We meet Sybilla as a homeless woman, living by her wits. In both stories, computer hacking plays a role in the ultimate solution to the crime(s). Both reject society but ultimately find that there are people who will be on their side if they'll only let them. Both are anti-social loners and both had horrific childhoods that have marked them for life. Sybilla and Lisbeth do share some parallels. He must have been familiar with Alvtegen' book and one wonders if he was at all influenced by it. Alvtegen's book was originally published in 2000 in Sweden, while the first of Larsson's trilogy was published in 2005. A Swedish writer of mysteries/thrillers, she does not seem to have found as wide an audience in this country as Stieg Larsson (Who has?) or Henning Mankell, but she's good and perhaps her time will come.Īlvtegen's protagonist, Sybilla, called to mind Larsson's Lisbeth Salander in some ways and so I looked at the publication dates. One of the nice things about joining the local Mystery Book Club has been that it has introduced me to some authors who were unknown to me and whose work I probably would never have picked up except for that impetus.
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