Karin Fossum is a Norwegian author and her Inspector Sejer series fits right into the collection of popular Scandinavian suspense/thrillers/mysteries crime fiction. I like this series because I like the main character, portrayed as a good team leader, honorable and wise. He is also carrying a layer of grief for a wife readers never meet as she died in his recent past.

This novel occurs in a small town where everyone knows everyone else, and yet something awful has occurred. Inspector Sejer methodically peels back the layers of the villagers ultimately revealing the truth. The killer was pretty obvious well before the conclusion though there was a nice twist at the end.

Overall, good diversionary read.