Hell Fire - Couverture rigide

Fossum, Karin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0544633377 ISBN 13 : 9780544633377

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“What grips readers is the enormous amount of emotion [Fossum] works up as we get closer and closer to reliving the murderous event in question...Hell Fire is close to heartbreaking, and there are not many novels, thrillers, or otherwise, you can say that about.”--Los Angeles Times "A masterfully-plotted police procedural with strong characterization."--Crime by the Book "Strong stuff...satisfying stuff."--Sullivan County Democrat "Fossum’s superb 12th Inspector Sejer mystery (after 2015’s The Drowned Boy) opens on a hot summer day in 2005. Inside a disused recreational vehicle, parked in a cluster of trees in rural Norway, lie the bodies of single mother Bonnie Hayden and her four-year-old son, Simon. “Evil incarnate had snuck across the field and stabbed them with a knife,” Sejer muses as he examines the crime scene. Flashbacks to December 2004 show Bonnie, a generous woman who cleans the homes of the elderly and infirm, performing her menial duties with stoic dignity. These background scenes also focus on another single mother, Thomasine “Mass” Malthe, and her intelligent but odd 21-year-old son, Eddie, who has trouble dealing with the real world. Fossum explores many themes—most notably, the cruelties of fate—in what is less a police procedural than a portrait of a society in crisis. Few readers will be surprised by the murderer’s identity, but the slow, deliberate revelation of the story behind the crime is dramatic and heartbreaking."--Publishers Weekly, STARRED

Praise for Karin Fossum and the Inspector Sejer series:  "The next Scandinavian literary superstar." —Chicago Tribune "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." —The New York Times Book Review “No one can thoroughly chill the blood the way Karin Fossum can.” –Los Angeles Times "Fossum crafts remarkably incisive psychological suspense: novels that carry the headlong momentum of thrillers and the acuity and weight of literary fiction." —The Washington Post  "A truly great writer and explorer of the human mind." —Jo Nesbo "I always eagerly await a new novel from Karin Fossum." —Ruth Rendell “By stripping away the usual police procedurals, Fossum suffuses her fiction with something closer to the unsparing vision of her predecessor, Knut Hamsun.”—The Independent

Praise for Karin Fossum and the Inspector Sejer series:  "The next Scandinavian literary superstar." —Chicago Tribune "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." —The New York Times Book Review “No one can thoroughly chill the blood the way Karin Fossum can.” –Los Angeles Times "Fossum crafts remarkably incisive psychological suspense: novels that carry the headlong momentum of thrillers and the acuity and weight of literary fiction." —The Washington Post  "A truly great writer and explorer of the human mind." —Jo Nesbo "I always eagerly await a new novel from Karin Fossum." —Ruth Rendell “By stripping away the usual police procedurals, Fossum suffuses her fiction with something closer to the unsparing vision of her predecessor, Knut Hamsun.”—The Independent

“What grips readers is the enormous amount of emotion [Fossum] works up as we get closer and closer to reliving the murderous event in question...Hell Fire is close to heartbreaking, and there are not many novels, thrillers, or otherwise, you can say that about.”--Los Angeles Times "A masterfully-plotted police procedural with strong characterization."--Crime by the Book "Fossum’s superb 12th Inspector Sejer mystery (after 2015’s The Drowned Boy) opens on a hot summer day in 2005. Inside a disused recreational vehicle, parked in a cluster of trees in rural Norway, lie the bodies of single mother Bonnie Hayden and her four-year-old son, Simon. “Evil incarnate had snuck across the field and stabbed them with a knife,” Sejer muses as he examines the crime scene. Flashbacks to December 2004 show Bonnie, a generous woman who cleans the homes of the elderly and infirm, performing her menial duties with stoic dignity. These background scenes also focus on another single mother, Thomasine “Mass” Malthe, and her intelligent but odd 21-year-old son, Eddie, who has trouble dealing with the real world. Fossum explores many themes—most notably, the cruelties of fate—in what is less a police procedural than a portrait of a society in crisis. Few readers will be surprised by the murderer’s identity, but the slow, deliberate revelation of the story behind the crime is dramatic and heartbreaking."--Publishers Weekly, STARRED

"Fossum’s superb 12th Inspector Sejer mystery (after 2015’s The Drowned Boy) opens on a hot summer day in 2005. Inside a disused recreational vehicle, parked in a cluster of trees in rural Norway, lie the bodies of single mother Bonnie Hayden and her four-year-old son, Simon. “Evil incarnate had snuck across the field and stabbed them with a knife,” Sejer muses as he examines the crime scene. Flashbacks to December 2004 show Bonnie, a generous woman who cleans the homes of the elderly and infirm, performing her menial duties with stoic dignity. These background scenes also focus on another single mother, Thomasine “Mass” Malthe, and her intelligent but odd 21-year-old son, Eddie, who has trouble dealing with the real world. Fossum explores many themes—most notably, the cruelties of fate—in what is less a police procedural than a portrait of a society in crisis. Few readers will be surprised by the murderer’s identity, but the slow, deliberate revelation of the story behind the crime is dramatic and heartbreaking."--Publishers Weekly, STARRED  

"A masterfully-plotted police procedural with strong characterization."--Crime by the Book "Fossum’s superb 12th Inspector Sejer mystery (after 2015’s The Drowned Boy) opens on a hot summer day in 2005. Inside a disused recreational vehicle, parked in a cluster of trees in rural Norway, lie the bodies of single mother Bonnie Hayden and her four-year-old son, Simon. “Evil incarnate had snuck across the field and stabbed them with a knife,” Sejer muses as he examines the crime scene. Flashbacks to December 2004 show Bonnie, a generous woman who cleans the homes of the elderly and infirm, performing her menial duties with stoic dignity. These background scenes also focus on another single mother, Thomasine “Mass” Malthe, and her intelligent but odd 21-year-old son, Eddie, who has trouble dealing with the real world. Fossum explores many themes—most notably, the cruelties of fate—in what is less a police procedural than a portrait of a society in crisis. Few readers will be surprised by the murderer’s identity, but the slow, deliberate revelation of the story behind the crime is dramatic and heartbreaking."--Publishers Weekly, STARRED

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 Jakob Skarre begin a hunt for the killer that will eventually lead them to a heartbreaking conclusion.    In a parallel storyline, masterfully fused, Fossum tells the story of Mass Malthe and her troubled son Eddie as they navigate a relationship that some would call too close. Eddie constantly thinks about his unknown father — someone his mother would rather forget. When long-held secrets are revealed, it turns out that Mass and Bonnie share more in common than Eddie could have ever guessed.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0544633377
• ISBN 13: 9780544633377
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 272