Karin Alvtegen

Shadow (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Murray, Steven T.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Take care of this child. Forgive me.'

As darkness falls on 10 May 1975, a little boy waits alone on the steps of an amusement park.The park is about to close and everyone is leaving, except this child. He continues to wait there, not daring to move. He has been told to stay right where he is.

Only no one is coming back for him.

Why has he been abandoned, with only the briefest of notes to whoever finds him? And what connection do the events of this day have to the death of Gerda Persson thirty years later - a woman who leaves few clues to her life, apart from a freezer full of books?

Shadow is an unputdownable story of dark secrets, murder and the depths to which the human mind will sink in order to protect its own . . .

'Alvtegen is a name to watch.' Guardian

Winner of the Danish Academy of CrimeWriters Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year

Shortlisted for the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers Award for Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847674784
• Artikelnr.: 39492919

Autorenporträt

Karin Alvtegen was born in Jönköping, Sweden, in 1965 and had a varied career, including work in set design for film and stage, before she started to write. She won Sweden's most prestigious crime novel award, the Glass Key, in 2000 with her novel, Missing, and further acclaim with her next two novels, Betrayal and Shame. She is the great-neice of Astrid Lindgren (author of the Pippi Longstocking stories), and lives in Stockholm.

Rezensionen

Alvtegen's chilling novels are head and shoulders above most of the Scandi crew and...remind one forcefully of the early Barbara Vine novels. ... [Shadow] won't make you feel good about humankind, but it will keep you reading under the duvet during the small hours. Carla McKay The Daily Mail