People In Sweden Talk A Lot About

Swedish Taxes Are High, And We Don't Get As Much As We Used To For Them. And Our Schools Aren't So Good.

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

I Don't Feel The Need To Prove Myself By Writing The Next Generational Novel.

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.

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.