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First Published:
Mar 2004, 304 pages
Paperback:
Jun 2005, 312 pages
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From the book jacket: Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer novels are
masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable.
They evoke a world that is at once profoundly disturbing and terrifyingly
familiar.
Comment: Karin Fossum is well known in her native country of
Norway and much of Europe where
her books are bestsellers and she is known as 'Norway's Queen of Crime', but
this is her first book to be published in the USA. The setting would seem
to be just right for a 'cozy' detective mystery - a picturesque valley town -
but this is not a cozy tale and as the nasty surprises build up it becomes
apparent that all is not as it would seem to be in this insular, homogenous
small town. Incidentally, the excerpt that you can read at BookBrowse will
probably lead you to think that you have a clear idea of how the mystery will
unfold - but don't take it at face value - in the opening pages you're not
actually witnessing a crime taking place but merely events leading up to the
discovery of the real crime. More than that I will not reveal!
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