenever I read it I think of that rebirth from hell of everyone who needs to reinforce that idea.

And you may be right. It is probable that who, loaded with resilience, is able to sublimate the worst of his destiny, can better reach high levels of success. But there is a price, the past always collects the bills.

Nothing better than this dichotomous notion to resume Lisbeth's life once its original author left us. Lisbeth has grown stronger, but the invoice of her past always leads her to live on the edge, to exploit her enormous qualities on the tightrope.

Boasting once again her deep computer skills, the girl with the scared look of a girl, with those black eyes that seem to have escaped from any hell, gets down to work as a hacker serving evil interests. Blomkvist reappears in his life tangentially.

He is on the other side of his advances in this "meddling" from the deepest network that leads to vital information for intelligence services around the world.

Lisbeth's patron on the particular mission, Frans Balder, believes he has Lisbeth in control, but Mikael Blomkvist knows that she doesn't just take the rules without seeking her own satisfaction, revenge, or whatever moves her. The reunion between the two is developing with the intensity of the pending debts and the new emerging dangers.

What does not kill you makes you stronger

The man who chased his shadow

Of those powders these muds. With her bones in jail, Lisbeth can take too long to analyze how she should have faced her role as a hacker in the service of third parties.

But, surprisingly, the plot immediately redirects towards the girl's most personal plot. The truth is that if this saga achieved such success it was largely because of that duality between equals.

On the one hand we always find the argument that moves the story forward, the case, and on the other, with equal intensity, Lisbeth's debt appears, her dark days of abuse and the internal storms that led her to destruction and that they were close to the most absolute devastation. But now, in this installment, Lisbeth may be able to direct the focus of all her hatred to the source of her fears unleashed towards anger.

There are those on the street who still remember her, of course. Holger Palmgren leads an investigation into her darkest days and she, together with Blomkvist who always feels indebted to the girl, end up linking everything with the highest levels of power in Sweden.

If Lisbeth is able to survive in prison, where she has also sought her troubles in defense of a harassed girl, if she finally leaves those walls unscathed, she will be able to unleash her vengeance.

The man who chased his shadow

The girl who lived twice

The undertow of the sea is a strange force that, after having returned to land what is not typical of the oceans, pulls with force towards the depths.

The instinct is to swim against the current, when the real thing is to do it parallel to the shore, waiting for that final approach that finally frees you from the effect. Lisbeth is stranded in her new life, about to be overtaken by the hangover from her past.

But she does not know. His goal is to take advantage of everything he knows to pass for one more, an outstanding executive. Only one point remains pending from so much past defeated, his sister Camilla, from whom he could never expect such ignominy. But Camilla, like her, also has her weapons.

Curling the curl, Mikael Blomkvist also claims her from his already distant Stockholm. And perhaps between the two fronts he will not be able to focus all his energy on either of them. Defeat is near. Although in every way there is always a point of hope counting on her, the heroine of the black genre: Lisbeth Salander.

The girl who lived twice

Other recommended books by David Lagercrantz…

Obscuritas: A Case for Rekke and Vargas

Summer 2003. In Hässelby, on the outskirts of Stockholm, the lifeless body of a soccer referee is found. Giuseppe Costa, father of one of the players in the last game he played in, is arrested for the crime. The case seems clear, but Costa refuses to admit to the murder. When there are no strings left to pull, the Head of Homicide decides to turn to Professor Hans Rekke, a world expert in interrogation techniques, who will try to get him to confess to the crime.

However, Costa is released and the case is closed unsolved. Only Micaela Vargas, a young police officer recently joined the team, refuses to let the investigation fall into oblivion. When they meet again some time later, Rekke, an aristocrat with connections to high places, and Micaela, the daughter of Chilean immigrants and a connoisseur of Stockholm's underworld, will decide to resume the investigation and solve a case that hides much more than anyone knows. could have imagined.

dark. A case for Rekke and Vargas
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