"There Are Things I Want You To Know", Gabrielsson explains who Larsson was by explaining who she is - an architect, a collaborator and, apparently, an archetypical alpha-wife of a messy writer - and who they were together. It's more of the same, really, and she knows she was there. Gabrielsson writes, of a fictional crime, "Everything of this nature described in The Millennium Trilogy has happened at one time or another to a Swedish citizen, journalist, politician, public prosecutor, unionist, or policeman. What's ostensibly missing in the still-churning legend of Larsson, and revealed in his widowed partner Eva Gabrielsson's memoir-cum-treatise of their life and her legal battle (it was first released this winter in both Swedish and French) is the fact that such real-life dramatics have always closely surrounded the trilogy. Or, so goes the luridly thrilling story of the now famously dead and famously wronged author, who never officially married his long-time partner, which led to the profits and, more crucially, the rights of his Millennium Trilogy going to his estranged brother and father instead. When Stieg Larsson died in 2004 at the age of 50 in Sweden, he left behind a puzzle almost as dark and just as convoluted as those found in his novels
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