Bad Intentions

Fossum, Karin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 009953584X ISBN 13 : 9780099535843

Editeur : Vintage, 2011

Quatrième de couverture :

'I always eagerly await a new novel from Karin Fossum' Ruth Rendell

'The seventh Inspector Sejer novel...is, like its predecessors, a gem' Laura Wilson, Guardian

Early one September three friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin by Dead Water Lake. With only a pale moon to light their way, they row across the water in the middle of the night. But only two of them return.

When the body of the third friend is discovered, Inspector Sejer is put in charge of the investigation. He is troubled by the apparent suicide and has an overwhelming sense that the surviving pair has something to hide. Weeks pass without further clues and then, in a nearby lake, the body of another teenage boy floats to the surface...

'A riveting exploration of the consequences of crime, a whydunnit rather than the traditional whodunnit' Irish Times

'Fascinatingly readable and very cleverly done' Colin Dexter

'Fossum never forgets that her primary duty is to entertain, and she keeps her cut-to-the-bone mystery moving briskly' Barry Forshaw, Sunday Tribune

Revue de presse :

"A terrific crime novel that explores culpability, peer group pressure, betrayal and paranoia. Fossum’s prose style, translated by Charlotte Barslund, is crisp and clear, with not a word wasted." (Reading Matters)

"I not only enjoyed it but admired it, too. I also found it playing in my head for a long time afterwards, the effect on the reader every writer surely longs for" (Lesley McDowell Sunday Herald)

"The seventh Inspector Sejer novel from Norway's leading female crime writer is, like its predecessors, a gem" (Laura Wilson Guardian)

"This is a battle of wits, conducted with chilly intensity and an unsettling sense of menace" (Joan Smith Sunday Times)

"Few match her ability to conjure an atmosphere of emotional as well as geographical desolation" (Marcel Berlins The Times)

"A terrific crime novel that explores culpability, peer group pressure, betrayal and paranoia. Fossum’s prose style, translated by Charlotte Barslund, is crisp and clear, with not a word wasted."