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Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
When the theft of a purse from a stroller results in an infant's death, two teenagers are in trouble. Unaware of the enormity of their crime, Zipp and Andreas are intent on committing still another. They follow an elderly woman home, and Andreas enters her house with his ever-reliable switchblade. Motionless in the dark, Zipp waits for his friend to come out. Inspector Konrad Sejer and his colleague Jacob Skarre see no connection between the infant's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Inspector Sejer is hard at work again, investigating the brutal 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. When a demented man robs a nearby bank and accidentally takes the suspect hostage, the three misfits are drawn...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In this fifth Inspector Sejer mystery, a little girl has vanished without a trace and Sejer must find her before it's too late.
Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off to buy sweets. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, her mother, Helga, starts to worry. She phones the shop and various friends, but no one has seen her daughter. As the family goes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
On the day his Indian bride is due to join him, Gunder Jomann is called to the hospital to his sister's bedside. The local taxi driver sent to meet the bride at the airport returns without her. Then the town is shocked by the news of an Indian woman found bludgeoned to death in a nearby meadow. Inspector Sejer and Skarre head the murder inquiry.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Konrad Sejer must face down his memories and fears as he struggles to determine why the corpses of troubled young men keep surfacing in local lakes. As Sejer begins to feel his age weigh on him, he wonders if he has the strength to pursue the elusive explanations for human evil.
7) The caller
Author
Series
Inspector Sejer novels volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspector Sejer investigates the delivery of a threatening postcard that coincides with the discovery of a child who was found covered in blood but unharmed in her stroller.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
Investigating the murder of a man who had been missing for months, Inspector Sejer and his team discover that his death is linked to the murder of a prostitute and to Eva, a struggling artist who holds the key to solving both murders.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of a man who had been missing for months, Inspector Sejer and his team discover that his death is linked to the murder of a prostitute and to Eva, a struggling artist who holds the key to solving both murders.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Available for the first time in English, the seventh entry in the beloved Inspector Sejer series from Norway's Queen of Crime, Karin Fossum. On a wet, gray night in early November, Charlo Torp, a former gambler who's only recently kicked the habit, makes his way through the slush to Harriet Krohn's apartment, flowers in hand. Certain that paying off his debt is the only path to starting a new life and winning his daughter's forgiveness, Charlo plans...
11) The drowned boy
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Carmen and Nicolai failed to resuscitate their son, Tommy, after finding him floating in their backyard pond. When Inspector Skarre arrives on the scene, Carmen reports that Tommy, a healthy toddler with Down syndrome, wandered into the garden while Nicolai was working in the basement and she was cleaning the house. Skarre senses something is off with Carmen's story and consults his trusted colleague, the famed Inspector Sejer. An autopsy reveals...
12) Hell fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A gruesome tableau awaits Inspector Konrad Sejer in the oppressive summer heat: a woman and a young boy lay dead in a pool of blood near a dank camper. The details of the deaths of Bonnie Hayden and her five-year-old son Simon are mysterious. There is no sign of robbery or assault. Who would brutally stab a defenseless woman and her child? Sejer and his fellow investigator Jacob Skarre begin a hunt for the killer that will eventually lead them to...
13) The whisperer
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In this tense and twisty latest from Norway's maven of crime, time shifts between Inspector Sejer's interrogation of the accused Ragna Reigel and the shocking events that led up to her arrest. How did this lonely, quiet woman come to kill a man--or did she?"--
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