The Return of the Dancing Master

Afterword

This is a novel. In other words, I’m not describing events, people, and places exactly as they are, or have been, in real life. I take liberties, move crossroads, repaint houses, and most of all I construct fictional events where necessary. And it is sometimes necessary. The same applies to the people in this book. I very much doubt if there is a detective inspector in the Östersund police force called Giuseppe, to take one example. This means that nobody should think that any of my characters have been based on her or himself. It is not altogether possible to avoid similarities with living people, however, and if there are any such similarities in this book, they are pure coincidences.

But the sun does rise at about 7:45 A.M. at the beginning of November in Härjedalen. In among all the fiction there may well be quite a number of other convincing truths.

Which was of course the intention.

H.M.

Göteborg

September 2000