Praise for Karin Fossum and the Inspector Sejer series:

"Fossum crafts remarkably incisive psychological suspense: novels that carry the headlong momentum of thrillers and the acuity and weight of literary fiction." —The Washington Post

"The next Scandinavian literary superstar." —Chicago Tribune

"They never last very long, those anonymous joggers and dog-walkers whose only purpose in a crime story is to trip over the body in the woods. Unless, of course, they figure in a novel by Karin Fossum, who makes it her business—and the business of her uncommonly sensitive Norwegian detective, Inspector Konrad Sejer—to scrutinize in great depth and detail every person touched by a murder." —The New York Times Book Review

"I always eagerly await a new novel from Karin Fossum." —Ruth Rendell

"One thing...that immediately sets Fossum's fine mystery apart from other, merely sensational variations on this story line is its self-consciousness…Like the well-ripened queens of psychological suspense to whom she is inevitably compared—Ruth Rendell and PD James—the younger Fossum charts this excursion into the unthinkable with poetic restraint." —The Washington Post

"A truly great writer and explorer of the human mind." —Jo Nesbo

"By stripping away the usual police procedurals, Fossum suffuses her fiction with something closer to the unsparing vision of her great predecessor, Knut Hamsun." —The Independent

"Sejer is a beautifully created character, a thoughtful, lonely man with great empathy." —Publishers Weekly

"Tremendous suspense…A treasure for fans." —Kirkus Reviews (starred)