Editions

Hellfire

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781784700348

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 12mm x 130mm

  • Weight: 204g

  • RRP: £8.99

Hellfire

A mother and child are found dead in an old caravan on a remote piece of land. There is a bloody footprint at the scene.

Meanwhile, another mother confesses to her son that he is adopted. The man who abandoned them, now the focus of the boy's obsession, is not his real father.

Chief Inspector Sejer is tasked with investigating the murder – and soon receives important information about the two families...

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781784700348

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 12mm x 130mm

  • Weight: 204g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • A contemporary Patricia Highsmith

    Irish Times

  • Fossum writes humane thrillers which perturb and chill

    Observer

  • Fossum's intelligence compassion...is not often found in the pages of crime fiction

    Donna Leon, Sunday Times

  • A superb writer of psychological suspense

    New York Times

  • There’s always something dark hovering on the edge of the page, something about getting what you wish for and the crushing irony when that gift proves your undoing

    New York Times Book Review

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About the Author

Karin Fossum

Karin Fossum’s critically acclaimed novels have won numerous prizes. She is two-time winner of the prestigious Riverton Award and has also won the Glass Key Award for the best Nordic crime novel, an honour shared with Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo, as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her highly acclaimed Inspector Sejer series has been published in more than forty countries.

Karin Fossum

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