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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
A brooding study of how one thoughtless action can have catastrophic consequences --Metro Scotland
Fossum never forgets that her primary duty is to entertain, and she keeps her cut-to-the-bone mystery moving briskly --Sunday Tribune
`Norwegian writer Karin Fossum has been turning out a steady and impressive body of work since long before Steig Larsson first put pen to paper...This is a first-rate psychological thriller, one of Fossum's best books to date.' --The Review
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
A brooding study of how one thoughtless action can have catastrophic consequences --Metro Scotland
Fossum never forgets that her primary duty is to entertain, and she keeps her cut-to-the-bone mystery moving briskly --Sunday Tribune
`Norwegian writer Karin Fossum has been turning out a steady and impressive body of work since long before Steig Larsson first put pen to paper...This is a first-rate psychological thriller, one of Fossum's best books to date.' --The Review
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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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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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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.
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.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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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.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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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.
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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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 2 months ago by Reddy
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 3 months ago by booklover
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 5 months ago by YorkieBookworm
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 6 months ago by Antenna
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 6 months ago by Gargoyle
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 7 months ago by Lakis Fourouklas
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 7 months ago by Blue in Washington
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 8 months ago by Dona Rendell
dark, gloom and good
This is a short but excellent dark detective story, not so much 'crime' as psychological suspense. Karin Fossum is convincing in her characterisation and plot. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Josephine Huys
Neither Fish Nor Fowl
"Bad Intentions" is the newest installment in Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer series. The author is Norwegian; the book would therefore be classified as a Scandinavian... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Stephanie DePue
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