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The Caller (Inspector Sejer 8)

The Caller (Inspector Sejer 8)

by KarinFossum (Author), K.E.Semmel (Translator)

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    Paperback 2011

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Synopsis

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 is bathed in blood. Inspector Sejer is called to the hospital to meet the family. Mercifully, the baby is unharmed, but her parents are deeply shaken, and Sejer 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. From his living room window, the inspector watches a figure slip across the car park and disappear into the darkness. Inside the envelope Sejer finds a postcard bearing a short message. Hell begins now.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 07 Jul 2011
ISBN 10: 1846553938
ISBN 13: 9781846553936
Book Overview: The outstanding new Inspector Sejer novel from the award-winning Norwegian Queen of Crime

Media Reviews
Fossum is admired by Ruth Rendell and you can see why: both prefer to explore the vagaries of the human mind rather than deal in bullets and car chases -- Carla McKay Daily Mail The Caller, is one the darkest, most disturbing crime stories you're likely to read this year. Like Patricia Highsmith, the queen of the night, and Ruth Rendell, the high priestess of darkness, Fossum is a grandmaster at the art of psychological terror. Her thoughts are gloomy, her mind is subtle and her writing is extraordinarily supple -- Marilyn Stasio New York Times Book Review Fossum's Norway is an apposite setting for a long dark night of the soul' Independent It is a sign of Fossum's sophistication that the reader comes to empathise with the teenaged tormentor - a deliberate ploy which makes the double-twist ending all the more shocking -- Julia Hanford Sunday Telegraph Fossum's novels stray off the crime genre's beaten track in search of the profound, and rarely disappoint. A contemporary Patricia Highsmith, her offbeat obsession with the psychology of the criminal mind, and the human cost of criminal activity, pays off handsomely again -- Declan Burke Irish Times
Author Bio
Karin Fossum began her writing career in 1974. She has won numerous awards, including the Glass Key Award for the best Nordic crime novel, an honour shared with Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her highly acclaimed Inspector Sejer series has been published in more than thirty countries. For a guide to all of the books in the Sejer series from our friends at Crime Fiction Lover, click here bit.ly/1g4ro49