The Water's Edge

Fossum, Karin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151014213 ISBN 13: 9780151014217

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009

Amarried couple, Reinhardt and Kristine Ris, are out for a Sunday walk when they discover the body of a boy and see the figure of a man limping away. They alert the police, but not before Reinhardt, to Kristine’s horror, kneels down and takes photographs of the dead child with his cell phone. 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.

A riveting portrayal of a communityits insiders, its outsiders, its fissures, and its secretsfrom Norway’s "Queen of Crime," Karin Fossum.

Review:

"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" (John Dugdale The Sunday Times)

"As a portrait of a community possessed by suspicion, The Water's Edge can scarcely be bettered." (Paul Binding Independent)

Book Description:

Inspector Sejer must track down a sinister figure who fled from the scene of a terrible crime