Bad Intentions
Detective: Konrad Sejer
Setting: Norway
Time: Current
Genre: Scandi Noir
Once again, a different tone in a Karin Fossum novel. There is no gruesome killing. There is no race to find the killer before there are too many bodies. For a detective story, one might actually say it was gentle.
A young man staying with two friends by a lake on a weekend's outing from the hospital where he was being treated for depression, falls out of a rowing boat they are all in at night and disappears into the muddy waters. No attempt is made to save him. His friends choose to invent a fiction that he has disappeared from the cabin overnight and may have committed suicide and this is what they report to the police. There are allusions to some nefarious deed the three of them have been involved in.
When the body is fond, the story of the possible suicide does not ring true to Konrad Sejer, but he has no proof otherwise.
Later another body is found in another lake, that of a young man missing for some months. Is this death accidental. How are the three friends connected to it?
The story is well written and the plot unfurls nicely.
Rating A
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Previously Read
Dont Look Back
What the Devil Holds
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