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Calling Out for You - Karin Fossum

Description: ISBN 0099474662 / Author: Karin Fossum / Genre: Crime / Thriller

Newest Review: ... He likes dogs. In fact, he is so attached to his dog, Kollberg, that he is heartbroken when faced with the possibility that ... more

... he may have to be put down. This immediately attracted me to Sejer. Perhaps oddly for someone who likes crime fiction and horror films, where there are human bodies littered all over the place, I am more likely to cry at the idea of an animal being injured or killed. Sejer is also unlike his many counterparts in that he is shy and retiring and more importantly, doesn't drink or smoke. And although his wife is dead, he has a girlfriend. This is refreshing after the dozens and dozens of detectives who drink, smoke and ...more

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Gunder Jomann is a bachelor desperate for a wife. So desperate, that he went all the way to India and married an Indian woman he met in a restaurant called Poona. Returning to Norway because of work, he arranges for Poona to follow him a few days later. Then the day he is supposed to meet her at the airport, his sister is badly injured in a car accident, so he has to arrange for someone else to pick her up. But she doesn't arrive at Gunder's house. Then somewhere nearby, the body of an Indian woman is found, battered so brutally that she is almost unrecognisable. Inspector Konrad Sejer and his colleague, Jacob Skarre, are tasked with finding out what happened to Poona, ... Read the complete review