“If you want to start reading Swedish crime fiction, you have to start ...” — Hakan Nesser Quote

“If you want to start reading Swedish crime fiction, you have to start with Sjowall and Wahloo.”

“It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after.”

“I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.”

“I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all.”

“I'd always wanted to write crime fiction. I loved Nancy Drew.”

“Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.”