Karin Fossum

Charlo Torp has problems. He's grieving for his late wife, he's lost his job, and gambling debts have alienated him from his teenage daughter. Desperate, his solution is to rob an elderly woman of her money and silverware. But Harriet Krohn fights back, and Charlo loses control. Wracked with guilt, Charlo attempts to rebuild his life. But the police are catching up with him, and Inspector Konrad Sejer has never lost a case yet. Told through the eyes of a killer, The Murder of Harriet Krohn poses the question: how far would you go to turn your life around, and could you live with yourself afterwards?

Ragna Riegel works in a supermarket and still lives in her childhood home. She's alone in the world since her only son moved to Berlin. She longs for a Christmas or birthday card from him.Ragna lives her life within strict self-imposed limits: she sits in the same seat on the bus every day, on her way to her predictable job. On her way home she always visits the same local shop. She feels safe in her routine, until one day she receives a letter with a threatening message scrawled in capital letters. An unknown enemy has entered her world and she must use all her means to defend herself.When the worst happens, Inspector Konrad Sejer is called in to interrogate Ragna. Is this unassuming woman out of her depth, or is she hiding a dark secret?

Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off to buy sweets. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, Helga Joner, her mother, starts to worry. She phones the shop and various friends, but no one has seen her daughter. As the family goes out looking for Ida, Helga's worst nightmare becomes reality, and they contact the police. Hundreds of volunteers comb the neighbourhood, but there are no traces of Ida or her bike. As the relatives reach breaking point and the media frenzy begins, Inspector Sejer is calm and reassuring. But he finds the case puzzling. Usually missing children are found within forty-eight hours. Ida Joner seems to have vanished without a trace.

woman wakes one night to find that a strange man has walked into her bedroom. She lies there in terrified silence unable to move. The woman is an author and the man one of her prospective characters. So desperate is he to have his story told that he has resorted to breaking in to her house to make her tell it. She creates Alvar Eide, forty-two years old, single, who works in an art gallery. He lives a quiet, dutiful life, carefully designed to avoid surprise. One winter's day all this begins to change, when an emaciated young heroin addict walks into the gallery. A kind man, Alvar gives her a cup of coffee to warm her up. She returns some weeks later to his place of work, and then one day appears on his doorstep demanding to be let in. Interspersed with the chapters of Alvar's story are his encounters with its author - the frantic attempts of a fictional man trying to control his own destiny. Broken is a gripping novel about the boundary between fact and fiction from the renowned author of the Inspector Sejer mysteries.

Inspector Sejer must track down a sinister figure who fled from the scene of a terrible crime. Walking through the woods one warm September day, Reinhardt and Kristine Ris pass a man who is in a state of agitation. Unusually in a small town, he does not return Kristine's smile and drives off in a hurry. As the couple continue on their walk they make a terrible discovery: lying in a cluster of trees is the lifeless body of a young boy. It is a moment that will change their lives forever. Inspector Sejer is called to the scene, but can find no immediate cause of death. As the weeks go by, the appeal for the man seen in the woods to come forward remains unanswered. A once peaceful community is deeply shaken, and the children lose the sense of complete freedom they once enjoyed. Then a second boy goes missing . . . .

A boy arrives - breathless and aghast - at his police station, to report the discovery of a horribly maimed body outside an isolated house in the woods. Yet there was another person in the woods that day - standing nearby, hidden within the trees, was the mysterious figure of the local misfit, Errki. The next morning a bank in the nearby town is robbed at gunpoint. The gunman takes a hostage and flees. As his plans begin to come apart he, unlike his passive hostage, rapidly loses control. Meanwhile the search for the killer has developed into a manhunt - everyone is looking for the enigmatic Errki.

Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian community, thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. But on the day his Indian bride is due to join him, he is called to the hospital to his sister's bedside. The local taxi driver sent instead to meet the bride at the airport returns without her. Then the town is shocked by the news of an Indian woman found bludgeoned to death in a nearby meadow. Inspector Sejer and his colleague Skarre head the murder inquiry, cross-examining the townsfolk and planting seeds of suspicion in a community which has always believed itself to be simple, safe and trusting. For what can only have been an unpremeditated and motiveless act of violence, everyone is guilty until proven innocent.

Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian community, thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man.

A couple out walking in the woods discover the dead body of a half-naked boy. To Kristines horror her husband begins to take photographs of the corpse on his mobile phone, but this proves only the beginning of his obsession with the case. Inspector Sejer is called to the scene but he can find no immediate cause of death.

Segundos negros es el sexto caso del inspector Sejer.Ida Joner está a punto de cumplir diez años cuando desaparece en una pequeña población noruega rodeada de granjas y bosques. Helga, su madre, esta viviendo su peor pesadilla.El comisario Konrad Sejer -tan humano, tan comprensivo que los interrogados a menudo se sienten tentados de contarle mas de lo que debieran- y su joven asistente, Jacob Skarre, inician la investigacion.Inmediatamente las sospechas recaen sobre Emil Johannes, un tipo raro que vive solo y no habla desde la infancia... Incluso su madre, Elsa, le teme. Tanto ella como Helga deben enfrentarse a sus miedos: perder a un hijo, o pensar que es capaz de cometer una atrocidad. Pero Elsa no es la unica que guarda un secreto, pues todos en la pequeña localidad tienen algo que ocultar...Reseñas:Fossum convierte la novela negra convencional en una delicada indagacion acerca de la mente perturbada y la mirada de inquietud con que la sociedad la observa.The New York TimesUna gran escritora y exploradora de la mente humana.Jo NesbSiempre espero con ganas cada nueva novela de Karin Fossum, pues se que sere transportada a un pueblecito noruego de hombres, mujeres y niños reconocibles, y que estara ambientada en el hermoso y gelido norte.Ruth Rendell

«¿Los thrillers no te parecen tan emocionantes últimamente? ¿Los asesinos en serie son demasiado tontos? ¿Los detectives demasiado sensibles? ¿Te preguntas dónde fueron a parar los tipos duros? Solo

EnEl ojo de Eva, primer caso del Inspector Sejer, el detective deberá investigar la muerte de una prostituta y su relación con una joven pintora.Eva Magnus, una joven pintora de escaso éxito, se encuentra a Maja, una vieja amiga, que intenta convencerla para que se gane la vida como prostituta y salde asi sus deudas, cada dia mas acuciantes.Maja invita a Eva a su casa y la anima a ver por el resquicio de la puerta como se hace el trabajo. Pero de pronto el cliente y Maja se enzarzan en una pelea, y Eva acaba con el cadaver de su amiga en los brazos. Se inicia asi un torbellino criminal al que Eva, casi por casualidad, se ve arrastrada.El inspector Sejer, al hacerse cargo de la investigacion, intuye que la joven artista sabe mas de lo que dice y que las respuestas a sus interrogantes estan en la vida secreta de Eva Magnus...Reseñas:Karin Fossum aporta unos personajes creibles, unos ambientes poco frecuentados, una sensacion de tristeza que acaba calando y una resolucion casi impecable.La VanguardiaEl ojo de Evase lee muy bien y engancha hasta la ultima pagina.El PaisFossum crea un suspense psicologico increiblemente incisivo.The Washington PostUn suspense extraordinario... Un tesoro para los fans.Kirkus Reviews

Riktor doesnt like the way the policeman comes straight into the house without knocking. He doesnt like the arrogant way he observes his home.The policeman doesnt tell him why hes there, and Riktor doesnt ask. Riktor doesnt have a clear conscience, but this is a crime he certainly didnt commit.

Nine-year-old Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off to buy sweets. As the family being to search for Ida, Helgas worst nightmare becomes reality. As the police are called in, hundreds of volunteers comb the neighbourhood, but there are no traces of the little girl, or her bike.

Instead she phones her father, and makes no mention of her discovery. When the body is eventually found, it soon becomes clear to Inspector Sejer and his team that this was no accidental drowning - the man was the victim of a very violent killer.