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About the Author

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.