· AFTER SHE’S GONE is a smart, timely piece of Scandinavian crime fiction - a story both entertaining and thought-provoking. Readers will be engrossed in Camilla Grebe’s chilling new slice of Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. Praise for After She’s Gone “[A] stellar crime novel Grebe delivers an unflinching, heart-wrenching message about the plight of refugees in this scorching thriller.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)/5(). Camilla Grebe's novel focuses on Sweden as a haven for asylum seekers. The ongoing crisis of refugees from Syria has been particularly visible in Sweden, which accepted more than , migrants (primarily from Syria but also from Afghanistan and Iraq) in search of asylum in alone, the most of any other country per capita.
Camilla Grebe: After She's Gone is about criminal profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Schön, who suffers from early onset dementia. She and her partner, investigator Peter Lindgren, travel to the small, sleepy industrial town of Ormberg, where a refugee camp has been set up. They investigate a cold case: ten years earlier a five-year-old girl's remains. Biography. Camilla Grebe was born in Älvsjö () just outside Stockholm and studied at the Stockholm School of Economics. She started working as a publisher, co-founded the audiobook publishing firm Storyside and served as its CEO. She has written a series of popular crime novels featuring psychologist Siri Bergman together with her sister Åsa Träff, who is a psychologist. Camilla Grebe was born in in Alvsjo, www.doorway.ru holds a degree from the Stockholm School of Economics and was a co-founder of the audiobook publisher Storyside. With her sister about Åsa Träff, Grebe has written five celebrated crime novels, the first two of which were nominated for Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year.
After She’s Gone Camilla Grebe, trans. from the Swedish by Elizabeth Clark Wessel. Ballantine, $27 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. AFTER SHE’S GONE is a smart, timely piece of Scandinavian crime fiction - a story both entertaining and thought-provoking. Readers will be engrossed in Camilla Grebe’s chilling new slice of Nordic Noir. Within After She’s Gone, Camilla Grebe tackles, head-on, some of the potential, root causes of nationalism, extremism, and anti-immigrant sentiment. She also addresses a host of other issues such as gender identity (kudos to Ms. Grebe for addressing the frequent conflation of gender identity and sexual orientation), bullying and self-loathing, self-actualization, dementia and its effects, mortality, and more.
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