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"Fossum is one of Noridc noir's most skilled practitioners." (Library Journal )
“The seventh Inspector Sejer novel from Norway’s leading female crime writer is, like its predecessors, a gem.”
(Guardian )Product Description
Karin Fossum and her bone-chillingly bleak psychological
thrillers have won the admiration of the likes of
Ruth Rendell and Jo Nesbo. In Bad Intentions, the newest
installment in the Inspector Sejer series since The Water’s
Edge, Konrad Sejer must face down his memories and fears
as he struggles to determine why the corpses of troubled
young men keep surfacing in local lakes.
The first victim, Jon Moreno, was getting better. His
psychiatrist said so, and so did his new friend at the hospital,
Molly Gram. He was racked by a mysterious guilt that had
driven him to a nervous breakdown one year earlier. But
when he drowns in Dead Water Lake, Sejer hesitates to call
it a suicide.
Then another corpse is found in a lake, a Vietnamese
immigrant. And Sejer begins to feel his age weigh on him.
Does he still have the strength to pursue the elusive explanations for human evil?
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4.0 out of 5 stars
crime and punishment,
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This review is from: Bad Intentions (Paperback)
This tale takes place in Norway, but the venue could be anywhere. The story has a universal base: Does the moral fit the event? It begins on a September weekend, with three long-time friends spending some time in a remote cabin by Dead Water Lake.In the dark, they decide to row out onto the lake, with only the moon to provide some light. Only two return to shore, and they decide not to call for help until morning. Inspector Sejer is the lead detective, and he quickly forms the opinion that the two boys are hiding something. But no further clues arise and time passes, until the body of a young boy is found by another lake. This is a penetrating look at diverse personalities, and the effect of past deeds on each. The plot is less a police procedural than a penetrating analysis of how each of the three friends' minds works. Other than what drives each of them to act finally as they do, there is little doubt that in the end justice will be done. Recommended.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Atypical for Fossum,
By C. Robert Broerse "Buchlieber - Canada" (Niagara Region) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Bad Intentions (Paperback)
To some extent I agree with a few other reviewers of this book on both the Amazon.com and .ca websites. There is so little of Inspector Sejer in this book. A fan of Karin Fossum's previous novels, Sejer seemed more peripheral to me than I would have liked. What has made me devoted to the series is the principled, if not down-to-earth detective approach of Sejer. He is a by-the-book kind of guy but very human at the same time. I love reading her books to listen in on his thoughts, to watch him explore a case while living his life. What can I say, there's something fascinating about the guy in that he isn't your typical, hard-nosed detective. He isn't an alcoholic and his wife didn't leave him (though Sejer is a widow, the memory of his wife coming up a few times in Bad Intentions).The reason why I give the book four stars is because I still enjoyed the novel for what it is and not what I wanted it to be. It's one thing to be an author and create because your audience expects you to; it's another when you do what you love and try something different, maybe something riskier and see the reception. What I most loved about this book is how the characters all balance. We have charismatic Axel and reticent Reilly. We have Molly and Ruth, and of course the mourning mothers of the two drowned boys. Sejer and Skarre show up on the scene but their presence isn't pivotal. More or less the criminals do most of their own 'undoing'. The thing is, there's something sad and ambiguous about the nature of the crimes committed. Though Fossum is philosophical, here she leaves a trail of questions instead of spoon feeding her opinions. We are free to judge these characters or let them be. With Fossum, there is weight in the body count. In other genre mystery novels, the good guys finds the bad guy and it all just wraps up like a day at the office. Most popular mysteries feel like bad Hollywood movies where there is no day of reckoning or remorse for the dead and the damned. Not so here. The dead are mourned. The dead still have a presence. There is no forgetting them. The mothers have lost their sons and we the reader, feel their grief, feel their anger and their underlying disappointment. The same could be said for Fossum's previous novels. Yet, in this one, the dead are given greater respect. Though I would have loved to see more Sejer, I truly appreciated Fossum's change of focus, how she brought a kind of panorama of emotion to her book, the focus less on the mystery and more on the innocent deaths.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Stark, spare prose,
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This review is from: Bad Intentions (Paperback)
Karin Fossum is new to me author and another Nordic author who has made her name known in North America.Bad Intentions is the ninth offering in her Inspector Konrad Sejer series. The book opens with three friends spending a weekend at a cabin. Their interactions seem odd and tainted by an alluded to event in the past. The weekend ends with one of them dead. Inspector Sejer and his partner Inspector Jakob Skarre are called in. The victim Jon Moreno had been hospitalized for depression and was out on a weekend pass with his friends. The friends insist he must have been suicidal, but Jon's new girlfriend doesn't agree. I found Fossum's writing to be very stark, spare and almost bleak. Not in a bad way though. It was just a very different take on a crime novel. There weren't long graphic descriptions of the crime. Instead Fossum focuses on the characters, their inner thoughts and psyches, and she does it very, very well. The thought processes of the two friends left alive are the quite frightening part of this book. The event in the past that has affected the lives of these three young men is slowly revealed - I was eager to see what it was. I appreciated the banter between Sejer and Skarre, but felt I didn't really come to know them in this slim novel. They are protagonists I would like to know better - I would pick up another book by Karin Fossum without hesitation. Want to see more reviews on this item?
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