by Karin Alvtegen · Grijalbo Mondadori · tapa dura · ISBN 9788425337789
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«Fugitiva» is the crime novel by Karin Alvtegen, published by Grijalbo Mondadori in hardcover (234 pages, in Spanish).
Sibylla Forsenström is a homeless woman from Stockholm who has lived in anonymity for fifteen years, with all her belongings in a backpack. After dining with a client who turns up dead, the evidence incriminates her and she must flee. The story blends suspense, marginal settings and psychological portraiture.
Translation by Carlos del Valle. The Swedish original, «Saknad», was published in 2000; the novel won the Glass Key Award. Spanish edition of 2003.
For readers of Scandinavian crime fiction interested in psychological suspense and protagonists on the margins of society.
Karin Alvtegen is a Swedish author of crime fiction. Alvtegen's psychological thrillers are generally set in Sweden. Four of her books have been translated into English: Missing, Betrayal, Shadow and Shame.
