Pierina M. Marocco Boeken

Don't Look Back heralds the arrival of an exotic new crime series featuring Inspector Sejer, a smart and enigmatic hero, tough but fair. The setting is a small, idyllic village at the foot of Norway's Kollen Mountain, where neighbors know neighbors and children play happily in the streets. But when the body of a teenage girl is found by the lake at the mountaintop, the town's tranquillity is shattered forever. Annie was strong, intelligent, and loved by everyone. What went so terribly wrong? Doggedly, yet subtly, Inspector Sejer uncovers layer upon layer of distrust and lies beneath the town's seemingly perfect facade. Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer novels are masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable, and are now available in the United States for the first time.

Fifty years ago a girl disappeared from her home in Norway. She ran after a lamb and found herself travelling right across Europe to Palestine, and back through 2000 years to meet the Holy Family in Bethlehem. There she met angels, shepherds, wise men and other biblical characters who joined her on her pilgrimage; and she heard of many of the things that happened in the world in the last 2000 years. In present-day Norway, a boy acquires a strange old Advent calendar. Hidden in each of the windows is a tiny piece of paper. Little by little these pieces unfold the girl's story and as we learn what happened to her, another story is revealed - that of the strange old man who made the calender.

Voor je gaat slapen is een roman over een familie in Oslo tijdens de jaren negentig, en in New York tijdens de jaren dertig. De hoofdpersoon is Karin Blom, een jonge vrouw die over haar leven en haar bijzondere familie vertelt. In haar wereld vloeien fantasie en werkelijkheid bijna onmerkbaar in elkaar over. Karin is - in tegenstelling tot haar onweerstaanbare moeder en kwetsbare zus - niet erg mooi. Maar ze kan zingen - en liegen, verzinnen en verleiden, en daardoor stevenen de mensen in haar omgeving onherroepelijk af op de eenzaamheid.