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Highlights
- Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off toward town.
- Author(s): Karin Fossum
- 272 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Crime
- Series Name: Inspector Sejer Mysteries
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Copyright date of this translation: 2007.Book Synopsis
Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off toward town. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, her mother starts to worry. She phones store owners, Ida's friends--anyone who could have seen her. But no one has.
Suspicion immediately falls on Emil Mork, a local character who lives alone and hasn't spoken since childhood. His mother insists on cleaning his house weekly--although she's sometimes afraid of what she might find there. A mother's worst nightmare in either case--to lose a child or to think a child capable of murder. As Ida's relatives reach the breaking point and the media frenzy surrounding the case begins, Inspector Konrad Sejer is his usual calm and reassuring self. But he's puzzled. And disturbed. This is the strangest case he's seen in years.
Review Quotes
PRAISE FOR KARIN FOSSUM "With sharp psychological insight and a fine grasp on police procedure, Fossum is easily one of the best new imports the genre has to offer."--The Baltimore Sun
"In spare, incisive prose, Fossum turns a conventional police procedural into a sensitive examination of troubled minds and a disturbing look at the way society views them . . . A superb writer of psychological suspense."--The New York Times --