Karin Fossum

"Tantalizing." — Washington Post
"One of the standouts of the Nordic thriller boom." — New York Magazine

"No one can thoroughly chill the blood the way Karin Fossum can." — Los Angeles Times

"A truly great writer and explorer of the human mind." — Jo Nesbø

"The queen of Norwegian crime fiction . . . Prolific and brilliant." —Men's Journal

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This novel in the acclaimed Scandinavian mystery series is "an engrossing psychological thriller" about a missing teen being held by a deranged captor. (Sunday Telegraph) When the theft of a purse from a stroller results in an infant's death, two teenagers are in trouble. Unaware of the enormity of their crime, Zipp and Andreas are intent on committing still another. They follow an elderly woman home, and Andreas enters her house with his ever-reliable...

Murder unsettles a Nordic town in this "heart-stoppingly suspenseful" crime novel from "a master at probing the plague of guilt that infects a community" (Washington Post Book World). When perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the town of Elvestad is stunned. On the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of a woman is found in a meadow on the outskirts of town. None of the "good...

In this tense and twisty latest from Norway's maven of crime, time shifts between Inspector Sejer's interrogation of the accused Ragna Reigel and the shocking events that led up to her arrest. How did this lonely, quiet woman come to kill a man—or did she?
How did a lonely, quiet woman come to kill a man—or did she?

Ragna Riegel is a soft-spoken woman of routines. She must have order in her life, and...

"[A] penetrating tale of a falling-out among conspirators" from the author of The Water's Edge and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Kirkus Reviews). In the wake of Stieg Larsson's bestselling novels, readers are discovering the rich trove of modern Scandinavian crime fiction. If you've devoured the Millennium trilogy and are looking for your next read, Karin Fossum and her bone-chillingly bleak psychological thrillers have won the admiration...

An "impressive" and "gripping" Scandinavian mystery from an author who "succeeds in evoking sympathy for all her characters . . . [in a] fair-play whodunit" (Publishers Weekly). Inspector Sejer is hard at work again, investigating the brutal murder of a woman who lived alone in the middle of the woods. The chief suspect is another loner, a schizophrenic recently escaped from a mental institution. The only witness is a twelve-year-old boy, overweight,...

Awoman wakes up in the middle of the night. A strange man is in her bedroom. She lies there in silence, paralyzed with fear.The woman is an author and the man one of her characters, one in a long line that waits in her driveway for the time when she'll tell their stories. He is so desperate that he has resorted to breaking into her house and demanding that she begin. He, the author decides, is named Alvar Eide, forty-two years old, single,works

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Mitt i natten står han plötsligt vid sina offers sängar och siktar på dem med sin pistol utan att säga ett ord. Men vem kommer att leva och vem kommer att dö?   Rädslan är stor i en liten norsk stad: tre personer har överlevt attackerna från inbrottstjuven som kallas "Nattlöparen" - men hur länge dröjer det innan den första dör? Kriminalinspektör Eddie Feber är säker på att de mystiska sifferkombinationerna på brottsplatserna...

Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer novels are masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable. They evoke a world that is at once profoundly disturbing and terrifyingly familiar. The inaugural Inspector Sejer novels have been conveniently packaged together for your very own chilling reading experience. EVA'S EYE When the body of a man floats to the surface of a river, Inspector Sejer...

Der unerklärliche Tod der jungen Annie löst in dem norwegischen Dorf Horgen tiefe Bestürzung aus. Doch zugleich scheinen die Bewohner ein dunkles Geheimnis zu bewahren. Sensibel zeichnet die norwegische Autorin Karin Fossum eine idyllische sommerliche Fjordlandschaft und erzählt von ihren oft so schwer durchschaubaren Bewohnern.