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KARIN FOSSUM made her literary debut in Norway in 1974. She is the author of poetry, short stories and several novels, and her Inspector Sejer series has been published in twenty-six countries.
I not only enjoyed it but admired it, too. I also found it playing in my head for a long time afterwards, the effect on the reader every writer surely longs for Sunday Herald The seventh Inspector Sejer novel from Norway's leading female crime writer is, like its predecessors, a gem Guardian This is a battle of wits, conducted with chilly intensity and an unsettling sense of menace Sunday Times Few match her ability to conjure an atmosphere of emotional as well as geographical desolation The Times Tautly told in a crisp translation of the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund, the story is a riveting exploration of the consequences of crime, a whydunnit rather than the traditional whodunnit Irish Times
