Sue at 09:47, 3 December 2018

2018-12-03T09:47:28Z

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2018-11-28T13:22:04Z

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New review

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We'll soon have a review of this book.

[[Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer novels in chronological order]]

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+When we first meet Ragna we can't understand what's going on.  She's talking to Inspector Konrad Sejer and it's obvious that she's being held in custody because of a crime which she admits she's committed.  Only, as we hear about Greta's life it seems that she's more sinned against than sinning.  After a botched operation on her vocal chords she can't speak above a whisper and to add insult to injury she's been left with a horrible scar across her throat.  She's done her best to make a go of her life though: she enjoys her work in a shop and has learned ways of coping with the difficulties of communicating with people.
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+Her life began to take a turn for the worse when she began to receive anonymous threatening letters.  They turn up at irregular intervals in her mailbox, addressed just to 'Riegel'.  Her immediate reaction was to burn them or throw them in the rubbish: she had no immediate thought of taking them to the police.  Ragna was determined that she was not going to be beaten.  It would have helped if she'd had someone to talk to, but she lived on her own.  Her parents were dead and her son had moved to Berlin.  He sent cards at Christmas and on her birthday but that was the extent of their communication.  He was a source of pride for her - she'd tell her fellow workers about his responsible job as a director of a big Berlin hotel.  That didn't solve her immediate problem though.
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The Whisperer by Karin Fossum - Revision history

Sue at 09:47, 3 December 2018

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