The Whisperer
  • Published: 19 November 2019
  • ISBN: 9781784709396
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $26.00

The Whisperer

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19 Nov 2019
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Inspector Sejer returns in a stunning, psychologically acute new thriller from the Queen of Norwegian crime fiction


Read the stunning, psychologically acute new thriller from the Queen of Norwegian crime fiction.

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE PETRONA AWARD 2019**

Ragna Riegel works in a supermarket and still lives in her childhood home. She's alone in the world since her only son moved to Berlin. She longs for a Christmas or birthday card from him.

Ragna lives her life within strict self-imposed limits: she sits in the same seat on the bus every day, on her way to her predictable job. On her way home she always visits the same local shop. She feels safe in her routine, until one day she receives a letter with a threatening message scrawled in capital letters. An unknown enemy has entered her world and she must use all her means to defend herself.

When the worst happens, Inspector Konrad Sejer is called in to interrogate Ragna. Is this unassuming woman out of her depth, or is she hiding a dark secret?

‘The final page will make your jaw drop and your heart stop’ Evening Standard
‘Exemplary… the suspense is maintained with a sure touch’ Guardian
  • Published: 19 November 2019
  • ISBN: 9781784709396
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Karin Fossum

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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Also by Karin Fossum

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The Caller
The Water's Edge
Hellfire
The Drowned Boy
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Praise for The Whisperer

It is her ability to make average, often wounded human psyches crackle and glow…that is Fossum’s forte...She has an exceptional eye for fragility and vulnerability, and the complexity and dark humour of these states of mind.

AFTENPOSTEN

The Whisperer contains deep psychological insight ... Creepy, unnerving discomfort and plausible madness in everyday life… Builds towards the shocking reveal.

VG

Exemplary… the suspense is maintained with a sure touch

Barry Forshaw, Guardian

The new twists are all wonderful and the old creepy atmosphere is brilliantly recreated with Long Island’s swirling mists

Wendy Holden, Daily Mail

The final page will make your jaw drop and your heart stop

Mark Saunderson, Evening Standard

The Whisperer is not just one of the best works of crime fiction I have ever read but one of the best novels I have ever read… a fascinating exploration of the mentality of a paranoid schizophrenic… It is SO brilliant! Fossum… really seems to know human nature

AN Wilson, Tablet

Fossum has used her talent for drawing us into the minds of the misunderstood to powerful effect… [The Whisperer] can be enjoyed on its own merits as a work of fiction; yet it also communicates an experience of psychosis in a way no textbook can

Suhanthini Farrell, BJPsych Bulletin