We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.

People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.

We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.

Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.