I not only enjoyed it but admired it, too. I also found it playing in my head for a long time afterwards, the effect on the reader every writer surely longs for
Lesley McDowell, Sunday Herald

I not only enjoyed it but admired it, too. I also found it playing in my head for a long time afterwards, the effect on the reader every writer surely longs for
Lesley McDowell, Sunday Herald

Seriously good. Fossum avoids predictable trappings and cuts straight to the tragedy of young death and the blinding effect of conscience, without a single wasted word. I loved it.
Frances Fyfield,

Fascinatingly readable and very cleverly done
Colin Dexter,

The seventh Inspector Sejer novel from Norway’s leading female crime writer is, like its predecessors, a gem
Laura Wilson, Guardian

The seventh Inspector Sejer novel from Norway’s leading female crime writer is, like its predecessors, a gem
Laura Wilson, Guardian

This is a battle of wits, conducted with chilly intensity and an unsettling sense of menace
Joan Smith, Sunday Times

This is a battle of wits, conducted with chilly intensity and an unsettling sense of menace
Joan Smith, Sunday Times

Bad Intentions is an utterly engrossing and darkly compelling mystery that easily confirms Fossum as one of crime writing’s most distinctive voices.
Booktrust

This is a battle of wits, conducted with chilly intensity and an unsettling sense of menace.
Joan Smith, Sunday Times

Few match her ability to conjure an atmosphere of emotional as well as geographical desolation
Marcel Berlins, The Times

Few match her ability to conjure an atmosphere of emotional as well as geographical desolation
Marcel Berlins, The Times

Tautly told in a crisp translation of the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund, the story is a riveting exploration of the consequences of crime, a whydunnit rather than the traditional whodunnit
Declan Burke, Irish Times

Tautly told in a crisp translation of the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund, the story is a riveting exploration of the consequences of crime, a whydunnit rather than the traditional whodunnit
Declan Burke, Irish Times

Few match her ability to conjure an atmosphere of emotional as well as geographical desolation
Marcel Berlins, The Times

I not only enjoyed it but admired it, too. I also found it playing in my head for a long time afterwards, the effect on the reader every writer surely longs for.
Lesley McDowell, Sunday Herald

A brooding study of how one thoughtless action can have catastrophic consequences
Metro Scotland

A brooding study of how one thoughtless action can have catastrophic consequences
Metro Scotland

Fossum never forgets that her primary duty is to entertain, and she keeps her cut-to-the-bone mystery moving briskly
Barry Forshaw, Sunday Tribune

Fossum never forgets that her primary duty is to entertain, and she keeps her cut-to-the-bone mystery moving briskly
Barry Forshaw, Sunday Tribune

A gem...Fossum concentrates her considerable talents on building up a sense of menace as she explores the corrosive power of guilt. That the crimes portrayed here are the result of on-the-spot stupidity and selfishness rather than more grandiose motive renders Bad Intentions all the more powerful.
Laura Wilson, Guardian

Karin Fossum is one of the best of a group of talented and prolific Scandinavian crime writers. The hallmarks of her fiction are a spare, grave - but never pompous - narrative style, and a cool, analytical deptions of Norwegian society.
Heather O'Donoghue, Times Literary Supplement

Norwegian writer Karin Fossum has been turning out a steady and impressive body of work since long before Steig Larsson first put pen to paper...This is a first-rate psychological thriller, one of Fossum's best books to date.
The Review

Norwegian writer Karin Fossum has been turning out a steady and impressive body of work since long before Steig Larsson first put pen to paper...This is a first-rate psychological thriller, one of Fossum's best books to date.
The Review