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Black Seconds
Karin Fossum Translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund
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9780151015276 Hardcover
0151015279
$24.00
272pages
Available
Trim Size:
6 x 9
Copyright Year:
2008
Territory:
US, O
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Synopsis |
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Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off toward town. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, her mother starts to worry. She phones store owners, Ida’s friends—anyone who could have seen her. But no one has.
Suspicion immediately falls on Emil Mork, a local character who lives alone and hasn’t spoken since childhood. His mother insists on cleaning his house weekly—although she’s sometimes afraid of what she might find there. A mother’s worst nightmare in either case—to lose a child or to think a child capable of murder. As Ida’s relatives reach the breaking point and the media frenzy surrounding the case begins, Inspector Konrad Sejer is his usual calm and reassuring self. But he’s puzzled. And disturbed. This is the strangest case he’s seen in years.
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Biography |
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KARIN FOSSUM is the author of many novels and two collections of short stories. Her crime novels featuring Inspector Sejer have been translated into sixteen languages. When the Devil Holds the Candle won a Gumshoe Award in 2007. She lives in a small town in southeastern Norway.
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General Subjects |
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Fiction- Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Fiction- Suspense
Fiction- Thrillers
Fiction- Mystery & Detective/General
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Rights Details |
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Serial: Harcourt
Audio/UK: Harvill Secker
Performance/Translation: J. W. Cappelens Forlag |
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Harcourt Books
An imprint ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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