Eva's Eye - (Inspector Sejer Mysteries) by Karin Fossum (Paperback)

About the Book

The first Inspector Sejer novel by Norway's Queen of Crime, Karin Fossum

Book Synopsis

The debut mystery novel in the Inspector Sejer Series from Norway's award-winning author of Hell Fire and The Whisperer.

Eva Magnus and her daughter are out walking by the river when they make a grisly discovery: a man's body floating on the water's surface. Eva goes to call the police, but when she reaches the phone, she dials another number altogether for her own reasons. But when the police find the body anyway, Inspector Sejer and his team quickly determine that the man, Egil, died from a violent attack.

But Egil himself had been missing for months, and the trail to his killer is all but vanished. It's just as puzzling as another unsolved case on Sejer's desk: the murder of a prostitute, found dead just before Egil went missing. And as Sejer tries to piece together these two impossible cases, it soon appears that the two murders are connected. And if the Inspector can't figure out the culprit behind the crimes, someone else is going to pay with their life.

"No one can thoroughly chill the blood the way Karin Fossum can." --Los Angeles Times

From the Back Cover

No one can thoroughly chill the blood the way Karin Fossum can. Los Angeles Times
Eva Magnus and her daughter are out walking by the river when a man s body floats to the water s surface. Eva goes to call the police, but when she reaches the phone, she dials another number altogether.
The police find the body anyway Inspector Sejer and his team quickly determine that the man, Egil, died in a violent attack. But Egil has been missing for months and the trail to his killer is cold. It s as puzzling as another unsolved case on Sejer s desk: the murder of a prostitute, found dead just before Egil went missing. Sejer sets to work piecing together these two impossible cases; it's not long before he realizes that they aren t as separate as they previously seemed.
Fossum crafts remarkably incisive psychological suspense: novels that carry the headlong momentum of thrillers and the acuity and weight of literary fiction. Washington Post
Karin Fossum is the author of the internationally successful Inspector Konrad Sejer crime series. Her recent honors include a Gumshoe Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for mystery/thriller.
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Review Quotes

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) --

About the Author

KARIN FOSSUM has won numerous awards, including the Glass Key Award for the best Nordic crime novel and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her acclaimed Inspector Sejer series has been published in over thirty countries.