Bad Intentions

Reviews / Votes

A terrific crime novel that explores culpability, peer group pressure, betrayal and paranoia. Fossum's prose style, translated by Charlotte Barslund, is crisp and clear, with not a word wasted. * Reading Matters * I not only enjoyed it but admired it, too. I also found it playing in my head for a long time afterwards, the effect on the reader every writer surely longs for -- Lesley McDowell * Sunday Herald * The seventh Inspector Sejer novel from Norway's leading female crime writer is, like its predecessors, a gem -- Laura Wilson * Guardian * This is a battle of wits, conducted with chilly intensity and an unsettling sense of menace -- Joan Smith * Sunday Times * Few match her ability to conjure an atmosphere of emotional as well as geographical desolation -- Marcel Berlins * The Times * Tautly told in a crisp translation of the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund, the story is a riveting exploration of the consequences of crime, a whydunnit rather than the traditional whodunnit -- Declan Burke * Irish Times * A brooding study of how one thoughtless action can have catastrophic consequences * Metro Scotland * Fossum never forgets that her primary duty is to entertain, and she keeps her cut-to-the-bone mystery moving briskly -- Barry Forshaw * Sunday Tribune * Norwegian writer Karin Fossum has been turning out a steady and impressive body of work since long before Steig Larsson first put pen to paper...This is a first-rate psychological thriller, one of Fossum's best books to date. * The Review *