"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."

"I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside."

"In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine."

"Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature."

"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."