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

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

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

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

Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.

I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.

People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.