Field of Blood writer Denise Mina on the challenge of reworking The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo into a graphic novel

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Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.AWARD-winning Scots author Denise Mina will star at the Edinburgh Book Festival – discussing her graphic novel adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy of novels, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest.With the finale of Field of Blood II being screened on BBC1 tonight and her novel The Red Road published just last month, Denise is busier than ever.However, she jumped at the chance to re-work the million-sellers written by Larsson, who died in 2004 aged just 50.“His estate asked me if I would write them,” Denise, 46, said. “I said I would love to do that because there is loads of.