Inspector Sejer The Drowned Boy - Karin Fossum; Kari Dickson (Paperback) 02-06-2016 Short-listed for The Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year 2016 (UK).
'He'd just learnt to walk,' she said. 'He was sitting playing on his blanket, then all of a sudden he was gone.' A 16-month-old boy is found drowned in a pond right by his home. Chief Inspector Sejer is called to the scene as there is something troubling about the mother's story. As even her own family turns against her, Sejer is determined to get to the truth.