Movies/TV

The American production company Glasshouse Pictures has acquired the film rights to Betrayal.

Film rights to Missing has been sold to a Scandinavion production company.

Missing has been made into a successful British TV series.

Missing is directed by Ian Madden, produced by Alan Wands and features many celebrated actors: Joanne Froggatt from Coronation Street and A Touch of Frost in the lead as Sybil, Gregor Fisher from Love Actually, Nicholas Nickelby as well as Phyllis Logan from Midsummer Murder and Inspector Morse.

See trailer of "Missing"

WORLD LITERATURE WEEKEND in London 2011

Sunday 19 June at 2.00 p.m.
Venue: Stevenson Room, British Museum

Crime Fiction: Reading Scars

Behind crime fiction's gripping narratives, there often lies a more incisive portrayal of a society than can be found in more obvious commentaries; and it offers a way to confront ideas of good and evil in a shades-of-grey world, where simple moral certainties aren't so easy to find. Karin Alvtegen's psychological crime thrillers include Missing, which in 2001 won the Glass Key, the premier Nordic crime writing award, and Shadow and Betrayal. Håkan Nesser is also a Glass Key winner; his latest book to be translated into English is The Inspector and Silence, starring his detective Van Veeteren.