With the exception of the fictional Hedestad, the novel takes place in actual Swedish towns. The murder of Catrine da Costa was also an inspiration when he wrote the book.
The veracity of this story has been questioned since Larsson's death, after a colleague from Expo magazine reported to Rolling Stone that Larsson had told him he had heard the story secondhand and retold it as his own. The incident, he said, haunted him for years afterward and in part inspired him to create a character named Lisbeth who was also a rape victim. Days later, racked with guilt for having done nothing to help her, he begged her forgiveness-which she refused to grant. Larsson spoke of an incident which he said occurred when he was 15: he stood by as three men gang raped an acquaintance of his named Lisbeth. Originally a trilogy by Larsson, the series was expanded to another three books by David Lagercrantz, and as of 2021 rights had been sold for Karin Smirnoff to write three more. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first book of the Millennium series. It was published posthumously in 2005, translated into English in 2008, and became an international bestseller.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original title in Swedish: Män som hatar kvinnor, lit.' Men Who Hate Women') is a psychological thriller novel by Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson (1954–2004).
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