Lisbeth Salander
When asked about the decision to continue the series after Larsson's death, Sonny Mehta, the president of Alfred A. Knopf — the American publisher of all the "Millennium" books — said, "Lisbeth Salander is one of the heroines, I think, of the 21st century, and a most unlikely heroine. She's brave, she's intrepid, she's unfrightenable, she's got a moral core (...) And I hope people will just welcome the return of this extremely unlikely pair of Salander and this crusading journalist."