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A primera vista, Monika y Maj-Britt son diametralmente opuestas. Como médico jefe, Monika es una mujer realizada y extrovertida, mientras que Maj-Britt –una solitaria con graves problemas de sobrepeso– aniquila moralmente a todo asistente social que se le asigna. No obstante, tienen una cosa en común, un pasado amargo que las obliga a rechazar a quienes tratan de aproximarse a ellas. Hasta ese momento, ambas mujeres han vivido sus vidas sin co...

Karin Alvtegen was born in J¿nk¿ping, 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, with Missing, and received further acclaim for 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.

Karin Alvtegen is one of Scandinavia's most acclaimed and bestselling crime writers. She was born in Jonkoping, 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 award, the Glass Key, for Missing. Her novel Shadow was shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger 2009. She is the great neice of Astrid Lindgren (author of the Pippi Longst...

Als de voormalige huishoudster van de beroemde schrijver Axel Ragnerfeldt overlijdt, ontstaat er paniek bij de bedlegerige Nobelprijswinnaar. In zijn schijnbaar zo perfecte leven komt namelijk een geheim voor, zo gruwelijk dat als de details aan het licht komen, het bouwwerk van zijn roem voor de ogen van het nageslacht zou instorten. Verlamd door een beroerte moet hij machteloos afwachten wat er zal gebeuren.

Someone is watching Eva. In the trees at the edge of her garden, a figure lurks in the dark. In the hospital, Jonas watches over his girlfriend, who is in a coma. But what, or who, has put her there? Through a chance meeting, Eva and Jonas's lives will become disturbingly entwined. And Eva will discover that sometimes, in order to survive, you must betray the ones you love the most ...

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Born into a life of privilege, Sybilla has spent many years opting instead to live on the streets of Stockholm, cadging a bed, a bath, a meal, where she can. Her favorite technique?one she permits herself only as a special treat?plays out at the Grand Hotel, where with luck she can usually charm a lonely visiting businessman into buying her dinner and a room for the night. But then she picks the wrong businessman. When his dead body is found t...

Monika and Maj-Britt could not be more different. Monika lives with a man who adores her, Maj-Britt can barely manage to write her former husband's name. Monika, the chief surgeon at a regional hospital, has an overwhelming roster of family and professional obligations, Maj-Britt is a recluse, all but imprisoned by her own obesity. But they do have one thing in common: Both are tormented by memories that only the most excruciating vigilance ca...

Eva and Jonas are two separate pots of poison, both coming inexorably to a boil. For Eva, the poison stems from the dawning realization that her cozy family life has been a lie, that her loving husband loathes her and has been having an affair. Jonas, for years the keeper of his parents? secrets, has transferred all his obsessive yearnings for connection to a woman who now lies in a coma. Both Eva and Jonas are carrying enough rage and despair...

Born into a life of privilege, Sybilla has spent many years opting instead to live on the streets of Stockholm, cadging a bed, a bath, a meal, where she can. Her favorite technique?one she permits herself only as a special treat?plays out at the Grand Hotel, where with luck she can usually charm a lonely visiting businessman into buying her dinner and a room for the night. But then she picks the wrong businessman. When his dead body is found t...

Karin Alvtegen was born in J¿nk¿ping, 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.

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