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Eva's Eye (Paperback)
Karin Fossum
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"No one can thoroughly chill the blood the way Karin Fossum can."
--"Los Angeles Times"
Eva Magnus and her daughter are out walking by the river when a
man's body floats to the water's surface. Eva goes to call the
police, but when she reaches the phone, she dials another number
altogether.
The police find the body anyway Inspector Sejer and his team
quickly determine that the man, Egil, died in a violent attack. But
Egil has been missing for months and the trail to his killer is
cold. It's as puzzling as another unsolved case on Sejer's desk:
the murder of a prostitute, found dead just before Egil went
missing. Sejer sets to work piecing together these two impossible
cases; it's not long before he realizes that they aren't as
separate as they previously seemed.
"Fossum crafts remarkably incisive psychological suspense: novels
that carry the headlong momentum of thrillers and the acuity and
weight of literary fiction." --"Washington Post"
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The Caller (Paperback)
Karin Fossum
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"Pranks can have lethal consequences, even when they seem harmless
to start with . . . A poison bonbon that ranks with the best of
Ruth Rendell."--Stephen King in "Entertainment Weekly"
One mild summer evening, a young couple are enjoying dinner while
their daughter sleeps peacefully in her stroller under a tree. When
her mother steps outside she is stunned: the child is covered in
blood.
Inspector Sejer is called to the hospital to meet the family.
Mercifully, the child is unharmed, but the parents are deeply
shaken, and Sejer spends the evening trying to understand why
anyone would carry out such a sinister prank. Then, just before
midnight, somebody rings his doorbell.
No one is at the door, but the caller has left a small gray
envelope on Sejer's mat. From his living room window, the inspector
watches a figure disappear into the darkness. Inside the envelope
Sejer finds a postcard bearing a short message: Hell begins now.
"No one can thoroughly chill the blood the way Karin Fossum can .
. . will put you away, no questions asked."--"Los Angeles Times"
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Broken (Paperback)
Karin Fossum; Translated by Charlotte Barslund
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A woman wakes up in the middle of the night. A strange man is in
her bedroom. She lies there in silence, paralyzed with fear. The
woman is an author and the man one of her characters, one in a long
line that waits in her driveway for the time when she'll tell their
stories. He is so desperate that he has resorted to breaking into
her house and demanding that she begin. He, the author decides, is
named Alvar Eide, forty-two years old, single, works in a gallery.
He lives a quiet, orderly life and likes it that way--no demands,
no unpleasantness. Until the icy winter morning when a young drug
addict, skinny and fragile, walks into the gallery. Alvar gives her
a cup of coffee to warm her up. And then one day she appears on his
doorstep. "Broken" is an unconventional, subtle, and disturbing
mystery from a master of the form.
When two teenagers steal a purse from a stroller, it results in an
infant's death. Unaware of the enormity of their crime, Zipp and
Andreas are intent on committing another. They follow an elderly
woman home, and Andreas enters her house with his switchblade. In
the dark, Zipp waits for his friend to come out. Inspector Konrad
Sejer and his colleague Jacob Skarre see no connection between the
infant's death and the reported disappearance of a local
delinquent. And so while the confusion outside mounts, the
heart-stopping truth unfolds inside the old woman's home.
Unflappable as ever, Sejer digs below the surface of small- town
tranquility in an effort to understand how and why violence
destroys everyday lives.
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The Whisperer (Paperback)
Karin Fossum; Translated by Kari Dickson
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R237
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Read the stunning, psychologically acute new thriller from the
Queen of Norwegian crime fiction. **SHORTLISTED FOR THE PETRONA
AWARD 2019** Ragna Riegel works in a supermarket and still lives in
her childhood home. She's alone in the world since her only son
moved to Berlin. She longs for a Christmas or birthday card from
him. Ragna lives her life within strict self-imposed limits: she
sits in the same seat on the bus every day, on her way to her
predictable job. On her way home she always visits the same local
shop. She feels safe in her routine, until one day she receives a
letter with a threatening message scrawled in capital letters. An
unknown enemy has entered her world and she must use all her means
to defend herself. When the worst happens, Inspector Konrad Sejer
is called in to interrogate Ragna. Is this unassuming woman out of
her depth, or is she hiding a dark secret? 'The final page will
make your jaw drop and your heart stop' Evening Standard
'Exemplary... the suspense is maintained with a sure touch'
Guardian
When long-time bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks
and comes home married, the town of Elvestad is stunned. Then, on
the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body
of a woman is found on the outskirts of town. The "good people of
Elvestad" can't believe that anyone among them could be capable of
such a brutal murder. But in his quiet way, Inspector Konrad Sejer
understands that no one is completely innocent--not the cafe owner
who knows too much, the girl who wants the attention that comes
with being a witness, or the bodybuilder with no outlet for his
terrible strength.
