It was in December that it was announced that the author of the janakippo trilogy will be the one to write further on Stieg Larsson's world success after David Lagercrantz.
So far, there is a great deal of secrecy surrounding the book, which will not be published until this autumn.
But Karin Smirnoff now reveals that she does not intend to continue with the previous Millennium stories.
- I have my idea of what I want to do.
There must be a development, it can not be Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander in static form, then I can not write.
Several new villains
The story will take place in Norrbotten and a 14-year-old girl will be central, as will a little boy.
And several new Millennium villains will appear.
Among them a recluse who loves sea eagles.
- It's so much fun to write about evil!
There is both action and contradiction.
A person can be terribly disgusting, but at the same time have a conciliatory trait.
It almost gets even scarier then.
Evil and violence are not new themes for Karin Smirnoff, they run like a common thread through both the trilogy about janakippo and the novel The Sugar Worm.
- It is something very exciting with violence.
And enticing.
The urgency can be aroused in all people at the right time.
When you are exposed to things.
When you have to defend yourself.
Or when something threatens from the outside.
No environmental descriptions
The big challenge for Karin Smirnoff right now is about the genre itself, it is the first time she writes pure crime fiction.
- In novels, you can play with the crime genre, but you do not have to solve anything or tie the knot.
So I will probably make more of a crime novel than the other way around, she says and laughs.
She also promises that there will be no lengthy environmental descriptions.
- I think it's so terribly boring!
I always want to get back to the characters, that's where it happens.
So far, no one has been allowed to read anything from the book, but exclusively for Babel's summer special, Karin Smirnoff reads a newly written piece.
The entire interview will be broadcast in Babel's summer special, Sunday 19 June at 21.00 on SVT1