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The Drowned Boy
Inspector Sejer (Related to this series)
- Author
- Karin Fossum
- Narrator
- David Rintoul
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 4 June 2015
- Run Time
- 6 hours 30 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
‘He'd just learnt to walk,’ she said. ‘He was sitting playing on his blanket, then all of a sudden he was gone.’
A 16-month-old boy is found drowned in a pond right by his home. Chief Inspector Sejer is called to the scene as there is something troubling about the mother’s story. As even her own family turns against her, Sejer is determined to get to the truth.
Critics Review
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Fossum’s Inspector Sejer novels are invariably morally and psychologically complex affairs, but The Drowned Boy might well be her crowning achievement to date
Irish Times
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A simple but gripping story, balanced, believable and compassionate, about a sensitive subject
Guardian
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Nordic noir of note
GQ
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A tightly woven tale in spare but piercing prose
Metro
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Moving and thought-provoking
Big Issue
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Karin Fossum's minimalist police procedurals... have a stealthy way of mutating into richer, if also darker, psychological studies of criminals and their victims... In the end, the novel isn't about willful murder or even accidental death, but the psychological aftershocks for the living
New York Times Book Review
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Reading a Karin Fossum novel is always a wonderful, almost meditative, experience. Even though she writes about horrible crimes, her compassion and intelligence shine through, and by the time you reach the final page you’re left feeling irrevocably changed - for the better. Her latest, The Drowned Boy, is right up there among her best
Reading Matters
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Fossum shows us how the crime novel can be more than sheer entertainment… Well-written and gripping
Dagbladet
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Karin Fossum is among our foremost authors, regardless of genre. This because of her unique ability to create real people and her deep understanding of the human soul. She has always mastered this, but never better than in The Drowned Boy
Drammens Tidende
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Among Fossum’s finest novels…a strong literary quality and quivering suspense
Dagsavisen
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Details
- Author
- Karin Fossum
- Narrator
- David Rintoul
- Duration
- 6 hours 30 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 June 2015
- ISBN
- 9781473523944
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Crime and mystery fiction
Synopsis
‘He'd just learnt to walk,’ she said. ‘He was sitting playing on his blanket, then all of a sudden he was gone.’ A 16-month-old boy is found drowned in a pond right by his home. Chief Inspector Sejer is called to the scene as there is something troubling about the mother’s story. As even her own family turns against her, Sejer is determined to get to the truth.
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