"We wanted to describe society from our Left……" — Maj Sjowall

"We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality."

— Maj Sjowall

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