[REVIEW] Karin Alvtegen, Betrayal

[rfmcdonald]

For some reason Scandinavian crime and mysterty writers have takne on a high profile, with writers like Norway's Karin Fossum and Sweden's Henning Mankell achieving broad audiences in the Anglophone world with their tales of frighteningly random crime in the context of material paradise. The most impressive book of this kind that I've come across lately is Karin Alvtegen's Betrayal. Like all the best crime and mysterty writers, Alvtegen starts simply enough, with happy Swedish businesswoman and mother Eva discovering that her husband has been cheating on her. Eva is outraged, and wants to avenge herself any way that she can. She meets a young man who is wuilling to defend her to the hilt, to help her any way that he can. This, as first the readers then Eva discover, is a bad thing. How bad? Read the book and find out.