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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best yet by an outstanding writer.,
By The Page Turner (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Indian Bride (Hardcover)
I read this book on an airplane and liked it so much I shlepped it across Europe so I could bring it home to lend to friends.
Gunder Jomann, a shy man from a Norwegian country town, travels to India to find a wife. He has always been fascinated by a photograph of a woman in a sari in one of his history magazines, and to everyone's absolute amazement, he meets and marries an Indian woman named Poona. Gunder returns home to prepare for Poona's arrival. On the magical day that she is set to arrive, Gunder's sister suffers a terrible accident and he is forced to send someone else to pick up his bride. Your heart breaks for Gunder, whose beloved sister is near death and whose eagerly-awaited wife never arrives. Karin Fossum's characters express the loss felt by crime victims' families better than any author I've read. Like her other novels, The Indian Bride is deep and rich in place, character, and suspense. Her Inspector Sejer is a really intriguing guy, and she has a spot-on translater in Charlotte Barslund. If you haven't read Fossum before, a real treat awaits you. I'm trying to think of who to compare her to--but it's hard. Martin Cruz Smith? Yes, a little, although her settings are more intimate. She is a standout, and this mystery is the most compelling yet.
29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
previously published under another name,
This review is from: The Indian Bride (Hardcover)
Just a warning to all those who order more Karin Fossum books--"The Indian Bride" has previoulsy been published under another title "Calling Out For You."
33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Move over Mankell?,
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This review is from: Calling Out For You! (An Inspector Sejer Mystery) (Paperback)
You can't help comparing Karin Fossum and Henning Mankell. They're both Scandinavian writers of police procedurals, and both have a strong central detective character - Sejer in Fossum's case and Wallander for Mankell.
Mankell's Wallander is arguably more famous, and inspires people to make the pilgrimage to Ystad in Sweden. Karin Fossum hasn't rooted her novels quite so explicitly, but this one is more Mankell like in that respect, being set firmly in the village of Elvestad in Norway. What this does is make you compare the two novelists even more closely. And what you discover is that Karin Fossum is beating Mankell at his own game. `Calling Out For You' is beautifully constructed and written. It's clear to me now that Fossum is much the better writer: her characters are finely drawn, her dialogue real, her writing much more subtle and convincing. And yet she's just as good at creating tension, describing the workings of her star detective and his appealing sidekick, Skarre. Where Mankell clumsily describes his characters, Fossum does it with great skill. In fact, Karin Fossum's greatest talent is getting a handle on the psychological twists and turns of a murder and its subsequent investigation. Instead of focusing entirely on one character, we see the events through all the characters, and I'm particularly impressed this time. The way the people of Elvestad individually and collectively react to a murder in their midst is exceptionally well woven. By the time you reach the end, you will have a very strong impression of what the murder has done to every character. It's a neat story too, simple in itself but revealing and creating all kinds of complications and unexpected results. The plot has a very `clean' quality to it, yet it is far from obvious what the outcome will be. The writing is equally simple, but also rather beautiful in its economy. All in all, I would say this is the best Karin Fossum yet, and quite possibly superior to anything Mankell has produced. Very highly recommended.
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