To truly understand Stieg Larsson's detective stories, you need to know what kind of life he lived. And hardly anyone can tell about this better than Eva Gabrielsson, his companion for more than thirty years. It was Eva who was next to Stig at the time when he, an aspiring journalist, was preparing his first publications; It was she who later supported him in the fight against right-wing extremism and the oppression of women. Before her eyes, the now world-famous detective novels were born, word by word, detail by detail, growing out of a common - one for two - life. No one knows better than Eve what stands behind every name or title, behind every fact or incident mentioned in these books. Millennium is almost as much her creation as it is his. And when Stig suddenly died, Eva lost not only her close, beloved person, but also all rights to the fruits of their joint work... Photo on the cover: Eva Gabrielsson and Stieg Larsson in 1980 (from the personal archive of Eva Gabrielsson).