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Genre/Form: | Detective and mystery stories Swedish fiction Detective and mystery fiction Fiction Mystery fiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Alvtegen, Karin, 1965- Missing. Edinburgh : Canongate, 2003 (OCoLC)988875319 |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Karin Alvtegen |
ISBN: | 184195408X 9781841954080 1841954985 9781841954981 9781841959382 1841959383 9780857860224 0857860224 9781933397863 1933397861 |
OCLC Number: | 52846147 |
Language Note: | Translated from the Swedish. |
Awards: | Short-listed for Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Best Novel Category 2009 Short-listed for Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Novel) 2009 |
Description: | 249 pages ; 22 cm |
Other Titles: | Saknad. |
Responsibility: | Karin Alvtegen ; translated from the Swedish by Anna Paterson. |
Abstract:
Sibylla Forsenstrom doesn't exist. For 15 years she has been one of the homeless in Stockholm and takes every day as it comes. One night she charms a businessman into paying for her dinner and room. His dead body is discovered the following morning and Sibylla is the prime suspect.
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A genuine hit . . . a brilliant novel. * * Gefle Dagblad, Sweden * * A very powerful novel. Skilfully, very intimately and realistically, Alvtegen describes an individual living outside the margins. * * Helsingborgs Dagblad * * A gripping, multi-faceted thriller. It is not only about brutal murder, but also about something more profound - an individual's road to awareness about her own life and value . . . Alvtegen is already amongst the top Swedish crime and thriller authors. * * Folkbladet Joenkoeping * * Read more...
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