A>Washington Post Book WorldBest Book of the YearWhen the battered body of a womanis found on the day Gunder Jomann s bride is due to arrive from India, the town of Elvestad is stunned no one can believe that one of them could be capable of such a brutal murder. But Inspector Sejer understands that no one is completely innocent not the cafe owner who knows too much, the girl who wants to be a star witness, or the bodybuilder with no outlet for his terrible strength.This new mystery out of Norway is so heart-stoppingly suspenseful that it was all I could do to keep myself from catapulting instantly to the bang-up final chapter. –Richard Lipez, The Washington Post Book World>[It] takes . . . subtle thought to interpret a cafe owner’s surliness or a schoolgirl’s eagerness to be a murder witness. What it takes is a writer like Fossum, able to see into the soul of an entire village. –Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book ReviewKARIN FOSUM s novels featuring Inspector Sejer have been translated into sixteen languages. The third in the series, When the Devil Holds the Candle, won the Gumshoe Award. She lives in a small town in southeastern Norway.

A>Washington Post Book WorldBest Book of the Year

When the battered body of a womanis found on the day Gunder Jomann s bride is due to arrive from India, the town of Elvestad is stunned no one can believe that one of them could be capable of such a brutal murder. But Inspector Sejer understands that no one is completely innocent not the cafe owner who knows too much, the girl who wants to be a star witness, or the bodybuilder with no outlet for his terrible strength.This new mystery out of Norway is so heart-stoppingly suspenseful that it was all I could do to keep myself from catapulting instantly to the bang-up final chapter. –Richard Lipez, The Washington Post Book World>[It] takes . . . subtle thought to interpret a cafe owner’s surliness or a schoolgirl’s eagerness to be a murder witness. What it takes is a writer like Fossum, able to see into the soul of an entire village. –Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book ReviewKARIN FOSUM s novels featuring Inspector Sejer have been translated into sixteen languages. The third in the series, When the Devil Holds the Candle, won the Gumshoe Award. She lives in a small town in southeastern Norway.