Mons Kallentoft: Scandinavian Detective Fiction

Linkoping, Sweden Dept: Q: How do you feel your work fits into the Scandinavian detective fiction genre?, according to The Star. Q: Yes, the town where you grew up. Linkoping, Sweden. Why did you choose to set your series there and more than 55 international writers from 17 countries are in Toronto for the International Festival of Authors . Each day will interview one of them. Today, it s Swedish crime writer Mons Kallentoft, author of the Malin Fors series, beginning with Midwinter Blood, which was released in English this year. A: I try to have a couple of differences. It s very much like some of the others but the language, my style of writing is more literary. And there is also an element of magic in all the gruesome realism. The voices of the victims are in the books, which is quite different. When I started to write my first novel, I thought: what can I bring to the genre to make my books stand out a little bit? Otherwise it s a police procedural, set in a small Swedish town. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.