Elskede Poona

By Karin Fossum

Book Overview

Karin Fossum's fourth chilling crime novel finds Inspector Sejer on the hunt for a brutal killer in a good town gone bad. When long-time bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151011826
• ISBN13: 9780151011827
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

AKA "The Indian Bride"

"Calling Out For You" is the British release title for "The Indian Bride". I'm a recent fan of Ms Fossum's Insp Sejer mysteries and have been looking for all of her book titles that are available for sale online. In "The Indian Bride", 51-year-old benign bachelor Gunder Jomann, a farming equipment salesman decides to go to India and find himself an Indian wife. This decision is arrived at after Gunder sees a picture of a...

Alternate Title for The Indian Bride

This is a previous release of The Indian Bride, which I loved. Everything I've read of Fossum's is great.

Love murder, and heartbreaking storytelling

I have read every Karin Fossum book I can get my hands on. The Indian Bride is a step above all of the others, and they are first rate. I literally could not put this book down, and neither could my partner. Fossum has a way of creating interesting, and believable characters. The main detective, Konrad Sejer, is a full bodied, interesting detective. The story is interesting, heartbreaking, and unusual. I have read all...

excellent Norwegian police procedural

The corpse of a battered woman is found near the town of Elvestad, Norway. Police Inspector Konrad Sejer is assigned to lead the investigation. The body is identified as Poona Jomann of India, the wife of tractor salesman Gunder, who just married the victim. Coincidently, an auto accident involving Gunder's sister kept him from meeting his new bride at the airport; thus Poona was traveling by herself to their home. Because...

First Rate Mystery

Fossum writes beautifully...her characters are sharply and sympathetically drawn and the storyline keeps you going and going. Suspense keeps growing from page 1. Inspector Sejer has unique qualities of perserverance and empathy--and his ability to unravel the mystery are his alone among police procedural investigators, top=notch, all the way.