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Karin Fossum

Review: Hell Fire by Karin Fossum

By Amber Keller

September 1, 2016

Hell Fire by Karin Fossum is the 12th Inspector Sejer Mystery, following the murder of a mother and her son and the masterfully intertwined parallel story of a separate mother/son relationship. This was my first time reading an Inspector Sejer Mystery. I’m normally not one to jump into a series midway, but I held my…

The Armchair Detective: International Crime Fiction

By Jeannette de Beauvoir

May 19, 2016

Everyone tends to read about the familiar; I’m never as contented as when I am curled up with an English country-house murder mystery, for example. But, challenging yourself to trying something new could open up—literally—a whole new world. Just think about the places you could travel via mystery! From the remote stretches of the Arctic…

Author Karin Fossum

Karin Fossum: Quiet But Disturbing

By Dirk Robertson

July 22, 2011

Karin Fossum delivers Norwegian crime writing with a punch. Not the jaw breaking, bone crunching one you would expect from a sweaty, steroid pumping man-beast but a subtle, quiet one, like a martial arts blow, where you think you’re fine until one morning, weeks later, in the supermarket, you crumple to the ground next to…

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