Hadlis Horn est retrouvée morte par un jeune orphelin de 12 ans, Kannick. Il déclare à la police qu'il croit avoir vu près du lieu du crime Errki Johrma, malfaiteur local échappé d'un centre psychiatrique. Le lendemain, une banque est attaquée et le braqueur prend en otage un jeune garçon. Le commissaire Konrad Sejer soupçonne un lien entre ces deux affaires. Prix des libraires norvégiens 1997.

Celui qui a peur du loup

Meet Inspector Sejer: smart and enigmatic, tough but fair. At the foot of the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small, idyllic village, 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 tranquility 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 façade.Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer novels are masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable. They evoke a world that is at once profoundly disturbing and terrifyingly familiar.

Ne te retourne pas!

"One of the standouts of the Nordic thriller boom." -New York Magazine   Riktor doesn't like the way the policeman storms into his home without even knocking. He doesn't like the arrogant way he walks around the house, taking note of its contents. The policeman doesn't bother to explain why he's there, and Riktor is too afraid to ask. He knows he's guilty of a terrible crime and he's sure the policeman has found him out. But when the policeman finally does arrest him, it's for something totally unexpected. Riktor doesn't have a clear conscience, but the crime he's being accused of is one he certainly didn't commit. Imprisoned and desperate to break out, he fights to clear his name without further incriminating himself, in a gripping standalone novel from "a truly great writer" (Jo Nesbø).

I Can See In The Dark

"No one can thoroughly chill the blood the way Karin Fossum can." - Los Angeles Times Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer novels are masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable. They evoke a world that is at once profoundly disturbing and terrifyingly familiar. The inaugural Inspector Sejer novels have been conveniently packaged together for your very own chilling reading experience. EVA'S EYE When the body of a man floats to the surface of a river, Inspector Sejer is called in. Sejer and his team determine that the man, Egil, died in a violent attack. But Egil has been missing for months, and the trail to his killer has gone cold. It's as puzzling as another unsolved case on Sejer's desk: the murder of a prostitute who was found dead just three days before Egil went missing. Sejer sets to work piecing together the fragments of these two impossible cases; soon enough he realizes that they might not be as separate as they had seemed. DON'T LOOK BACK At the foot of the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small, idyllic village 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 tranquility 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 façade. HE WHO FEARS THE WOLF Inspector Sejer is hard at work again, investigating the murder of a woman who lived alone in the middle of the woods. The chief suspect is another loner, a schizophrenic recently escaped from a mental institution. The only witness is a twelve-year-old boy, overweight, obsessed with archery, and a resident at a home for delinquents. Shrewdly, patiently, as is his way, Sejer confronts a case where the strangeness of the crime is matched only by the strangeness of the criminals, and where small-town prejudices warp every piece of information he tries to collect. "In spare, incisive prose, Fossum turns a conventional police procedural into a sensitive examination of troubled minds and a disturbing look at the way society views them .

Inspector Sejer Series - The First Three Novels

Eve Magnus, mère célibataire et artiste peintre idéaliste, franchit des limites jusqu'alors inconcevables. Marie Durban, une amie d'enfance qu'elle n'a pas vue depuis des années, fait soudain son apparition et lui confie qu'elle est devenue prostituée de luxe. Et cela, juste le jour où Eve erre devant les grands magasins, le portefeuille vide et la poche pleine de factures impayées... Eve Magnus, mère célibataire et artiste peintre idéaliste, franchit des limites jusqu'alors inconcevables. Marie Durban, une amie d'enfance qu'elle n'a pas vue depuis des années, fait soudain son apparition et lui confie qu'elle est devenue prostituée de luxe. Et cela, juste le jour où Eve erre devant les grands magasins, le portefeuille vide et la poche pleine de factures impayées...
(Droits cédés pour une publication poche, coll. Points, éditions du Seuil).

L'oeil d'Eve

Don't Look Back is the second novel in Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer mystery series. "Sejer belongs alongside the likes of Adam Dalgliesh and Inspector Morse-a gifted detective and troubled man."-Boston GlobeAt the foot of the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small, idyllic village, 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 tranquility 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 façade."Psychologically astute, subtly horrifying."-New York Times Book Review"Build[s] to a heart-stopping conclusion."-Entertainment Weekly

Don't Look Back

Lorsque Gunder Jomann, l'éternel célibataire, part en Inde pour trouver une épouse, il n'en souffle mot à personne à Elvestad. Le jour même où la mariée indienne doit arriver, le corps mutilé d'une jeune femme est retrouvé dans un champ près de la maison de Gunder. Qui peut croire que, parmi les bonnes gens d'Elvestad, il se trouve quelqu'un capable d'un crime aussi abominable ? Personne, sauf l'inspecteur Konrad Sejer, toujours aussi calme et déterminé, qui sait bien que les braves gens sont capables du pire et que nul n'est totalement innocent. Avec cette nouvelle enquête de l'inspecteur Konrad Sejer, finaliste du Gold Dagger Award en 2005, Karin Fossum signe son meilleur roman.

La mort indienne

When perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the town of Elvestad is stunned. On the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of a woman is found in a meadow on the outskirts of town. None of the "good people of Elvestad" can believe that anyone among them would be capable of such a brutal murder. But in his quiet, formal way, Inspector Konrad Sejer understands that good people can commit atrocious deeds, and that no one is altogether innocent—including the café owner who knows too much, the girl who wants to be a chief witness, and the bodybuilder with no outlet for his terrible strength.

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