Will Dean

Well, it's crime fiction.

There are always bars.

There are always bodies.

There's always an interesting sense of place.

And there's always some sort of engagement with the past because every crime has to have already happened for it to be a crime novel.

So that's some of the stuff that I'm really interested in talking to them about.

Thanks so much, Michaela.

Really looking forward to this big weekend of books starting tonight, but on all across the weekend.

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so deep in the woods you might even be able to hear wolves howling.

You can certainly hear his internet wobbling.

He lives in a remote cabin, writing darkly entertaining novels about a character named Tuva Mudisen.

Will Dean, thank you so much for speaking to us on the bookshelf.

Now, you're a crime writer who lives and writes about Sweden, although you're originally from England.

So what does Sweden offer your imagination?

And so what else does that do to her then?

And I guess to you, the light, the landscape, what is this place that you've put her?

How much are those landscapes that you're describing where you can hear wolves and see elk and see those particular types of trees, how much are they already embedded in fairy tales and folk stories in Sweden?

And you've already talked about Tuva, this character who's at the heart of your series.