Missing
by Karin Alvtegen
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Read in June, 2007
Sibylla Forsenström ran away from a mental institution fifteen years ago, and has been homeless ever since. As the book opens, she's conning a businessman into paying for her room and board at a swank hotel. That night, he gets murdered, and the police assume Sibylla is the culprit; not wanting to expose her life to public scrutiny, she flees. Meanwhile, similar murders keep happening, with notes left by somebody calling themself 'Sibylla'.
The first two-thirds of the book really aren't...more
The first two-thirds of the book really aren't...more
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Read in May, 2007
This one I picked up again. I was about 200 pages in when I abandoned it because I wasn't into the story then but was in the mood again to read Swedish noirish fiction. Missing is the story of Sibylla, who we first meet squatting a very nice Hotel for the night and who becomes the scapegoat of a very determined serial killer. Sibylla has mental problems, family issues and she's find herself running from the system and tries to fight back and find the culprit with the help of a most unlikely char...more
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this is the story of a young woman who by choice lives on the streets and on her wits . she is saving up to buy a small cabin in the countryside . Unwittingly she becomes suspected of being a serial killer and she is the subject of a woman hunt .
the spare story telling jumps from her past and her priviledged upbringing and the present and her surviving the chase .
part existential outsider and part thriller , the former bits for me were the most successful , the crime bits unrealistic . th...more
the spare story telling jumps from her past and her priviledged upbringing and the present and her surviving the chase .
part existential outsider and part thriller , the former bits for me were the most successful , the crime bits unrealistic . th...more
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Read in June, 2008
Alvetegen is the great-nice of Astrid Lindgren, the creator of Pippi Longstocking. No cheerful Scandinavian adventures here, though. An excellent, if brief, mystery that examines what it means to be an outsider in society - homeless, mentally ill, or otherwise outside the norm.
I'd likely recommend this to folks who enjoy Rendell or Dibdin.... however, this also fits with other works that are more literary than mysterious.
I'd likely recommend this to folks who enjoy Rendell or Dibdin.... however, this also fits with other works that are more literary than mysterious.
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Read in June, 2006
Op één week tijd verslond ik de drie boeken van Karin Alvtegen die in onze bib beschikbaar waren.
Spannende hoe-zit-het-in-elkaar boeken die ideaal weglezen in een luie ligstoel onder de schaduw van de pruimenboom.
Spannende hoe-zit-het-in-elkaar boeken die ideaal weglezen in een luie ligstoel onder de schaduw van de pruimenboom.
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Translation from Swedish, SAKNAD, 2000.
Alvtegen is said to be the new queen of Scandinavian Crime writing
Alvtegen is said to be the new queen of Scandinavian Crime writing
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