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

Don't exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full rein

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 know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on.

As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.