The Drowned Boy

Karin Fossum is among our foremost authors, regardless of genre. This because of her unique ability to create real people and her deep understanding of the human soul. She has always mastered this, but never better than in The Drowned Boy

Drammens Tidende

Among Fossum’s finest novels…a strong literary quality and quivering suspense

Dagsavisen

Fossum shows us how the crime novel can be more than sheer entertainment… Well-written and gripping

Dagbladet

Nordic noir of note

GQ

Reading a Karin Fossum novel is always a wonderful, almost meditative, experience. Even though she writes about horrible crimes, her compassion and intelligence shine through, and by the time you reach the final page you’re left feeling irrevocably changed - for the better. Her latest, The Drowned Boy, is right up there among her best

Reading Matters

Fossum’s Inspector Sejer novels are invariably morally and psychologically complex affairs, but The Drowned Boy might well be her crowning achievement to date

Declan Burke, Irish Times

A tightly woven tale in spare but piercing prose

Metro

Moving and thought-provoking

Doug Johnstone, Big Issue

A simple but gripping story, balanced, believable and compassionate, about a sensitive subject

Laura Wilson, Guardian

Karin Fossum's minimalist police procedurals... have a stealthy way of mutating into richer, if also darker, psychological studies of criminals and their victims... In the end, the novel isn't about willful murder or even accidental death, but the psychological aftershocks for the living

New York Times Book Review