Karin Fossum Livres

" Il venait de franchir la dernière bosse et passa la deuxième vitesse. La fillette se retrouva par terre, accrochée à sa poussette. Une petite fille très mignonne, se dit-il. Très jolie dans son jogging rouge, une vraie petite fraise bien mûre. Il trônait derrière le volant de sa grande camionnette en sifflotant : il se sentait très bien avec la petite fille à l'arrière. Vraiment très bien ! " Une fillette de six ans est portée disparue. Peu de temps après, le cadavre de l'adolescente Annie Holland est découvert sur la commune d'un petit village où tout le monde se connaît. L'inspecteur Konrad Sejer est encore confronté à une nouvelle affaire complexe.

Au cœur de la forêt, une vieille femme est retrouvée morte devant sa maison par Kannick, un pensionnaire de l'orphelinat local. Celui-ci raconte aussitôt à la police qu'il a aperçu un individu dissimulé entre les arbres, ressemblant fort à Errki Johrma, un jeune marginal échappé du centre psychiatrique. Le lendemain de cette découverte macabre, la banque de la ville est cambriolée. Le braqueur prend un jeune homme en otage et s'enfuit dans les bois. Le commissaire Konrad Sejer se doute qu'il existe un lien entre les deux affaires. Tout semble accuser l'énigmatique Errki, que -seule sa psychiatre juge incapable d'un tel acte. Au cœur de la forêt norvégienne, l'étau se resserre. Le grand art de Karin Fossum, que certains comparent à Ruth Rendell, est de nous faire entrer dans l'intimité de ses héros avec empathie et lucidité. Elle fait la preuve ici de sa parfaite maîtrise du roman psychologique.

Inspector Sejer investigates the delivery of a threatening postcard that coincides with the discovery of a child who was found covered in blood but unharmed in her stroller.

A couple out walking in the woods discover the dead body of a half-naked boy. To Kristine's horror her husband begins to take photographs of the corpse on his mobile phone, but this proves only the beginning of his obsession with the case. Inspector Sejer is called to the scene but he can find no immediate cause of death. And who was the agitated man the couple saw moments before their discovery? Then, a second boy goes missing, and the once peaceful community is left deeply shaken. Is there a killer within their midst?

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.

Andreas's disappearance is a mystery to all, including his inseparable friend Zipp. But as much as the police question him, its 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 but Andreas failed to reappear.

Don't Look Back heralds the arrival of an exotic new crime series featuring Inspector Sejer, a smart and enigmatic hero, tough but fair. The setting is a small, idyllic village at the foot of Norway's Kollen Mountain, where neighbors know neighbors and children play happily in the streets. But when the body of a teenage girl is found by the lake at the mountaintop, the town's tranquility is shattered forever. Annie was strong, intelligent, and loved by everyone. What went so terribly wrong? Doggedly, yet subtly, Inspector Sejer uncovers layer upon layer of distrust and lies beneath the town's seemingly perfect facade. Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer novels are masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable, and are now available in the United States for the first time.

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

Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian community, thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. But on the day his Indian bride is due to join him, he is called to the hospital to his sister's bedside.

A mother and child are found dead in an old caravan on a remote piece of land. There is a bloody footprint at the scene. Meanwhile, another mother confesses to her son that he is adopted. The man who abandoned them, now the focus of the boy's obsession, is not his real father. Chief Inspector Sejer is tasked with investigating the murder – and soon receives important information about the two families...