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The Drowned Boy by Karin Fossum
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The Drowned Boy

Inspector Sejer: Book #27
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Translator Kari Dickson
Length 6 hours 30 minutes
Language English
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‘He'd just learnt to walk,’ she said. ‘He was sitting playing on his blanket, then all of a sudden he was gone.’

A 16-month-old boy is found drowned in a pond right by his home. Chief Inspector Sejer is called to the scene as there is something troubling about the mother’s story. As even her own family turns against her, Sejer is determined to get to the truth.

Karin Fossum’s critically acclaimed novels have won numerous prizes. She is two-time winner of the prestigious Riverton Award and has also won the Glass Key Award for the best Nordic crime novel, an honour shared with Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo, as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her highly acclaimed Inspector Sejer series has been published in more than forty countries.

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Reviews

Fossum’s Inspector Sejer novels are invariably morally and psychologically complex affairs, but The Drowned Boy might well be her crowning achievement to date A simple but gripping story, balanced, believable and compassionate, about a sensitive subject Nordic noir of note A tightly woven tale in spare but piercing prose Moving and thought-provoking Expand reviews