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Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st Harvest ed.
Description
In Fossum's moody and subtle U.S. debut, the fifth in her Inspector Sejer series, the popular Norwegian mystery writer displays her mastery of psychological suspense. Richly drawn characters reveal much about Norwegian society, though the setting, a picturesque valley town northwest of Oslo, isn't distinctive. A little girl disappears from her middle-class neighborhood, then returns home unharmed. Meanwhile, the search party discovers the nude corpse...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Description
Teenage troublemakers, Zipp and Andreas unwittingly commit murder when they accidentally kill a baby in the course of a petty crime. Unaware, the pair move onto their next crime. At first, there is no reason for Inspector Sejer to see a connection between the infant's death and the later disappearance of the town troublemaker. With Zipp too frightened to come forward, the police must wait for the evidence to present itself before they can begin to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Description
When perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the Norwegian town of Elvestad is stunned. On the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of a woman is found in a meadow on the outskirts of town. None of the "good people of Elvestad" can believe that anyone among them would be capable of such a brutal murder. But in his quiet, formal way, Inspector Konrad Sejer understands that good people...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Description
A married couple, Reinhardt and Kristine Ris, are out for a Sunday walk when they discover the body of a boy and see a man limping away. Inspectors Konrad Sejer and Jakob Skarre begin to make inquiries in the little town of Solberglia. But then another boy disappears, and an explanation seems more remote than ever. Meanwhile the Ris's marriage starts to unravel as Reinhardt becomes obsessed with the tragic events and his own part in them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Description
Konrad Sejer must face down his memories and fears as he struggles to determine why the corpses of troubled young men keep surfacing in local lakes. As Sejer begins to feel his age weigh on him, he wonders if he has the strength to pursue the elusive explanations for human evil.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Description
Konrad Sejer must face down his memories and fears as he struggles to determine why the corpses of troubled young men keep surfacing in local lakes. As Sejer begins to feel his age weigh on him, he wonders if he has the strength to pursue the elusive explanations for human evil.
8) The caller
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012, copyright 2012
Edition
First U.S. edition
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Description
A young couple find their daughter in her pram covered in blood and Inspector Sejer is called to the hospital to interview the parents, and although the child is unharmed, Sejer decides to investigate but when more cruel practical jokes begin to emerge, Sejer must find the pankster before the jokes escaclate.
10) Eva's eye
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Description
Investigating the murder of a man who had been missing for months, Inspector Sejer and his team discover that his death is linked to the murder of a prostitute and to Eva, a struggling artist who holds the key to solving both murders.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Description
Investigating the murder of a man who had been missing for months, Inspector Sejer and his team discover that his death is linked to the murder of a prostitute and to Eva, a struggling artist who holds the key to solving both murders.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Available for the first time in English, the seventh entry in the beloved Inspector Sejer series from Norway's Queen of Crime, Karin Fossum. On a wet, gray night in early November, Charlo Torp, a former gambler who's only recently kicked the habit, makes his way through the slush to Harriet Krohn's apartment, flowers in hand. Certain that paying off his debt is the only path to starting a new life and winning his daughter's forgiveness, Charlo plans...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"A new addition to the captivating Inspector Sejer series, the first since The Caller, from Norway's finest crime writer Carmen and Nicolai failed to resuscitate their son, Tommy, after finding him floating in their backyard pond. When Inspector Skarrearrives on the scene, Carmen reports that Tommy, a healthy toddler with Down syndrome, wandered into the garden while Nicolai was working in the basement and she was cleaning the house. Skarre senses...
14) Hell fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Description
"A gruesome tableau awaits Inspector Konrad Sejer in the oppressive summer heat: a woman and a young boy lay dead in a pool of blood near a dank camper. The details of the deaths of Bonnie Hayden and her five-year-old son Simon are mysterious. There is no sign of robbery or assault. Who would brutally stab a defenseless woman and her child? Sejer and his fellow investigator Jacob Skarre begin a hunt for the killer that will eventually lead them to...
15) The whisperer
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Description
"In this tense and twisty latest from Norway's maven of crime, time shifts between Inspector Sejer's interrogation of the accused Ragna Reigel and the shocking events that led up to her arrest. How did this lonely, quiet woman come to kill a man--or did she?"--
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