In this mystery set in Norway, Inspector Konrad Sejer investigates the murder of Annie Holland, a well-liked woman who was suffering from ovarian cancer. As Sejer struggles to discover why someone would murder a person who has only a ...

When long-time bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the town of Elvestad is stunned. Then, on the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of a woman is found on the outskirts...

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 wit...

When two teenagers steal a purse from a stroller, it results in an infant’s death. Unaware of the enormity of their crime, Zipp and Andreas are intent on committing another. They follow an elderly woman home, and Andreas enters ...

Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off toward town. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, her mother starts to worry. She phones store...

A woman 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 ...

"No one can thoroughly chill the blood the way Karin Fossum can." —Los Angeles Times Eva Magnus and her daughter are out walking by the river when a man's body floats to the water's surface. Eva goes to call the police, bu...

"One of the standouts of the Nordic thriller boom." —New York Magazine  Riktor doesn't like the way the policeman storms into his home without even knocking. He doesn't like the arrogant way he walks around the house, tak...

"Pranks can have lethal consequences, even when they seem harmless to start with . . . A poison bonbon that ranks with the best of Ruth Rendell."—Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly One mild summer evening, a young coup...

A new addition to the captivating Inspector Sejer series, the first since The Caller, from Norway’s finest crime writer Carmen and Nicolai failed to resuscitate their son, Tommy, after finding him floating in their backyard pond. ...

"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 "...

Karin Fossum and her bone-chillingly bleak psychological thrillers have won the admiration of the likes of Ruth Rendell and Jo Nesbo. In Bad Intentions, the newest installment in the Inspector Sejer series since The Water's Edge, Konr...

Reinhardt and Kristine Ris, a married couple, are out for a Sunday walk when they discover the body of a boy and see the figure of a man limping away. They alert the police, but not before Reinhardt, to Kristine's horror, kneels down ...

"A truly great writer and explorer of the human mind." — Jo Nesbø"What grips readers is the enormous amount of emotion [Fossum] works up as we get closer and closer to reliving the murderous event in question . . . H...