Bad Intentions

Fossum, Karin; Barslund (Translator), Charlotte

ISBN 10: 0547483341 / ISBN 13: 9780547483344

Edité par Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, MA, 2011

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Minor corn bump . Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black textured boards with dark blue spine imprinted with title and author in silver. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 213 pages. An Inspector Sejer Mystery, No. 9. Inspector 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. The first victim, Jon Moreno, was getting better. His psychiatrist said so, and so did his new friend at the hospital, Molly Gram, with her little-girl-lost looks. He was racked by a mysterious guilt that had driven him to a nervous breakdown one year earlier. But when he drowns in Dead Water Lake, Sejer hesitates to call it a suicide. Then another corpse is found in a lake, a Vietnamese immigrant. And Sejer begins to feel his age weigh on him. Does he still have the strength to pursue the elusive explanations for human evil?

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Bad Intentions
• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, MA
• Date de parution: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0547483341
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780547483344
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First US Edition.
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Fiction::Mystery/Detective::Police Procedural

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Synopsis

In the wake of Stieg Larsson’s best-selling novels, readers are discovering the rich trove of modern Scandinavian crime fiction. If you’ve devoured the Millennium trilogy and are looking for your next read, Karin Fossum and her bone-chillingly bleak psychological thrillers have won the admiration of the likes of Ruth Rendell and Colin Dexter (of Inspector Morse fame). 

In Bad Intentions, the newest installment in the Inspector Sejer series since The Water’s Edge in 2009, 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. 

The first victim, Jon Moreno, was getting better. His psychiatrist said so, and so did his new friend at the hospital, Molly Gram, with her little-girl-lost looks. He was racked by a mysterious guilt that had driven him to a nervous breakdown one year earlier. But when he drowns in Dead Water Lake, Sejer hesitates to call it a suicide. 

Then another corpse is found in a lake, a Vietnamese immigrant. And Sejer begins to feel his age weigh on him. Does he still have the strength to pursue the elusive explanations for human evil?

Revue de presse

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller (The Indian Bride)Gumshoe Prize (When the Devil Holds the Candle)
UK Praise for BAD INTENTIONS:

"[A] narrative shot through with icicles of human malignity. Fossum's Norway is an apposite setting for a a long dark night of the soul. That's not to say, however, that reading Bad Intentions is anything but a bracingly pleasurable experience. By stripping away the usual police procedurals, Fossum suffuses her fiction with something closer to the unsparing vision of her great predecessor, Knut Hamsun." --The Independent
Praise for THE WATER'S EDGE:"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 "If you're looking for a well-written contemporary procedural, look no further than Karin Fossum's The Water's Edge, which follows Inspector Sejer on his most impossible case." --Library Journal (starred)  Praise for BLACK SECONDS:"Nothing blows up in Karin Fossum’s new book, the fifth of her Inspector Sejer novels to make the journey from Norway to the United States, unless you count her characters’ worlds." --New York Times

"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