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Bad Intentions [Paperback]

Karin Fossum (Author), Charlotte Barslund (Translator)
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Publication Date: 7 July 2011

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...

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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage (7 July 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 009953584X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099535843
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.3 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 104,837 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"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" (Sunday Herald )

"The seventh Inspector Sejer novel from Norway's leading female crime writer is, like its predecessors, a gem" (Guardian )

"This is a battle of wits, conducted with chilly intensity and an unsettling sense of menace" (Sunday Times )

"Few match her ability to conjure an atmosphere of emotional as well as geographical desolation" (The Times )

"Tautly told in a crisp translation of the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund, the story is a riveting exploration of the consequences of crime, a whydunnit rather than the traditional whodunnit" (Irish Times )

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An outstanding psychological crime novel from Karin Fossum: when a body surfaces in a lake Inspector Sejer must uncover a story of dark secrets, betrayal and paranoia
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An intense study of guilt 5 July 2010
By Bluebell TOP 50 REVIEWER
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This book arrived this morning and, after I started to read, I couldn't put it down. I was eagerly anticipating the next of Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer detective novels and wasn't disappointed. From the first chapter onwards a sense of menace and tension is created as three friends, Jon, Axel and Philip, obliquely refer to an unsettling event in the past that isn't revealed to the reader until late in the story. It's rather different from the previous stories in the series in that Sejer and his partner detective, Skarre, don't figure so much in the unraveling of the crimes committed. The reader is witness to the first death and we follow the guilty parties as the net tightens around them. As with other Karin Fossum novels there is a good deal of psychological distress among the characters and adept creation of a sinister atmosphere using allusions to the scenery around a crime scene.

The book is not just a riveting detective novel, but also a thoughtful exploration of the good and bad sides of human nature and the corrosive power of guilt.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Karin Fossum - Bad Intentions 22 July 2010
By RachelWalker TOP 500 REVIEWER
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It's hard to believe how good Fossum is, really. She's not for you if you're after a crime-novel as crossword; if you want that they wont satisfy you. Fossum's brief is different: her mission is to delineate the crime of the normal human, the person made criminal by awful, tragic circumstances. Her novels are supremely realistic in that sense, and they are also the most moving crime novels I have ever read. They are simply and beautiful and tragic. Bad Intentions is no different, and is probably her best since Calling Out For You. Sensitive, absorbing, heartbreaking. Real humans and punctured hearts populate the pages - there is no better crime writer alive better at describing and conveying the broad punch of grief, nor the shockingly simple path of circumstances and personality traits which lead to sad murder. A genius of a crime-writer.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars There's More to Scandinavian Crime Than a Dragon Tattoo 2 Aug 2010
By J. Clark
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Fossum ranks with Sjowall and Wahloo, P. D. James, Ruth Rendell, Ian Rankin, and Denise Mina in the crime field, and she is more consistently good than Henning Mankell. There is no better Scandinavian crime writer practicing today, in my opinion. Her books are not just mysteries, but novels describing the problems of contemporary society.

The only issue with this book is that it, like last year's Water's Edge by the same author, is too short. I wanted to hear more about Detective Sejer's personal life.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Not Enough Evidence
This is my first Karen Fossum mystery involving Inspector Konrad Sejer. This mystery/police procedural is Nordic Noir. Read more
Published 19 days ago by prisrob
3.0 out of 5 stars Not Fossum's Best
I love Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer series, but "Bad Intentions" is the weakest I've read. Usually her stories unfold with a realistic inevitability, but this one does not ring... Read more
Published 6 months ago by DONALD
4.0 out of 5 stars Neat psychological thriller
Three friends - Axel, Reilly and Jon spend the night in a cabin next to a lake known as Dead Water - they row out into the lake during the night but Jon plunges into the water. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Reddy
4.0 out of 5 stars Manipulative relationships
`Bad intentions' is a tale of three young adults. Alex is the leader, the one in control whereas Reilly takes drugs, reads the Koran and is generally a bit scattered whereas Jon... Read more
Published 15 months ago by booklover
2.0 out of 5 stars Overrated
I was looking for a new author and had read all the reviews before hand. Expectations were high for a good read from a respected Norwegian author. Read more
Published 17 months ago by YorkieBookworm
4.0 out of 5 stars You reap just what you sow
In this short gripping novel, you suspect the identity of the "culprits" from the outset, so that the intrigue lies in the "how" and "why". Read more
Published 18 months ago by Antenna
4.0 out of 5 stars Nasty tale
This is a tale of wickedness. It's very insightful as to how a group of friends can become coerced into doing the most awful things if their dominant figure is enough of a... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Gargoyle
4.0 out of 5 stars A good read. Not only for crime fiction fans
If you got tired of the fast paced American thrillers and the British mysteries, of the noir novels of the European south and even of the Man himself, Stieg Larsson, and you seek... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Lakis Fourouklas
3.0 out of 5 stars Familiar ground but not Fossum's best
This short novel by Karin Fossum picks up some of the author's favorite themes - outsiders and slackers in society, the fragility of the human psyche, casual and random cruelty and... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Blue in Washington
3.0 out of 5 stars Distinctly average
I was intrigued by the promising plot and encouraged to read the book by the many positive reviews. I was disappointed. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Dona Rendell
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