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.

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.

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

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.