He is a huge fan of Leif GW Persson. So when Christoffer Carlsson got the offer to participate in the new season of ”Weekly crime”, he was at first hesitant.
” No one can replace him. At the same time, it is important that the SVT has a large and ambitious kriminalmagasin, ” he says when the TT meet him in his office at the university of Stockholm.
After speaking with Camilla Kvartoft on the new kriminalmagasinet thanked Christoffer spite of everything, yes.
” That criminology would be outside would feel wrong.
thus, double the current, for in our will his new novel ”the Omen”. Unlike the last four books about the tormented police Leo Junker is this a stand alone book. ”Omen” is about a crime and how it affects the people for many years to come.
” When I wrote the books about Leo Junker, I wanted to challenge myself, I understood it would be difficult to write a series. When the four books were completed, I had published many books over a short period of time, so I took it easy and devote myself to other projects, ” he says.
But things happened in his own life that gave him the idea for a new book. It revolves around a murder in the outskirts of the halland village Marbäck, 1994. The guilty are identified and convicted but the offence creates rings on the water. There is also the boy Isaac with järtecknet, who is afraid that one day he’ll do something terrible.
Christoffer Carlsson tells us that this is his most personal book to date, but is economical with the details of why.
– Even if very little of what happens has happened to me, so is there anything autobiographical on almost every page, ” he says, and sums up cryptically:
– In the book there is a boy, an uncle, a house that is burning, and there is a dead woman. His uncle disappears and the boy is devastated. I had a great uncle, it was a house that burned, no dead woman, but my uncle was taken from me.
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itself from the halland Marbäck, where ”Omen” is unfolding. He wanted to depict their minnens place, which was a place for “both nice and terrible moments”. He grew up in the outskirts, in the small town of Tofta.
– My intention was that you would be able to use the book as a map, but the claim will probably go on beating. Secondly, can my memory be wrong and, secondly, was a part of of the storm Gudrun, ” he says.
In the district there his own history, and some of the people in the book is a mishmash of people who have been on the really. A single person is completely authentic, and with the name is the same.
He wanted to write about this place before, but without quite daring to. That he now still do it associated with several private events. People out of his life disappeared, and his childhood home was sold, which was highly emotional for him.
“I couldn’t remember a time when it was not in our possession,” he says.
a new season with the ”Weekly crime” can Christoffer Carlsson has not yet say. And it will take a few years before the next book comes.
” I want to write fewer, but better novels. Not a year, I want to think more.
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