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The Caller

By Karin Fossum, K.E. Semmel (Translator)

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One mild summer evening Lily and her husband are enjoying a meal while their baby daughter sleeps peacefully in her pram beneath a maple tree. But when Lily steps outside she is paralysed with terror. The child is bathed in blood.

Inspector Sejer is called to the hospital to meet Continue

One mild summer evening Lily and her husband are enjoying a meal while their baby daughter sleeps peacefully in her pram beneath a maple tree. But when Lily steps outside she is paralysed with terror. The child is bathed in blood.



Inspector Sejer is called to the hospital to meet the family. Mercifully, the baby is unharmed, but her parents are deeply shaken, and Sejer spends the evening trying to comprehend why anyone would carry out such a sinister prank. Then, just before midnight, somebody rings his doorbell.



The corridor is empty, but the caller has left a small grey envelope on the mat. From his living room window, the inspector watches a figure slip across the car park and disappear into the darkness. Inside the envelope Sejer finds a postcard bearing a short message: Hell begins now.

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  • THE CALLER

    Johnny Beskow is seventeen. The son of an alcoholic mother, he is bitter and filled with rage. He feels close only to his grandfather, old, arthritic, and frightened of wasps, whom he visits frequently, if only to get away from his mother. Johnny has ... (read full critics)

    reviewingtheevidence published on Sun, 5 Feb 2012

  • Book review: The Caller by Karin Fossum

    The Caller Karin Fossum, translated by Kyle Semmel Harvill Secker, July 2011. With her characteristic, unnerving attention to minor details, Karin Fossum opens her compelling new novel with a description of a mother putting her baby daughter into a p ... (read full critics)

    petrona published on Sat, 6 Aug 2011

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  • English Books
  • eBook 304 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1409028046
  • ISBN-13: 9781409028048
  • Publisher: Random House
  • Pub date: Jul 07, 2011
  • Also available as: Others
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