Imprint: Vintage
Published: 07/07/2011
ISBN: 9780099535843
Length: 192 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm
Weight: 139g
RRP: £12.99
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.
When the body of the third friend is discovered, Inspector Sejer is put in charge of the investigation. 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 another teenage boy floats to the surface...
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 07/07/2011
ISBN: 9780099535843
Length: 192 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm
Weight: 139g
RRP: £12.99
A terrific crime novel that explores culpability, peer group pressure, betrayal and paranoia. Fossum’s prose style, translated by Charlotte Barslund, is crisp and clear, with not a word wasted.
I not only enjoyed it but admired it, too. I also found it playing in my head for a long time afterwards, the effect on the reader every writer surely longs for
The seventh Inspector Sejer novel from Norway's leading female crime writer is, like its predecessors, a gem
This is a battle of wits, conducted with chilly intensity and an unsettling sense of menace
Few match her ability to conjure an atmosphere of emotional as well as geographical desolation