Born in Turku, Finland, he is living in Stockholm, Sweden. He has been working as a criminal defense lawyer for 34 years and is now retired but still working part time. On his spare time he likes to write and read. He is very fond of all kind of music. Now and then he is researching his roots and he found an ancestor in Scotland living in 950. He is fond of languages and speaks fluently Swedish, Finnish, German and English.