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He Who Fears The Wolf (2006)

He Who Fears the Wolf (2006)

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0156030497 (ISBN13: 9780156030496)
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mariner books

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Fossum has an interesting style. Not quite thriller for me, but suspense with loose procedurals and with very interesting characters and histories for the bad guys. I haven't found another author whose style would be quite like this. Part of Inspector Sejer series; can be read separately and out of order. 3.5 stars. Very good characters and histories, but a bit too easy an ending, and could have had a bit more action.An old woman living alone in the woods is found murdered, and it falls to Sejer to investigate the case. The only witness was a 12 y old fat, obsessed kid living in a home for delinquents, and the prime suspect is a recent escapee from a mental institution. Add a bank robbery by a loose cannon, and a set of coincidences that bind the bad guys together...The histories and the characters of the bad guys are fascinating. The only thing I could complain is the name of the schizophrenic guy; he's supposed to be a Finn. In which case both his first and last names are impossible. Errki Johrma - that's how the name sounds and how it's spelled here, but believe me, the Finns are not creative with allowing cr8tif spellings of their names. Errki would not be allowable for a Finn as a name; it would have to be Erkki. The same goes for Johrma; it would have to be Jorma (and that would be like Jorge, usually used just as a first name).

I'd pretty much sworn off of detective novels, but two things made me pick up a few of Karen Fossum's crime novels: the Norwegian settings and the promise of a good psychological thriller in the tradition of Ruth Rendell or Minette Walters. In a nutshell, the books were what I'd expected. He Who Fears the Wolf was the one I liked the best of the three I read (the other were Don't Look Back and When the Devil Holds the Candle). One thing that is quite notable about Fossum is that she gets inside the heads of even fairly repugnant characters to make the reader understand them. On the downside, the police detective is rather predictable -- your usual eccentric loner. Anyone who has read Inspector Morse or P.D. James will find this type familiar. (Having said that, though, I must also say that I far prefer this type to the "spunky female detectives" that seem to have sprung up everywhere like mushrooms in crime fiction. Saints preserve us.)

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Próza Karin Fossum mňa osobne oslovuje kvôli klasickej výstavbe detektívneho príbehu. Číta sa ľahko, aj keď sa zaoberá ťaživými problémami. Tento román sa na niekoľkých miestach stáva aj úvahou o viacerých otázkach súvisiacich s vinou a trestom. Do popredia sa dostávajú diskusie o predsudkoch, prezumpcii neviny a spoločenského milosrdenstva. Keďže román pôvodne vyšiel v roku 1997, odzrkadľuje sa v ňom koncept nórskej humanity. Je preto otázne, ako by autorkine úvahy ovplyvnila skúsenosť nórskej spoločnosti s extrémizmom a brutálnym konaním A. B. Breivika. To by bol ale asi iný príbeh.http://jozefkuric.blog.sme.sk/c/36645...
—Jozef Kuric

It's not my first read of Karin Fossum. I bought this one because I had read one of her books before and I loved it. And this time I loved it as well. Every moment of free time that I had went to this book as soon as I started it. If I had the time I probably would have read it in one go. It's such a pageturner. The first few pages I started reading I couldn't help but thinking 'what the hell did I buy' but after the first 2-3 pages you can't stop yourself from wanting to know more. She really g
—Vicky Wils

“ A person can’t see much when the Devil is holding the candle.”Here’s the situation: We have a murdered woman, found at her home in the deep woods. Back in town, we have an early morning bank robbery, with a hostage taken. We have an escaped mental patient, last seen roaming the same woods and for good measure, throw in a fat juvenile delinquent, armed with a bow and arrow. How do all these things come together? Well, you’ll have to read this highly enjoyable mystery, set in Norway, to find out.This is the 2nd book in a series, featuring Inspector Sejer. He is a likable character, despite his taciturn manner and the reader will find much pleasure in tagging along with him, as he attempts to piece together this thorny puzzle. Yes, the subject matter is very dark, but Fossum brings a fresh, sometimes playful, air to the proceedings. I can’t wait to continue this terrific series.
—Mark

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