Recherchée (Saknad)(2000)

Karin Alvtegen -- without any training or thought of becoming a novelist --

resolved to write her way out of some family tradedies: The result was her

first novel, Guilt (Skuld), which was published in Sweden in 1998, to rave

reviews. This was followed in 2000 by Missing (Saknad), which won

Scandinavia's prestigious Glass Key award for Best Crime Novel of the Year,

and went on to win an award for bestselling Scandinavian paperback. Her third

novel, Betrayal (Svek) -- coming next year from Felony & Mayhem -- was

shortlisted for the Glass Key award, and also for the Swedish Crime Writers

Academy award for Best Swedish Crime Novel of the year. And Swedish reviewers

have called Alvtegen's most recent novel, Shame (Skam) (also to come from

Felony & Mayhem) her finest novel to date -- the work, in the words of one

critic, of a modern-day Strindberg. Karin Alvtegen is the great-niece of

Astrid Lundgren, author of the ever-popular Pippi Longstocking books.