I Don't Feel The Need To Prove

Northern Sweden Holds A Special Kind Of Magic. It's Cold, Lonely, And The People Are Tough And Silent, Or So The Stereotype Says. This Is Asa Larsson's Home Turf And I Find As Much Joy In Reading Her Closely Observed Descriptions Of The Environment, As In Following Her Intriguing Plots.

Crime Stories Are Our Version Of Sitting Round A Camp Fire And Telling Tales. We Enjoy Being Scared Under Safe Circumstances. That's Why There's No Tradition Of Crime Writing In Countries That Have Wars.

The Pace Of Swedish Crime Fiction Is Slower - Stieg Larsson's The Exception. And I Think We Use The Environment More.

If I Can Hit No. 1 On The 'new York Times' Best-seller List, I'm Thinking Of Having The Entire List Tattooed On My Body Somewhere. It Would Be Fabulous.

I Do Listen To Abba. And A Lot Of '80s And '90s Pop Music.