Hay Festival 2012: Stieg Larsson's partner took revenge with 'Viking' curse Gabrielsson remains bitter over the fall-out from Larsson's death in 2004, aged 50, shortly before his first book was published. The Millennium trilogy was released posthumously and has sold 65 million copies worldwide. However, Gabrielsson gets nothing because under Swedish law unmarried partners have no right of inheritance. I invoked the old Viking words to punish those who harmed Stieg during his life. Asked if it had worked, she replied: "Yes. I asked that people would lose their careers, I asked that they would become sick, and that's what happened. Some even died. Larsson was a crusading journalist and the couple received death threats during his lifetime from Neo-Nazi extremists. Since his death, Gabrielsson has been at war with his family, who inherited control of his literary estate and the considerably fortune generated from his book sales. Asked by an audience member if she could find peace, Gabrielsson, 58, replied: "No. Why should I? There is no peace in this. I will continue to be angry.