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Nine-year-old Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off to buy sweets. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, her mother, Helga, starts to worry. She phones the shop and various friends, but no one has seen her daughter. As the family being to search for Ida, Helga's worst nightmare becomes reality.

As the police are called in, hundreds of volunteers comb the neighbourhood, but there are no traces of the little girl, or her bike. As the relatives reach breaking point and the media frenzy begins, Inspector Sejer struggles to remains calm and reassuring. But usually missing children are found within forty-eight hours. Ida seems to have vanished without a trace.

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There is no room for debate: the most important female writer of foreign crime fiction at work today is the Norwegian Karin Fossum
Possibly the most popular foreign crime writer in translation, the Norgwegian Karin Fossum is an intelligent author who delivers more than a smart plot by way of psychological insight and clear-eyed characterisation
Fossum is frequently compared to Ruth Rendell, but Black Seconds is much more reminiscent of the psychological thrillers of Patricia Highsmith. Fossum is a clever writer; this is her most cunning tale yet
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I have been listening to KF's Sejer novels in order and each one is amazing. The plots are imaginative and tragically realistic, with accidents and misfortune propelling the narrative far more than any notion of evil genius against which the detective is pitted.
However, it is Sejer's kindness, his empathy, his humanity, that counterpoints and, in contrast, profiles the ethical failure of other characters.

Amazing, gripping, sad

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IKarin Fossum's books need to be read in order, after reading ' The Indian Bride ' one of the unanswered questions has been answered when reading this book. Konrad Serjer interviews with potential suspects show empathy and compassion, it's a direct story line and I couldn't put it down.

Read books in order!

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Fabulous story, couldn't put it down! Great narrator also, kept me intrigued, with the whole story knitting together by the last word. More please

Black seconds

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This is a well worked plot nicely played to an end.
Good moral re a tangled web of deceipt.

Good plot

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