- Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Fiction, crime, Norway, fiction
One mild summer evening Lily and her husband are enjoying a meal while their baby daughter sleeps peacefully in her pram in the garden. But then Lily steps outside to find her baby soaked in blood. The distraught parents rush to the hospital where they discover that she is unharmed - the blood isn't hers. Inspector Sejer is called in and spends the evening trying to comprehend why anyone would carry out such a sinister prank...
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Contemporary, classical in form, earnest and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Karin Fossum
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 277
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker, Vintage, Windsor
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780099548775
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