Don't Look Back (Inspector Sejer, Bk 1)
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Paperback
Author:
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Paperback
Judith L. (jlautner) reviewed on + 105 more book reviews
Sixteen-year-old Annie Holland is found dead. She's naked and curled in a fetal position, facing a lake, in the small Norwegian village where she had lived. Inspector Sejer investigates. He is happy to get out of the big city but deeply saddened by the death.
Everyone loved Annie. She was a favorite babysitter, a popular team sports player, a friendly, outgoing girl. Until she wasn't. Her family tells of how, several months before, Annie suddenly changed. No longer interested in team sports, she took to running instead. She showed little interest in what she formerly loved. In the small village just about everyone knew Annie and recounted a similar story. Nobody knew what caused the change, although many thought it just a symptom of adolescence.
Sejer explores the simpler theory: that someone saw her alone on the street and took advantage. A stranger, perhaps. As the time of death was narrowed, Sejer was able to exclude some suspects. But it seemed like it had to be someone Annie knew.
Annie's boyfriend, Halvor, is a quiet, introverted person. His relationship with Annie did not get physical, because she was not interested. It may be that his interest in her was greater than hers in him. She had been keeping private files on his computer. After her death, Halvor devoted his days to cracking the password to these files. What had she written and was some of it about him?
Sejer visits the villagers again and again, always thinking about that change in Annie. He is convinced that it is a clue to her death.
What could have happened to change her so much? It is only through tedious interviewing that Sejer is able to put together the story.
I enjoyed the development of the characters and the dogged investigation. This is the second or third Sejer novel I have read and I am still trying to get a better sense of him. Sometimes it takes several novels in a series to get there.
Everyone loved Annie. She was a favorite babysitter, a popular team sports player, a friendly, outgoing girl. Until she wasn't. Her family tells of how, several months before, Annie suddenly changed. No longer interested in team sports, she took to running instead. She showed little interest in what she formerly loved. In the small village just about everyone knew Annie and recounted a similar story. Nobody knew what caused the change, although many thought it just a symptom of adolescence.
Sejer explores the simpler theory: that someone saw her alone on the street and took advantage. A stranger, perhaps. As the time of death was narrowed, Sejer was able to exclude some suspects. But it seemed like it had to be someone Annie knew.
Annie's boyfriend, Halvor, is a quiet, introverted person. His relationship with Annie did not get physical, because she was not interested. It may be that his interest in her was greater than hers in him. She had been keeping private files on his computer. After her death, Halvor devoted his days to cracking the password to these files. What had she written and was some of it about him?
Sejer visits the villagers again and again, always thinking about that change in Annie. He is convinced that it is a clue to her death.
What could have happened to change her so much? It is only through tedious interviewing that Sejer is able to put together the story.
I enjoyed the development of the characters and the dogged investigation. This is the second or third Sejer novel I have read and I am still trying to get a better sense of him. Sometimes it takes several novels in a series to get there.
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