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Book Review for
Don't Look Back
(an Inspector Konrad Sejer mystery)
by Karin Fossum
The 1st Inspector Konrad Sejer mystery.
A young girl disappears while walking home after sleeping over at a
friend's house. She is picked up by a man in a van who does not frighten
the girl. He drives her to his home to meet his sick father. At one point the
girl wants to go home and the man finally agrees to take her there, but they
must walk through the woods because his van won't start. They see a body
near a lake from a distance but keep on walking. By the end of the first
chapter,
the reader is exhausted just from the tension that the author creates. There
is also a wonderful resolution to the girl's disappearance and the focus of the
police now shifts to the unclothed teenage girl lying dead near the lake.
There are no signs of a struggle and she has not been sexually assaulted.
She was well-liked by everyone. She babysat for her neighbors. Her
boyfriend was not violent. But there was a shift in her mood eight months
ago when a two-year-old boy in her community choked to death on his
breakfast food. Inspector Sejer is a thoughtful, gentle, and likeable
senior police officer. One of those books you can't wait to finish!