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| Original Title: | Djevelen holder lyset |
| ISBN: | 0156032120 (ISBN13: 9780156032124) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Konrad Sejer #4 |
| Setting: | Norway |
| Literary Awards: | Gumshoe Award for Best European Crime Novel (2007) |
Karin Fossum
Paperback | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.74 | 5342 Users | 379 Reviews
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When two teenagers steal a purse from a stroller, it results in an infant’s death. Unaware of the enormity of their crime, Zipp and Andreas are intent on committing another. They follow an elderly woman home, and Andreas enters her house with his switchblade. In the dark, Zipp waits for his friend to come out. Inspector Konrad Sejer and his colleague Jacob Skarre see no connection between the infant’s death and the reported disappearance of a local delinquent. And so while the confusion outside mounts, the heart-stopping truth unfolds inside the old woman’s home. Unflappable as ever, Sejer digs below the surface of small- town tranquility in an effort to understand how and why violence destroys everyday lives.
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| Title | : | When the Devil Holds the Candle (Konrad Sejer #4) |
| Author | : | Karin Fossum |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | June 4th 2007 by Mariner Books (first published 1998) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Crime. Fiction. European Literature. Scandinavian Literature. Thriller |
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Ratings: 3.74 From 5342 Users | 379 ReviewsCriticism Based On Books When the Devil Holds the Candle (Konrad Sejer #4)
"Does it emerge over a period of years? Does a crime lie dormant in the bodys individual coding? Is murder a result of a long, inevitable process? From now on, I will have to view my life in the light of the horrible thing that happened, and to view that horrible thing in the light of what has been my life. That is what everyone around me will do. Theyll look into my past life for something that might explain whatever part of it can be explained. The rest will be left to float in a gray sea ofIt's hard to like a book this horrifying. It examines the intersection of casual petty crimes committed by bored, drunken young men with unintended, life-shattering consequences for them and their victims. As it is ofen said, "things get out of hand." If the story had stuck to that it wouldn't have been so devastating a story, but complicating all the stories is the failure to help when it is critically needed. Teens who don't help themselves or each other when their lives depend on it. Adults,
This is a psychological mystery as well as a police procedural. Unlike PD James' characters (isn't she the "queen" of psychological mysteries?), however, who are often anchored to a single workplace or estate, Fossum's characters roam about and in this book range from middle-aged matron to slacker teenagers. The miscreants in the book all have deep-seated emotional issues that cause them to do what they do - shame, deception, repression, assumed invisibility that gnaws away at them and causes
A couple of teenage friends, Andreas and Zipp, are bored, without much to do. They go around bullying immigrants, stealing purses from women going on a stroll with their babies and breaking and entering in old ladies' houses. One of the last goes wrong and silly things start to happen. All the while the police and its detectives do nothing.That is basically the plot of lame and silly "When the Devil Holds the Candle" a novel just because the cover says it is a novel. It is 230-pages-long of
I normally give Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer 5 stars, as they are so well crafted. This one is equally well-crafted but is amazingly depressing. [Guess I am a wimp :) ]First paragraphsChapter 1 The courthouse. September 4, 4 P.M. Jacob Skarre glanced at his watch. His shift was over. He slipped a book out of his jacket pocket and read the poem on the first page. It's like virtual reality, he thought. Poof!and you're in a completely different landscape. The door to the corridor stood open, and
While part of the Inspector Sejer series, Sejer and the police actually have a small role in the narrative. Instead this was more psychological suspense with an emphasis on characterizations. Dark, suspenseful, and, though very well written, quite disturbing.
This is a Norwegian mystery with that particular existential, fatalist almost nihilist point of view. And also it is postmodern in that the detective doesnt solve anything, although his circling the perpetuators of the crime helps bring resolution, which is karmic and not from the long arm of the law. I actually liked that part. The only sane people are Inspector Sejer, his sidekick, Skarre, Sejers huge dog and Sejers girlfriend. Sejer seems the persona of a stable Europe that is struck by the
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