''Sun Storm'' (''Solstorm''), published in the UK as ''The Savage Altar'', is the first novel by Swedish crime-writer

Åsa Larsson Åsa Larsson (born 28 June 1966) is a Swedish crime-fiction writer. Although born in Uppsala, she was raised in Kiruna in the far north. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Larsson was a tax lawyer, a profession she shares with the heroine of h ...

. The novel is the first in the Rebecka Martinsson series. It won Sweden's Best First Crime Novel award, and, on publication in the UK, was shortlisted for the

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, awarded by the

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for crime novels in translation. The novel is translated into

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by Marlaine Delargy.

Editions

*Sun Storm (New York, Delacorte Press, ) *Sun Storm (New York, Delta Trade Paperbacks, ) *The Savage Altar (London, Viking, )

Film

* ''Solstorm'' was produced in 2007 with

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as Rebecka Martinsson.
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