In a few words
When you’re confronted with the ultimate betrayal, how far would you go for revenge?
Alvtegen's chilling novels are head and shoulders above the rest of the Scandi crew
Reminiscent of Ruth Rendell at her best
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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 . . .
Alvtegen is a name to watch
A compelling tale...full of false leads and bloody deeds
Alvtegen powerfully evokes Sibylla's sense of persecution and conveys what it means to live as an outsider, without ever compromising this compulsive thriller
A genuine hit . . . a brilliant novel
Gefle Dagblad
Sweden
Karin Alvtegen
View profileKarin Alvtegen is one of Scandinavia’s most acclaimed and bestselling crime writers. She 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, 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 Longstocking stories), and lives in Stockholm.
