Missing by Karin Alvtegen, An Award Winning Swedish Crime Suspense Fiction

Sybilla Forenström is a homeless young woman who lives on the streets of Stockholm. She was born to a rich family, but for some unknown (and certainly painful) reason she ran away when she was in her mid-teens. Now, at the age of thirty-two, she is accused of murder.



She frauds a millionaire to buy her a dinner and a room for a night in an expensive hotel, then flees – however, the man is found murdered in his room, thus Sybilla becomes a main suspect. The murderer (the real one) strikes again, leaving two more victims dead. Sybille still chooses to run away from police, she finds a teenage computer hacker Patrik who is an outcast like her and who is willing to help her track down the serial killer who is ready to murder again…

The language of the novel Missing is beautiful, the plot is not a complicated yet a riveting one, characters are alive, colourful, credible. The Swedish author Karin Alvtegen was honoured with Glass Key Award for this well-written suspense crime story. In 2009, Missing was nominated Edgar Award as Best Mystery.