Don't Look Back (Inspector Sejer Mystery) [Paperback]

"It is a fact: Karin Fossum is Norway's new Queen of Crime. She knows how to write, how to develop a detailed and believable mystery, how to construct plausible characters and settings"; Kjetil Wold, Stavanger Aftenblad "A tour de force in the art of seduction. Karin Fossum not only has command over suspense-building devices, but also a real sensitivity to the psychologically fear-provoking. It is a pleasure to read a suspense novel that is so skillfully crafted and so evident of literary quality"; Turid Larsen, Arbeiderbladet

'[From] Norway's Queen of crime-an engaging-atmospheric thriller' Daily Mail --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Beneath the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small village where the children run in and out of one another's houses and play unafraid in the streets. But the sleepy village is like a pond through which not enough water runs - beneath the surface it is beginning to stagnate. When a naked body is found by the lake at the top of the mountain, its seeming tranquility is disturbed forever. Enter Inspector Sejer, a tough, no-nonsense policeman whose own life is tinged by sadness. As the suspense builds, and the list of suspects grows, Sejer's determination to discover the truth will lead him to peel away layer upon layer of distrust and lies, in this tiny community where apparently normal family ties hide dark secrets. Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum's novels evoke a world that is terrifyingly familiar. Don't Look Back introduces the tough, ethical Inspector Sejer to British readers for the first time.

'Don't Look Back shows just how well Fossum deserves her continental fame' Sunday Times

At the foot of the Kollen mountain lies a small village where the children play unafraid in the streets. But the tranquillity is about to be irrecoverably shattered by a most sinister crime when a young woman's naked body is found lying by the lake.

Inspector Sejer - smart, tough and enigmatic - is called in to investigate. Only he can uncover the dark secrets of this quiet community, hidden by deep family ties...

'Ends with such a blow to the stomach that most readers will wish they had failed to understand the appalling outcome to this apparently routine investigation' Scotsman

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Karin Fossum was born in 1954, and made her literary debut in Norway with a collection of poetry in 1974. She has since published another volume of poetry, two collections of short stories and one non-crime novel. Her five crime novels featuring Konrad Sejer have been published in sixteen languages. She lives in Oslo.