In "The Indian Bride," one of Europe's most successful crime
writers has crafted another chilling page-turner.
Eva is walking by the river with her seven-year-old daughter when
they catch sight of a man's body in the water. Eva tells her
daughter to wait while she calls the police, but when she reaches
the phone box she doesn't call them. Instead she phones her father,
and makes no mention of her discovery. When the body is eventually
found, it soon becomes clear to Inspector Sejer and his team that
this was no accidental drowning - the man was the victim of a very
violent killer. But the trail has gone cold. Until, one night, Eva
receives a phone call...
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Hell Fire (Paperback)
Karin Fossum
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R333
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"An intimate study of broken lives that showcases Fossum's poet
past." --Bloomberg
In this chilling addition to the internationally best-selling
Inspector Konrad Sejer series, the detective must face down his
memories and fears as he investigates the deaths of two troubled
young men. The first victim, Jon Moreno, was getting better after a
mysterious guilt had driven him to a nervous breakdown one year
earlier. His psychiatrist said so, as did his new friend at the
hospital, Molly Gram, with her little-girl-lost looks. So when he
drowns in Dead Water Lake, Sejer hesitates to call it a suicide.
Then the corpse of another young man is found, a Vietnamese
immigrant. And Sejer begins to feel his age weigh on him. Does he
still have the strength to pursue the elusive explanations for
human evil? A harrowing, masterfully wrought mystery from the
celebrated Karin Fossum.
"Fascinatingly readable and very cleverly done." --Colin Dexter,
author of the Inspector Morse series
Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off toward town. A
good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth
birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, her
mother starts to worry. She phones store owners, Ida's friends,
anyone who could have seen her. But no one has.
Suspicion immediately falls on Emil Mork, a local character who
lives alone and hasn't spoken since childhood. His mother insists
on cleaning his house weekly--although she's sometimes afraid of
what she might find there. A mother's worst nightmare in either
case: to lose a child or to think a child capable of murder. As
Ida's relatives reach the breaking point and the media frenzy
surrounding the case begins, Inspector Konrad Sejer is his usual
calm and reassuring self. But he's puzzled. And disturbed. This is
the strangest case he's seen in years.
"Convincing, subtle and logically plotted, Inspector Sejer is a
great addition to the detectives' league." --"The Dallas Morning
News" Inspector Sejer is hard at work again, investigating the
brutal murder of a woman who lived alone in the middle of the
woods. The chief suspect is a schizophrenic recently escaped from a
mental institution. The only witness is a twelve-year-old boy,
overweight, obsessed with archery, and a resident at a home for
delinquents. When a demented man robs a nearby bank and
accidentally takes the suspect hostage, the three misfits are drawn
into an uneasy alliance.
Confronting a case where the strangeness of the crime is matched
only by the strangeness of the criminals, Inspector Sejer finds
that small-town prejudices warp every piece of information he tries
to collect. Fossum once again provides extraordinary insight into
marginalized lives and richly evokes the atmosphere she captured so
brilliantly in "Don't Look Back. "
"With sharp psychological insight and a fine grasp on police
procedure, Fossum is easily one of the best new imports the genre
has to offer." --Baltimore Sun
Karin Fossum is the author of many novels and two collections of
short stories. Her crime novels featuring Inspector Sejer have been
translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Oslo.
Don't Look Back is the second novel in Los Angeles Times Book
Prize-winning author Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer mystery series.
"Sejer belongs alongside the likes of Adam Dalgliesh and Inspector
Morse--a gifted detective and troubled man."--Boston Globe At the
foot of the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small, idyllic village,
where neighbors know neighbors and children play happily in the
streets. But when the body of a teenage girl is found by the lake
at the mountaintop, the town's tranquility is shattered forever.
