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To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.

~Stieg Larsson

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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.

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

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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.

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I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police.

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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.

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

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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.

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I will write a couple of books and become a millionaire.

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Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

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Biography

Nationality: Swedish

Type: Writer

Born: August 15th, 1954

Died: November 9th, 2004

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