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Apr 28, 2012DeltaQueen50 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Don’t Look Back by Karin Fossum is the second book in her Inspector Sejer series, although it is the first to be translated into English. Taking place in a small town in Norway, this is a case of everyone knowing both the victim, the witnesses and, perhaps even the murderer. Written in a very different style from most of the Scandicrime books I have read, at first I missed the moody atmosphere that I have come to expect. Nevertheless, this is a first class police procedural and the tension mounts slowly as the police slowly put the pieces together in the death of a fifteen year old girl. With a few red herrings scattered about, they sort through the evidence, painstakingly interview witness and suspects alike. With Inspector Konrad Sejer, the author has created a strong main character to build her mysteries around and I hope to see more development of this character as the series evolves. In this first book, he acts very much as the lens of a camera, recording the events that happen around him. There are small hints of an interesting backstory and I do hope to learn more in successive books. Karin Fossum has delivered a good story with suspense and tension, and I certainly will be continuing on with this series