Annie was strong, intelligent, and loved by everyone. What went so
terribly wrong? Doggedly, yet subtly, Inspector Sejer uncovers
layer upon layer of distrust and lies beneath the town's seemingly
perfect facade. "Psychologically astute, subtly horrifying."--New
York Times Book Review "Build[s] to a heart-stopping
conclusion."--Entertainment Weekly
A brilliantly taut, atmospheric thriller starring Inspector Sejer
from Norway's 'Queen of Crime'.
Andreas' disappearance is a mystery to all, including his
inseparable friend Zipp. But as much as the police question him,
its not easy for Zipp to come forward with details of the last time
he saw his friend: following an old woman into her home,
brandishing his knife. Zipp waited anxiously outside but Andreas
failed to reappear.
Inspector Sejer and his colleague Skarre are baffled but while the
confusion in the outside world continues, a chilling and
heart-stopping drama is unfolding inside the old woman's home. In a
plot in the tradition of Stephen King, Fossum deploys her trademark
skill of looking realistically, terrifyingly, into the minds of
criminal and victim. Appearances aren't always to be believed, and
people are not always what they seem.
Beneath the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small village where the
children run in and out of one another's houses and play unafraid
in the streets. But when a naked body is found by the lake at the
top of the mountain, its seeming tranquillity is disturbed forever.
Inspector Sejer, a tough, no-nonsense policeman whose own life is
tinged by sadness, is called in to investigate. As the suspense
builds, and the list of suspects grows, Sejer's determination to
discover the truth leads him to peel away layer upon layer of
distrust and lies in this tiny community where apparently normal
family ties hide dark secrets. Critically acclaimed across Europe
and loved by fellow crime writers including Jo Nesbo, Ruth Rendell
and Colin Dexter, Karin Fossum's novels evoke a world that is
terrifyingly familiar.
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The Caller (Paperback)
Karin Fossum; Translated by K. E. Semmel
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One summer evening Lily and her husband are enjoying a meal while
their baby daughter sleeps peacefully in her pram in the garden.
But then Lily steps outside to find her baby soaked in blood. The
distraught parents rush to the hospital where they discover that
she is unharmed - the blood isn't hers. Inspector Sejer is called
in and spends the evening trying to comprehend why anyone would
carry out such a sinister prank. Then, just before midnight,
somebody rings his doorbell. The corridor is empty, but the caller
has left a small grey envelope on the mat. Inside it, Sejer finds a
postcard bearing a short message: Hell begins now...
Charlo Torp has problems. He's grieving for his late wife, he's
lost his job, and gambling debts have alienated him from his
teenage daughter. Desperate, his solution is to rob an elderly
woman of her money and silverware. But Harriet Krohn fights back,
and Charlo loses control. Wracked with guilt, Charlo attempts to
rebuild his life. But the police are catching up with him, and
Inspector Konrad Sejer has never lost a case yet. Told through the
eyes of a killer, The Murder of Harriet Krohn poses the question:
how far would you go to turn your life around, and could you live
with yourself afterwards?
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Bad Intentions (Paperback)
Karin Fossum; Translated by Charlotte Barslund
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An outstanding psychological crime novel from Karin Fossum: when a
body surfaces in a lake Inspector Sejer must uncover a dark secret
of betrayal and paranoia.
Early one September three friends spend the weekend at a remote
cabin by Dead Water Lake. With only a pale moon to light their way,
they row across the water in the middle of the night. But only two
of them return.
When the body of the third friend is discovered, Inspector Sejer is
put in charge of the investigation. He is troubled by the apparent
suicide and has an overwhelming sense that the surviving pair has
something to hide. Weeks pass without further clues and then, in a
nearby lake, the body of another teenage boy floats to the surface.
Riktor doesn't like the way the policeman comes straight into the
house without knocking. He doesn't like the arrogant way he
observes his home. The policeman doesn't tell him why he's there,
and Riktor doesn't ask. Because he knows he's guilty of a terrible
crime. But it turns out that the policeman isn't looking for a
missing person. He is accusing Riktor of something totally
unexpected. Riktor doesn't have a clear conscience, but this is a
crime he certainly didn't commit.
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