Убийството на Хариет Крун

"A truly talented writer." - Jo Nesbø

The seventh case of Inspector Konrad Sejer.

On a dark November evening, Charlie Torp, a recently addicted gambler, trudges through the slush to the apartment of the wealthy old woman Harriet Kron with a bouquet in his hand. He bought her flowers not to congratulate her on a pleasant occasion, but to pose as a courier, to get into her home, to rob her, and thus to pay off his accumulated debts – the only way to start his life clean and to get closer to his sixteen-year-old daughter. The operation is successful. Charlie gets money, although the ending was not planned – he had to kill the old woman. However, now that he is richer, he decides to become a new person: he buys a horse for his daughter, gets a job, works hard. Months pass, Charlie calms down. He has left no clues, he has committed the perfect murder. The only thing that Inspector Sejer and the investigating team have left, is a bouquet. But Sejer is famed for his amazing professional record – in his entire career, there is no unsolved crime... There remains the question of how high a price a person is ready to pay to break with his unhappy past, and if that price is taken a human life, whether he could afterwards live with the guilt. Karin Fossum, called the Norwegian Queen of Crime, is one of the biggest names in Scandinavian crime. Her authentic style brings literary grace and moral ambiguity to the familiar genre, and her universally acclaimed series about Inspector Konrad Sejer has been translated into 34 languages in 36 countries and has been awarded the most prestigious crime awards.