Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.

Sometimes they were together so often that it felt as though they really were a couple; sometimes weeks and months would go by before they saw each other. But even as alcoholics are drawn to the state liquor store after a stint on the wagon, they always came back to each other.

What an excellent tool the internet is for freaks.

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.

A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.

Don't call me crazy.I'm a survivor. I do what I have to do to survive.