Karin Fossum

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.

The Whisperer

The tranquility of a small, idyllic town is shattered when the body of a teenage girl is found, prompting an investigation by Inspector Sejer that reveals the sinister truth behind the town's quiet faade. Reprint.

Don't Look Back

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...

The Caller

Evas oga

When a couple discovers the body of a boy and sees a man limping away from the scene, Inspectors Konrad Sejer and Jakob Skarre make inquiries throughout the community of Solberglia and find the case complicated by another boy's disappearance and the couple's marital tensions. By the LA Times Book Prize-winning author of The Indian Bride.

The Water's Edge

When a woman who lived alone in the woods is brutally murdered, Inspector Sejer investigates the chief suspect, a schizophrenic loner who recently escaped from a mental institution, in a case that also involves a young delinquent and an emotionally disturbed bank robber. By the author of Don't Look Back. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

He Who Fears the Wolf

“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.

An Inspector Sejer Mystery

Eva's Eye

A brand new addition to the captivating Inspector Sejer series from Norway s finest crime writer."

The Drowned Boy

Annemarie Smit

Bij een bankoverval wordt een psychiatrische patiënt, verdacht van moord, als gijzelaar meegenomen, waarna zich een bijzondere relatie ontwikkelt tussen beide voortvluchtige mannen.

Wie de wolf vreest

Charlotte Barslund

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.

Bad Intentions

Awakened in the middle of the night by one of her own desperate characters, a shocked writer is compelled to envision a background and publish his story, which unfolds through the appearance of an obsessive young drug addict. By the Gumshoe Award-winning author of Black Seconds.

Broken

Black Seconds

Ida Jessen

Elskede Poona

Aus dem Norwegischen von Gabriele Haefs. Ihr langes Haar liegt im Gras wie eine schwarze Schlange. Es gibt nur wenige Stellen auf dem seidigen Stoff ihres fremdartigen, blaugrünen Kleides, die nicht von Blut getränkt sind ? und trotz all seiner Erfahrung fällt es Kommissar Sejer schwer, die Fassung zu bewahren. Ihre dunkelhäutigen, zarten Füße stecken in goldenen Sandalen, und niemand hier scheint die Tote zu kennen. Warum ist sie so schrecklich mißhandelt worden, und was tat sie in dem abgelegenen Flecken Elvestad?

Stumme Schreie

Drowned Boy

Evas øye

kriminalroman

Djevelen holder lyset

A first English-language translation of the seventh entry in the popular Norwegian series is presented from the viewpoint of a killer who murders and robs a woman to pay off a gambling debt and who fears the untarnished record of Inspector Sejer. 15,000 first printing.

The Murder of Harriet Krohn

Een oudere Noorse man vindt in India een echtgenote; op de afgesproken dag kan hij haar echter niet afhalen van het vliegveld.

Karin Fossum

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