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.

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.

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

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.

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

I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.

The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.