The Caller - Brossura

Fossum, Karin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0544002180 ISBN 13: 9780544002180

Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2013

Riassunto

“Pranks can have lethal consequences, even when they seem harmless to start with . . . A poison bonbon that ranks with the best of Ruth Rendell.”—Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly

One mild summer evening, a young couple are enjoying dinner while their daughter sleeps peacefully in her stroller under a tree. When her mother steps outside she is stunned: the child is covered in blood.

Inspector Sejer is called to the hospital to meet the family. Mercifully, the child is unharmed, but the parents are deeply shaken, and Sejer spends the evening trying to understand why anyone would carry out such a sinister prank. Then, just before midnight, somebody rings his doorbell.

No one is at the door, but the caller has left a small gray envelope on Sejer’s mat. From his living room window, the inspector watches a figure disappear into the darkness. Inside the envelope Sejer finds a postcard bearing a short message: Hell begins now.

“No one can thoroughly chill the blood the way Karin Fossum can . . . will put you away, no questions asked.”—Los Angeles Times

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Recensione

Praise for Karin Fossum: "I always eagerly await a new novel from Karin Fossum." -- Ruth Rendell "A truly great writer and explorer of the human mind." --Jo Nesbo "The next Scandinavian literary superstar." -- Chicago Tribune
Praise for BROKEN: Best Fiction of 2010, Washington Post
Best Mysteries/Thrillers of 2010, Los Angeles Times

"A powerful novel that moves inexorably toward an unsettling emotional climax...Like all of Fossum's work, Broken exudes an air of uncertainty and menace, as if terrible violence might break out at any moment. She is a master of the slow build, the controlled burn." --Chicago Tribune

"Fossum has-- in spades-- the skill and subtlety needed to pull this off.... A treat for all writers but will appeal to any reader willing to look just a bit beneath the surface. Shelf Talker: A smart, unusual suspense story." --Shelf Awareness e-newsletter
 Praise for THE WATER'S EDGE: "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...In a masterly narrative stroke guaranteed to make longtime followers of the Inspector Sejer series gasp out loud, Fossum intertwines her two divergent story lines in the very final paragraph of this slim-but-dense marvel of a mystery." --Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post Book World "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 "TV Pitch: Imagine the shambling, gray-haired, unflappable Sejer as the Norwegian Columbo.
Lowdown: Fossum's concise, elegant writing perfectly captures the panic of a small town gripped by a heinous crime."                                                 ---Entertainment Weekly  Praise for BLACK SECONDS: "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

 "It doesn’t take a terrorist, a serial killer or some paranormal force to rattle the insular Norwegian communities Karin Fossum writes about in her quietly unnerving thrillers. In Black Seconds, all it takes is the disappearance of a child." –Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review  

L'autore

KARIN FOSSUM’s Inspector Sejer series has been published in more than 30 countries. She is the recipient of a Gumshoe Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller.

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• Editore: Mariner Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0544002180
• ISBN 13: 9780544002180
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 243