The Caller (Inspector Sejer) - Hardcover

Fossum, Karin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0547577524 ISBN 13: 9780547577524

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012

Synopsis

One mild summer evening, a young couple are enjoying dinner while their daughter sleeps peacefully in her stroller under a tree. When her mother steps outside she is stunned: The child is covered in blood.
   Inspector Sejer is called to the hospital to meet the family. Mercifully, the child is unharmed, but the parents are deeply shaken, and Sejer spends the evening trying to understand why anyone would carry out such a sinister prank. Then, just before midnight, somebody rings his doorbell.
   No one is at the door, but the caller has left a small gray envelope on Sejer’s mat. From his living room window, the inspector watches a figure disappear into the darkness. Inside the envelope Sejer finds a postcard bearing a short message: Hell begins now.
   This is classic Fossum—and the critics are saying this is her best book since The Indian Bride.

About this title

Review:

"Fossum is admired by Ruth Rendell and you can see why'" (Daily Mail)

"A contemporary Patricia Highsmith, her offbeat obsession with the psychology of the criminal mind, and the human cost of criminal activity, pays off handsomely yet again" (Irish Times)

"It is a sign of Fossum's sophistication that the reader comes to empathise with the teenaged tormentor - a deliberate ploy which makes the double-twist ending all the more shocking" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Fossum's Norway is an apposite setting for a long dark night of the soul" (Independent)

"With a focus on characters and the impacts of crime, Fossum’s psychological thrillers will appeal, in particular, to fans of Anne Holt and Henning Mankell" (Booklist)

Book Description:

The outstanding new Inspector Sejer novel from the award-winning Norwegian Queen of Crime

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0547577524
• ISBN 13: 9780547577524
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244