I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties. Stieg Larsson Read Quote
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. Stieg Larsson Read Quote
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine. Stieg Larsson Read Quote
I’ve read crime fiction all my life. A thing that’s bothered me about crime fiction is that it’s generally about one or two people, but there’s not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters. Stieg Larsson Read Quote
Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say… that I have, of course. Stieg Larsson Read Quote
In real life, people are integrated into society. That’s what happens in my books as well. Minor characters don’t just walk in and spout lines, they interact and have an effect on the events. It’s not an isolated universe. Stieg Larsson Read Quote