By Malin Rising STOCKHOLM -- Fans of the late crime novelist Stieg Larsson are getting lost in the Swedish countryside, searching for the quaint town of Hedestad featured in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.The problem is, it doesn't exist.But readers of Larsson's bestselling "Millennium" crime trilogy could be excused for thinking otherwise, because most locations in the books are authentic.Some of them include the Kaffebar cafe in Stockholm -- a favorite haunt of Larsson's fictional journalist Mikael Blomkvist -- and the Kvarnen bar, where Larsson has tattooed computer hacker Lisbeth Salander spending evenings with her friends from the rock band Evil Fingers.Both places are on the trendy island of Sodermalm, a former working-class area with narrow streets where old wooden cottages are squeezed between 20th-century stone houses.The hilly Stockholm district -- with popular bars, fashion stores and art galleries -- is one of many islands that form the city center and the home of Larsson's characters.Blomkvist and Salander, the trilogy's main characters, have apartments there.

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