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Author:
Karin Fossum
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099474661
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EAN: 9780099474661
Published: 4 May 2006
Gunder Jomann thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. But on the day his bride arrives in Norway she vanishes. Then the town is shocked by the news of an Indian woman found bludgeoned to death in a nearby meadow.
Inspector Sejer and his colleague Skarre head the murder inquiry, planting seeds of suspicion in a community which has always believed itself to be peaceful and safe.
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One of the very best of the new wave of Nordic crime writers... She evokes brilliantly the claustrophobia of rural Norway
- The Times
Searingly convincing. A fine novel
- Independent on Sunday
Crime master Fossum returns...Intelligent sleuthing
- Herald
Fossum writes humane thrillers which perturb and chill
- Observer
Sejer belongs alongside the likes of Adam Dalgliesh and Inspector Morse - a gifted detective and a troubled man
- Boston Globe
[She] is very good at character delineation, and she succeeds admirably in sketching in the various idiosyncrasies of the people in this isolated corner of Norway
- Irish Times
Fossum's elucidation of the criminally degenerate mind is first rate
- Mail on Sunday
Konrad Sejer is the Morse of the fjords
- Crime Time
Splendid...A fresh slant on traditional ingredients
- Uncut
Powerful
- Independent on Sunday
Realistic, unflashy and compelling, these thrillers offer as convincing an account of the routines of a police investigation as one could hope to find
- The Times
Karin Fossum made her literary debut in Norway in 1974. The author of poetry, short stories and one non-crime novel, it is with her Inspector Sejer Mysteries that Fossum has won greatest acclaim. The series has been published in sixteen languages.
