Bad Intentions

Présentation de l'éditeur "An intimate study of broken lives that showcases Fossum’s poet past." —Bloomberg In this chilling addition to the internationally best-selling Inspector Konrad Sejer series, the detective must face down his memories and fears as he investigates the deaths of two troubled young men. The first victim, Jon Moreno, was getting better after a mysterious guilt had driven him to a nervous breakdown one year earlier. His psychiatrist said so, as did his new friend at the hospital, Molly Gram, with her little-girl-lost looks. So when he drowns in Dead Water Lake, Sejer hesitates to call it a suicide. Then the corpse of another young man is found, a Vietnamese immigrant. And Sejer begins to feel his age weigh on him. Does he still have the strength to pursue the elusive explanations for human evil? A harrowing, masterfully wrought mystery from the celebrated Karin Fossum. “Fascinatingly readable and very cleverly done.” —Colin Dexter, author of the Inspector Morse series Revue de presse Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller (The Indian Bride) Gumshoe Prize (When the Devil Holds the Candle) UK Praise for BAD INTENTIONS:"[A] narrative shot through with icicles of human malignity. Fossum's Norway is an apposite setting for a a long dark night of the soul. That's not to say, however, that reading Bad Intentions is anything but a bracingly pleasurable experience. 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 Praise for THE WATER'S EDGE: "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." --Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review   "If you're looking for a well-written contemporary procedural, look no further than Karin Fossum's The Water's Edge, which follows Inspector Sejer on his most impossible case." --Library Journal (starred)     Praise for BLACK SECONDS: "Nothing blows up in Karin Fossum’s new book, the fifth of her Inspector Sejer novels to make the journey from Norway to the United States, unless you count her characters’ worlds." --New York Times "Fossum crafts remarkably incisive psychological suspense: novels that carry the headlong momentum of thrillers and the acuity and weight of literary fiction…[ Black Seconds is] a novel of rare, hypnotic power." –Washington Post Book World         Biographie de l'auteur 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.