text: Desperate fans queue for Millennium sequel book - The Local
  Speaking to reporters just hours ahead of the launch, David Lagercrantz said he was "terrified" as he wrote The Girl in the Spider's Web.
  "I used to say that I was bipolar, manic depressive all the time, and I think it was kind of a good thing to write [in this condition]", he said of the 500-page thriller which picks up the trail of tattooed computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist.
  "I came on the subway, that way I can start reading on my way home," said Millennium fan Rickard de Boussard, 57, who had joined fans queuing outside a branch of Akademibokhandeln in the city centre.
  On Wednesday it emerged that a newspaper kiosk at Stockholm's central station had briefly put the book on sale a day early, before being ordered by the book's publishers to remove it.
  Fans queuing at midnight in Stockholm. Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT
  Lagercrantz meanwhile told newswire AFP in an interview that he was "obsessive" during the writing process, poring over Larsson's trilogy, reading and re-reading it, doing endless hours of research, questioning his ability the whole time.
  "The writing process was a combination of an enormous desire and total fear," he says with a laugh.
  "The fear of not doing Stieg Larsson justice kept me going.
  "I was not the easiest person to live with because I was thinking about it all the time," he told AFP, saying he was "scared to death" that his book would not live up to the trilogy written by Larsson, who died suddenly of a heart attack in 2004 at age 50, before the series gained global fame.
  Larsson's three books, published in 2005-2007, have sold 80 million copies worldwide and inspired a series of films in Swedish as well as a Hollywood version. He is the best selling Swedish adult fiction writer of all time.
  While many fans craved a fourth instalment, some are not happy — among them Eva Gabrielsson, Larsson's partner for 32 years until his death.
  Gabrielsson, 61, lost a bitter battle with them to manage his work.
  She has criticised both the decision to continue the trilogy and to pick Lagercrantz as author, calling him "a totally idiotic choice" in an AFP interview in March.
  But publishing house Norstedts defended Lagercrantz, a journalist from Stockholm's intelligentsia who penned football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic's official biography, saying he had a "special talent for depicting the world of others."
  "It's my novel in his universe," Lagercrantz told AFP.
  "His world, his characters, but I put some of me in it too."
  "I kept it on my nightstand for a week before I opened it. I was a little afraid. But once I started, it was impossible to stop," Larsson's brother Joakim told AFP.