[on Detective Lt. Everett Backstrom in the 'Backstrom' series] He's awful. He's just awful. In the books, Backstrom has no redeeming values. He's not even a very good detective. He just takes credit for what other people do, like a showrunner. The one change we made for network TV was to make him very good at his job and take all those bad qualities that he has in the book and turn them into a tool for solving crimes. We hope viewers will watch long enough to realize that what he's saying does not come for a 'bad human being' place. It comes from a bad place in a human being.