Tove Alsterdal

International suspense with strong pathos

 

In 2009 Tove Alsterdal made a success with her debut novel Women on the Beach, a story about a woman desperately seeking for her missing husband. The struggle leads her right into the modern slave trade. The novel received tremendous response and the media praised the language as well as the author’s skillful description of characters and cleverness in creating a thrilling intrigue.

 

Tove Alsterdal is a driven stylist with ability to throw a merciless light on contemporary society. Her descriptions are so well depicted, you feel like you are right in the middle of the setting with the characters all around you. For everyone who enjoys a page turner and a straightforward view of reality, this is a must read.

 

Tove Alsterdal is an established and well respected Swedish journalist, novel dramaturge and script writer. For the last 25 years she has written for theatre as well as paper media, television, radio, and film. Tove Alsterdal’s family has their roots in small rural border towns in Finland and Norway.  Thus it is not surprising borders and boundaries; belonging and escape are topics that reoccur in her work. Other important themes in her writing are strong female characters, commitment, and topicality.

 

Two more novels are already planned, although not as a traditional series. Just like in Women on the beach, they will be broad based thrillers, the upcoming one set in the borderlands of Tornedalen in the north of Sweden, describes the clash between east and west.

 

Author's website : www.tovealsterdal.se

 

Bibliography

• 2009  – Women on the Beach (Kvinnorna på stranden), crime novel

 

Rights for Tove Alsterdal's book are sold to Denmark, Germany, Italy, Norway and Sweden.

 

Author photo : Nikolaj Alsterdal

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nikolaj@alsterdal.nu