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Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller (The Indian Bride)Gumshoe Prize (When the Devil Holds the Candle)
UK Praise for BAD INTENTIONS:

"[A] narrative shot through with icicles of human malignity. Fossum's Norway is an apposite setting for a a long dark night of the soul. That's not to say, however, that reading Bad Intentions is anything but a bracingly pleasurable experience. By stripping away the usual police procedurals, Fossum suffuses her fiction with something closer to the unsparing vision of her great predecessor, Knut Hamsun." --The Independent
Praise for THE WATER'S EDGE:"They never last very long, those anonymous joggers and dog-walkers whose only purpose in a crime story is to trip over the body in the woods. Unless, of course, they figure in a novel by Karin Fossum, who makes it her business-- and the business of her uncommonly sensitive Norwegian detective, Inspector Konrad Sejer-- to scrutinize in great depth and detail every person touched by a murder." --Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review "If you're looking for a well-written contemporary procedural, look no further than Karin Fossum's The Water's Edge, which follows Inspector Sejer on his most impossible case." --Library Journal (starred)  Praise for BLACK SECONDS:"Nothing blows up in Karin Fossum’s new book, the fifth of her Inspector Sejer novels to make the journey from Norway to the United States, unless you count her characters’ worlds." --New York Times

"Fossum crafts remarkably incisive psychological suspense: novels that carry the headlong momentum of thrillers and the acuity and weight of literary fiction...[Black Seconds is] a novel of rare, hypnotic power." –Washington Post Book World

    

Early one September three friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin by Dead Water Lake. With only a pale moon to light their way, they row across the water in the middle of the night. But only two of them return, and they make a pact not to call for help until the following morning.

Inspector Sejer leads the investigation when the body is discovered. He is troubled by the apparent suicide and has an overwhelming sense that the surviving pair has something to hide. Weeks pass without further clues, and then in a nearby lake the body of a teenage boy floats to the surface.

'Brings the half-Swedish Ruth Rendell irresistibly to mind.'

Boyd Tonkin, Independent

'A superb writer of psychological suspense.'

New York Times

'It's difficult to out-creep Karin Fossum.' Time Out

'There is no room for debate: the most important female writer of foreign crime fiction at work today is the Norwegian Karin Fossum.' The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction

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.