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Karin Fossum
She has an exceptional eye for fragility and vulnerability, and the complexity and dark humour of these states of mind.‘ AFTENPOSTEN 'Hviskeren contains all of the elements that make Fossum…
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Available for the first time in English, the seventh entry in the beloved Inspector Sejer series from Norway’s Queen of Crime, Karin Fossum
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Inspector Sejer returns in this expertly crafted mystery about troubled teenagers–and two tragic deaths.
Andreas’ disappearance is a mystery to all, including his inseparable friend Zipp. But as much as the police question him, it’s not easy for Zipp to come forward with details…
Andreas’s disappearance is a mystery to all, including his inseparable friend Zipp. Zipp waited anxiously outside but Andreas failed to reappear. Inspector Sejer and his colleague Skarre are baffled but…
When Inspector Sejer receives a postcard with the message Hell begins now, he sets out to uncover who’s behind a string of cruel pranks that have thrown the peaceful town…
What if you were arrested for a crime you didn’t commit–but had to prove your innocence without revealing anything about the one you did? A thrilling new stand-alone novel from…
A twelve-year-old boy runs into his local police station claiming to have seen a brutally dismembered corpse. Errki Johrma, an escaped psychiatric patient and known town misfit, was spotted at…
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In a small Norwegian village at the foot of the Kollen Mountains, neighbors know neighbors and children play happily in the streets, but after a teenage girl’s body is found…
A brand new addition to the captivating Inspector Sejer series from Norway’s finest crime writer
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 another loner, a…
Copyright date of this translation: 2007.
The first Inspector Sejer novel by Norway’s Queen of Crime, Karin Fossum
In this brilliantly conceived, dark novel from one of Europes most successful crime writers, Inspector Konrad Sejer understands that good people can commit atrocious deeds, and that no one is…
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…
A woman wakes one night to find that a strange man has walked into her bedroom. She lies there in terrified silence unable to move. The woman is an author…
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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…
A couple out walking in the woods discover the dead body of a half-naked boy. To Kristine’s horror her husband begins to take photographs of the corpse on his mobile…
Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian community, thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. But…
Early one September three friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin by Dead Water Lake. When the body of the third friend is discovered, Inspector Sejer is put in…
This psychologically acute thriller from the queen of Norwegian crime fiction asks: How does a lonely, quiet woman come to brutally kill a man?
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…
A mother and child are found dead in an old caravan on a remote piece of land. The man who abandoned them, now the focus of the boy’s obsession, is…
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…
"A truly great writer and explorer of the human mind." --Jo Nesb? "What grips readers is the enormous amount of emotion [Fossum] works up as we get closer and closer…
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A new addition to the captivating Inspector Sejer series, the first since The Caller, from Norway's finest crime writer Carmen and Nicolai failed to resuscitate their son, Tommy, after finding…
Charlo Torp, a newly recovered gambler, makes his way through the slush to Harriet Krohn's apartment, flowers in hand. Determined to pay off his debts, Charlo plans to steal the…
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…
When the theft of a purse from a stroller results in an infant's death, two teenagers are in trouble. Unaware of the enormity of their crime, Zipp and Andreas are…
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…
For the first time, Fossum shows her hand– a novel about an author whose latest creation is the melancholy tale of a complacent man whose life is ripped apart by…