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.

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

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

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

In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.

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.