FIRST U.S. PUBLICATION

Last January Felony & Mayhem brought Karin Alvtegen’s Missing to the U.S.; this January we’re issuing yet another Alvtegen title.

“Alvtegen has once again proved herself a master of the art of harnessing complex emotions like guilt, regret, and deceit into a breathtakingly intelligent plot”
- Nerrikes Allehande (Sweden)

“An astute, oddly compassionate thriller, frightening in the way that only the familiar can be…the ending is very satisfying indeed”
- Sidney Sun Herald (Australia)

Eva and Jonas are two separate pots of poison, both coming inexorably to a boil For Eva, the poison stems from the dawning realization that her cozy family life has been a lie, that her loving husband loathes her and has been having an affair. In Jonas, the poison has taken longer to bubble up. For years the keeper the of his parents’ secrets, he had transferred all his obsessional yearnings for connection to a woman who now lies in a coma.

Both Eva and Jonas are carrying enough rage and despair to destroy themselves. But when the two of them come together, that destructive potential is magnified to a terrifying extent. In the Inferno, Dante consigned the treacherous–those who betray the people who love them–to the Ninth Circle of Hell, condemned for eternity to freeze in a lake of ice. For Eva and Jonas, that doesn’t begin to describe the pain they’d like to inflict. But it’s a good start.