He comes off a little like Practical Pig in The Three Little Pigs.

Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.

Salander was the woman who hated men who hate women.

I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.

What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

I am what I am,' Salander said 'I ran away from everything and everybody. I should have said goodbye.