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A staid morbid plot that rewrites itself like a broken record to the unrealistic ending (what are the odds of?...don't want to spoil the ending if you do read it....) A well educated 10-yr. old could get through the vocabulary easily and perhaps be bored with the content, too. Fossum needs to scale up with more complex characterization, plot development and better writing in general. Save yourself the $11.99 Kindle fee. Try the Louise Penny, David Hewson, Tana French and/or Jo Nesbo books--much more engaging novels. If you want to read a very good psychological mystery with introspective dialogue, I recommend "The Girl on the Train".


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The Drowned Boy Inspector Sejer Mysteries Karin Fossum Books Reviews

I read all the other books in this series by this author and left this one to "savor". I wasn't disappointed. Even though the reader knows who the killer is, the ending is chilling. I hope this author continues with this series. Because of this book I was compelled to look into other Scandinavian authors. I highly recommend this book and the series.
Interesting, full of atmosphere, not really sad, as some reviews have found it , but rather realistic and in a way courageously initiating questions not easily answered . The character of Carmen Zita believable. Sejer as always a humane and attractive personage.
This was a very good mystery with some interesting twists. There is a clever twist at the end, but hints are given about it earlier.

The story was a little slow at times, and you will have to get around that it is a translation from the Swedish. Now, I admire folks who speak more than one language and can translate books, but the final draft should have been given to a native English-speaker to read over. At times the conversations seem a bit stiff and sometimes the wrong word is used...example a comfortable and relaxing patient waiting room at the hospital is described as "homely" when it should have been "homey."

This book is a part of a series but I haven't read the others. It did keep my interest.
I refer to Karin Fossum as 'the demented one' because she tackles crimes against decency. In this book the subject is a disabled toddler, which caused a great deal anxiety. I read 50% of this book in 2017, but I couldn't finish it. Last month I pursued myself to finish. I wish I had stopped st 93%…
I can't recommend this book to anyone because it is a book of nightmares that come true the author has a voice through her empathetic Inspector Sejer.
I did not find this book up the standard I SO EXPECT FROM THIS AUTHOR. I felt like it was half heartedly written for a contractual obligation. I still admire Ms Fossum's work as it has given me many pleasurable moments with Inspector Seger. I am looking forward to book 12 , in fact just ordered it.
A boy with Down's Syndrome is found drowned. Was it an accident? Did one of the child's parents kill him? Or is there some other explanation?
Inspector Sejer takes hold of this one like a dog with a bone between its teeth, and holds on until what happened finally becomes clear. This is a far less complicated procedure than in most of his cases, but "less complicated" doesn't mean easy. The investigation is in large part psychological, as the Inspector peels back the personalities involved like so many onions. The solution becomes clearer as we move on, but even so I could not put this novel down until I finished it. As ever, Karen Fossum's writing (and its translation) is real pleasure to read precise and convincing. The ending is perhaps a little bit ex machina, but it does add a nice reminder of the unavoidability of desitny.
I'm a big Karin Fossum fan, but "The Drowned Boy" is so inferior to her other books that I'm puzzled. My best guess is that the book is a mediocre effort made even worse by a really bad translation into English. (For example, the translator repeatedly used "cramp" for "convulsion" when describing an epileptic fit.). The writing was repetitive and clunky. A decent editor would have compressed this into a novella or even a short story.

Again I'm puzzled that this was even published given the level of Fossum's other work.
A staid morbid plot that rewrites itself like a broken record to the unrealistic ending (what are the odds of?...don't want to spoil the ending if you do read it....) A well educated 10-yr. old could get through the vocabulary easily and perhaps be bored with the content, too. Fossum needs to scale up with more complex characterization, plot development and better writing in general. Save yourself the $11.99 fee. Try the Louise Penny, David Hewson, Tana French and/or Jo Nesbo books--much more engaging novels. If you want to read a very good psychological mystery with introspective dialogue, I recommend "The Girl on the Train".