Hell Fire

<strong>A truly great writer and explorer of the human mind. -- Jo Nesbø</strong> <p/><strong>What grips readers is the enormous amount of emotion [Fossum] works up as we get closer and closer to reliving the murderous event in question . . . <em>Hell Fire</em> is close to heartbreaking and there are not many novels thrillers or otherwise you can say that about. -- <em>Los Angeles Times</em></strong> <p/> A gruesome tableau awaits Inspector Konrad Sejer in the oppressive summer heat: a woman and a young boy lay dead in a pool of blood near a dank trailer. The motivation behind the deaths of Bonnie Hayden and her five-year-old son Simon is mysterious--there is no sign of robbery. Who would brutally stab a defenseless woman and her child? In a parallel story another mother Mass Malthe navigates life with her adult son Eddie. It's a relationship some would call too close since Eddie's father a man he obsesses over abandoned them many years ago. As Sejer searches for the truth behind the seemingly senseless killings <em>Hell Fire</em> deftly probes why we lie to those closest to us and what drives people to commit the most horrific of crimes. <p/><strong>There's always something dark hovering on the edge of the page something about getting what you wish for and the crushing irony when that gift proves your undoing. --<em> New York Times Book Review</em></strong> <br>