Author:Karin Fossum,Charlotte Barslund
Nine-year-old Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off to buy sweets. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, her mother, Helga, starts to worry. She phones the shop and various friends, but no one has seen her daughter. As the family being to search for Ida, Helga's worst nightmare becomes reality.
As the police are called in, hundreds of volunteers comb the neighbourhood, but there are no traces of the little girl, or her bike. As the relatives reach breaking point and the media frenzy begins, Inspector Sejer struggles to remains calm and reassuring. But usually missing children are found within forty-eight hours. Ida seems to have vanished without a trace.
There is no room for debate: the most important female writer of foreign crime fiction at work today is the Norwegian Karin Fossum
—— Rough Guide to Crime FictionPossibly the most popular foreign crime writer in translation, the Norgwegian Karin Fossum is an intelligent author who delivers more than a smart plot by way of psychological insight and clear-eyed characterisation
—— Daily MailFossum is frequently compared to Ruth Rendell, but Black Seconds is much more reminiscent of the psychological thrillers of Patricia Highsmith. Fossum is a clever writer; this is her most cunning tale yet
—— Daily ExpressComplex and intense ... page-turning tension.
—— San Francisco ChronicleWhen I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carré ... they were a journey into the wider world ... These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind
—— Aung San Suu KyiOne of those writers who will be read a century from now
—— Robert HarrisHe can communicate emotion, from sweating fear to despairing love, with terse and compassionate conviction
—— Sunday Times (on 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold')Return of the master . . . Having plumbed the devious depths of the Cold War, le Carré has done it again for our nasty new age
—— The Times (on 'Our Kind of Traitor')A wonderful story, a superb debut... Whatever you do stick with it, this is a remarkable book and deserves to be read.
—— Miles Orchard , milorambles.co.uka superb & accomplished debut, beautifully written & with a heart of sadness ... Loved it! ... Great debut
—— Stav SherezPart Lisbeth Salander, part Jason Bourne, Munroe comes out swinging hard again. . . . A gritty, suspenseful novel.
—— Library Journal
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