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

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.

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.

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.