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Missing by karin alvtegen7/5/2023 What little we learn of them is via the ever-helpful media, through TV and newspaper reports. There are crimes, several murders in fact, but they’re all in the background. That’s not the case with Missing but to be fair Missing is less of a detective novel than it is a psychological thriller. What I liked about Shadow is that it was a detective novel without a detective, either a world-weary professional or an annoyingly enthusiastic amateur sleuth. In fact you could even get away without any special effects, dead bodies or anything. A shame because her novel is eminently adaptable it has a small cast and could be as easily filmed in the back streets of Glasgow as it could be in Stockholm where the book is set. What I was unaware of at the time was the fact that Alvtegen's novel Missing had in fact been adapted for the small screen (by Scottish Television of all people) but I had no recollection of having seen it. When I reviewed Karin Alvtegen's novel, Shadow a couple of years ago I fessed up to the fact my knowledge of the crime fiction is based almost solely on TV and film adaptations.
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