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 Missing - Karin Alvtegen
 Missing - Karin Alvtegen ... killed in similar circumstances, Sybilla, having left her comfortable middle class upbringing for the anonymity of the streets, becomes the most wanted person in Sweden ... Missing is a totally compelling read and a classic thriller that confirms Alvtegen as a crime writer worth comparison with Henning Mankell. But at its core, the book also explores the terrifying isolation for a woman who has rejected the values of her background and intimacy of her family.Newest Review: ... is another that tells the story of how Sybilla came to be living on the streets. The chapters alternate and eventually meet ... more ... up near the book's climax. It is a particularly satisfying method of storytelling for a thriller because it really gets a grip on the reader and you have to plough on because the fast pace and the dramatic endings to the chapters are so compelling. Quite often I get annoyed by this technique in novels but here it is entirely appropriate because it really adds to the character development of Sybilla.
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Missing - Karin Alvtegen: Are you "Missing" something? (671 words)
by fizzywizzy - written on 11/03/07 (Very useful, 107 readings)
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THE PLOT Using a confidence trick to get a warm bed for the night Sybilla Forstenstroem, a young homeless woman, finds herself the chief suspect for the brutal murder of a businessman in Stockholm's Grand Hotel. Terrified she lies low hoping that the furore will calm down but when she meets Patrik, a young boy who is as much an outsider as she, she learns that more murders have taken place and that the press are branding her an evil serial killer. What's more, they have dug up her entire background - how she was brought up in a privileged middle-class family but was admitted to hospital for mental health problems before disappearing - and are starting to try ...
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