Karin Fossum
KARIN FOSSUM is the author of the internationally successful Inspector Konrad Sejer crime series. Her recent honors include a Gumshoe Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for mystery/thriller. She lives in a small town in southeastern Norway.
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KARIN FOSSUM is the author of the internationally successful Inspector Konrad Sejer crime series. Her recent honors include a Gumshoe Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for mystery/thriller. She lives in a small town in southeastern Norway.
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Birth date: November 06, 1954
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Genre fiction is all about escapism, said no crime fiction fan ever.A young boy's body is found in a remote park. It is clear he has been abused and then dumped. The only lead Inspector Sejer has to go on is the man a young couple passed before discovering the boy. And then a second boy goes missing...
Didn't enjoy this as much as the previous 2, but that doesn't mean I've given up on the series. It gets on my nerves when a writers uses "fat" to stand in for characterization, and the claustrophobic nature of the whole book just didn't work for me.
Didn't enjoy this as much as the previous 2, but that doesn't mean I've given up on the series. It gets on my nerves when a writers uses "fat" to stand in for characterization, and the claustrophobic nature of the whole book just didn't work for me.
2.5 stars
So glad that Fossum has decided to return to the Inspector Sejer series. In this one he becomes involved in the case of a drowned 15 month old boy with Down Syndrome. Although on the surface the death looks accidental, something just doesn't sit well with the mother's explanation. Enter, Carmen, th...