Don't Look Back (novel)

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Don't Look Back
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First edition (Norwegian)
Author Karin Fossum
Original titleSe deg ikke tilbake!
Translator Felicity David
Country Norway
Language Norwegian
SeriesInspector Konrad Sejer, #2
Genre Crime novel
Publisher Cappelen (Norway)
Publication date
1996
Published in English
October 2002
Media typePrint (Hardcover, Paperback)
ISBN 1-86046-977-9
OCLC 50215251
839.82/38 22
LC Class PT8951.16.O735 S413 2002
Preceded by In the Darkness  
Followed by He Who Fears the Wolf  

Don't Look Back (Norwegian : Se deg ikke tilbake!, 1996) is a novel by Norwegian writer Karin Fossum, the second to feature Inspector Konrad Sejer. [1] The novel is the first book of Fossum which was translated into English. [1] It won the Glass Key Award in 1997. [1] It was filmed in 2007 as La ragazza del lago (aka The Girl by the Lake ).

Plot

The body of a local teenage girl named Annie was found by an idyllic pond in the woods. The suspect list grows indefinitely. However, as Inspector Sejer and his partner Jacob Skarre question the girl's family, and others, they realize she has a shocking secret she shared with no one. He strives to understand Annie's true character, as the answer may lie in her own strange behavior leading up to her death. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Jeremy Megraw (10 July 2013). "A Guide to Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer". Crime Fiction Lover. Retrieved 17 January 2016.