- Hardcover: 259 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) (3 July 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0151011885
- ISBN-13: 978-0151011889
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.7 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,354,510 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for "Don't Look Back":
"Fossum's presentation of her characters is marked by an intelligence and compassion that is not often found in the pages of crime fiction."
--"Sunday Times" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"Fossum's presentation of her characters is marked by an intelligence and compassion that is not often found in the pages of crime fiction."
--"Sunday Times" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Karin Fossum, Ruth Rendell's northern cousin, is one of the great masters of the psychological thriller. "When the Devil Holds the Candle" is a great example of her work at its best. In this tale of a petty crime that leads to great tragedy, Fossum cooks a soup of small town characters who are typical of their type on the surface, but far more complicated within. Those inner souls are the troublemakers that break loose in "Devil" and create the waves of disturbance that become disaster when they overlap.
In this particular story, two teenage slackers, bored and looking for distraction, mug a young mother for her purse and start a series of events that will become life-changing for themselves and others in the small Norwegian town where they live. The first event leads to others that disturb the delicate emotional balance that exists for several of the characters and results in violence that was not imaginable by any of them. Author Fossum knits all of this interaction together with such skill that the reader hardly sees it coming. Once the chilling ending seems to be served up, still another hit is on the way.
"When the Devil Holds the Candle" is a nice piece of work. Recommended.
In this particular story, two teenage slackers, bored and looking for distraction, mug a young mother for her purse and start a series of events that will become life-changing for themselves and others in the small Norwegian town where they live. The first event leads to others that disturb the delicate emotional balance that exists for several of the characters and results in violence that was not imaginable by any of them. Author Fossum knits all of this interaction together with such skill that the reader hardly sees it coming. Once the chilling ending seems to be served up, still another hit is on the way.
"When the Devil Holds the Candle" is a nice piece of work. Recommended.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Another good Inspector Sejer mystery from Fossum, but it's not a straightforward police procedural. Instead the author attempts to get to grips with what makes a criminal mind and, in particular, at what point does someone cross a line and become a killer?
Zipp and his friend, Andreas, are aimless 18 year olds on the edge of the of the criminal world who are beginning to dabble with such crimes as handbag theft. When their actions bring them into contact with lonely old lady, Irma Funder, things take a darker and more sinister turn.
Although, it's not immediately clear to Sejer and his colleague Skarre what the crime is, they must unravel the truth before it's too late.
This is a neatly told, fast-moving thriller with several side stories which keep the reader entertained. Widowed Sejer has a budding romance with psychologist Sara and is also investigating why a student, Robert, has shot his girlfriend in the face. Schoolboy Matteus, Sejer's adopted African grandson, also has a crucial role to play in this gripping crime drama.
If you like other Nordic crime writers, you'll enjoy Fossum's take on this genre. Her plots are never trite, Sejer is an interesting detective and the reader is left with a sense that things are never quite what they seem on the outside.
Zipp and his friend, Andreas, are aimless 18 year olds on the edge of the of the criminal world who are beginning to dabble with such crimes as handbag theft. When their actions bring them into contact with lonely old lady, Irma Funder, things take a darker and more sinister turn.
Although, it's not immediately clear to Sejer and his colleague Skarre what the crime is, they must unravel the truth before it's too late.
This is a neatly told, fast-moving thriller with several side stories which keep the reader entertained. Widowed Sejer has a budding romance with psychologist Sara and is also investigating why a student, Robert, has shot his girlfriend in the face. Schoolboy Matteus, Sejer's adopted African grandson, also has a crucial role to play in this gripping crime drama.
If you like other Nordic crime writers, you'll enjoy Fossum's take on this genre. Her plots are never trite, Sejer is an interesting detective and the reader is left with a sense that things are never quite what they seem on the outside.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Karin Fossum is up ther with the other Nordic writers who have been so successful in the UK in recent years, another well thought out and executed legal thriller with excellent characterisation. She knows her craft.
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I am always on the look out for new writers. Since the girl with that tatto has come about I have tried a few different writers. I found this hard to read with a poor story. Read more
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