Hannes Råstam was an investigative reporter for SVT (Swedish Television). He won a number of awards for his work, including the Guldspaden (the Golden Spade), the Stora Journalistpriset (the Great Journalism Award), the Prix Italia, the Golden Nymph and FIPA d’Or. After a battle with cancer, Råstam passed away while finishing this, his first book.
THOMAS QUICK
THE MAKING OF A SERIAL KILLER
HANNES RÅSTAM
TRANSLATED BY HENNING KOCH
Foreword by Elizabeth Day
CANONGATE
Edinburgh • London
Published in Great Britain in 2013 by Canongate Books Ltd,
14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE
This digital edition first published in 2013 by Canongate Books
Copyright © Hannes Råstam, 2012
English translation copyright © Henning Koch, 2013
Foreword © Elizabeth Day, 2013
The moral right of the author and translator have been asserted
Published by agreement with the Salomonsson Agency
Originally published in 2012 in Swedish as Fallet Thomas Quick by Ordfront
Extract from Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Soderberg. Published by Harvill Press. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
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ISBN 978 1 78211 070 5
ePub ISBN 978 1 78211 071 2
Editors: Leyla Belle Drake and Mattias Göransson
Fact checkers: Jenny Küttim and Thomas Olsson
Typeset in Adobe Garamond by Palimpsest Book Production Ltd, Falkirk, Stirlingshire
To my children
CONTENTS
Säter Hospital, Monday, 2 June 2008
My Conversations with Jan Olsson
Säter Hospital, Thursday, 28 August 2008
Säter Hospital, Wednesday, 17 September 2008
The Arrival of the Serial Killer
Aimless Wandering and Diversions
Charles Zelmanovits’s Disappearance
Cognitive Interview Techniques