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.
If you're in search of an antidote to the in-your-face energy of American crime fiction, this quiet, slender, bracingly bleak tale could well be it. -- The Sunday Times <br><br> As a portrait of a community possessed by suspicion, The Water's Edge can scarcely be bettered. -- Independent <br><br> It's heart-rending, sometimes cold, forensic writing; she pushes you into tight, uncomfortable corners. She's good. -- Scotsman