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Reinhardt and Kristine Ris, a married couple, are out for a Sunday walk when they discover the body of a boy and see the figure of a man limping away. They alert the police, but not before Reinhardt, to Kristine’s horror, kneels down and takes photographs of the dead child with his cell phone. Inspectors Konrad Sejer and Jakob Skarre begin to make inquiries in the little town of Huseby. But then another boy disappears, and an explanation seems more remote than ever. Meanwhile, the Rises’ marriage unravels as Reinhardt becomes obsessed with the tragic events and his own part in them.
The Water’s Edge is a riveting portrayal of a community in turmoil from Karin Fossum, Norway’s “Queen of Crime.”
Fossum takes an insightful, mostly sympathetic view of everyone in the novel, including a disarming sex offender who does his best to help the police understand the mind of a pedophile—helpful advice when a second boy goes missing. And while this happens to be an exceptionally fine story, Fossum's real narrative appeal, readily apparent in Charlotte Barslund's translation, rests on her ability to see the humanity in even the most wretched soul.
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David Kurvach
reviewed The Water's Edge (Inspector Sejer Series #8) on February 03, 2015
The Water's Edge (Inspector Sejer Series #8)
I cannot rate this book. I cannot even tell if it is well written or not. I just kept wondering what the author was trying to do here.
My guess is that she is trying to elicit sympathy for a disgusting pervert, but I may be wrong because I cannot be rational when the lead detective, Inspector Sejer, says things like he needs to be unbiased and that he cannot understand why gay men are accepted but pedophiles will always be hated and later on tries to equate pedophilia (and one who ended with a dead child at that) with oral sex between adults. HINT: CONSENT, the issue is consent. Also, homosexual and oral sex don't end up with bleeeding, dead people and psychologically scarred for life victims.
I don't mind an author trying to get into the mind of the criminal, or in this case, the poor, misunderstood pedophile, poor man, his mom was a nag. In fact, this is my favorite part in crime books. But presenting the criminal's viewpoint is a far cry from trying to elicit simpathy for a disgusting pervert by the series heroes.
On to the next book in the series because I do like the way Ms. Fossum writes.
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