Don't Look Back
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Don't Look Back heralds the arrival of an exotic new crime series featuring Inspector Sejer, a smart and enigmatic hero, tough but fair. The setting is a small, idyllic village at the foot of Norway's Kollen Mountain, where neighbors know neighbors and children play happily in the streets. But when the body of a teenage girl is found by the lake at the mountaintop, the town's tranquillity is shattered forever. Annie was strong, intelligent, and loved by everyone. What went so terribly wrong? Doggedly, yet subtly, Inspector Sejer uncovers layer upon layer of distrust and lies beneath the town's seemingly perfect facade.
Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer novels are masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable, and are now available in the United States for the first time.""
Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer novels are masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable, and are now available in the United States for the first time.""
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Yes, it's fine. Spare and minimalist, which is what I, for one, look for in Norwegian literature of any kind, frankly. The protagonist, Inspector Sejer, is clever, thoughtful and enigmatic. Okay, perhaps just a shade TOO enigmatic. I wanted to know him better, but that might come with the next books.
I did see the ending coming from quite a ways off and I feel there's one great misstep involving an object being carried that is far too heavy not to tip off anyone at the scene (sorry, trying not to give anything away here).
But it kept my interest and made me curious about the next in the series, although probably not enough to make me rush off and start reading it right away.
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Yes, it's fine. Spare and minimalist, which is what I, for one, look for in Norwegian literature of any kind, frankly. The protagonist, Inspector Sejer, is clever, thoughtful and enigmatic. Okay, perhaps just a shade TOO enigmatic. I wanted to... more
