Praise for Karin Fossum and the Inspector Sejer series:
"Fossum crafts remarkably incisive psychological suspense: novels that carry the headlong momentum of thrillers and the acuity and weight of literary fiction." --The Washington Post
"The next Scandinavian literary superstar." --Chicago Tribune
"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." --The New York Times Book Review
"I always eagerly await a new novel from Karin Fossum." --Ruth Rendell
"One thing...that immediately sets Fossum's fine mystery apart from other, merely sensational variations on this story line is its self-consciousness...Like the well-ripened queens of psychological suspense to whom she is inevitably compared--Ruth Rendell and PD James--the younger Fossum charts this excursion into the unthinkable with poetic restraint." --The Washington Post
"A truly great writer and explorer of the human mind." --Jo Nesbo
"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
"Sejer is a beautifully created character, a thoughtful, lonely man with great empathy." --Publishers Weekly
"Tremendous suspense...A treasure for fans." --
Kirkus Reviews (starred)