Everything is Mine

Everything is Mine

Ruth Lillegraven

Original title: Alt er mitt
Publisher: Kagge, 2018
Genre: Psychological thriller
Pages: 365 pages

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Family secrets, revenge, and righteous fury collide in an international bestselling novel of psychological suspense and intrigue.

Clara and Henrik are married and living in a beautiful inherited villa in Oslo. She is a single-mindedly ambitious child-rights activist at the Ministry of Justice. Having grown up in rural Western Norway, she is also an Oslo outsider. Henrik is a doctor from a well-to-do Oslo family. Though their marriage is under serious strain, they share a devotion to their twin sons and their work. Outwardly, they’re a successful couple both dedicated to saving lives.

Then a Pakistani Norwegian child is admitted to Henrik’s hospital and dies in his care. The boy had clearly been the victim of child abuse. Soon after, a related murder rocks the city. It won’t be the last. The events unearth years of trauma, secrets, and buried resentments at the heart of Clara and Henrik’s fragile marriage.

Little by little, in the wake of these shattering crimes, the veneer of normalcy begins to fall away. But even then, nothing is as it appears.

Foreign rights

Arabic (Egypt): Logha
German: Ulstein Buchverlage
Polish: Wielka Litera and Storytel
Spanish: Ediciones Maeva
World English: Amazon Crossing
Italian: Carbonio Editore
Danish: Grønningen 1
French: Gaïa
Swedish: Sekwa

Film Rights: Nordisk Film

Awards

Longlisted for the Petrona Award

A refreshingly different kind of thriller. The story is riveting, the plot artful… I devoured the book in two evenings but the characters are still with me.

Maja Lunde, author of Histories of the Bees and Blue

… Let there be no doubt: Deep Fjord (Alt er mitt) is a rare work of crime fiction… so far, one of the autumn’s most captivating crime novels.

Tønsbergs Blad by Finn Stenstad

The best and most difficult thing about this crime novel is that we understand, and almost support, the killer’s choice … Both the plot and the characters are assembled in a manner both natural and shrewd… a successful thriller with a philosophical edge.

Bergens Tidende by Oda Vige Helle

Ruth Lillegraven

Ruth Lillegraven debuted in 2005 with a collection of poetry entitled Big Bad Poems. Since then, she has published a novel, eight poetry collections, and a series of children’s books. Her work has been nominated for several prizes and she was awarded, among other distinctions, the Brage Prize and the Nynorsk Literature Prize.

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