Mats Ahlstedt has killed almost 20 persons in western Sweden. He is one of the most important crimewriters from the Swedish westcoast. Often quite common people have to lose their life in Mats Ahlstedt’s novels, often quite normal people have made up their mind to kill them. But why decieds a person to kill? Fatima Wallinder and Sören Hösgström, Gothenburg’s police, do their best to understand, but most of all want they to get there before the killer. Mats Ahlstedt was born in 1949 in Jämtland but the family soon moved to Gothenburg. Mats father was a priest, working in a Gothenburg prison, and listening to his stories is one of the things that influenced Mats to become a writer of crime fiction. After a BA at the University of Gothenburg Mats decided to go into journalism, something he s… Läs mer