Karin Alvtegen

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Karin Alvtegen at the Gothenburg Book Fair 2005.

Karin Alvtegen (born June 8, 1965, Huskvarna, Sweden) is a Swedish writer of crime fiction. Her psychological thrillers are generally set in her native Sweden, and so far three of the books have been translated into English: Missing, Betrayal and Shame. Guilt will be published soon.

Missing was awarded the premier Scandinavian crime writing award the Glass Key in 2001 and was also nominated for the Poloni Award and Best Crime Novel 2000 in Sweden.

She is grand-niece of the popular children's novelist Astrid Lindgren.

1 Works
- 1.1 Novels
- 1.2 Screenplay
2 Trivia
3 External links

[edit] Works

[edit] Novels

2005 - Skam ("Shame")
2003 - Svek ("Betrayal")
2000 - Saknad ("Missing")
1998 - Skuld ("Guilt")

[edit] Screenplay

2004 - Hotet ("The Threat")

[edit] Trivia

She was a storyline writer for 24 episodes of the popular long-running Swedish TV soap opera Rederiet ^[1]. A TV-series was made after her novel Missing with Joanne Frogatt and Gregor Fisher.