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The Caller by Karin Fossum (translated by K. E. Semmel)
Category: Crime and Thrillers
The outstanding new Inspector Sejer novel from the award-winning Norwegian Queen of Crime. One mild summer evening Lily and her husband are enjoying a meal while their baby daughter sleeps peacefully in her pram beneath a maple tree. But when Lily steps outside she is paralysed with terror. The child ...Show more
The Caller by Karin Fossum
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Sejer Mysteries Ser.
"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 un ...Show more
The Drowned Boy by Karin Fossum
Category: Crime and Thrillers
'He had just learnt to walk,' she said. 'He was playing on a blanket on the floor and then suddenly he was gone.' She tried to dry her tears. She was only nineteen years old, though she somehow seemed younger. 'I know that it's my fault. You can tell me, I know what you're thinking. I should have kept a ...Show more
The Drowned Boy by Karin Fossum
Category: Crime & Adventure | Series: Inspector Sejer Mysteries Ser.
"Sensitive and shocking." -- Wall Street Journal "In the end, the novel isn't about willful murder or even accidental death, but the psychological aftershocks for the living." -- New York Times Book Review "Fossum's descriptive prose is a reminder, for criminals and readers alike, that the details that ...Show more
The Murder of Harriet Krohn by Karin Fossum
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Sejer
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, Char ...Show more
The Murder of Harriet Krohn by Karin Fossum
Category: Fiction | Series: Inspector Sejer
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, Char ...Show more
The Water's Edge by Karin Fossum
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Walking through the woods one warm September day, Reinhardt and Kristine Ris pass a man who is in a state of agitation. Unusually in a small town, he does not return Kristine's smile and drives off in a hurry. Near the end of their walk they make a terrible discovery: lying in a cluster of trees is the ...Show more
The Water's Edge by Karin Fossum
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Walking through the woods one warm September day, Reinhardt and Kristine Ris pass a man who is in a state of agitation. Unusually in a small town, he does not return Kristine's smile and drives off in a hurry. Near the end of their walk they make a terrible discovery: lying in a cluster of trees is the ...Show more
The Whisperer by Karin Fossum
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Sejer Ser.
In this tense and twisty latest from Norway's maven of crime, time shifts between Inspector Sejer's interrogation of the accused Ragna Reigel and the shocking events that led up to her arrest. How did this lonely, quiet woman come to kill a man--or did she? How did a lonely, quiet woman come to kill a ...Show more
The Whisperer by Karin Fossum
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Sejer Ser.
This psychologically acute thriller from the queen of Norwegian crime fiction asks: How does a lonely, quiet woman come to brutally kill a man? Ragna Riegel is a woman of routines. She sits in the same seat on the bus every day on her way to her predictable job at a supermarket. On her way back to the h ...Show more
When the Devil Holds the Candle by Karin Fossum
Category: Fiction
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 of the last time he saw his friend: following an old woman into her home, brandishing his knife. Zipp waited anxiously outside bu ...Show more