Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.

In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.

Let me say here and now that faith has never done me any good, only doubt. So that is what has become my testament.

What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.

A rat is neither good nor evil. It does what a rat has to do.