Hell Fire (12) (Inspector Sejer Mysteries) - Hardcover

From Norway’s finest crime writer and her beloved, brilliant Inspector Sejer, a mystery that delves deep into the dark heart of two families and the destructive secrets they keep
 
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 trailer. The motivation behind the deaths of Bonnie Hayden and her five-year-old son, Simon, is mysterious — there is no sign of robbery. Who would brutally stab a defenseless woman and her child?

In a parallel story another mother, Mass Malthe, navigates life with her adult son, Eddie. It’s a relationship some would call too close since Eddie’s father, a man he obsesses over, abandoned them many years ago.

As Sejer searches for the truth behind the seemingly senseless killings, the two stories intertwine in a heartbreaking conclusion. Hell Fire deftly probes why we lie to those closest to us, and what drives people to commit the most horrific of crimes.
 

Praise for Karin Fossum
 
“A truly great writer and explorer of the human mind.”—Jo Nesbø
 
“No one can thoroughly chill the blood the way Karin Fossum can.” — Los Angeles Times
 
“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.” — New York Times Book Review
 
“Fossum crafts remarkable, incisive psychological suspense: novels that carry the headlong momentum of thrillers and the acuity and weight of literary fiction.” — Washington Post
 
“Fossum’s presentation of her characters is marked by an intelligence and compassion that is not often found in the pages of crime fiction.” — Donna Leon