The Whisperer (Inspector Sejer Mysteries #13) (Hardcover)

The Whisperer (Inspector Sejer Mysteries #13) By Karin Fossum, Kari Dickson (Translated by) Cover Image
By Karin Fossum, Kari Dickson (Translated by)
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In this tense and twisty latest from Norway’s maven of crime, time shifts between Inspector Sejer’s interrogation of the accused Ragna Reigel and the shocking events that led up to her arrest. How did this lonely, quiet woman come to kill a man—or did she?

How did a lonely, quiet woman come to kill a man—or did she?
 
Ragna Riegel is a soft-spoken woman of routines. She must have order in her life, and she does, until one day she finds a letter in her mailbox with her name on the envelope and a clear threat written in block capitals on the sheet inside. With the arrival of the letter, and eventually others like it, Ragna’s carefully constructed life begins to unravel into a nightmare—threatened by an unknown enemy, paranoid and unable to sleep, her isolation becomes all the more extreme. Ragna’s distress does culminate in a death, but she is the perpetrator rather than the victim.

The Whisperer shifts between Inspector Sejer’s interrogation of Ragna and the shocking events that led up to her arrest. Sejer thinks it is an open-and-shut case, but is it? Compelling and unnerving, The Whisperer probes plausible madness in everyday life and asks us to question assumptions even in its final moments.

About the Author


KARIN FOSSUM is the author of the internationally successful Inspector Konrad Sejer crime series. Her recent honors include a Gumshoe Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for mystery/thriller. She lives in Norway.


Praise For…


“Karin Fossum’s characters are so realistic, I keep expecting to see them on the crosstown express bus.”  — Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review   “Psychologically fraught . . . rewards the patient reader with a mix of physical and mental peril and emotional power.”  — Wall Street Journal  "Those who like Scandinavian mysteries and the subtle buildup of psychological thrillers will enjoy this book. An essential purchase."  —Library Journal   "A wonderfully tense psychological crime novel by a master storyteller."  —Booklist   "A familiar damsel-in-distress story veers off script into territory that would be too dark for almost anyone but Fossum."  —Kirkus Reviews    “Engrossing… Fossum has rendered Ragna’s plight with great precision and empathy in this acute psychological study of loneliness and grief. Fans of more nuanced Scandinavian crime fiction will be rewarded.”—Publishers Weekly



Product Details
ISBN: 9781328614193
ISBN-10: 1328614190
Publisher: HarperVia
Publication Date: August 6th, 2019
Pages: 336
Language: English
Series: Inspector Sejer Mysteries