He was put on a "death list" of an extremist far-right-wing organisation, and for a while employed a bodyguard and was protected by moving into safe houses.
[1] Roslund heard about Hellström's work at KRIS and produced a documentary on the subject of imprisonment and its effects, called Lås in Dom (Lock them Up).
[5][6] Their works have been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indonesian, Russian, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Lithuanian, Estonian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Croatian, Hungarian, Slovak, Czech, Icelandic, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Hebrew, Turkish, Greek, Macedonian, and Catalan.
[citation needed] Anders continued to write novels in the Detective Inspector Ewert Grens series after Hellström's death, publishing no.
[7] Box 21 and Cell 8 (Edward Finnigans upprättelse) were made into TV series directed by Swedish director Johan Brisinger, in 2020 and 2022 respectively.