Original title Se deg ikke tilbake! Publication date 1996 Preceded by Eva's Eye Publisher Random House | Translator Felicity David Originally published 1996 Genre Crime Fiction Followed by He Who Fears the Wolf | |
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Series Inspector Konrad Sejer, #2 Similar Karin Fossum books, Crime Fiction books | ||
Don't Look Back (Norwegian: Se deg ikke tilbake!, 1996) is a novel by Norwegian writer Karin Fossum, the second to feature Inspector Konrad Sejer. The novel is the first book of Fossum which was translated into English. It won the Glass Key Award in 1997. It was filmed in 2007 as La ragazza del lago (aka The Girl by the Lake).
Plot
The body of a local teenage girl named Annie was found by an idyllic pond in the woods. The major suspect is a local man with Down syndrome who was seen giving her a lift. However, as Inspector Sejer and his partner Jacob Skarre question the girl’s family, and others, the suspect list grows. He strives to understand Annie’s true character, as the answer may lie in her own strange behavior leading up to her death.
References
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