Shadow (30 page)
Shame
Betrayal
Missing
Karin Alvtegen was born in Jönköping, 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-niece of Astrid Lindgren (author of the Pippi Longstocking series), and lives in Stockholm. Her books have been translated into 27 languages.
McKinley Burnett is a prize-winning translator from Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and German.
First published in Sweden in 2007
by Natur och Kultur, Stockholm
First published in Great Britain in 2009
by Canongate Books Ltd,
14 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1TE
This digital edition first published in 2009
by Canongate Books Ltd
Copyright © Karin Alvtegen, 2007
English translation copyright © McKinley Burnett, 2009
The moral rights of the author and translator have been asserted
British Library Cataloguing-
in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available on
request from the British Library
ISBN 978 1 84767 478 4
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