I Think My Heart Is Quite Selfish.

Normally I Start With A Plot, And Write A Synopsis, And The Ideas Come From The Construction.

Thanks To The Success Of Henning Mankell And Peter Hoeg, There Wasn't The Same Stigma Attached To Writing Genre Thrillers In Scandinavia As There Was In Many Other Cultures. Quite The Opposite, In Fact.

I'm Afraid I Didn't Really Like Caracas In Venezuela. From What I Saw It Seemed So Crime-ridden That You Really Have To Be On Your Guard All The Time.

My Influence Is Probably More From American Crime Writers Than Any Europeans. And I Hardly Read Any Scandinavian Crime Before I Started Writing Myself. I Wasn't A Great Crime Reader To Begin With.

I'm Just An Entertainer. In A Way Crime Stories Are Boring. A Crime's Been Committed And At The End You Know It Will Be Solved. So You've Got To Make The Story Interesting Besides It Just Being A Plot. And That's Why Character Matters, Why You've Got To Make The Characters Interesting.