I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

Don't ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one's death looks better and better. The only thing to hope for is that you get so senile that you think you're twenty years old again. That would be fun to relive.

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.